I've got a heavily modded XOOPS 2.0.3, which I hacked about to so that everything (eg xoopsgallery) works properly without register_globals, and so that stories can live in multiple topics.

The final hack I want in place before going live is to allow any given group to be able to create/edit articles in specific topics but no in others.

While I was browing xoopstopic.php, I found a bunch of references to XoopsPerm::getPermitted() and various other methods, referencing permissions like "ReadInTopic" and "SubmitInTopic".

This stuff looks like it does what I want - however, I can find no other references to XoopsPerms, either in my sources or in the CVS tree. It looks as if XoopsPerms maintains a database similar to xoops_group_permissions, but's that about as far as I've got.

Does the missing code exist anywhere, or am I going to have to implement it?

No matter, I ripped it all out and implemented some stuff using the existing permissions system. ;)

Hi,

I want to implement something similar to what you wanted. Could you share how you were able to do it?

Thanks!

Um, kinda difficult to go into the details here, as the hacks are extensive and quite pervasive. As an indication these are the files I've modified:

./class/xoopstopic.php.ORIG
./class/xoopstree.php.ORIG
./class/smarty/plugins/resource.db.php.ORIG
./modules/news/index.php.ORIG
./modules/news/admin/index.php.ORIG
./modules/news/admin/storyform.inc.php.ORIG
./modules/news/class/class.newsstory.php.ORIG
./modules/news/include/storyform.inc.php.ORIG
./kernel/groupperm.php.ORIG
./kernel/group.php.ORIG

Basically, I've used the existing group_permissions class and added "topic_read" and "topic_post" permissions.

This has involved adding SetPermissions(), deleteByItem(), makePermittedSelBox() and makeTopicSelBox() methods to XoopsTopic, makeMyPermittedSelBox() and makeTopicMultiSelBox() methods to XoopsTree, a getNonGroupsByUser() method to XoopsMembership, makeMySelBox() and makeMyMultiSelBox() methods to XoopsGroupHandler.

Finally, I added getAllPermitted() to XoopsNewsStory, and rewrote its getAllPublished() method, and many of the other methods in there to use it.

What else...oh I moved the membership stuff out of group.php into its own file so that a handler can be properly instantiated for it.

Unfortunately, all this is tied up with another hack to allow stories to appear in multiple topics, for which I implemented a new XoopsGhost class (couldn't think of a better name!) and corresponding database table.

Sorry, it's probably not the quick and easy answer you were after. If you want, I can mail you a snapshot of my current XOOPS source tree for you to play with.

My long term plan is to diff against current sources and submit the changes, but I need to get my website off the ground first, and that's taking a while coz of the amount of XOOPS mods I'm having to do to get it to do what I want.

If you think that lot's bad, you should see what I did to xoopsgallery... ;)

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