Control (formerly supported and maintained at jxtended.com) is a tool that allows you to manipulate the Access Control tables provided with Joomla and is used by other extensions on this site to provide extended access control capabilities.

Features

• Builds on the existing phpGACL API used within Joomla!
• Adds the extra tables required to use the full phpGACL API
• Add your own User Groups (more than just Registered, Author, Editor, etc)
• Add your own Access Levels (more than Public, Registered, Special, etc)
• Create your own Permissions
• Create your own Rules by binding permissions to User Groups and Access Levels

Please note that this extension does not add access control to existing extensions (like com_content) by itself.

Your installed extensions must be designed to work with Control in order to achieve finer access granularity.

Read the reviews on the Joomla Extensions Directory.

Requirements

• JXtended Libraries plugin (an extended developer framework for Joomla).  Download a copy of JXtended Libraries.
• Joomla 1.5.7+
• PHP 5.2+

Packing List

All extensions are automatically installed from the one package.

• The Control administrator component (com_control).

License and Support

This extension is free to download and use on any number of Joomla web sites.  It is released as Open Source under the GNU General Public License.

No official support is provided.  However, usage difficulties can be reported on the Art of Joomla project tracker.  You may also like to discuss this extension at The Art of Joomla Google Group.