Content Access module hiding menu links

Question

I am using Content Access module with Drupal 7. when i restrict node access from a specific role, it also hide link in menu.

is there any way to show restricted links in main menu?

Answer 1

I have did this via custom module:

function mymodule_form_menu_edit_item_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
     if ($form_state['build_info']['args'][0] == 'edit') {
       $item = $form_state['build_info']['args'][1];

       $form['ignore_access_roles'] = array(
         '#type' => 'checkboxes',
         '#multiple' => TRUE,
         '#title' => t("Ignore access"),
         '#options' => user_roles(),
         '#description' => t("If a user with one of the selected roles has no access to the menu item's path, the menu item is <strong>not</strong> hidden."),
         '#default_value' => empty($item['options']['ignore_access_roles']) ? array() : $item['options']['ignore_access_roles'],
       );

       $form['#validate'][] = 'mymodule_form_menu_edit_item_validate';
     }
   }

   function mymodule_form_menu_edit_item_validate(&$form, &$form_state) {
     if (isset($form_state['values']['ignore_access_roles'])) {
       $form_state['values']['options']['ignore_access_roles'] = $form_state['values']['ignore_access_roles'];


       $form_state['values']['options']['alter'] = TRUE;
     }
   }


   function mymodule_translated_menu_link_alter(&$link, $map) {
     if (!empty($link['options']['ignore_access_roles']) && empty($link['access'])) {

       global $user;

       // Get role ids for which the ignore access option applies.
       $rids = array_values($link['options']['ignore_access_roles']);

       $matching_rids = array_intersect(array_keys($user->roles), $rids);

       if (!empty($matching_rids)) {
         // User has one of the specified roles: override menu link access.
         $link['access'] = TRUE;

         // Localize. This must be done because it is only done for links with
         // access TRUE in _menu_link_translate.
         _menu_item_localize($link, $map, TRUE);
       }
     }
   }

Answer 2

The main purpose of the access content system is to have control of what every user can see and avoid every possible security issue. This is the desired behavior and almost every module or general ApI uses it, so you won't find default solutions for this.

I've been in the same situation and the only solution I found was to create a custom modules and, in my case, query directly to the menu table to get all the elements I want, and check the permissions myself to either display a link, or simply a title of the content when the user don't have permissions to see it.

Answer 3

I'm pretty sure you will have to write a custom module to deal with this. Here's my idea: relax Content Access restrictions, i.e. let users view your content. Then your custom module has to implement hook_node_load() and output a 403 HTTP response when loading nodes your users should not see. Also hook_permission() should be implemented, so you will be able to configure access easily at the permission page.

Here's a quick example hiding the entire node and filtering by content type and permission:

function mymodule_permission() {
  return array('access reserved content');
}

function mymodule_node_load($nodes, $types) {
  if (in_array('my_reserved_content_type', $types)) {
    if (!user_access('access reserved content')) {
      drupal_access_denied();
    }
  }
}

Or you can hide some of the node fields, instead of returning a 403. But this is discouraged according to API documentation for hook_node_load()

Answer 4

You can use "Always visible" module.

More detailed answer on your question is here http://drupal.stackexchange.com/a/52149/7313