Aidan Lister

The ACL Component in CakePHP is very powerful and can be used to solve a wide variety of access control problems. In this tutorial, we provide a step-by-step guide for implementing row level access control to a model.

CakePHP’s automatic hashing makes things a lot harder than they need to be, and simple tasks (e.g. a registration page) become annoyingly difficult.

Here, we build a complete community based website in five minutes using Cake best practices, with the following features:

• Account registration
• Login and logout
• Account management page
• Password retrieval