PWT ACL

Requirements

PWT ACL 6

• Joomla 5 or Joomla 6
• PHP 8.2 or higher
• MySQL v5.0 or higher

PWT ACL 5

• Joomla 3.8 or higher, Joomla 4, Joomla 5 and Joomla 6 (requires "Behaviour - Backward Compatibility" plugin enabled for now)
• PHP 7.2 or higher, PHP 8 or higher
• MySQL v5.0 or higher

PWT ACL 4

• Joomla 3.8 or higher, Joomla 4 and Joomla 5 (requires "Behaviour - Backward Compatibility" plugin enabled for now)
• PHP 7.2 or higher, PHP 8 or higher
• MySQL v5.0 or higher

PWT ACL 3

• Joomla 3.8, Joomla 3.9 or Joomla 3.10
• PHP 5.6 or higher
• MySQL v5.0 or higher

ACL Manager 2.5.4 and lower

• Joomla 2.5.28 or higher
• PHP 5.2 or higher
• MySQL v5.0 or higher

Is PWT ACL compatible with other extensions?

In PWT ACL you can set the basic permissions for any component. Even when a component does not support Joomla ACL out of the box. In those cases PWT ACL will add basic ACL support, so you can define which user group can see and access a component in the backend. Please read more about this: Basic Joomla ACL support for any component.

You will be able to manage additional actions by third party extensions that are using the Joomla ACL system as well in PWT ACL.

Third party extensions that are using their own permission system are not supported. Only those extensions that are using the Joomla core ACL system.

How does PWT ACL affect native Joomla ACL?

PWT ACL is built on top of the Joomla core ACL system. PWT ACL does not add any additional tables to your database. The default Joomla #__assets table (where all permissions are stored) is used by PWT ACL.

You can manage the permissions via the PWT ACL interface and the settings will be stored in the Assets table. When you uninstall PWT ACL all your configured permissions will remain active.

CLI scripts

If you prefer to automate fixing the asset issues and rebuilding the assets table on a regular basis you can set up cronjobs. This is only useful if PWT ACL regulary reports asset issues, often caused by 3rd party extension incorectly adding content to your site. Most sites won't need the cronjobs.

PWT ACL has two CLI scripts available, one for fixing asset issues and one for rebuilding the assets database table.

The PWT ACL CLI scripts:

• /cli/pwtacl_fix.php - for triggering the diagnostics tool to fix asset issues, will end with an assets database table rebuild
• /cli/pwtacl_rebuild.php - for rebuilding the assets database table

Please check the documentation of your web host for instructions to set up cronjobs to trigger these scripts. Usually triggering these scripts on a weekly base would be sufficient, but only in case of issues being reported by the diagnostics of PWT ACL regulary. 

What happened with ACL Manager?

The PWT ACL extension has been renamed from ACL Manager in November 2017, together with the launch of our other extensions.