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rule that is directly applicable to the query. In this case, since the "member" role is examined
before the "guest" role, the example code would print "allowed".

> #### LIFO Order for role queries
>
> When specifying multiple parents for a role, keep in mind that the last parent listed is the first
> one searched for rules applicable to an authorization query.

### LIFO order for Role parents

When specifying multiple parents for a role the last parent listed is the first
one searched for rules applicable to an authorization query. This Last-In-First-Out strategy is represented with this example.
Here the `first` role inherits from `second`, `third`, and `last` and is the most permissioned role:
```php
use Zend\Permissions\Acl\Acl;
use Zend\Permissions\Acl\Role\GenericRole as Role;
use Zend\Permissions\Acl\Resource\GenericResource as Resource;

$acl = new Acl();

$acl->addRole(new Role('last'))
->addRole(new Role('third'))
->addRole(new Role('second'));

$acl->addRole(new Role('first'), ['last', 'third', 'second']);

$acl->addResource(new Resource('someResource'));

$acl->deny('last', 'someResource');
$acl->allow('third', 'someResource');

// allowed
echo $acl->isAllowed('first', 'someResource') ? 'allowed' : 'denied';
```

Less-permissioned roles will be first in the parents array. For instance, where a`guest`
role is unauthenticated, a `user` role is authenticated, and an `admin` role has the highest
permissions. As soon as any ACL query returns false evaluation of `isAllowed` is terminated and false is returned. For this reason your least permissioned roles come first in the parents array. Adding the `admin` role is as follows:

```php
$acl->addRole(new Role('admin'), ['guest', 'user']);
```


## Creating the Access Control List

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