Different forum for different cities
 

Hello everyone,

I am confused as to how to achieve the following. kindly help this lost newbie.

i have a site with different city options: A,B,C,D. The forums (let's say) are 1,2,3,4,5.

City A requires all the forums but the content of the forum will be different,as in the forums wud be somethin like this: A1,A2, 3,4,5 (3,4,5 being the common forums while A1 and A2 are forums 1 and 2 with A's content). Similarly for city B, it requires 3,4,5 as common forums and B1 and B2. And so on.

When users click on a city button, it should lead to a forum page with the city-based forums and the common forums.

One option i was looking at was to create usergroups based on their cities and give forum permissions (this requires different names for all the forums). But this is a very complicated process or rather a foolish one.

I don't know where i am heading. Please help.

Well I thought i understood what you were trying to do, but now im not sure again.

A1 and B1 are two different forums ?

Why do you say forum permissions require all forums to have different names ?

Well yes A1 and B1 are two different forums for cities A and B but with the same forum name 1. You can ignore the letter A and B as they are just identifiers for cities.


For the forum permissions, if i have all the forums in forum.php and i dont want users from city B to see forum A1, therefore I need to give a different name other than 1. But i don' think it is a good idea to have all the forums in one page and let users see based on their permissions.


Thanks for replying Paul