[TYPO3-dev] RFC: Introducing a "User Tools" main module

[Franz Koch]

Hi,

> Indeed it is perfectly possible to put the admin-only constraint at 
> submodule level, but this has additional impact: we would need to change 
> the function that gets the list of modules for the BE users and BE 
> groups forms, because Tools-related module are not shown in that list. 
> If we want to keep filtering the admin-only submodules automatically, it 
> becomes necessary to read the conf.php file for each module and check 
> the existence of something like:
> 
> $MCONF['access'] = 'admin';
> 
> if I'm not mistaken...
> 
> Doesn't this make the process too complicated then?

not if this is done only right after installing or removing a extension 
and then cached somewhere.

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Greetings,
Franz