Help editing admin privs.

Involved Joined: Apr 22, 2006 Posts: 356

Is there a way to move a module that is only listed in the "Administration Menu" and put it in the "Module Administration" section. I have a module that I need to give permission to but cannot since it is not listed in the second section.

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:16 pm

You would have to rewrite the module's admin part to conform to the newer scheme where the admin code for a module is placed under the module's directory instead of in the separate <nuke-root>/admin directory.

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:00 am

Would that just be editing one file? admin.php?

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 8:55 am

No, editing admin.php will not solve your problem.

Purely administrative functions: those that show up in the ACP under "Administration Menu" have case.php and links.php files in

/nukeroot/admin/case
/nukeroot/admin/links
respectively.

Then they have an administration php file in:

/nukeroot/admin/modules

A couple of them (nukesentinel and nsngroups) also have directories in say,
/nukeroot/admin/modules/nukesentinel

for instance. These contain further administrative functionality.

A "normal" module which also has administrative sections is structured:

/nukeroot/modules/modulex/admin

and then in there it has case and links directories as well as an index.php and sometimes further admin functionality.

The privileges for a normal administrative module are managed in the edit admins panel (the program authors.php) and for non-superuser admins is reflected in the modules table in the field "admins" ... that is a comma separated list of admins who can admin that module.

Admin.php simply rummages thru the appropriate case and links directories to find those modules that belong in the administrative section and those that belong in the modules section of the ACP.

So that basically says that what Gremmie said, goes. You'd need to move the structure around. And you'd want to have a test system in place cause I don't think it is going to be all that easy.

If you want to get into this then the first step would be to look at admin.php and see how it manages what's displayed ... the "rummaging" code I mentioned. Then figure out if you want to proceed.[/quote]