How to allow Administrators to access parameters?

[FusionStudio]

Hello,

First off, let me express my appreciation to you folks for creating Phoca Gallery. It's wonderful.

With that said, I've run into a problem that I can't seem to find a fix for on you site, forum, and through a Google search. How can I allow Administrators to access the parameters?

The problem is that we never like to give our clients Super Admin access but without doing this we are constantly having to turn thumbnail creation back on when the server rejects their large images. It would be so helpful, for myself and others in this situation, to be able to give access based on Joomla access groups to allow them the ability to do this themselves.

Please advise,

Mike Hubbard, Graphic Design
www.fusionstudio.com

[Jan]

Hi, I think, this is more Joomla! than Phoca question and should be asked on forum.joomla.org as this is managed by Joomla! framework not by Phoca

For now I don't have any experiences how can administrators access Parameters of extensions in Joomla! so cannot give any advices there

Jan

[FusionStudio]

Thanks Jan,

I tested your theory with other components and you seem to be correct. I find it strange that it's not controlled by the component, but then again I'm not a developer!

I'll try the Joomla forums but if anyone else reading this has any suggestions, please do post them.

[FusionStudio]

Found this: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=304&t=286069

In the toolbar.php file in adminstrator/includes the preferences function checks the user's group id. If the current user is not part of the Super Administrator group, the function returns wihtout invoking anything. It's hard-coded right now. You can hack the framework and allow group id of 24 or 25 or wait for improved acls in Joomla 1.6.

Not the best option but not much else can be done by the sounds of it.

Mike