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CiviCRM 2.0b3/Joomla1.5.1
I've been trying to figure out a way to expose certain privileged user functions through the front end, such as maintaining the contact or membership list, but I don't know if I'm looking in the right place.
If I'm correct, all admin functions are kept in /admin/components/com_civicrm and can only be accessed through the admin interface in Joomla.  Is this right?

I was hoping to be able to assign certain contacts in CCRM admin privileges but I see that ACLs are disabled when it is integrated.  This is kind of a double slam because Joomla's ACL is so primitive it's ridiculous.

My next assumption is that I'll have to find a session handler plugin for Joomla that will avoid the admin login panel when I have to use an URL or Wrapper link to direct the membership administrator to the CiviCRM functions.

Does any of this make sense?
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I did submit a whitepaper requesting a better ACL/user system in 1.6, but haven't gotten any feedback on it. ->  http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=500&t=267510
Also there are about a hundred other posts in that forum asking for pretty much the same thing, so I hope it gets done, and more importantly doesn't break everything else.

I'm wondering also if I wouldn't be better off just going stand-alone with CiviCRM and not tying it down/crippling it with the Joomla integration.  It almost seems that CiviCRM would be better off with a trigger bridge/sync to Joomla than being so tied into it and (frankly) being held back by its Flintstone-era ACL system.
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Thanks, Lobo, I have looked at Drupal, but it's kind of bloggish for the type of site I'm doing, and I need integration with phpBB3 and coppermine.

I tell you though, if I were a coder I would be all over this.