[TYPO3-dev] How to access restricted records in the frontend (in extension dr_blob)

["Christian Müller [kitsunet]"]

On 13.07.2010 17:54, Thomas "Thasmo" Deinhamer wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> the following request comes from our client:
>
> "Display a download/file list and define the access to specific files
> for different user groups. But make it possible to mark specific files
> as "preview" in the backend. In the frontend, those files should then
> be listed, but after you click to download them, you should get a
> notice to login/register."
>
> The "problem" here is, that - as far as I know - the access handling of
> the user groups etc. is done by TYPO3 itself. In other words, TYPO3 will
> only return records to which the current user has access to. (Of course
> only if the official public TYPO3 API is used to query the database.)
>
> Now I'm looking for a way to implement such a feature, described above,
> without handling the whole access control for myself. What I just need
> is to return specific records (marked with a flag in the database), but
> those without access restriction.
>
> At least that's my only idea for now.
>
> Is there anybody who may have a solution for this or a better idea?
> I'm quite stuck with this at the moment...
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Thomas

If you do that in an extension you can always write your custom SQL and 
don't include enableFields and stuff like that. Shouldn't be a problem 
that way.

Christian