Hi

When i set a forum to 'All registered', the lowest setting other then 'everyone', the forum does not show up for other members. Its kind of strange if I'm logged in and set the member only forums to public, so that i can see them, Then set them to members only, i can still see the forums on that account, but if I log onto another account those forums are hidden from me.
It does not matter if I'm logged in as a admin or just a normal member.

So 2 accounts with the same rights, one can see the forums the other cant. Any ideas?

I'm using Joomla 1.5.2 in legacy mode with FireBoard 1.0.4 Stable [ Teakwood ]
Also using a Yootheme.com theme

I have the exact same issue as above poster.

Installed the latest Fireboard, converted my old phpBB2 forum to fireboard. Averything looks fine, with topics, post counts and so on, but only one user can see all forums. The rest only see the "public" forum, even though they have all rights to see the rest.

I couldn't find the resolution for this matter, so i'm posting here in hopes to get an answer.

The answer is FB has NO group access control and trying to use Joomla's doesn't work. You will have to find a compatible third party component to accomplish what you are attempting.

Sorry to post again, but i'm really headbutting the wall here trying to get it to work.

Ok so using Joomlas group ACL isn't working. Could you point me in the right direction for a 3rd party component to help me out with that ?

I cannot figure out how i'm supposed to give users access to the forums, when registered users in joomla cannot access the forums that have Public access set to "All Registered"

Solution www.bestofjoomla.com/component/option,co...d,79/id,49289/#49289.

jerry wrote:
Solution www.bestofjoomla.com/component/option,co...d,79/id,49289/#49289.

I can't see how this link has anything to do with the problem described above. I'm having the same problem. Users with the exact same access rights - some can see the forum list and can create new threads and others cannot - they can only see recent posts - can only reply to posts - cannot create a new thread. I'm using Joomla 1.5.3 and Fireboard 1.0.4.

Here's what worked for me. I had this problem with Joomla 1.5.3 and FB 1.0.4 using categories restricted to "all registered". Some users could see the forum list and others couldn't. The inelegant workaround was to set the forum to a public access level of "everybody" then log in as each user. Doing this once allowed them to see the forum list. When I switch the category back to "all registered" access the users can still see the forum list.

I had this same problem and ewhitaker's fix did work for me.

You can also fix this without having to lower your permissions on the forum categories. I just added the missing category ids (from *_fb_categories) to the 'allowed' column in my *_fb_sessions (jos_fb_sessions by default) table for each userid that I wanted to grant access to.


Edit: Turns out this is a temporary fix. There has to be code somewhere that keeps incorrectly setting my users "allowed" categories. I'll look into this more this weekend.

I found the root cause of this bug and have a fix for it.

The root cause is that in Joomla 1.5 the aro_group object changed the 'group_id' field to 'id'

So when Fireboard checks the categories calling the function: fb_has_read_permission($obj_fb_cat, $allow_forum, $aro_group->group_id, $acl);

It always returns false.

The fix:
Execute this command in linux

Code:

find components/com_fireboard/ -type f|xargs sed -i 's/aro_group->group_id/aro_group->id/'

That will replace all occurences of "aro_group->group_id" with "aro_group->id"

I did this on my site and all my users started seeing the forums that they had access to again.

NOTE: This fix should only be used if you are using Joomla 1.5.x!