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Is it possible for a block to appear if a user has access to a certain feature?

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 12/07/05 03:56pm (Read 2,609 times)  
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timatlee

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I am working on a plugin with several different sections in it .. Would make the appearance of the page a lot nicer if a block could appear if a certain feature were present...

Anyone done anything like this before?
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 12/07/05 05:20pm  
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Dirk

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The really simple approach: When a PHP block returns an empty string, it's not displayed.

For the more complex approach, there's also a plugin API function, which the forum uses here to display that Forum Menu block on the left, btw.

bye, Dirk
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 12/07/05 07:51pm  
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timatlee

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Whats the chance that the API function has some documentaion around it? The closest I could find digging through functions.inc in the forum plugin was the phpblock_..() function ...

Thanks,
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 12/08/05 01:59am  
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Dirk

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Check lib-plugins.php

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