Dynamic forum permissions in Drupal

Question

My users access Drupal through SSO and everytime the server authorizes them, it returns a set of permissions (groups/roles), according to which I need to dynamically set the User's forum permissions.

So for example if a User logs in and the SSO says that he has enrolled in a course, I need to give him specific permissions for that course's forum.

Obviously I need a custom module for that, but it's a little hard to start.

I'm thinking of using the ACL module's API, but I can find any documentation or tutorial online. Is there any?

Is there a better way to get around this?

I'd appreciate any help :)

(note: I know there are modules with GUI that have similar functionality but I need to do it programmatically)

What technology is the server using to "authorize" users? Active Directory? LDAP? — Sid Kshatriya, Oct 14 '10 at 12:44
Shibboleth, but I think that what I'm asking is generic and doesn't have to do with the authorization implementation. Does it? — Kay Pale, Oct 14 '10 at 14:54

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 19 '10 at 16:59

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We just put something exactly like this into place - we used the Rules module (with the User logged in trigger), checking the LDAP groups that the user is enrolled in, and assigned the role accordingly.

answered Oct 19 '10 at 16:59

Andrew Sledge

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 14 '10 at 16:27

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Check out Forum Access. It can restrict users based on their roles.

You could have your roles be something like "CSC221 Student". If a user has this role, they will be able to access the CSC221 forum.

answered Oct 14 '10 at 16:27

Erik Ahlswede

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Hi Erik, you probably missed the last line of my question: "I know there are modules with GUI that have similar functionality but I need to do it programmatically". – Kay Pale Oct 15 '10 at 08:03
Anything that is done through the GUI can be done programatically. Just takes some digging into the Forum Access API to figure it out – Erik Ahlswede Feb 17 '11 at 05:09

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 19 '10 at 16:55

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Create a hook_user function ( see http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_user ) in your module.

Then using http://drupal.org/project/permissions_api set the appropriate permissions on the user.

answered Oct 19 '10 at 16:55

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Dynamic forum permissions in Drupal

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