Function loadUserPermissions

config/config.php:330–355

Helper to load JSON permissions (with optional decryption)

($username)

// Helper to load JSON permissions (with optional decryption)
function loadUserPermissions($username)
{
    global $encryptionKey;
    $permissionsFile = USERS_DIR . 'userPermissions.json';
    if (!file_exists($permissionsFile)) {
        return false;
    }

    $content   = file_get_contents($permissionsFile);
    $decrypted = decryptData($content, $encryptionKey);
    $json      = ($decrypted !== false) ? $decrypted : $content;
    $permsAll  = json_decode($json, true);

    if (!is_array($permsAll)) {
        return false;
    }

    // Try exact match first, then lowercase (since we store keys lowercase elsewhere)
    $uExact = (string)$username;
    $uLower = strtolower($uExact);

    $row = $permsAll[$uExact] ?? $permsAll[$uLower] ?? null;

    // Normalize: always return an array when found, else false (to preserve current callers’ behavior)
    return is_array($row) ? $row : false;
}

function fr_local_user_exists($username): bool
{