[support] Pages with restricted access and menu entries.

[Martin Tomes]

Jason Flatt wrote:
> On Saturday 23 September 2006 13:41, Martin Tomes wrote:
>> I have defined a page type for pages which should be hidden from
>> anonymous users by writing my own module (an edited copy of page.module)
>> and have set permissions so that only users in specific roles can read
>> those pages.  My problem is that if I add that page to a menu that menu
>> entry is shown to anonymous users and I would like it to be hidden from
>> them (they get permission denied on clicking on the menu entry) and only
>> shown to logged in users with view permission.  Is there any way to
>> achieve this?
>>
>> --
>> Martin Tomes.
> 
> Do you have something like this as part of your menu array?:

I do, but only for the node/add/xxx menu.

> 'access' => user_access('access special page type'),
> 
> There are many examples in the core modules in hook_menu functions.

Thank you for you help!

My node type is a variation on page.module so it creates pages with urls 
node/<number> and it is these pages I wish to control the visibility of 
menu entries for based on the page type.  When I create a page of this 
type I add it to a menu using the node edit form and it is this menu 
entry which I cannot work out how to control.

As I understand it hook_menu() adds menu entries itself, I want to 
control the visibility of a menu entry added by the person who created 
the page and I don't know in advance where that will be.

I tried this but it didn't work:

     $items[] = array('path' => 'node/'. arg(1),
       'access' => user_access('view an extranet page'));


-- 
Martin.