[Phpwebsite-developers] Attention! BIg changes in user module

[Matthew M. <ma...@tu...>]

Greetings,

The user module has gone through a large rewrite.

mod_rights_tbl and rights_file no longer exist. You can remove them from
your mod_info.php file. Module Permissions are automatically set when your
module is installed. If you wish to have sub permissions you do not have
to create a table for it. Just make a module_rights.txt file in your conf
directory. See the user module for an example.

The modules table no longer contains the forementioned columns, nor does
it contain allow_user and allow_group. Before the rewrite, the modules
table had to keep track of the users and groups that were allowed to
access it by these two columns. All the users were kept in a serialized
array. This has been done away with.

I will update the documentation to explain how to use the setUserVar and
setGroupVar functions. These functions were called setModuleVar but they
have been separated to allow variables to be set in groups and users. More
on this later.

I have not written the code to merge users and groups. They are their own
entities at this point. That code will get started today but expect it
will not be finished until next week.

I have tested a fresh install and it appears to work as intended. Please
write me if you have any problems.


Matthew McNaney
Internet Systems Architect
Electronic Student Services
Email: ma...@tu...
URL: http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu
Phone: 828-262-6493
ICQ: 141057403