Programmatically add user forum permissions in Drupal

Question

I'd like to programmatically add user forum permissions in Drupal.

Do I have to use ACL module? Is there any example out there, as the documentation is a bit thin?

Answer 1

The Rules module will work as well. With the rules module (but not with ACL) you have the option of setting triggers for this to occur.

Answer 2

What do you mean by programmatically, exactly?

You can define new permissions using hook_perm:

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_perm

But the forum module(s) for Drupal should ship with role based permissions to use.