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Rajaneesh

Community Member, 3 Posts

6 August 2009 at 10:09pm

Please help me .. i am new user for silverstripe .

i want limit a page upto 10 pages .. after that when user try to create new page it should trough a error message that "Access Denied"

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Willr

Forum Moderator, 5523 Posts

9 August 2009 at 11:50am

You can create a function called canCreate() which has the permission if a user can create a given page. If you want this check to be over the whole site you would do something like this on your Page.php file in the Page class

function canCreate() {
$pages = DataObject::get('SiteTree');
return ($pages && $pages->Count() > 10) ? false : true;
}

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Juanitou

Community Member, 323 Posts

10 August 2009 at 7:26am

Hi Will!

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that it's worth mentioning that by creating this function we will overload (right term?) the canCreate() function present in DataObject. Isn't it?

Best regards,
Juan

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bummzack

Community Member, 904 Posts

10 August 2009 at 8:21am

Edited: 10/08/2009 8:23am

Yes, doing so, you will indeed overload the canCreate method (not of DataObject, but of SiteTree). But that isn't really a problem.
If you do user-permission checks in the canCreate method of a base-class, you can catch this first:

function canCreate($member = null) {
	// check permission of base-class
	$permission = parent::canCreate($member); 
	// if there is no permission, we don't grant it here either.
	if($permission === false) 
		return false;

	$pages = DataObject::get('SiteTree');
	return ($pages && $pages->Count() > 10) ? false : true;
}

That way, you can create up to 10 SiteTree instances, but only if you have the permissions to do so

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Juanitou

Community Member, 323 Posts

10 August 2009 at 9:39am

Thank you!

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Rajaneesh

Community Member, 3 Posts

10 August 2009 at 4:40pm

thank for reply ..
but show me how to do in before tiger i want call that function in addpage() function ? CMSMain.php

it should send error message and i want display that message in CMSLeft.ss

please help me ....

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Four

Community Member, 6 Posts

27 August 2009 at 9:37pm

following on from this, how would I only limit the number of Level1 (top-level) pages that can be created without placing a limit on Level2 pages?

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bummzack

Community Member, 904 Posts

27 August 2009 at 11:31pm

Edited: 27/08/2009 11:35pm

Hi. That should be simple to implement. Use the canCreate method, listed above, but change the following:

$pages = DataObject::get('SiteTree', 'ParentID = 0'); 

The WHERE statement checks if ParentID is zero, which is only the case for top-level pages.

Update: Sorry, my solution is slightly flawed. The limit check will only occur on Level 1 Pages, but you won't be able to create sub-pages once that limit is reached. Sadly, I don't know an easy work-around for your problem, you would have to find out what level the currently selected item of the SiteTree Navigation belongs to. Maybe somebody knows a easy way to check this?