summary: CakePHP and Acl - Why is it so difficult?

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Intro

mentions that there is a problem with cake documentation.

Reason #1

Lack of documentation, doc found on: Wiki and Manual chapter about Acl

Reason #2

Out dated information. Examples are wrong or incomplete. (3 examples)

Reason #3

complaining about user_id not unique in Aro tables. Rather improvement than usage tips.

Reason #4

You have to known what MPTT(Modified Preorder Tree Traversal) is to be able to work with Acl. see Storing Hierarchical Data in a Database.

Reason #5

incompleteness of command line script acl.php:

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Comments: since May 31,2006 till October 3,2006

Few problems, some people decided to create it owns acl-like systems