Can I Check User Permissions In Page?

I was wondering if there was a way to get the current permissions for a person when the hiy a connectivity page?

ex: if user_perm['edit'] == TRUE
then { do stuff }

Also I was wondering if there is a way to reference both the user's Display name and their unique Joomla ID in a page?

Thanks in advance!

- Eric

Hi Eric,

Second question first. You can get user info from the Joomla User object

<?php
$user =& JFactory::getUser();
$user_id = $user->id;
$user_name = $user->name;
. . .
?>

There's a full list of values in the JUser api

First question - please try $authedit, $authnew and $authdelete e.g.

<?php
if ( $authedit ) { 
 //do stuff 
}
?>

This seems to have worked for me in the previous release.

Bob

Hi Eric & Bob,
Hi-jacked this piece of code from the CC v2RC source (for deleting a record):

$MyConnection =& CFChronoConnection::getInstance($connectionname);
$MyPermissions =& CFChronoConnectionPermissions::getInstance($MyConnection->connectionrow->id);
...
if(!$MyPermissions->checkPermissions('delete')){
  echo "You are not authorized to view this page";
  return;
}
if(!$MyPermissions->checkRowPermissions('delete', $cids)){
  echo "You are not authorized to view this page";
  return;
}

Given the new, more flexible permissions in v2.0, this seems like a better approach to checking permissions. Checking database records, the available permissions would seem to be 'delete', 'edit', and 'new' for checkPermissions(), and 'delete' and 'edit' for checkRowPermissions().

/Fredrik

Thankyou both of you, this I was able to make what I was working on

$MyConnection =& CFChronoConnection::getInstance($connectionname);
$MyPermissions =& CFChronoConnectionPermissions::getInstance($MyConnection->connectionrow->id);

<?php
if($MyPermissions->checkPermissions('delete'))
{
	//&task=deleterecord&cids=77
	$MyURL = explode("/", jRequest::getURI());
	$MyLink = $MyURL[count($MyURL) - 1];
?>
<a href="<?php echo $MyLink . "&task=deleterecord&cids=" . $MyRow->cf_id; ?>"
	onclick="return confirm('Confirm delete?');">Delete Record</a>
<?php } ?>

As for the User Information that was also very helpful but I don't have as useful of a snippet to post here ;P

- Eric