Get displayed modules list in com_modules

[sig...@die-herzogs.com]

Hi all,

I'm about to write a plugin that filters the modules depending on a user's permission to edit specific frontend-modules (in backend!). So: User A has the permission to edit moduleA, moduleC, and moduleD, but not moduleB.

Since I have over 200 modules I need to filter the displayed list to show the users only the allowed modules.

How can I access the available modules and edit this list in order to remove all the modules from being displayed which are not editable by the current logged in user?

I thought of

jimport( 'joomla.application.module.helper' ); $modulesList = JModuleHelper::getModuleList();

but this only returns the backend modules, not the listed frontend-modules in com_modules.

[Viper]

getModuleList() return modules based on application type. For site(if you call this on frontend) it will return modules from frontend, and for backend - only backend modules. You cannot change this.

Just overload this method with you own implementation or make a new class with method.

[sig...@die-herzogs.com]

I thought that, it was just the only thing I found.

Isn't there another way than overloading to get / access the displayed list items (placed in /administrator/components/com_modules/views/modules) and change this item list? It doesn't help to just get this modules list, I need to edit it - so I need to access the exact one which is getting rendered (in my opinion).

[sig...@die-herzogs.com]

Problem solved. It's just overriding the view file (/administrator/components/com_modules/views/modules/tmpl/default.php) in /administrator/templates/<ADMINTEMPLATE>/com_modules/modules/default.php.