Can't wait for joomla 1.6! cACL MVC would help you to change the way of the joomla 1.5 backend.
cACL MVC - Control Access Levels MVC is a component for joomla 1.5 that makes it possible to set access control to joomla 1.5 Backend, to any menu items: content items, components, modules and mambots! Using cACL you can define the access level (allow, restric) for the user who needs to have access in the Joomla backtend for accessing
* Site menu (using the Joomla standard menu system)
* Content menu
* Component menu (no hack for any component)
* Module menu
* Mambot menu
* Installation menu
* Static content (include create new / publish, unpublish)
* Full control of content
* And much more ...
Now we provide 15 days trial at every 15th. Visit
http://support.joomlavn.info/ for more detail.
Change log:
Ready for joomla 1.5.7 (only cACL MVC v2.2)
Ready for joomla 1.5.6
Ready for joomla 1.5.5
Ready for joomla 1.5.4
Ready for joomla 1.5.3
cACL language package: english, dutch.
*** Special thanks to Ed Koorevaar for his translation (dutch translation) ***
cACL MVC v2.2
Fixed bugs
Add built-in group of users (now you can group your users and choose leader for each group)
cACL MVC v2.1
Fixed bugs
Show/ Hide all icons in admin control panel
Full control of content
cACL online manual :
http://www.vntrade.info/content/blogcategory/20/23/lang,en/
*** The cACL is encoded by ioncube. ***