Currently it seems awkward to check if a user is allowed to create a page of a specific template under a specific parent. It seems one is supposed to do this?

if (page()->addable(pages()->newPage('comment')))
    echo "<a href='/newcomment/?parent={$page->id}'>Add comment</a>";

Maybe there is an easier way that I’m unaware of. This proposal would simplify the API to:

if (page()->addable('comment'))

Which I find quite legible. I must admit I don’t fully understand all implications of this change because I got lost in User::hasPermission(), where the argument eventually ends up in multi-language environments. It’s possible to call User::hasPermission() with a template as well as a page, so it won’t throw, but it takes different branches my feeble mind can’t follow.

I noticed that page()->addable() may return true if the argument is invalid or doesn’t exist. Is this by design? My first code block would return true if there was no template called 'comment'. I’ve added a comment with a suggestion that would return false instead.

Thank you!