adding permissions

sbutler

what's the easiest way to add a new permission to a role? I can't seem to find a master list of permissions anywhere, looks like I have to tack it onto the text in the permissions column in LUM_Role but that just seems weird

Mark

If you are using version 0.9.3, all permissions are serialized and stored in a single column. It was a handy way of (a) speeding up the query that pulls role permissions on every single page (so the app can know what you are allowed to see/do) and (b) allow you to add new permissions programmatically. To add a permission, you just specify a new permission in your conf file (or an extension file) with a prefix of PERMISSION_

So, it would be like...

$Context->Configuration['PERMISSION_DO_SOMETHING'] = '0';

Which will create a new permission and make the default value "false". If you wanted the new permission to be granted to everyone by default, you'd specify 1 instead of 0.

If you wanted to see where all other permissions are specified, take a look at the appg/settings.php file.

sbutler

sweet thanks, I tried tracing it back through but never found where it was using Configuration

mary

What's the procedure for doing this for an extension in 1.0?

Dinoboff

still the same, like in this extension

mary

Thanks, much obliged. :)