Archive for 2010

Published by Niels on 23 Feb 2010

Forcing a Yii application to authenticate

I wanted my Yii based application to force users to authenticate. After studying the forums, the manuals and searching the web the solution came to me just as I was about to go to bed. It is dead simple: just make sure that the only action a default user can perform is actionLogin(). See the code below on how to accomplish this:

<?php
 
class SiteController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * @return array action filters
     */
    public function filters()
    {
        return array(
            'accessControl', // perform access control for CRUD operations
        );
    }
 
    /**
     * Specifies the access control rules.
     * This method is used by the 'accessControl' filter.
     * @return array access control rules
     */
    public function accessRules()
    {
        return array(
            array('allow',  // allow all users to perform 'login'
                'actions'=>array('login'),
                'users'=>array('*'),
            ),
            array('allow', // allow authenticated user to perform any action
                'users'=>array('@'),
            ),
            array('deny',  // deny all users
                'users'=>array('*'),
            ),
        );
    }
 
    // The rest of the SiteController implementation
 
}
 
?>

I am not sure if this is the best possible solution, but since it is simple and elegant I am inclined to think it is.

Otime

Published by Niels on 07 Feb 2010

Just blogging again

A lot has happened the last couple of years. This has kept me busy and did not leave me with much desire to keep this blog up to data. And just when you think I will blog tomorrow, tomorrow has gone. And when tomorrow has gone, two years are gone.

But while I was enjoying a presentation on Identi.ca at FOSDEM I all of a sudden had the idea that now would be a good time to start again. So I joined Identi.ca and added this entry to this site. Expect more in the very near future. Being on-line feels like fun again.

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