[Phpwebsite-developers] Group support in Item and Manager

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

Matt, how is the group support supposed to work (or was supposed to  
work) in Item/Manager ?

core/Item.php and core/Manager.php are used across a lot of modules  
in phpWebSite but the permission support in them is left half  
implemented it seems.

In Item.php the _groups member var is commented out.

We do however have addGroup() and removeGroup() funcs that add and  
remove groups to/from an Item.


In Manager.php we have getItems() and one of the parameters is  
$filterGroups which filters out Items if the user doesn't belong to  
one of the groups the Item belongs to. We also have the GROUPS column  
to show which groups an Item belongs to in a list/row display.

I'm wondering how much trouble it is to use these features or what  
extra needs adding to complete the support. eg. adding filter support  
to Manager's getList() function. That could pretty much add view  
permission support, easily, to Article, Announce, Documents, phpwsBB,  
PhotoAlbum and many more 3rd party mods. It'd stave off a bunch of  
hacks at each module level too.


Shaun
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