[Admin and User Permissions]

I am developing a system that with have 4 different levels of permissions.  My question is this.  From a structure standpoint, some systems will have the administrators area in one file and the users admin area in another file.  Others will have a level of permission with all the different levels of administrative tasks, menus, etc, coming from the database.

 

Is one of these better than the other or does it matter.  From a coding standpoint it would be much easier to just have permissions and allow access to user menus and admin pages accordingly.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Include From Different URL]

Thanks for the information.  I am working on it now.

[Include From Different URL]

I have a script that is going to be on several urls.  There is a master site that will have certain information that will need to be present on all urls that host this script.  I am planning on using RSS to do this.  What is a good method to dynamically create the xml file for the master site so that the feed can be broadcast to the other urls?  Thanks in advance for the input.