[Logician]

If you are ready to manually edit/update permissions per .php file without any user interface for administration, yes you can just insert:

PHP Code:

require('./global.php'); 


at the begining of your .php file (assumed its in the forum dir), then check the permissions with "if" commands like:

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['userid']>0) 
{
//do something
}
else
{
//do another thing
} 


etc.