CsnAuthorization

What is CsnAuthorization?

CsnAuthorization is an Authorization module based on Access Control List and DoctrineORMModule.

What exactly does CsnAuthorization do?

CsnAuthorization has been created with educational purposes to demonstrate how Authorization can be done. It is fully functional. Authorization is the process of giving access rights to a user on a set of resourses(in our case - controllers) and determining their privileges(in our case - actions) on those resourses.

What's the use again?

An alternative to BjyAuthorize, working in perfect harmony with Doctrine and the other Csn modules.

Installation

• Installation via composer is supported, simply run (make sure you've set "minimum-stability": "dev" in your composer.json file): php composer.phar require coolcsn/csn-authorization:dev-master
• Configure referenced module (CsnUser) following its instructions.
• Add 'CsnAuthorization' to your application configuration in config/application.config.php. An example application configuration could look like the following:

'modules' => array(
    'Application',
    'DoctrineModule',
    'DoctrineORMModule',
    'CsnUser',
    'CsnAuthorization'
)

• Set up your Access Control List configuration by copying acl.global.php.dist (located in vendor/coolcsn/csn-authorization/config if you have installed via Composer) into your config/autoload directory (Remove the .dist part).
• Recommended: Run ./vendor/bin/doctrine-module orm:schema-tool:update to update the database schema if you are going to store the ACL in the database (Note: You may need to force the update by adding --force to the command).
• Optional: If you prefer to load the ACL from the database, make sure you've completed the previous step, then set use_database_storage = true in the acl config. Import the sample ACL located in ./vendor/coolcsn/CsnAuthorization/data/SampleData.sql. You can easily do that with PhpMyAdmin for instance.

Does it work?

Navigate to a controller/action which has been allowed only for members in your ACL configuration and you should be redirected. Now login (preferably using CsnUser) and attempt that action again. Enjoy :)

Important Notes

• Wherever you need the acl object, just call $serviceLocator->get('acl'). It will properly construct a Zend\Permissions\Acl\Acl object based on the data in the config or the database.
• In your controllers or view scripts you can call $this->isAllowed($resource, $privilege) to check whether the current user has access to a resource.

Dependencies

This Module depends on the following Modules:

• DoctrineORMModule
• CsnUser (Decoupling - coming soon!!!)

Recommends

• coolcsn/CsnUser - Authentication (login, registration) module.
• coolcsn/CsnAclNavigation - Navigation module;
• coolcsn/CsnCms - Content management system;