How to check whether role/task/operation does exist?

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I am starting to add role based permission access behavior to my site. To make further management easier, I want to create an interface where admin user can add new operations/tasks/role and relate them.

For this I want to find whether the entered value of new operation already exists. How can I do that without creating an ActiveRecord model? I though Yii should have its native API to check if task/operation/role exists.

How can I check this?

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Oh, I found.


$item = $auth->getAuthItem('operationOrTaskOrRoleName');