Force.com sites - public access to account/contact records

Question

I have a force.com site, it has a visualforce page with a controller that is doing a very simple SOQL query to the database, which for some reason it's not returning any records.

Here's what I've covered: read access to account and contact objects; removed the "Where" clause from my Select and it's still not returning any records at all; also, I've tested the page in SF an it works fine... anyone know something I'm missing?!

Here is the query: 
list <Contact> sfContacts = [Select Id, FirstName, LastName, Email, AccountId, Account.Name, Account.Domain__c 
                               From Contact
                              Where Email =: myUser.myEmail
                                And Name like :pattern];

Thanks! eclf

Answer 1

Your class must use the WITHOUT SHARING keyword, this way, sharing settings won't be enforced. Notice that this must be used carefully and is not usually recommended unless necessary.