First of all, obrigado! Thanks for this great free extension, i'll donate! I've been searching something like this for some time. It works great when you understand how it works.

It is a great extension for web projects that need more than Joomla basic user groups. At least for working with different menus and items like in my project.

If I think something has to be improved is the Documentation, examples are too long when in fact it's very intuitive. Maybe it could be better to simplify the installation and if possible, allow to modify without dissable the addapters.

To put it simply, Useless & Awful. We must have tryed about 50 times to get this to work properly but to no avail - we couldn't. Interface is very poor and the functionality of it doesn't seem to be even the slighest exept for creating new 'groups'. It installed fine but when we tryed repeatedly, we could NOT get any of the permissions to change. We created a new group, set the permissions in the awful interface (which im sure we did correctly) and items still showed which, from what this extension said, should not have. We put the newly created group as a child of the parent 'Registered' and set an item to special while setting the permissions to 'none' in the noixACL interface. It still showed.

Overall as said, the only good, but not of any use as of yet, outcome that we got was we were able to create a new group. Nothing else worked. We will not try this again.

0/5

I was lookin for an ACL compo for a few month. In my last proyect its a "must" y noixacl was my solution. I installed it without probs and in five min. y after a couple of hours of checking and hard controls everything was perfect and running! GREAT EXTENSION! Hope to see more works like this one. Thx!

1) Although documentation is difficult to find, one of the project members has a NoixACL demosite with projects and how to's to get you start, great for a beginner...

2)Downloading files is tricky but the noixacl forum has all the links you need to download straight from the project site, so no need to visit. just look out for the repeat message on the forum http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=341017&p=1856520#p1856520

3)Great secuirty but annoying that super admin is not givien full right by default, but with a disable and enable of the adapters all works great!!!

4)No hierarchical rights seems a bit odd, but according to Joomila (the developer) its more for lgoical organiastion as hierarchical is difficult to code!

Great component with a building support and documentation!!!

1) Seriously lacking in documentation.

2) The download area contains several versions lumped together with mismatched naming conventions - making it very difficult to obtain the compoments/plugins/adapters you need or to choose the latest version. How about clearly documented all-in-one packages?

3) Default deny may be great for security. It also means I spend half my time trying to track down where and why a SUPER-ADMINISTRATOR account doesn't have permission to access xyz...

4) I'm still trying to figure out why my super-admin account doesn't have access to reset the hit count on an article created by the same account??!??

5) It seems hierarchical rights might have stopped working with the last version? I need to test that. But so far, I've had to grant rights to all the groups that need access because inheritance doesn't seem to work.

All that, and it's still the best ACL component I've tested!

This component is the best ACL system out there. And its free. Its a bit of a hassle to get it running if you are not familiar with ACL systems. Just download the component, install the adapters inside the component, and create a new group and you will be fine.
I slightly outdated how-to is linked from the projects homepage bu you get the idea.

I am using noixacl2.0.6 and documented my experience which I have turned into a tutorial, projects and demo site.

My experience is based upon using Joomla 1.5.14.

A number of users had experienced difficulties with NOIX ACL 2.0.6 because of their Joomla installation.

Double check your Joomla installation against the Joomla requirements.

Kudos to the developers of noixACL. This extension is maybe not yet perfectly documented and a little complex to install and use in the beginning. For the moment being quite some PHP knowledge is required, especially when something goes wrong.

But once one gets to grips with the extension, it is just great. Very flexible and highly configurable. The code is clean and well structured. This makes noixACL easy to extend.

This extension is still very "young". I am sure that the rough edges will be rounded off soon.

Thanks for this great free (!) extension.

Okay, at first, I was going crazy trying to understand how to use this extension. I looked everywhere and to no avail. I almost dropped it and moved on to finding another program, but I gave it another shot. I finally found a site that helps explain how to install, and which files you need to install (they really should put all of these files into one zip file).

