dakar
04-15-2006, 06:29 AM
Okay this is going way off-topic, but hoping I can get lucky here and find someone else who's worked with this package and gain a little more perspective....
I lost over a week's worth of coding today, been building a custom php site, the loss was not that big a cencern as it was bug ridden from my lousy coding skills. So I'm trying a different approach using Joomla with JACL to set up special groups, the whole premise is to bury php pages that need to be protected behind user/group authentication to get to the web links compenent, select frorm preset options and execute, which in turn will kick off a particular function on the server.... I'm halfway the customizing of Joomla for the aesthetics and such and setting up groups now and it seems like it may be doable.
Yeah cheating a bit using their code for the front end, but lets face it their authentication stuff was far superior in that it works every time, to my hacking away at code trying to accomplish the same thing.
Anyone else with more experience with this package care to jump in before I get too much deeper? Escpecially if my my plan is flawed and the php pages will blow chuncks or worse be exposed if somehow the authentication could be exploited by simple URL manipulation.
I need to have a working model ready by Monday morning so if this may not work then it's time to try to revive my GIGO code and try to revise the disaster I started so I have at least something to present.
Any thoughts ideas would be appreciated. Searching the Joomla forums is of very little help beyond simple 'how do I do this and that' stuff and need some advice from some more experience coders... so of course I turn here :)
I lost over a week's worth of coding today, been building a custom php site, the loss was not that big a cencern as it was bug ridden from my lousy coding skills. So I'm trying a different approach using Joomla with JACL to set up special groups, the whole premise is to bury php pages that need to be protected behind user/group authentication to get to the web links compenent, select frorm preset options and execute, which in turn will kick off a particular function on the server.... I'm halfway the customizing of Joomla for the aesthetics and such and setting up groups now and it seems like it may be doable.
Yeah cheating a bit using their code for the front end, but lets face it their authentication stuff was far superior in that it works every time, to my hacking away at code trying to accomplish the same thing.
Anyone else with more experience with this package care to jump in before I get too much deeper? Escpecially if my my plan is flawed and the php pages will blow chuncks or worse be exposed if somehow the authentication could be exploited by simple URL manipulation.
I need to have a working model ready by Monday morning so if this may not work then it's time to try to revive my GIGO code and try to revise the disaster I started so I have at least something to present.
Any thoughts ideas would be appreciated. Searching the Joomla forums is of very little help beyond simple 'how do I do this and that' stuff and need some advice from some more experience coders... so of course I turn here :)