I am doing same thing with you,And I found the following may help: Zend framework has a package supporting Role based access control,Zend_ACL http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.acl.html Maybe this can help you. 2010/1/26 Abah Joseph <joefazee@xxxxxxxxx> > Hi list, thank to the wonderful people on this list. > > I am planning a system that require access to the system based on > Role, i love the implementation in SMF(www.simplemachines.org) that > every modules can define there own role and but i don`t know how. > > Users will be in group like Administrator, Editor, Manager etc (i have > seen such on Joomla) and each module can define the action each group > can perform e.g > An advertisement module will define something like 'Can add', 'Can > edit own', 'can edit any', etc.. i am wondering what the database > structure/PHP Class will look like. > > I found a database Schema on Access Control at > http://www.databaseanswers.org/data_models/access_control/index.htm > but i can`t figure out the implementation in PHP. > Any idea will help. > > -- > Share with free mind! > Join the world largest open forum for hackers and programmers. > http://www.tuwana.com > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >