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Backend User Object¶

The backend user of a session is always available to the backend scripts as the global variable $BE_USER. The object is created in \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Core\Bootstrap::initializeBackendUser() and is an instance of the class \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Authentication\BackendUserAuthentication (which extends \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Authentication\AbstractUserAuthentication).

In addition to $BE_USER two other global variables are of interest - $WEBMOUNTS and $FILEMOUNTS, each holding an array with the DB mounts and File mounts of the $BE_USER.

Checking user access¶

The $BE_USER object is mostly used to check user access right, but contains other helpful information. This is presented here by way of a few examples:

Checking access to current backend module¶

$MCONF is module configuration and the key $MCONF['access'] determines the access scope for the module. This function call will check if the $BE_USER is allowed to access the module and if not, the function will exit with an error message.

$BE_USER->modAccess($MCONF, 1);

Checking access to any backend module¶

If you know the module key you can check if the module is included in the access list by this function call:

$BE_USER->check('modules', 'web_list');

Here access to the module "Web > List" is checked.

Access to tables and fields?¶

The same function ->check() can actually check all the ->groupLists inside $BE_USER. For instance:

Checking modify access to the table "pages":

$BE_USER->check('tables_modify', 'pages');

Checking read access to the table "tt_content":

$BE_USER->check('tables_select', 'tt_content');

Checking if a table/field pair is allowed explicitly through the "Allowed Excludefields":

$BE_USER->check('non_exclude_fields', $table . ':' . $field);

Is "admin"?¶

If you want to know if a user is an "admin" user (has complete access), just call this method:

$BE_USER->isAdmin();

Read access to a page?¶

This function call will return true if the user has read access to a page (represented by its database record, $pageRec):

$BE_USER->doesUserHaveAccess($pageRec, 1);

Changing the "1" for other values will check other permissions:

use "2" for checking if the user may edit the page
use "4" for checking if the user may delete the page.

Is a page inside a DB mount?¶

Access to a page should not be checked only based on page permissions but also if a page is found within a DB mount for ther user. This can be checked by this function call ($id is the page uid):

$BE_USER->isInWebMount($id)

Selecting readable pages from database?¶

If you wish to make a SQL statement which selects pages from the database and you want it to be only pages that the user has read access to, you can have a proper WHERE clause returned by this function call:

$BE_USER->getPagePermsClause(1);

Again the number "1" represents the "read" permission; "2" is "edit" and "4" is delete permission. The result from the above query could be this string:

((pages.perms_everybody & 1 = 1)OR(pages.perms_userid = 2 AND pages.perms_user & 1 = 1)OR(pages.perms_groupid in (1) AND pages.perms_group & 1 = 1))

Saving module data¶

This stores the input variable $compareFlags (an array!) with the key "tools_beuser/index.php/compare"

$compareFlags = \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Utility\GeneralUtility::_GP('compareFlags');
$BE_USER->pushModuleData('tools_beuser/index.php/compare', $compareFlags);

Getting module data¶

This gets the module data with the key "tools_beuser/index.php/compare" (lasting only for the session)

$compareFlags = $BE_USER->getModuleData('tools_beuser/index.php/compare', 'ses');

Getting TSconfig¶

This function can return a value from the "User TSconfig" structure of the user. In this case the value for "options.clipboardNumberPads":

$BE_USER->getTSConfigVal('options.clipboardNumberPads');

Getting the username¶

The full "be_users" record of a authenticated user is available in $BE_USER->user as an array. This will return the "username":

$BE_USER->user['username']

Get User Configuration value¶

The internal ->uc array contains options which are managed by the User Tools > User Settings module (extensions "setup"). These values are accessible in the $BE_USER->uc array. This will return the current state of "Condensed mode" for the user:

$BE_USER->uc['condensedMode']