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Hi all,

I am having our web developer do some EE templates that require PHP. When he goes into Template Preferences to turn on PHP for a given template, the typical “Allow PHP?” and “PHP Parsing Stage” options are not there (see screenshot attached).

He is not in our super admin member group but instead in one called “IT”, whose permissions I setup. I have given him lots of permissions, all carefully chosen. I didn’t see a permission to allow/disallow the toggling of PHP parsing on templates.

So why can’t he turn on/off PHP parsing in his templates? Can only super admins do that, even if he is the creator of the templates?

ExpressionEngine 1.7.1, Build 20110520.

Thank you,

Will

Hi Will Smith,

Because allowing PHP essentially opens up a template to do almost anything to your installation, that setting is a bit more restricted.  I believe that it is in fact limited to Super Admins only, but it’s been awhile since I double checked so I can go make sure of that.  I’ll confirm once I am positive.

Thank you!

... and confirmed. Here’s the code that is limiting to to Super Admins:

if ($this->session->userdata['group_id'] == 1)
        {
            $headings[] = array('allow_php', lang('enable_php').' <span class="notice">*</span>');
            $headings[] = array('php_parse_location', lang('parse_stage'));
        }

Does that help explain?