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Joomla! version: (2.5.4)
PHP version: (5.3.3)
MySQL version: (5.1.41-community )
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Akeeba Backup version: (Akeeba Backup Professional 3.5.1)

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Description of my issue:

Hi Nicholas,

I think I found small issue with Akeeba Backup Pro with the Akeeba Backup Notification Module (Quick Icon).

In our administrators control panel we have always the Quick Icon enabled. As long as we log in as a Super User everything stays normal. But after I've logged in and out with a different (test)account (Super User logged out first) which has only few author-rights for com_content, the Quick Icon has been deactivated. When I log in as Super User again, there is no Quick Icon anymore in control panel. I must visit the module-manager to enable the Quick Icon every time again.

It's not a major problem, but just a bit annoying. Would be nice if you could fix it.

Best regards,
Benno Stulemeijer

Hi Nicholas!

I investigated a bit the code in mod_akadmin.php for this issue.

You wrote:

The icon is supposed to be self-deactivated only if it detects that it caused the administrator page to throw an error. Maybe it threw an error, that's why it deactivated itself?

It looks like the 'error throwing code' here is the code which checks for people authorized to take backups. I think this is reason for this issue (line 92):

$user = JFactory::getUser();
if (!$user->authorise('akeeba.backup', 'com_akeeba')) {
	return;
}

Because normally only Super users are allowed to take backups, the iconmodule gets deactivated for users of the backend with lesser rights. But alas because of this code the module never get activated anymore(line 94: 'return' statement and line 228: // Reenable ourselves = not executed anymore).

Unfortunately only reactivating by hand in modulemanager stays possible. Everytime again :-( When a Super User logs in after a user with no Akeeba Backup rights have been logged in, the iconmodule will always stay deactivated, because of the sql query code at line 38:

	->where($db->qn('published').' = '.$db->q('1'))

. The value will not be true here (when the Super User logs in) because 'published' is still '0' here.

When I hack the code by setting published to '1' at line 47 (disabling deactivating of the module) the issue has been solved, but I think this is not what you wanted this 'deactivating' code for at line 50.

Maybe a fix?

Best regards,
Benno Stulemeijer

Hi Nicholas,

I tested your updated version of mod_akadmin.php from SVN.
Our notification icon shows up again as I log in as Super User after a login with lesser accessrights! :-)
So, it looks like you have solved this bug. Great!

Thanks for fast fix!

Best regards,
Benno Stulemeijer (alias Klipper or BommesX)