Adding custom permissions.

kieronwiltshire

I require the ability to add my own permissions in a plugin I'm developing, I've searched the docs and found nothing. I'm hoping someone else will have the answer or perhaps a suggestion of where I can go from here, any help is much appreciated!

Thanks
-K

peregrine

usually a good idea to look at examples in staff created plugins.

register permissions can be added via registerpermissions in PluginInfo array and when plugin is enabled the permissions are added to permission table and a checkbox appears in the roles for those permissions.

look at the flaggging plugin - it comes with core.

settingspermission controls who can access settings

whu606

Hi @kieronwiltshire

Welcome to the community.

If you add this line to the $PluginInfo

'RegisterPermissions' => array('Plugins.Yourpluginname.Madeupnameofpermission'),

when you enable the plugin you will find a permissions setting for the plugin under each user.

kieronwiltshire

@whu606 every user? Is there no way I can create permissions for "roles"?

peregrine

read my comment. pls. it is correct.

kieronwiltshire

@peregrine oh I'm so sorry, I didn't see your reply haha, silly me. I'll take a look, do you have any links to public repositories I could look at?

peregrine

you mean the links in the documentation or the links at the top of the page.

staff plugins that come with core are in the download.

staff plugins that don't come with core are in the addons in vanilla - github.

non-staff also have examples in their add-ons

kieronwiltshire

@peregrine thanks a lot, that really helped!

Okay, this half answers my question.
My plan is to have a separate application that authenticates users over via SSO.
The idea was to check if the user had access to a specific permission from the external application. This means that it will not be a specific plugin.

So let me just explain it a little more...
The basis was to have an application developed in Laravel which is bridged with Vanilla forums, the goal was to then only allow users access to portions of the Laravel application if they had the permission.

How would I go about achieving this considering the application isn't a plugin?

peregrine

not in my bailiwick

perhaps this will help

http://vanillaforums.org/search?adv=1&search=jsconnect&title=&author=x00,mtschirs,Bleistivt&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&discussion_question=1&comment_c=1&comment_answer=1&within=1+day&date=

or this

http://vanillaforums.org/search?adv=1&search=sso&title=&author=x00,mtschirs,Bleistivt&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&discussion_question=1&comment_c=1&comment_answer=1&within=1+day&date=

whu606

As I'm sure you realised, I meant each group or type of user...