Troubleshooting ACCESS Denied errors - new modules under 7.6

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:48 pm

To those who have written modules that work under 7.4 and below, get ready for a shock moving to 7.6.

If you find yourself having an issue once you make the necessary changes to case, link, and the actual admin file (you must now put these under an 'admin' directory under the regular module, renaming them case.php, links.php, and index.php).

One quick way to troubleshoot Access Denied errors to at least find out where the error is coming from is to put a custom error message in each of the three files. I did this for 2 out of the 3, as I forgot to do it in the index.php file until long into the fix...

Example:

In links.php, put in where it says

Code:




if ( !defined('ADMIN_FILE') )


{


   die ("Access Denied");


}

Replace it with

Code:




if ( !defined('ADMIN_FILE') )


{


   die ("Link - Access Denied");


}

For case.php

Replace

Code:

 die ("Access Denied");

with

Code:

die ("Case - Access Denied");

And in index.php replace

Code:

die ("Access Denied");

with

Code:

 die ("Module - Access Denied");

If you STILL get an error, and it isn't Link, Case, or Module Access Denied, you will know that your error lies somewhere outside your custom program.

For me, alas, it was in the Module - the if statements in the module worked only under 7.4 - as the database for authors changed considerably.

Hope this helps someone, it took me way too long to troubleshoot my issues...

-sting

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And in honor of your hard work, I even made this a sticky. Thanks for sharing.