Where should I place the code with roles in Yii framework? - yii

Question

Here's the code I found in Yii framework manual:
$auth=Yii::app()->authManager;
$auth->createOperation('createPost','create a post');
$auth->createOperation('readPost','read a post');
$auth->createOperation('updatePost','update a post');
$auth->createOperation('deletePost','delete a post');
$bizRule='return Yii::app()->user->id==$params["post"]->authID;';
$task=$auth->createTask('updateOwnPost','update a post by author himself',$bizRule);
$task->addChild('updatePost');
$role=$auth->createRole('reader');
$role->addChild('readPost');
$role=$auth->createRole('author');
$role->addChild('reader');
$role->addChild('createPost');
$role->addChild('updateOwnPost');
and so on.
The question is Where should I place the code for creating roles, tasks, etc?

Answer 1

You should use this code in protected/controllers/RbacController.php
After modifing protected/config/main.php
return array(
'components'=>array(
'db'=>array(
'class'=>'CDbConnection',
'connectionString'=>'sqlite:path/to/file.db',
),
'authManager'=>array(
'class'=>'CDbAuthManager',
'connectionID'=>'db',
),
),
);
This is the official documentation:
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/topics.auth#using-default-roles

Answer 2

This took me awhile to understand, so let me answer your questions as I understand how yii works.
You will first create the appropriate tables following the sql code found in framework/web/auth
You can use phpmyadmin to populate the database
You can also create a controller in which you will run all of code above. That gets run once, because you are just populating a database
The controller can be called myInitController.php and stored with your other controllers.
The controller can be as simple as
<?php
class myInitController extends Controller
{
public function actionRun()
{
$auth=Yii::app()->authManager;
$auth->createOperation('createPost','create a post');
echo "this is it";
}
}
Then you would run it by going to www.yourwebsite.com/myInit/Run
Verify what got written to the database. Don't push this controller to production. You don't want someone else running the command.
So your options are
hand enter data through something like phpmyadmin
create a customer controller which can store all of the php commands and execute
use gii to create models and CRUD functions (be careful of composite primary keys)
I hope this helps.

Answer 3

This piece of code will create the items in database. You have to execute it.
You can create an action in one of your controller and then run it.
localhost/myAppName/myController/myAction
Or you can create a php file as well. Then juste paste your piece of code inside and run it.