Determine the permissions for one or more roles.
$roles: An array whose keys are the role IDs of interest, such as $user->roles.
An array indexed by role ID. Each value is an array whose keys are the permission strings for the given role ID.
function user_role_permissions($roles = array()) {
$cache =& drupal_static(__FUNCTION__, array());
$role_permissions = $fetch = array();
if ($roles) {
foreach ($roles as $rid => $name) {
if (isset($cache[$rid])) {
$role_permissions[$rid] = $cache[$rid];
}
else {
// Add this rid to the list of those needing to be fetched.
$fetch[] = $rid;
// Prepare in case no permissions are returned.
$cache[$rid] = array();
}
}
if ($fetch) {
// Get from the database permissions that were not in the static variable.
// Only role IDs with at least one permission assigned will return rows.
$result = db_query("SELECT rid, permission FROM {role_permission} WHERE rid IN (:fetch)", array(
':fetch' => $fetch,
));
foreach ($result as $row) {
$cache[$row->rid][$row->permission] = TRUE;
}
foreach ($fetch as $rid) {
// For every rid, we know we at least assigned an empty array.
$role_permissions[$rid] = $cache[$rid];
}
}
}
return $role_permissions;
}