My review after finally figuring it out (thanks to this very simple guide): This extension is awesome once you understand the little steps you have to work through. It's exactly what I needed, and most importantly, it's free. I don't know what the big deal is with other extensions that charge a lot of money for just a little extension. GREAT WORK WITH THIS EXTENSION! KEEP ON MAKING IT BETTER AND SIMPLER FOR ALL OF US!

It does almost anything I wanted on an ACL component, it controls access to menus, to content items, modules and other things. It installs flawlessy in Joomla 1.5.12 spanish.

It misses (as I know) control on creation/update/modify/delete sections and categories, and the spanish language pack, this one is not a problem, because I can translate it and share it. Good work!

I was searching for an ACL Extension and find noixACL. It gots the features I need and it's free.
Excellent

Hi,

This is an incredible ACL FREE component.
You should read the official topic before you start for some important informations.

Having tried other ACL solutions I found this extension today and installed it. At first, I was lost, however after going to the forum I was up and running in no time. Now I have a happy client that has the features that he specified.

Part of the adventure of using open source software is the search for answers. I guess it is the thrill of the chase for me. However, some users are not so tolerant and may find the lack of documentation a deal killer on this extension.

If you download this extension and have a hard time. Just be patient and you will find the answers you need. The work will be worth the results!

I searched tor this componente for long time. It is excelente. Once you leran how to use, you can do everything it promisses... Congratulations

I install the ext but could not get it to work on the frontend. Also this ext takes over your Joomla ACL, so if you customized your ACL I would suggest not going live unless your comfortable with the settings and ext.

I have to say there are a few things about this addon I simply can't get over:

1. The Default DENY permission. While I see a lot of users complaining about it, from a systems administrators, a+, and network+ certified professional this is always what I want to see. Though it takes some time to initially set up you people need to realize that if your looking for security you want it to be this way as this is what makes a plus in my book.

2. The price, for what you get: an amazing script, a developer open to new ideas, and the community as a support team, this is how programing should be.

3. Secondary groups, while I know that this doesn't sound like a lot it helps administration a LOT

with that being said, one of the main things i did wish to see in it would be support for component views either naturally in joonmla or having a command that developers could use to say that they wanted access restriction


Overall a very good program

If the developer provided even a small amount of documentation this component would get 5 stars from me.

At first I downloaded the component and two plugins (system and user) but kept getting locked out of articles and menus, even as Super Administrator.

I reinstalled, uninstalled, tried older versions ... banged my head against the wall. But the problem was that I hadn't really come to terms with it conceptually.

Once you realise that you need to enable permissions for all the categories you need to use (even as super administrator) you're away. Set up some dummy accounts, and start applying specific group permissions to categories of content. If, like me, you install this component and think "What the hell??", persist. It really does work!

Best of all it's not encrypted and doesn't come with a reassuringly expensive price tag.

Thanks very much NoixACL developers for working within the spirit of the Free Software, not just the letter.

Developers are highly encouraged and support seems to be fine. Nevertheless, noixACL simply didn't meet my expectations, simply lacks basic features. Being aware of the fact that ACL under J15 has to be a workaround and not a "clean" solution I must say that there are better solutions available. I experimented a lot with various ACL extensions as well as noixACL and JUGA and finally stuck to Community ACL. If you have a time-pressing project running, don't waste your time - go ahead, spend some money and get Community ACL. (btw, the name is misleading - it simply supports CB in addition, it's designed to work as a standalone solution).

I have tried to configure noixACL to get public access to an article while publishing is limited to some users. Not a success but I guess I will have the response soon in the forum.
Joomla major drawback is the lack of proper access control, numerous solutions are developped free for a limited period of time such as JUGA which is now extremely expensive or JACL which hacks Joomla Code.
Hope that this new component will get a good response from the beta tester we are and will remain free.

I have been needing this for a really long time and found it by chance today. All of my websites right now need some sort of "additional content management" regarding membergroups..

I found a commercial one that looks real nice, but it has hacks to the code...

This was free and is way better than the demo I seen on the commercial extension site.

Way to go. You got my full support on this one!