Do you understand the PURPOSE of this mod?
As of right now when the CMS is enabled EVERYONE sees it.
The purpose of this mod is to allow the admin to pick only CERTAIN USERGROUPS to see it...hence effectively disabling it :D

Your method TURNS off the cms. This method allows the admin to develop the cms without anyone actually knowing it is enabled.
Without this mod there is no built in way (in vb) to hide the cms from users if it is enabled.

Oh by the way, this mod doesn't work correctly.
In the adminCP options page for this mod it says:
"Enter user groups that you want to have access to your CMS.

Separate usergroups with a comma.
Example: 6,5"

However, it is not coded correctly to work w/ more than one usergroup so inputting more than usergroup id will beak the board.

is_member_of() requires you to input usergroup ids, not an array. So you can't use this:

Here's what I did to fix the issue. In the plugin titled "CMS - Redirector" add the following to the top:


then replace this line:
with this line:

Thanks for that fix, I'll try and get it into an updated release shortly. Just been pressed for time on other projects. But again, thank you!

No problem.

...i've actually been trying to figure out how to make the change to the template lol.
I guess with the new vb version you can't put in_array($bbuserinfo[usergroupid], $some_array) in a template. It keeps spitting out an error saying that $some_array isn't an array.

Ok, to fix the template replace
with:
then add a new plugin.
Hook location: global_start
Code:
and that should take care of it :)

Have you even bothered to read what I wrote in my post (#30)?

I explained that I was looking for a way to COMPLETELY disable the CMS, and I stumbled upon this mod but it was not exactly what I needed; since I thought that other people could have my same requirement I thought it was useful to post what I discovered.

I thanked the dev, and I explained why I posted those instructions; I really don't see why you wrote your post...completely useless.

Anyway...no problem...forums unfortunately are full of posts like yours. ;)

Take care.

One item for the documentation.

Make sure you set vBCms Comments forum permissions to only allow the selected usergroups to have access to the comments as by default (at least in my case) everyone could see the comments.

Hi Brother Malachi, Re the user ID array. Thanks for the code update. I got around the problem quickly by setting the Moderators group as the group with access and then adding the mod groups as a secondary user group on the Admin's account. This way I get all my mods and my admins on the CMS. I guess I could also have set-up another user group called CMSviewers and then added that as a secondary group to everyone I wanted to see the CMS, probably a bit tidier and easier to delete when I'd finished. Either way it's allowed me to do what I needed to do....But thanks all the same for the code update, I really appreciate you getting this done and adding to the thread, it's certainly a much tidier way of doing it.

Rgds

Pete

now that my forums are all set for a little bit I have some time to finally work on the CMS thanks to this mod.. I used impex to port over all the stuff from the old CMS, but it wasn't a completely clean transfer. This mod allows me to begin formatting everything correctly at my pace so it doesn't inconvenience anyone else/nobody else needs to know anything is changing until it's ready for all to see :)

thanks a lot!

Why not just disable the plugin for it?