Thank You, very much.
I appreciate your help :)

a) Have you set up any forums on your site? If you have none, then that box will be empty.

b) No, it does not auto link to attachments - but I assume that it works ok with attachments provided you give a valid url to the attachment - has anyone tried this?

yeah i have forums set up on my site but they deffo dont show in that box.The box above that one shows the sections i have made but thats about all.

Was there anything i should of changed in admin settings as i noticed forum was set to -999 or something so i set that to 8 which is a valid forum on my forum and still no luck.

Maybe you could pm me with your site url so I can take a look?

As far as I can see from your site, everything is working correctly.

The people who did the vbadvanced integration have lifted the integration code that Natch wrote for vbindex. This code ignores the forums-based checking that is in my hack. It means that the vbadvanced (and vbindex) home page shows links regardless of whether you are allowed to access them or not. If a user tries to access a link that is not available to that user, then she will get an error message (link #N not available).

So the bottom line (which I tested on your site) is that the protection works, but you get to see things you can't access.

Natch felt that it was better to show all users all the available links as a way of encouraging them to register to use the site.

Thanks for that info, I am also thinking of allowing people to see the links without having to be registered, but not download them until they are.

The vbadvanced latest downloads block is ignoring the permissions like you said.
Did Natch by anychance post the edited code?

tnx

Great hack!! I'm having some difficulty though. I'm sure I'm just missing something. The only thing that displays for me is "alt2" in the box on the portal page. What am I missing? I've gone back over my changes several times. Thanks in advance for your help!

Sure - will try - sounds as if you've got a template error. Which portal are you using? Easiest way to sort these things out is to send me a pm or email with details of your site, including ideally a userid that has admin privs

I don't know if Natch posted it. This was the code I suggested to him for get_hotlinks.php - I have not tested it recently as I do not run either the vbindex or the vbadvanced integrations myself. You may need to do some editing - certainly if you want to have category based integration. I don't want to get caught up in this.

Thanks.. it seems is my hot link problem..
thanks