Title: Plugin Function Permissions – Newbie Help
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Plugin Function Permissions – Newbie Help

 *  [anstalt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anstalt/)
 * (@anstalt)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-function-permissions-newbie-help/)
 * Hi folks,
 * So, I’m a newbie developer when it comes to wordpress plugins and have only had
   to start doing it recently due to staff changes.
 * Anyway, I’ve written a basic plugin for a client. The aim of the plugin is to
   allow admin users to create lists of people and the services they offer, and 
   then add search functions so that we can add a search facility to a template 
   that searches this new database list of people.
 * This all works fine.
 * I’m now trying to extend the functionality so that the list of services is controllable
   from the admin backend.
 * I’ve written functions to add new services, add a service to a person etc and
   I’ve got those working. However, I’m trying to write a function to remove a service
   from a person but every time I call it, I get a permission denied error. I suspect
   I’m missing some sort of add_action or register function.
 * My function:
 *     ```
       public function people_finder_service_remove($service_id = null, $people_id = null) {
               if($service_id != null and $people_id != null) {
                   global $wpdb;
                   $wpdb->delete('wp_pf_people_service', array('service_id' => $service_id, 'people_id' => $people_id));
               }
               wp_redirect("/wp-admin/admin.php?page=people-finder-admin");
           }
       ```
   
 * As you can see, it doesn’t do much at the moment, I just need it to delete a 
   database entry then return the user to index function for people.
 * I’m calling the function in the following way:
 *     ```
       <table>
                   <thead>
                       <tr>
                           <th>Service Provided By This Person</th>
                           <th></th>
                       </tr>
                   </thead>
                   <tbody>
                       <?php foreach($my_services as $service): ?>
                       <tr>
                           <td><?php echo $service->name; ?></td>
                           <td><a href="/wp-admin/admin.php?page=people-finder-service-remove&id=<?php echo $service->id; ?>&personid=<?php echo $id; ?>">Delete</a></td>
                       </tr>
                       <?php endforeach; ?>
                   </tbody>
               </table>
       ```
   
 * Now, it seems that this will only work if I’ve added my function as a submenu
   using the add_submenu_page function. However, I don’t want to do this as a menu
   item makes no sense for this function.
 * What function do I need to call to register my new function so that I can call
   it using a URL? Is it even possible?
 * If needed, I can turn each row in my table into a form that posts back to the
   page I’m on but I was hoping for a better way.
 * Many thanks for your help
 * -Alex

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-function-permissions-newbie-help/)
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