Core Design File ACL Plugin

Core Design File ACL (FACL) plugin for Joomla! 1.5
System plugin (based on simple file structure) that allows additional control over your articles, categories and sections as well.

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bygerpol on June 6, 2009
The plgin works,
however one minor setback. De cdfacl.php contains a Joomla-version check That's fine but if Joomla itself is updated (i.e. from 1.5.10 to 1.5.11) the user has to manually update the string for the version-check in the file cdfacl.php. Not very handy.
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The "version-check" was removed in the newest version.

At first it took me some time to figure out how this plugin works.

I had to post a question to the support forum (by the way, the response time was super fast), but it turned out the problem was just my lack of knowledge.

I thought users of a group are restricted but it's the other way around. Users are privileged if that group belongs to e.g. editing of a certain section, category, article.

The plugin is easy configurable using UI in the back-end.
A component is created to manage the configuration piece. The text file based solution just isn't practical for non-techies/long term maintenance of a website.
Owner's reply

The stable version includes the backend manager (called Interface) to control the permissions from Joomla! administration.