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Setting permissions for your module when it is enabledSetting permissions for your module when it is enabled
Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 20, 2011 - 9:54am
Most recently i did this in the Drush script Scaffolding:
<?php
// See devel output when using site as Anonymous or authenticated user.
user_role_change_permissions(DRUPAL_ANONYMOUS_RID, array('access devel information' => TRUE));
user_role_change_permissions(DRUPAL_AUTHENTICATED_RID, array('access devel information' => TRUE));
drush_print("\nSet permissions to allow anonymous and normal authenticated users to see Devel module debug output.");
?>But of course it works in a module also, even if it is rarely done.
I am a little obsessed with making modules come with sensible defaults (see http://drupal.org/node/182023) but still i am surprised to not find a recommended way for modules to set permissions documented. I am going with user_role_grant_permissions() in a hook_enable().
/web/sites/all/modules/custom/feature_seo/feature_seo.module
<?php
/**
* Implements hook_enable().
*
* Actually a callback run for just your module after it is enabled. We use it
* to set permissions for the page_title module required by feature_seo.
*/
function feature_seo_enable() {
$admin_role = user_role_load_by_name('content manager');
// Additional permissions.
user_role_grant_permissions($admin_role->rid, array(
'set page title' => TRUE,
'administer page titles' => TRUE,
));
}
?>Note: I was actually trying to rely on a role created in an installation profile, and the installation profile's .install runs after all the module .install and the module enablings, so in this case i had to move the permissions-granting to the .install file. Presumably Features might have been able to handle this, but it may be that a role must be Drupal-core-hardcoded or provided by your own module for this to work nicely in a Feature-enabled-by-installation-profile situation. See my plea for default roles again.
See also: http://data.agaric.com/permission-sets-sensible-defaults-module-provided-permissions-roles
Searched words:
set permissions for a new module drupal
set default permissions
programmatically grant permissions
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