I'm relatively new to XOOPS and lack PHP coding skills.

I need to create a second newbb forum with an entirely different set of permissions from the first.

I searched this forum but could not find clear instructions for creating a second forum - or for creating a second instance of modules in general.

There have been some discussions on the topic before, however, and I suspect it would be useful to others.

For someone without knowledge of PHP like me, clear and very explicit instructions are needed.

Apologies in advance if there's already documentation available about this... I haven't been able to find it.

Thanks again Mike.

Just FYI, I went there, registered - but download was broken.

I've emailed them.

Guess I need to start a new thread about duplicating modules.

Great module!

I have a problem with the search function.

My site's in English, but when I search for events the date is returned in Japanese (I assume) rather than English.

Here's what it looked like:

Calendar[2003ǯ11·î11Æü]Test Event

I'd like it to look like this:

Calendar[11th November 2003]Test Event

Sorry my PHP skills are so poor to fix this myself. Can anyone provide a patch?

Thanks Mike.

Sounds good... but I can't find a link.

Have you got the download URL for newbb2.

Back to normal. It turned out the problem was that i hadn't completely de-installed the second, unsuccessful installation of the newbb.

I'd still love to get some explicit instructions for creating multiple instances of modules, especially newbb.

BTW, XOOPS is fantastic! IMHO.

I have a site running XOOPS 2.5

The site has several access levels. Above registered users, is a category called ‘members’. Members have access to various features not available to others, including a Forum which runs on newbb. Only members can access the Forum, Until today, only Admin has been able to edit and delete posts, although I’ve been looking forward to sharing moderation rights with other members (it's great newbb allows for that).

So far, so good… Then, a day ago, I installed a second instance of newbb, trying to follow piecemeal instructions elsewhere on this site.. I wanted to set up a more public forum in addition to the first (Members) forum. The Public Forum would be viewable by all, and have a different posting rights set-up.

In the end, I gave up and de=installed the second instance. Lacking explicit instructions on how to set up a second, totally independent instance of newbb, I got in a mess. I found that tables interfered with each other – when I added a category or forum to one forum, it turned up in the other…

At some point I’d like to get back to this attempt – and wondered if anyone can provide explicit, complete instructions on how to set up a second instance of newbb on XOOPS 2.5+ ?

However, in the meantime, I’ve got a critical problem. My existing Members Forum, as far as I can tell, is unchanged except in one crucial respect: every member can now edit and delete ALL other members posts!

According to the settings in my newbb admin panel, moderation rights have not been altered from before (only Admin is listed as moderator in each case)

Can anyone please suggest what may have gone wrong here and how to fix it? Previouslý Members could edit their own posts – but not others’ posts - unless expressly given the right to moderate a particular forum. That’s how forums usually work - such as this one.

Any help getting my forum back to normal would be greatly appreciated.

I think the suggestion is excellent, and it would help solve some of my issues.

I'd like quite a complex set-up, with different groups able to access different modules - and only be able to search the modules applicable to them.

Ideally, the feature should be switchable on and off - then everyone's needs would be served.

Thanks sunsnapper.

It's a thought, but doesn't really do the trick.

Ideally i want everyone to be able to search the site, but limit access so certain modules can't be searched by guests and regular users.

Íf anyone could write a hack for this it would be magic.

Best of all would be for greater permissions flexibility built into future XOOPS versions.

Easy for me to say, of course. But I hope this may be a little bit of useful feedback for the development team of this superb project on the sort of permission flexibility which at least some community-type sites would like.

I recently posted the following comment to the thread athttps://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=10068&forum=20

It may be more relevant here.

Can anyone help or suggest a way forward on how to limit the ability of guests (and ordinary registered users) to see references to material in the forum when they use search - but still allow a by-appointment 'members' group to search the forum?

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I have a similar problem, but mine isn't really fixed by simply switching off the search function in newbb, although I may have to settle for that as a compromise.

I have three groups (+ Admin): (1) anonymous guests (2) registered users (3) appointed members - a subset of the resgistred users.

Ideally, I'd like the forum to be bisible (and searchable) only by members.

I can set it up so (a) no-one can search - but then members can't search their own forum - (b) or have search switched on, in which case two groups which shouldn't be aware of the forum keep finding references to it when they do a search.


Is there a hack for this? (I'm running 2.05) Or am I asking too much?

Incidentally, I chose XOOPS for a particular project afrer first considering some other options (drupal came closest). I love XOOPS - but still find that i lack the permissins flexibility I really seek.

ideally, I'd like every single feature to be swithcable on or off for any group or individual. No CMS I'ce found so far seems to be able to do that.

Xoops comes fairly close - at least for group permisssions management - but this is a case in point where more flexibnility would be nice.

Having said that, what an amazing CMS! Compliments to all who've brought it to this point.