get all roles

[sebastiaan]

How do you get all roles in a module? (i want to create a migration to set the permissions of templates and fields)

i tried :

            $rolles = wire('roles');
            var_dump($rolles);
            var_dump($roles);
            var_dump($this->roles);

but all 3 return 0 while i have 3 different roles(guest, superuser, test)

[kongondo]

 

$roles->find('');// all roles
//$roles->find($selector);// if want particular roles

http://processwire.com/api/ref/roles/

Adapt as required for module use

 

[netcarver]

Hi @sebastiaan and welcome to the forum.

You could try this...

$role_list = wire('pages')->find('template=role');

I also highly recommend installing the Selector Test module or the Tracy Debugger Module so you can explore using PW's selectors for this sort of thing.

[sebastiaan]

1 hour ago, kongondo said:

 

$roles->find('');// all roles
//$roles->find($selector);// if want particular roles

http://processwire.com/api/ref/roles/

Adapt as required for module use

 

yeah i saw that page but didnt realise it could have been a empty selector, thanks

 

1 hour ago, netcarver said:

Hi @sebastiaan and welcome to the forum.

You could try this...

$role_list = wire('pages')->find('template=role');

I also highly recommend installing the Selector Test module or the Tracy Debugger Module so you can explore using PW's selectors for this sort of thing.

thanks this worked for what i wanted, and will install one of those

[adrian]

To expand on @netcarver's suggestion with Tracy and the find selector suggested by @kongondo

In the Tracy Console panel you can do this. This finds all roles and then builds an array of the names for each of them.

PS - you can also do: find('*') if it seems more semantic to you.

[adrian]

I should also add that you can also do:

so $roles does contain all the roles, it just doesn't return an array that can be dumped by default, which is different to $templates and $fields - this seems like a bit of an API inconsistency to me.

Also to note, you can do:

 

 

[sebastiaan]

thanks for all your reply's and helpfull tips