Losing Admin privs...

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:06 pm

If I leave the main page, I lose Admin privs, other than going to Admin page.

This is of course really annoying as I'm trying to test inactive modules or modules for admin only.

In block-modules.php I do:

Code:

global $prefix, $db, $admin

So that let's that menu become Admin friendly, which works fine.

so, I think $admin is getting nulled when I move to another screen using a java_s_cript command.

I have simple code which changes URL when a drop-down is chosen on my site.

Can someone take a look at www.hireamerica.us and see what I mean, but also then comment on if somehow this might be killing $admin (maybe if your own site uses drop downs to navigate, you did something special I'm not doing?)

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

This isn't really much to go on, but for each place you jump to, you have to not only use a global $admin, but you have to do a check also, as in if (is_admin($admin)) ...;. I don't know if that helps or not. Does that reply completely miss your point? This also could be a cookie issue.

Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:16 pm

Well, the consideration is that most places I go to are normal (untouched) modules. Your Account, Stats, Content, Downloads, etc.

Wouldn't it be fair to assume that those modules would "de-admin" an admin?

Cookies? I did the client thing (local hosts) and I'm just wondering if it's the java_s_cript I'm using:

Code:

function menu_goto( menuform )


{


    var baseurl = "http://www.hireamerica.us" ;


    selecteditem = menuform.newurl.selectedIndex ;


    newurl = menuform.newurl.options[ selecteditem ].value ;


    if (newurl.length != 0) {


      location.href = baseurl + newurl ;


    }


}

I action this in my menus using a <select> that has an "onchange" referencing this.

I just checked also...if I go back to not using a drop-down select and keep them as individual hrefs, then I don't lose admin.