[development] Menu Tree Access Control?

[Ken Rickard]

I am the Palantir developer in question and have two modules just
about to release that are relevant here.

Release should be by end of month, if all goes well.

1) Menu Node API
The menu/node API module keeps track of menu-node relationships for
you, so that you can run JOINs from the {node} table to the
{menu_links} table through the new {menu_node} table.

This is a glue module that will allow for (among other things):

-- Menu-based Views
-- Node Access modules based on menu hierarchy,

2) Menu (Needs Name)
The second module was called menu_access, and someone just took the
namespace on d.o. It leverages the Menu Node API and rewrites
node/%/edit using hook_menu_alter(). It then lets an administrator
define menu 'sections' -- elements of the tree hierarchy that are used
as ACLs.

Individual users can then be assigned as "section editors".  A section
editor has cascading rights down the menu hierarchy.

This module is _deliberately_ not a Node Access module, since I have
not yet figured out the necessary overhead for which menu parents
would need to be stored in the {node_access} table as GIDs.  And since
the client did not require View or Delete access control, Edit control
was sufficient.

I hope that any delay in releasing these won't force anyone to write
duplicate code.  Larry and I will convene next week and see if we can
get a firm launch date.

- Ken Rickard
agentrickard



On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Earnie Boyd
<earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Quoting Simon Roberts <lyricnz at gmail.com>:
>
>> I've also been doing fine-grained book-page access, per-user and
>> per-role, and ended up coding more than I would have liked.  (Writing
>> ACLs on the fly, and twiddling with menu-entries during theming -
>> uugh).
>>
>> No idea if this is useful, but I saw this new project pop up a few days
>> ago
>>
>> http://drupal.org/project/book_page_access
>>
>
> And then there is http://drupal.org/project/acl which give you an API.  The
> page lists other modules using it.
>
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