[development] Menu Tree Access Control?

[Kyle Mathews]

You might also want to look at Monsters Menu which does some sophisticated
stuff:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/10231

Kyle

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kyle.mathews2000.com/blog


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Andrew Berry <andrewberry at sentex.net>wrote:

> I've created a g.d.o page to document this.
>
> http://groups.drupal.org/node/20913
>
> Larry, it'd be great if you could add your module when you release it,
> especially any rationale as to why you didn't look at expanding the other
> modules out there.
>
> --Andrew
>
>
> On 3-Apr-09, at 10:46 AM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:
>
>  We (FunnyMonkey) released the book manager, which gives individuals the
>> right to create book that only they can add pages to.
>>
>> The nodes within those inividual books can then be governed by any of the
>> usual suspects wrt access control.
>>
>> So, a menu admin could create the outline, with people being granted
>> access to edit/view nodes as needed.
>>
>> What's missing, of course, is access rights that cascade down the
>> hierarchy.
>>
>> But the Book Manager is here: http://drupal.org/project/book_manager
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> Larry Garfield wrote:
>>
>>> Do you need view access control or edit access control?  We (Palantir)
>>> actually just developed an edit access control module based on menu position
>>> for a client.  We plan to release it as soon as the site launches, which
>>> hopefully shouldn't be too long.  What's your time frame?
>>> On Thursday 02 April 2009 6:33:02 pm Josh Koenig wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm about to launch into yet another custom module build, and I wanted
>>>> to see if I'm missing the obvious and this thing already exists (or
>>>> has been somewhat built).
>>>>
>>>> The use case is to allow access to nodes (node_access) based on their
>>>> placement within a drupal menu tree. Seems obvious, but keyword
>>>> searching through available modules didn't turn up anything that
>>>> seemed to match. I did locate the "Menu Subtree" module which seems to
>>>> provide some complimentary functionality in terms of restricting the
>>>> areas of a menu tree into which new nodes can be placed:
>>>>
>>>> http://drupal.org/project/menu_stp
>>>>
>>>> For access, it points to fago's menu_per_role module, but this is
>>>> about access to menu links, not node permissions. In the other
>>>> node-access modules, I didn't find one that seeks to allow/deny access
>>>> based on menu position. So that's what I'll begin working on.
>>>>
>>>> Implementation seems fairly straightforward based on
>>>> hook_node_access_records() and hook_node_grants(). Assuming I'm right,
>>>> the next fun thing would be looking at integrating this with
>>>> menutrails.module so it can work for broader classes of nodes and not
>>>> just those placed directly into the menu tree.
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if I'm missing something obvious. :)
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>> -josh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bill Fitzgerald
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>>
>>
>
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