Extension: Restrict Entries (to Member Groups or Guests)

Hi Erwin (and everybody else),

My apologies but we’ve had no time to update the extension. It is still on my todo list though I think that it will have to wait until EE2.0 appears before doing it. Some of the requested changes are significant and I’d want to make it available for both the 2.0 and the 1.6 branches without much reworking.

Cheers

Dry

Sounds like a sweet plugin. Especially for the lazy types such as myself looking to broadcast something to editors and moderators on my sites. 😊

Looking forward to it. As others have said, I don’t mind paying for this extension to push some of those features out. While I hope not all add-on’s go the way of commercial, I do believe many are validated in charging a price for their services. Since I’m a bit less knowledgeable on PHP development, I feed on crap like this.

Good job man.. Looking forward to MSM and Mark’s request in regards to selecting groups that can view it rather than not. Of course, the varchar(100) sounds like an issue as well.

D.

Drylouvre,

This sounds like a great extension. Exactly what I am looking for. Unfortunately I am using MSM. :down: But I am really looking forward to the updated MSM compatible version! I also wanted to throw my vote in with Mark Bowen and others for switching the check boxes around to be the groups included instead of the one’s that are excluded.

Just a thought on functionality… You could have a guest box be automatically checked so that the default for an entry is publicly viewable. Then, users could uncheck that box and select specific groups based on what level of access they wanted… OR perhaps have a option in the weblog admin section to set the default access level for entries in that weblog…

Anyway great work! I am looking forward to testing this out. Maybe I’ll download it and play with it on one of my other sites that is not using MSM.

Michael

Very, very useful extension. Thanks a LOT!

I hope you don’t mind, but I also wanted the permissions to work the other way around (as per Mark’s request) and have come up with following tweak for those that are interested until you have time to make a full update.

Change at line 257 of ext.restrict_entries.php from

foreach($SESS->cache['restricted_member_group_data']->result AS $key)
        {            
            if ($key['entry_id'] == $row['entry_id'])
            {
                $groups = unserialize($key['member_groups']);
                
                foreach($groups AS $key => $value)
                {
                    if($SESS->userdata['group_id'] == $value)
                    {
                        $tagdata = '';
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

to

foreach($SESS->cache['restricted_member_group_data']->result AS $key)
        {            
            if ($key['entry_id'] == $row['entry_id'])
            {
                $groups = unserialize($key['member_groups']);
                $ok=FALSE;
                foreach($groups AS $key => $value)
                {
                    if($SESS->userdata['group_id'] == $value)
                    {
                        $ok=TRUE;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                if ($ok===FALSE && $SESS->userdata['group_id']!=1){
                    $tagdata = '';
                }
            }
        }

Also change line 12 of lang.restrict_entries.php from

"Select the groups that you wish to prevent from viewing this entry",

to

"Select the groups that you wish to allow to view this entry",

Super-Admins will always get to see everything.

Having trawled through the code the preview option and quick save lose the group settings because the group data needs to be retrieved from the groups post variable. Unfortunately it’s in an array and EE code wipes out POST arrays in a couple of places. I have a workaround for this.

However more problematic is that there is no hook in the right place to make quick save work. This is already the subject of a bug report here.

Tried to upload this extension, but as soon as I enter the Extensions panel in the CP, I get this at the top (and I can’t see the extension in the list, so it isn’t even activated):

Warning: Utilities::include(/opt/home2/jccacweb/public_html/systemfolder33/extensions/ext.restrict_entries.php) [function.Utilities-include]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /opt/home2/jccacweb/public_html/systemfolder33/cp/cp.utilities.php on line 147 Warning: Utilities::include() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘/opt/home2/jccacweb/public_html/systemfolder33/extensions/ext.restrict_entries.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/share/pear’) in /opt/home2/jccacweb/public_html/systemfolder33/cp/cp.utilities.php on line 147

any ideas….? Nick

Sounds like a permission problem, not an issue with the extension itself. Make sure you set correct permissions on the file and the extensions folder.

Thx Ingmar…

What should the permissions be? Both my /extensions and /language folders are set to 755. Should they be 777? What about files inside… 777 too?

Nick

Hello,

I just noticed that this Extension and Show Categories (v.1.1) do not play niceley tegether. The edit page table only will show the values for this Extension.

Any ideas to overcome this ?

• Ruud -

Very nice… just what I needed. Thanks.

I believe I’ve found a conflict with this extension and LG Image Preview - http://leevigraham.com/cms-customisation/expressionengine/lg-image-preview/

The extension installed fine but entries wouldn’t show up as restricted even though I was setting them to be in the Groups tab. I went one by one and disabled extensions to see if that might be causing the issue. I finally narrowed it down to the LG Image Preview extension. Once I disabled LG Image Preview the Restrict Entries extension worked. Thanks!

Hi,

Finally I came to a (near) perfect fit for this extension. However I notice that EE tags still account for the non displayed entries. Page navigation, counts to name some I’ve seen. This in some cases could end up in some weird pages I forsee.

How would I achieve a notification display that a entry has permissions attached ? Any suggestions are welcome.

I just installed this extension and it doesn’t even show up in the Extensions Manager. All other extensions show up and work fine. Running 1.6.9. Not sure where to begin troubleshooting. Thanks!

angie

Angle, I had same problem. The permissions on the extension file are too tight. chmod 755 it.