Hi! I have asked this question already but obviously in wrong forum so the post was deleted! I’ll try with my own topic then because i really can’t find the solution anywhere.
In my database table, i have professors and students with attribute TYPE (P and S). I want to allow only Professors to be able to login. How could i do that? I tried with access rules:
public function accessRules() {
return array(
array('allow',
'actions'=>array('login'),
'users'=> array(LOGIN::model()->findByAttributes(array('TYPE' => array('P')))
)
)
);
but this gives me an error:
strtolower() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given.
I’m not even sure if this is what i should be doing, i’m very very new to all this. Help is appreciated!
Thanks
Hello,
you use access rule like Following Code of Controller.
class TestController extends Controller {
public $layout = '//layouts/layout';
public function actions() {
return array(
'add' => 'controllers.test.Add',
'edit' => 'controllers.test.Edit',
'view' => 'controllers.test.View',
'delete' => 'controllers.test.Delete',
);
}
public function filters()
{
return array( 'accessControl' ); // perform access control for CRUD operations
}
public function accessRules()
{
return array(
array('allow', // allow specified users to perform 'index','view' and other actions
'actions'=>array('add','edit','view','delete'),
'roles'=>array('admin'),
),
array('deny', // deny all users
'users'=>array('*'),
),
);
}
}
Thanks guys, i did it like this:
$record=LOGIN::model()->findByAttributes(array(‘usrnm’=>$this->username, ‘type’=>‘P’));
and it’s working, only allowing professors to login. Later i’ll have to allow admin and one more user of type E to login, i already tried like this:
$record=LOGIN::model()->findByAttributes(array(‘usrnm’=>$this->username, ‘type’=>‘P’, ‘type’=>‘E’, ‘type’=>‘A’));
but then it only allows admin to login. i assume the ‘type’=>‘A’ overrides conditions before. How could i write this properly?
Next big question: when i certain professor is logged in, he should only see corresponding courses, those that belong to him. Any ideas on where to even start with that? Thanks 
