By eljakeo on

I'm using Views 3 on Drupal 7. I would like to be able to create a custom access rule based on a value in a non-Drupal database. In other words, if the user attempts to access my view, I would like to first run a PHP script that checks for a specific value in a separate database, then returns a TRUE or FALSE whether to grant access. Views would then treat this the same way as it would if, for instance, a user didn't have the correct Role and a Role access rule had been set. I tried to find some kind of existing module that would let me add custom code this way, but I couldn't find any. Did I miss something? Or, how would I go about doing this in a custom module?

Thanks!

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tamanna-freelancer’s picture

tamanna-freelancer commented

Hi,

Using views_php moudle u can customise a field.

mastermindg’s picture

mastermindg commented

You could use Contextual Filters but you'll most likely have to code a custom module to do this because accessing an external database required a lot of handling that would probably break Views.

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eljakeo’s picture

eljakeo commented

Thanks for your help. I ended up writing a module and it seems to work.