Remove 'Extensions' menu from control panel

[Morlan]

Hi,

I have done a search and haven't found any answers.

I have set up a new group called 'Editors' and have given it the 'Modify Any Page' permission only. However, when I log in under this group, the 'Extensions' menu is still visable.

Is there a way to hide this menu as users will keep asking me what it's for! All they need to do is edit content.

p.s, What a fantastic CMS It's soooo easy to use. Thanks guys.

[Ted]

Hmm.  I'm not sure about this one.  I'll have to ask sjg, since he did most of the showing/hiding stuff.  I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to fix.

[Morlan]

Hmm.  I'm not sure about this one.  I'll have to ask sjg, since he did most of the showing/hiding stuff.  I'm sure it wouldn't be that hard to fix.

Thanks wishy, Much appreciated It's just that it says "Modules, tags, and other assorted fun". No doubt users will start poking around and wasting time!

[liquid]

Any word on this? I also want to make sure that my users don't poke around in places they shouldn't.

[Ted]

I'm going to try to hit up SjG before he goes on vacation in a couple of days.  Hopefully it's an easy fix, but I don't totally understand the admin console code these days.

[sjg]

The current system displays the "Extensions" menu if the user has permissions *or* there is more than one module installed. The logic on that was that a user may have permissions to use a specific module (which would show up in the Extensions section) but not permission to handle modules/user-tags in general.

I'll talk to Wishy about the right approach here. But the "easy" hack fix is to edit lib/classes/class.admintheme.inc.php and change lines 317-319 from:

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        $this->perms['extensionsPerms'] = $this->perms['codeBlockPerms'] |
            $this->perms['modulePerms'] |
            (isset($this->sectionCount['extensions']) && $this->sectionCount['extensions'] > 0);

to

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        $this->perms['extensionsPerms'] = $this->perms['codeBlockPerms'] |
            $this->perms['modulePerms'];

Why I was using bitwise ORs on booleans is a mystery to me now. I suppose it works, but it was a weird decision to make. Maybe I should update this for the next release...

[liquid]

I'll take the "easy" fix for now. Thanks so much for taking the time to post this!

[Morlan]

That worked a treat, thanks sjg

[J-P]

The current system displays the "Extensions" menu if the user has permissions *or* there is more than one module installed. The logic on that was that a user may have permissions to use a specific module (which would show up in the Extensions section) but not permission to handle modules/user-tags in general.

I'll talk to Wishy about the right approach here. But the "easy" hack fix is to edit lib/classes/class.admintheme.inc.php and change lines 317-319 from:

Code: Select all

        $this->perms['extensionsPerms'] = $this->perms['codeBlockPerms'] |
            $this->perms['modulePerms'] |
            (isset($this->sectionCount['extensions']) && $this->sectionCount['extensions'] > 0);

to

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        $this->perms['extensionsPerms'] = $this->perms['codeBlockPerms'] |
            $this->perms['modulePerms'];

Why I was using bitwise ORs on booleans is a mystery to me now. I suppose it works, but it was a weird decision to make. Maybe I should update this for the next release...

I tried this, but no succes. Is it possible this don't work with the latest version?

[liquid]

I tried this, but no succes. Is it possible this don't work with the latest version?

I just did it with 1.0beta3, with no problems. The line numbers are now 336 to 338, though.

[larskong]

Hi,

I just did this on the 1.0 beta4 and it worked fine.

I had to check the permissions for the editor group and remove the permission for "Modify User-defined Tags".
And then the menu "extensions" disappeared from the control panel, when logged in as editor user.

best regards / Lars

[generic]

this worked better for me:

in class.admintheme.inc.php

around line 775 change the permission of the extensions to something else you would want it to be allowed under like managing users as i did inthe example

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'description'=>lang('extensionsdescription'),'show_in_menu'=>$this->HasPerm('extensionsPerms')),

change it to for example:

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'description'=>lang('extensionsdescription'),'show_in_menu'=>$this->HasPerm('userPerms')),

which will now only show the extensions menu if the user has permission to manage users.