Hi! I don't know if there are negative implications because of the proposed change, Iif there is, disregard my opinion, but I believe that this is 'n must-have +1. Regards, Kobus

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killesreiter@physik.uni-freiburg.de 4/18/2005 2:09:59 PM >>>

Hi there! One problem with Drupal is the way it handles user permissions. The permissions are attached to the user object but nobody really knows what they do. To find out what a particular permission allows you to do, you often need to have a look at the code. More important: The user does not know which permissions he has. I propose to change the structure of the _perm hook: foo_perm() { return array('create foo', 'admin foo'); } is the current structure. foo_perm() { return array('create foo' => t('Lets you create nodes of type foo.'), 'admin foo' => t('Lets you administer nodes of type foo.') ); } is the proposed structure. The idea is to not only display the additional blurb on the admin permission page, but also on a sub tab of the user profile pages (or directly on /user/n). Opinions? Cheers, Gerhard