2 quick Questions - Admin and Portal

[clay3482]

Your phpBB Version: 2.0.
phpBB Type: phpBB / IMPortal
MODs: No
Your knowledge: Advanced Knowledge
Board URL: http://thecollegefootballpage.com/tbp_forum/portal.php

PHP Version:
MySQL Version: 5.0


What was done before the problem appeared?
Nothing - general setup questions.


What was done to try to solve the problem?
nothing. I came here and asked for help.



De.scription and Message

First let me start by saying thank you to all of the staff here at IntegraMod. You have created a great piece of software and I wanted to say Thanks.

Now my 2 questions.

I run a sports website. We have recently went from covering one team to covering multiple teams. Right now we have 3 Forums each with their own Wordpress Blog and each with their Own Forum - Each Forum is in a separate Directory with their own files but all forums are sharing the same MySQL Database - We used the instructions located here on this forum in the Knowledge Base
[url=http]Knowledge Base article[/url]

With this set up I need to make at least One Admin for every site owner. For example I have a Alabama Fan Forum and one that is mainly an Auburn Fan Forum. I need the Guy that owns the Auburn site to have admin duties on his board and complete access to his forum and ACP. I do not want him to have access to the Alabama Site ACP however.

In addition I have secret Hidden places on my Alabama forum where a very few select invited only guest can share inside knowledge. This board most of all has to be locked out to all users except those that I let have access.

So question #1 is - What do I need to do to make sure Admins of the other Boards/Forums can only look at the ACP admin section of their board and what do I need to do to keep everyone (including admins) out of my special hidden forum except the members that I alone approve?

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My second question is I have Wordpress blogs for each site. Is their any way to add a page to the IM Portal so that the Wordpress blog is displayed inside a Block (Like I could do with Iframe for example) on the HOME Portal Page.

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I know I said 2 but one last question. I want to add a Premodded Advanced Dungeon and Rabbits Phpbb as well as the arcade mods - I would like to be able to use the users that are members of any of the other sites but I want these Game Boards to use a separate database for security reasons. Is their any way to use the membership list of my Sports Boards on a separate installed Phpbb Forum?

If this is impossible then I understand as not every user will want to have access to the games and I can easily make them sign up again on these separate forums. I have learned through personal experience that the game mods are how can I say it - Not 100% secure and bug free - and thus these will remain completely free and clear of my forum sites.

Thanks again for the great Piece of software.

Clay

[clay3482]

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[clay3482]

OK solved a few of these

To display the Blog on the Portal I used this
[url=http]Clikc HERE[/url]

The Games/RPG has been figured out at least to my satisfaction. I basically set up a different forum on a different server and made everyone sign up again if they wanted access to the games.

I have been able to set the admin permission to keep the admins of the other forums from messing up everything to much.

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The only thing I STILL need help with is what do I need to do to keep everyone (including admins) out of my special hidden forum except the members that I alone approve?

I really really really need to be able to have a hidden forum that only the 1 Board Owner and those he gives permission can see. I need to be able to lock out everyone - including admins. ANY suggestions?

[CaNNon]

The only way that I know is to create a group and add the users you wish to it.
then create the forum and set the permission level to that group only. I don't think you'll be able to keep admins out though but I've never tried that.

[DjPorkchop]

There is a way to do this, but you will have to demote them from admin and make them to be "Junior Admin."

Junior Admins can have most of the same abilities as a regular admin, but they don't have global permissions like admins do. You can also pick and choose what areas of the admin panel you want your junior admins to be able to see.

So realistically, I dont think your can lock an admin out of anything. You would need to demote them from admin, make them a Jr Admin that way you can control where they go on site. And at the same time, you can set what you want them to be able to do in the ACP as well.

[tmotley]

What about password protecting forums? Isn't there a mod that does that? Could that be used to keep some admins out of certain forums?

[CaNNon]

From what use I've had with Junior Admins, they seem to get into all the forum areas same as a admin. With one exeception I did have to add one to a admin only forum. The difference I found is in lock them out of admin panel areas.

MWE_001 are you thinking about using "persional user level access" to lock jr admins out? That would be worth a try.

[DjPorkchop]

MWE_001 are you thinking about using "persional user level access" to lock jr admins out? That would be worth a try.

Yeah, that's kind of the avenue I was hinting at pursuing.

[clay3482]

Thanks for all of the suggestions - I think I will give the password protect forum mod a try.