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user1157393

Reputation:

Creating an admin user / area using Tank auth and Codeigniter

I am building a mini social network for my sports club and want to create a 'admin' section that admin's can manage user accounts from, such as ban user, delete user etc.

I am using tank auth to handle the authentication of the normal site users but now I need another secure area for admins. What is the best approach for me to handle this? Do I add another field to the users table named admin with a 1 for yes and 0 for no. Then check in the admin dashboard controller if the user is admin or not?

Ideally I'd like the average user to not be able to see a login form for admin area. So if joe bloggs (who is a registered member of the site) guesses mydomain.com/admin they wont see anything there, only admin users would.

If there is a better way I should approach this, I'd be grateful for advice.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1184

Answers (1)

Jeff B.
Jeff B.

Reputation: 1167

It's what I would do yes, since Tank-auth select the complete row, it should be automatically added to your object if you add the field in the table.

$user = $this->users->get_user_by_id($this->tank_auth->get_user_id(), TRUE);

if($user->admin == 1){ 
    //this user is admin 
}

It's the most simple way to do it.

Upvotes: 0

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