Hack needed for additional album permissions

[lamama]

I fear I can't wait any longer for the long-requested but still far-out-of-sight-ability to grant more than one usergroup the permission to see an album.

That's why I want to apply a hack that allows ONE additional, 'hardcoded' usergroup to access all albums with (for example) album_id > 648.

As I don't fully yet understand how CPG manages it's permissions interenally: could anybody give me a hint where such a hack should be applied?

Thanks in advance for any kind of help!

[Αndré]

Which user group has access to a particular album is stored in the field visibility. Search in the Coppermine code for this word. You could change the int value to an array and check against that array while determining if the user has access or not. Finally change the drop down box to a 'multiple select box' (don't know the correct name now).

I think we can apply those changes to cpg1.5.x, as we don't need new language strings as far as I can see.

[lamama]

Thanks, that was the kind of hint I needed. Will take a few days until I find the time to look at it (holidays are over...).

I think we can apply those changes to cpg1.5.x, as we don't need new language strings as far as I can see.

THAT woud be really cool.

[Αndré]

You could change the int value to an array and check against that array

Please have a look how this is solved for additional user groups. We store them comma seperated. That's not the best solution regarding third database normal form (don't know if this is the correct English expression), but it works.