Checking user access to resource from external script - Joomla! Forum - community, help and support

i hope helps trying this. took me while digging around in forums , docs figure out.

the code gets current user (which returns guest user not logged in) , checks whether have access article id 12. couldn't figure out how compute access level without grabbing something. maybe else can that.

code: select all

define( '_jexec', 1 );
define('jpath_base', $_server['document_root']);
define( 'ds', directory_separator );
require_once ( jpath_base .ds.'includes'.ds.'defines.php' );
require_once ( jpath_base .ds.'includes'.ds.'framework.php' );
require_once ( jpath_base.ds.'libraries'.ds.'joomla'.ds.'environment'.ds.'request.php');

jimport('joomla.application.component.helper');

//$app = jfactory::getapplication('site');
//$app->initialise();

$user = jfactory::getuser();
$groups = $user->getauthorisedviewlevels();
$article =& jtable::getinstance("content");
$article->load(12);
$cacclevel = $article->get("access");
$allowed = in_array($cacclevel, $groups);
if (!$allowed)
{
  header("location: http://" . $_server['http_host']); 
  exit(0);
}


if there better way this, please chime in.

cheers!