Check user drupal path user access programmatically

By gnucifer on 27 Aug 2008 at 13:53 UTC

Hi! I'm doing some modifications to the Calendar module theme. I need to have an edit and remove button in the "month-view" for each node but only want to display these buttons to users with sufficient permission to edit or delete these nodes. Is there any way to evaluate a drupal path, say /node/123/edit or node/123/delete for the current user. Like user_access but with drupal paths instead? This would really help me alot. Thanks!

Comments

What I think you want is to

nevets commented 27 August 2008 at 15:20

What I think you want is to use node_access, something like this should help

$nid = // Comes from some where :)
$node = node_load($nid);
if ( node_access('update', $node) ) {
  // Can update/edit the node
}
else if ( node_access('delete', $node) ) {
  // Can delete the node
}

Thank you! Thank you! Thank

gnucifer commented 27 August 2008 at 17:47

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! That was exactly what I was looking for! :)

another approach

kobnim commented 2 July 2010 at 01:19

For the more general problem of checking whether user has access to a particular path, I think this might work:

$item = menu_get_item($path);
return ($item && $item['access'])

And this was exactly what

patrickd commented 14 December 2011 at 00:04

And this was exactly what I needed, thank you too!! :-)

API function

niklp commented 10 April 2014 at 15:23

These days, you probably want to use drupal_valid_path() ?

Beware though, there are open bugs for this function in Drupal 6/7/8 at this time. It will definitely return warnings under certain conditions, and usage of dynamic paths is sketchy here.

drupal_valid_path Checks a

technikh commented 5 June 2013 at 23:22

drupal_valid_path Checks a path exists and the current user has access to it.
https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes!path.inc/function/drupal_vali...

Cheers,
TechNikh

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