Per entry based adding/editing permissions
Development and Programming
I tried out the new Structure module, and it’s great, but has some limitations. Since it puts all ‘static’ pages into one weblog, you can’t assign certain groups to be able to edit entries within that weblog like you can if you break up content types into different weblogs (the traditional way).
I’m starting to write my first extension which will hopefully allow you to assign what user groups can or can’t edit an existing entry, or possibly add a child entry to an existing entry. I can’t think of a way to restrict adding entries though, just editing existing ones.
My biggest question is… has anyone written this already? :D I don’t want to spend time doing this only to realize it already exists.
So I’m making good progress with this. I’m essentially highly modifying Mark Huot’s Checkbox extension. I’m to the point where I’m trying to hide the Publish form and show a message to the effect of ‘you don’t have permission to edit this entry’ if the user can’t edit it, so I’m using the ‘publish_form_start’ hook and calling this method:
function check_permissions( $which, $submission_error, $entry_id )
{
print_r(func_get_args());
}And the only thing that prints is ‘edit’, so the $which param is the only one that isn’t NULL, I’m not getting the entry_id, which is kind of crucial 😊
I can’t find the hook, or I’m not printing the correct HTML, to completely hide the publish form tabs, and all the form fields. I need to hide everything below the breadcrumbs and display a message to the user.
How do I do this?