How do I define a new permission for a user?

[Nico Knoll]

Hi,

something I'm not sure about is: How do I define a new user permission? I mean it has to work so I have to place some additional code somewhere, doesn't it?

/ Nico

[diogo]

A permission is only a name, all the work is done on the access tab of templates, or on the template files:

if($user->hasPermission($permission)) echo $secret_code;

[ryan]

That's correct, when you add new permissions (via Admin > Access > Permissions) you are adding it for your own use so that you could check if a user has it. You would edit any user roles that you want to have the permission and check the box so they have the permission. Then in your template code, you would check if the current user has that permission via a check like in Diogo's example. You can also just specify the permission name, which is more common to do:

if($user->hasPermission('spam-nico')) {
 for($n=0; $n<999; $n++) mail('hi@nico.is', 'Hi Nico!', 'Would you like some spam?'); 
}