Hi,

I am really looking at coming over to Joomla from my e107 site, the only thing that is preventing me from doing so at this point is that Fireboard doesn't have native forums.

I dont really want to have multiple solutions in my site (i.e. SMF or PHPBB bridged into Joomla). So I need to have private forums, whilst GroupJive and other solutions achieve it in a round-a-bout way and don't really achieve it how it needs to be done.

Therefore I am left with one solution and that is to code this ability into the component.

I am going to add a fairly simplistic adding, rather than having groups I am going to have the users added directly to the list of the users who have access to the Private forum.
This isn't a 100% ideal way, I guess as having User Groups and then adding the group to a forum is best, but this should at least give me what I need as I have no more than 10 users per forum.

The forum will be hidden from all but Super Administrators and the users listed.


This should be fairly easy to achieve, once I am done I will need a few testers and hopefully we can get this included in the core, if not hopefully we can get the main dev team to have a look at it as an idea, it could easily be adapted to use groups later.

I am aiming also to keep on re-coding the feature for each new version and will distribute it each time.

Please let me know if you are interested and or have any comments. I am kind of hoping that in return for doing this someone might be keep to help me with a template for my site, if not oh well.

Dan