<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Good evening Earl,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the comment.</div><div><br></div><div>I really enjoyed the context and content discussion on Saturday at the Core Developer Summit. Hoping to see a drupal_butler object in drupal 8. Are any discussions about this happening online, if so, where can I get involved and contribute?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again,<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 2010-04-23, at 8:27 PM, Earl Miles wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>E.J. Zufelt wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Good evening,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks for this.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I took a look at user_access() but wasn't sure that it would do what I needed. I have to admit to being a newbie as far as Drupal development goes. I normally work on cor accessibility.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">As far as user_access() I see that it can accept a user object, but that it also needs me to pass a permission to check. What permission would I be checking to see if the current system path can be accessed? This is why menu_get_item() seemed more appropriate. It would be nice if there was a function like menu_get_item() that accepted the user object like user_access() does. Perhaps I'll ad an issue as a feature request for d8 if this doesn't already exist in some hidden corner of d6.<br></blockquote><br>Context is a major weakness in Drupal right now and there is currently a lot of discussion on what to do about that in D8. As for what you can do right now, your global $user hack is probably the only thing you can actually do. it's not elegant at all, but in a contrib module...be very very careful you don't change the $user identity once you're done (so make sure all possible failure scenarios are covered).<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>