Hi all,

i found a bug & the answer for the latest posts showing on the mainpage of the board. The only posts showing there are the public ones. If you compare it with the feature 'recent posts' you'll find different topics (if you use # userlevels)

My solution for this:

edit 'recentposts.php' (components/templates/default/plugin/recentposts)

and replace following lines (line 88 and following):

$query = "select gid from #__users where id=$my->id";
$database->setQuery($query);
$database->loadResult();
$group_id = (int)$database->loadObjectList();

with:

$query = "select gid from #__users where id=$my->id";
$database->setQuery($query);
$group_id = $database->loadResult();
if (!$group_id > 0) {
$group_id = 0;
}

now recent posts will change according to userlevel

comments are welcome

Thank you very much for the suggestion. I was wondering my the staff area on my website was showing up even when not logged in!

I've just noticed that even after copying and pasting your suggested code that when not logged into the system with any account (unregistered user) the "protected" threads are still visible. I highly recommend that all site administrators disable the recent posts feature until you can throughly test this out and confirm the proper security results.

Checking on 2 different boards the userlevels seems to work fine with the recent posts. Even working with 3 different levels...

Can you post or pm me an example?

I've pm'ed you regarding this matter. Thanks!

Whoops, I had forgot to set the permissions correctly in the admin panel on one of the sections that was previously having this issue. Everything seems to be working just fine now. You can disregard my private message. Sorry about the confusion!

No problem, glad it works !

This is not working here, nothing change, any other idea ?

EDIT: ok this fix works greatly however think to check that in fireboard > plugins > Recent Post Settings > Show Category you have all the needed forum ids present to be sure here is what i put in (adviced by Florut) :
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50

Thanks for the solution. it solved at least one of my problems.

best regards
Christian

I already have tried editing recentposts.php as blowdoof has suggested but it gives the same problem. Show Latest Posts link gives an empty list for all time frames.

I also have modified Show Category settings as frodon2 has suggested and has entered all our forum category IDs but it still doesn't work.

Any more suggestions? Your help will greatly be appreciated.