Common Features in the CSK Modules
The following list summarizes the most important CSK features:
Security
Moderation
Comments
Ratings
Notifications
Quotas
HTML Editor
Before we can talk about each community module, it’s important to know what these features do, even if you will not understand all the details now. While analyzing the individual community modules (like Articles, Photo Gallery, and so on) later in this chapter, we’ll make frequent references to these features.
Security
Security controls "who-can-do-what" in a particular environment. Security in general, and with the CSK in particular, deals with two fundamental notions:
Authentication: Deals with uniquely identifying users by (usually) asking for a username and password
Authorization: Decides what permissions an authenticated user has while browsing the community website
The CSK implements authentication by adding support for user accounts, so it can authenticate them when necessary by asking for a username/password combination. The CSK...
