Hiding the "Start a New Discussion" button

coolgates

How can I hide the "Start a New Discussion" button in the sidebar panel for people who don't have permissions to start a new discussion? Right now it's visible and is causing confusion when a user clicks on it and gets a permission denied error. Thanks!

oliverraduner

@coolgates Copy the following View to your template's /views/ folder:

/applications/vanilla/views/modules/newdiscussion.php

Then edit the file and add a check for the user permissions, before the Anchor() is echoed.

coolgates

Thanks. That makes sense. I'm almost a complete dummy when it comes to PHP - is there an example in another file for how to check user permissions? This stuff would be great to have in the documentation.

oliverraduner

@coolgates I cannot test this, but I think you need to add above the echo-code in "newdiscussion.php" to the following:

if ($Session->CheckPermission('Vanilla.Comments.Add', TRUE, 'Category', $CategoryID))
	echo Anchor(T('Start a New Discussion'), '/post/discussion'.(array_key_exists('CategoryID', $Data) ? '/'.$Data['CategoryID'] : ''), 'BigButton NewDiscussion');

Stash

Wouldn't a better plan be to be NOT to hide it, but just route you to the register/sign in page?

lukoie

nope
we had the same issue too
we have a read-only members(females) on our forum(private one), and needed to hide post comment form and new discussion button for users under their role