Yii - Custom access control criteria

Question

I am developing an application using Yii framework. I am in a situation where I want to create a custom filter. For example, the normal filters are like:

    array('allow',  // allow all users to perform 'index' and 'view' actions
            'actions'=>array('view'),
            'users'=>array('*'),
        ),

Now, in the array index for users you can only put admin , @ or * . I wanted to know if it's possible to customize it in a way that not only these 3 parameters are used. In my system, I have a set of user roles (which I have created in the database). There's one user called whose role is 'general'. He can only view some pages. There's another type of user with the role of 'business_admin' whose role can allow him to access his pages as well as the 'general' user's pages.

Could this be implemented by having:

    array('allow',
         'actions'=>'the_admin_actions',
         'users'=>'business_admin',
     ),

Please help!

Answer 1

That wont work as you need users to be either ? * or @ unless you have an actual username called business_admin like the defualt Yii config has a hard coded 'admin' username. You can set up RBAC though and then add 'roles' => 'business_admin'

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