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Hide unauthorized menu items in frontend

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Emmanuel Danan
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06 August 2012
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ACL, FLEXIaccess, menu
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1.0.3
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End user, Webdesigner

- First, you set the permissions of the menu item via FLEXIaccess

- Second , if you edit the menu item e.g. to change title, DO NOT SET -any- access level

-Third, you’ll need to override your template to hide unauthorized menu items.

Copy the file

modules/mod_mainmenu/tmpl/default.php

templates/your_template/html/mod_mainmenu/default.php

This file may already be in.

Edit it and find the lines:

if ($child->attributes('access') > $user->get('aid', 0)) {
  $node->removeChild($child);
}

Replace it by:

if (FLEXI_ACCESS) {
  if (!FAccess::checkAllItemReadAccess('com_content','read','users',$user->gmid,'menu',$child->attributes('id'))) {
    $node->removeChild($child);
  }
} else {
  if ($child->attributes('access') > $user->get('aid', 0)) {
    $node->removeChild($child);
  }
}

And that’s all.

NOTE: Some template providers use specific menu systems that could require a particular adaptation. We will to do this manually