[dev] Specific configuration based on the group of the user

[Lukas Weiss]

Am 25.09.2014 11:33, schrieb Jan Schneider:
>
> Zitat von Alex Lanz <alex.lanz at rolmail.net>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a problem with the configurations. I want to allow sharing only
>> for a specific group of users. In the conf.php file the value for
>> sharing can be set with the following line:
>>
>> $conf['share']['no_sharing'] = true;
>>
>> Although I want to allow sharing for advanced user that are in the
>> group "advanced". My first try was add the following lines to the
>> conf.local.php file:
>>
>> $conf['share']['no_sharing'] = (isAdvancedUser() ? false : true);
>>
>> The function "isAdvancedUser" contains these lines:
>>
>> function isAdvancedUser() {
>>   global $registry, $injector;
>>   $groups = $injector->getInstance('Horde_Group');
>>   $myGroups = $groups->listAll($registry->getAuth());
>>   return in_array('advanced', $myGroups);
>> }
>>
>> The problem is that the session is not started when the configuration
>> files are read. Is there a point in the code where I can modify this
>> value based on the user's group?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Alex
>
> The postauthenticate hook might be a good place. Make sure you use the
> global $session object to change the cached configuration values.
>

Thanks for your reply.

Isn't the conf.local.php read on every page reload?

I couldn't figure out how to change the configuration cache with the 
$session object. could you please give me a hint? thank you!