How can I grant front-end access to an entry that belongs to the current user?

Question

How would one go about showing a link on the front end if this entry belongs to the current user? I was thinking it had something to do with the UserModel's can(), but I don't see any documentation of it.

Right now I'm showing an "Edit Page" link once someone is logged in, but I don't want to show a that link on a page that the current user doesn't have access to edit.

Any thoughts on this?

Edit

I was hoping something like this would work but it doesn't :( :

{% if entry.author == currentUser %}
    <a class="btn btn-primary btn-small cp" href="{{ entry.getCpEditUrl() }}">Edit Page</a>
{% endif %}

Answer 1

You can check if the current user can edit an entry by using this as your conditional:

{% if entry.isEditable() %}
    <a href="{{ entry.cpEditUrl }}">Edit Page</a>
{% endif %}