I've been working on an intranet site that needed to have typical intranet permissions: unauthenticated users can see a handful of pages and the rest of the nodes are only visible to authenticated users. Instead of having the user specify permissions for every page, I figured it would be more usable to have them specify a list of pages available to unauth users.
I created an admin settings page callback to generate the form with a single textarea input. Users will enter a list of URLs in the textarea, one per line:
<?php
function MYMODULE_menu() {
$items = array();
$items['admin/settings/MYMODULE'] = array(
'title' => 'MYMODULE Settings',
'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
'page arguments' => array('_MYMODULE_callback_admin_settings'),
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
'access arguments' => array('administer site configuration'),
);
return $items;
}
function _MYMODULE_callback_admin_settings() {
$form = array();
$form['MYMODULE_unauth_pages'] = array(
'#type' => 'textarea',
'#title' => 'Unauth Pages',
'#default_value' => variable_get('MYMODULE_unauth_pages',''),
);
return system_settings_form($form);
}
?>For this example, I entered the following URLs in the textarea:
<front>
about-us
contact-usI then added a menu_alter hook function to override the access control for viewing nodes:
<?php
function MYMODULE_menu_alter(&$items) {
// per unauth pages, replace the callback function
if (function_exists('_MYMODULE_node_access')) {
// note: access callback function was previously: node_access
$items['node/%node']['access callback'] = '_MYMODULE_node_access';
}
}
?>And, then added a new access control function:
<?php
function _MYMODULE_node_access($op, $node) {
// check if user is unauth
if (in_array('anonymous user', array_values($GLOBALS['user']->roles))) {
// get a list of unauth pages
$unauth = variable_get('MYMODULE_unauth_pages','');
$unauth = explode("\r\n", trim($unauth));
// replace <front> with empty string
if (in_array('<front>', $unauth)) {
$unauth[array_search('<front>',$unauth)] = '';
}
// check for unauth entries
if (is_array($unauth) && count($unauth)) {
// check if current url is allowed
if (!in_array($_REQUEST['q'], $unauth)) {
return false;
}
}
}
// default to node_access function result
return node_access($op, $node);
}
?>Now, unauth users have access ONLY to the pages you define and the rest of the node viewing permissions default to the node_access function.
