Good evening Earl, Thanks for the comment.
I really enjoyed the context and content discussion on Saturday at the Core Developer Summit. Hoping to see a drupal_butler object in drupal 8. Are any discussions about this happening online, if so, where can I get involved and contribute? Thanks again, Everett Zufelt http://zufelt.ca Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/ezufelt View my LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt On 2010-04-23, at 8:27 PM, Earl Miles wrote: > E.J. Zufelt wrote: >> Good evening, >> >> Thanks for this. >> >> I took a look at user_access() but wasn't sure that it would do what I >> needed. I have to admit to being a newbie as far as Drupal development >> goes. I normally work on cor accessibility. >> >> As far as user_access() I see that it can accept a user object, but that it >> also needs me to pass a permission to check. What permission would I be >> checking to see if the current system path can be accessed? This is why >> menu_get_item() seemed more appropriate. It would be nice if there was a >> function like menu_get_item() that accepted the user object like >> user_access() does. Perhaps I'll ad an issue as a feature request for d8 if >> this doesn't already exist in some hidden corner of d6. > > Context is a major weakness in Drupal right now and there is currently a lot > of discussion on what to do about that in D8. As for what you can do right > now, your global $user hack is probably the only thing you can actually do. > it's not elegant at all, but in a contrib module...be very very careful you > don't change the $user identity once you're done (so make sure all possible > failure scenarios are covered).
