Re: ACL in helper

How does that help? Well, you asked how to access ACL information inside your plugin. That's how. As for referencing the ACL component inside of your helper, while technically possible, that's not the best practice since you'd be mixing the view and controller layers (since helpers live in the view layer and components in the controller layer). So that's why I suggested the helper.

The best method I've found, and which I've been using for a while now, is actually to gather up the array of links that will be in your menu inside of a component. Do all of your permissions checks there, and then set the resulting array of links as a view variable. Then, use your helper to parse out that array into your <ul> menu. That allows you to keep the permission checking where it (arguably) belongs, in the controller layer, while letting the view layer just focus on displaying the information you give to it.

On Friday, January 11, 2013 10:09:43 PM UTC-8, Jeremy Burns wrote:

How does that help? Why wouldn't I reference the Acl component inside my current helper?

For clarity... the helper parses a config file an build up an menu that contains one or many links - typically <li>s into a <ul>. I want to be sure that the current user has permissions for 'this' action before adding the <li>.

Jeremy Burns

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On 12 Jan 2013, at 03:19:45, Jamie <jami...@gmail.com> wrote:

Do you mean that you want to use check the user's permissions inside your plugin's helper? In that case, I would write another helper that you can use to check all of the ACL permissions.

On Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:21:54 PM UTC-8, Jeremy Burns wrote:

I have a Navigation plugin that contains a helper. It's used for creating menus dynamically. I want to check a user's permissions via ACL before adding a menu item. How can I user the ACL component inside the plugin?

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