AclUtilities permits to translarently display or hide links in view according to Acl rules.

• in the views, replace $this->Html->link() by $this->Acl->link()

example:

<?php echo $this->Html->link(__('List Posts', true), array('action' => 'index')); ?>

<?php echo $this->Html->link(__('Edit User', true), array('controller'=>'User','action' => 'edit')); ?>

replaced by:

<?php echo $this->Acl->link(__('List Posts', true), array('action' => 'index')); ?>

<?php echo $this->Acl->link(__('Edit User', true), array('controller'=>'User','action' => 'edit')); ?>

Be sure to use an array format for the URL.

• in the AppController, add the helper AclUtilities.Acl

    var $helpers = array(/*...,*/ 'AclUtilities.Acl');
  

• If you are using Auth->allowedActions or Auth->allow()
  Then you have to move them all into AppController::beforeFilter() like the following:

    function beforeFilter() {
    	//[...]
    	// $allowedActions = array([Controller]=>array([action1],[action2]);
    	Configure::write('AclUtilities.allowedActions', $allowedActions = array(
    		'News' => array('*'), // access to all the actions
    		'Groups' => array(), // no access to groups
    		'Pages' => array('display'),
    		'Posts' => array('index', 'view'),
    		'Users' => array('login','register'),
    	));
  
    	// now, we need to allow the action for the current module
    	if (isset($allowedActions[$this->name]))
    		$this->Auth->allow($allowedActions[$this->name]);
    }
  

And this is it; your links are now only displayed when they can be accessed!

• use of the option wrapper:

    <ul>
    	<li>
    	<?php echo $this->Html->link(__('List Posts', true), array('action' => 'index')); ?>
    	<li>
    </ul>
  
    <ul>
    <?php echo $this->Acl->link(__('List Posts', true)
    							,array('action' => 'index')
    							,array('wrapper'=>'li'); ?>
    </ul>
  

• another use of the wrapper

    <div class="myClass">
    	<?php echo $this->Html->link(__('List Posts', true), array('action' => 'index')); ?>
    </div>
  
    <?php echo $this->Acl->link(__('List Posts', true)
    							,array('action' => 'index')
    							,array('wrapper'=>'<div class="myClass">%s</div>'); ?>
  

• use of $this->Acl->check()

  	<div>
    	<?php if ($this->Acl->check(array('action' => 'index'))): ?>
    		<div class="myClass">
    			<?php echo $this->Html->link(__('List Posts', true), array('action' => 'index')); ?>
    		</div>
    	<?php endif; ?>
    </div>
  

• use of blocks (only display a block if a link is successful):

    <div>
    	<?php $this->Acl->startBlock() ?>
    		<div class="myClass">
    			<?php echo $this->Acl->link(__('List Posts', true), array('action' => 'index')); ?>
    		</div>
    	<?php $this->Acl->endBlock() ?>
    </div>
  

In AppController::beforeFilter() add this:

	Configure::write('AclUtilities.modelName','Group');
	Configure::write('AclUtilities.modelKey','Auth.User.group_id');