Creating a PHP ACL and even Rat out Users using Proxies!

Submitted by Adam » Now before some snotty nosed individual points out that ACLs can be done via .htaccess, let me cover my arse by saying although it can be done that way, we're not doing it that way. More technically speaking, however, albeit Apache is the better way it's not the most practical way due to the manual updating of .htaccess files. Unless you wish to parse the file - which is not advised for security and speed reasons, then PHP is the way to be heading.