Adding a Permission to an Existing Addon Help

[dougiemac]

Admin, please move if this isn't the correct forum. Thank you.

Preface: I'm a product manager that hasnt coded since college really (20 years ago) and I'm very rusty at coding.

Objective: I want to add a view permission for an existing addon.

What I've done so far:
I've researched the forum and found some threads, but trying their suggestions / solutions hasnt netted a victory.

I've created the permission in the ACP Permission Definitions but I need to add some snipet of code to the template.

Questions:
So that leads me to two questions.
1. What template do I add the code in and where?
2. Is there a code snipet that I can use to copy and paste?

Thank you for any help.

 

[Liam W]

Generally you'd add the code to the template and the PHP controller to prevent direct linking.

Generally, around the link to the page, you'd add a permission check like follows:

<xen:if is="{$visitor.permissions.<permission_group_id>.<permission_id>}">
//Link code.
</xen:if>

Then, in the controller (for the entire controller):

<?php

XXX_XXX_ControllerPublic_XXX extends XenForo_ControllerPublic_Abstract
{
   protected function _preDispatch($action)
   {
      if (!XenForo_Visitor::getInstance()->hasPermission('<permission_group_id>', '<permsision_id>'))
      {
         throw $this->getNoPermissionResponseException();
      }
   }

   // Rest of controller
}

Or for a specific action:

XXX_XXX_ControllerPublic_XXX extends XenForo_ControllerPublic_Abstract
{
   public function actionXXX()
   {
      if (!XenForo_Visitor::getInstance()->hasPermission('<permission_group_id>', '<permsision_id>'))
      {
           return $this->responseNoPermission();
      }

      // Rest of action
    }

    //rest of controller
}

Hope that makes sense

Liam

 

[dougiemac]

Thanks @Liam W, I'll give it a shot!