Permissions Field Resets when editing permissions

FacialTurd

I've created an application for Garden that defines 5 new permissions, when I try to edit a role to change these permissions, the whole "Permissions" field in gdn_users for the users in the respective role is blanked, thus resulting in a Fatal error when they try to login.
Is this a bug in Garden, or the way I defined the permissions. (in the about.php file of the application)?

FacialTurd

It would turn out that the Permissions field in the GDN_User table is actually a cache, It is cleared when you edit permissions relating to that users' group. The problem I saw was because of a discrepancy with my version of PHP, which was treating "$Permissions[$PermissionName]..." [Line 44, class.usermodel.php] as a string and not converting it to an array when "$Permissions[$PermissionName][] = ..." is used. I fixed it by inserting "$Permissions[$PermissionName] = array();" Above Line 44 in class.usermodel.php

Mark

Thanks for the fix!

Have you filled out the contributor's agreement?

http://vanillaforums.org/contributors

After you've done that, I can implement your contribution

FacialTurd

Yep, done that.
Althought it's not much of a contrubution

FacialTurd

It'll probably need some kind of evaluator to tell if it's already array, otherwise "= arra();" will keep clearing, thereby only really evaluating the last occurence.

Mark

Yeah - I was thinking the same thing.

Mark

I changed it to this:

if(is_numeric($JunctionID) && $JunctionID > 0) {
   if (!is_array($Permissions[$PermissionName]))
      $Permissions[$PermissionName] = array();

   $Permissions[$PermissionName][] = $JunctionID;
} else {
   $Permissions[] = $PermissionName;
}

oliverraduner

I have a major issue in Vanilla 2 RC1:

The Permission update does not work for none of the users! It just deletes the whole "Permissons"-content in GDN_User when I update a user's role!!

This prevents Users from logging in (obviously), displaying a "You're not authorized" message.

Strange thing is: the permissions on the webinterface is saved & displayed correctly!? (might this be a caching issue?)

Any clues?

oliverraduner

Anyone? Any idea why the permission-field is not being set properly in the DB?
Any idea how to debug this?

oliverraduner

[SOLVED]

It turns out that it's not an issue with the "Permission" field.

Instead, the value "Garden.SignIn.Allow" in the Permissions-Table GDN_Permission was set to FALSE (0) for the Members-Role.