Some people report a weird error in newbb.
in newbb/admin/admin_permissions.php after click on submit they return to XOOPS_URL/index.php and it said "Sorry, you don't have the permission to access this area"

I finally could find the root of this issue.
it is because of max_input_vars php config.
if you go to modules/system/admin you can find this error:


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you can see "further input variables are truncated from the request"

so it truncate some data from $_POST and $_GET and finally the modid is set to 0 and you have that error.

i tried to increase max_input_vars bu this:


but failed. it is still set to 1000.
what should we do?

Do you have Suhosin?

See here:

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See also here

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There is also another entry that might be more relevant to you:

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Bingo,
Thank you Mamba I didnt try much yesterday because i dont have time.
This is a very old problem that many newbb users reported in this forum.
a recent one is this post:
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=349853

Even you confirmed that you have this issue in xoops.org.

Note that only websites with large number of "forums" (eg 50) and/or large number of groups ( eg: 20) may counter this issue.

I tried .htaccess but get a 500 error.
but creating a php.ini in the root works fine.


I will add this important finding to newbb/docs/readme.txt in FAQ

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I still have 500 Error in some pages like newbb/viewpost.php after adding php.ini
am i doing something wrong?

My initial thought when reading this is that a programmer, either from the beginning, or somewhere along the way decided to dynamically create variables to store information about the forums instead of using a multi dimensional table.

As I understand it this is bad programming practice. There is more over head creating a new variable than there is making one multi dimensional. There is NO WAY you should reach 1000 variables using normal good programming practices.

This program sounds like it is in need of making use of OOP code.

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I should explain more.
It is not a newbb issue. newbb use "XoopsGroupPermForm" class located in XOOPS_ROOT_PATH/class/xoopsform/grouppermform.php

But reaching to 1000 input variables is not impossible. there are some situations when your input variables reach 1000.
for example in newbb when you have 50 forums/categories and 20 groups and 20*50 =1000
these situations are rare in other modules but if you have for example 100 news category and 10 groups you certainly encounter this issue in news module too.
Also the above numbers are estimated.
In reality you exceed 1000 when forums*groups number is less than 1000 because there are some other $_POST variables like "modid"

I still dount count all $_POST variables in my specific situation.

another note:
in newbb you have another way to set permissions by template.

you will encounter this issue only when you want to "Set permission directly by group" which is not easy and not recommended when you have many forums and groups.

Still sounds crazy to me unless it is a xoops issue.

I will keep this in mind though if I ever dig into this module.

Maybe we can reduce $_POSTS in xoops core classes.
but if you search in google you can see it is general issue in big forums even in professional forums like VB.