I have brought a medium size PHPBB over to Drupal. My moderator forums are in the open for all to see. Is there a way to use "roles" or some other method to create "groups of people" who can access certain forum categories and "groups of people" who can access other forum categories?

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VM’s picture

There are a few modules you will want to look into to see how you can incorporate them.

organic groups & some of the access modules in the downloads area of this site.

taxonomyaccess.module may be what you are after, but I"d highly suggest testing them on a test site, before implementing them to make sure they do exactly what you want.

maxilious’s picture

VeryMisunderstood, thanks for the information. When I try tp upload taxomony access my module screen goes white. If I delete taxomony access from my modules folder everything works again? Same thing happens with OG.

VM’s picture

youll have to adjust your memory_limit in your php.ini file. its set at 8M shift it to 12M.

if you don't have a php.ini file in your server, youll have to ask your host or check your hosts documentation for retrieving it. after the above change is made, drop the php.ini file into your drupal root folder. now drupal will have enough memory. for other methods of correcting this see: http://drupal.org/node/31819

uglybob’s picture

In phpBB, you can do this through your Administration Panel.

Go to the Admin panel, log in, then go to Forum Admin (Permissions).
Select the forum you want to manage (in this case, your Moderator forum) and then select "Lookup Forum".

This will then display a list of user groups. By default, this is set to REGISTERED for each forum - meaning that any registered user will be able to view it. You'd need to change it to MODERATOR to lock registered users out (they will be able to see that the forum exists but cannot access it) or MODERATOR (HIDDEN) which hides the forum to anyone who is not a moderator.

To make individual moderators (if you don't know how) - User Admin (Permissions), look them up and change "Is Not Moderator" on the individual forum categories to "Is Moderator".