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sjau - Yes, that is possible with a bit of hacking. To do that you would open your myvbindex.php file and look for:

// News

Right above that you would want to add something like this:

PHP Code:

if ($bbuserinfo['usergroupid']=='XX') {
    $newsforum = 'A';
} elseif ($bbuserinfo['usergroupid']=='YY') {
    $newsforum = 'B';
} else { 


Then you would want to look for:

PHP Code:

  $DB_site->free_result($getnews);
  unset($news); 


And right below that add:

}


In the first bit of code you added you would need to change the variables accordingly. You would change the 'XX' and 'YY' there to the usergroupid's you want a different news forum for. Then you would change the place you see 'A' and 'B' to the forumid of the news forums you want for those usergroups. Then if you need to have more than two different groups that will see different news, you would add something like this, right above the } else { statement at the end there:

PHP Code:

} elseif ($bbuserinfo['usergroupid']=='ZZ') {
    $newsforum = 'C'; 


That should be about it. Any usergroups that you have specified above will see news from the forum specified, and anyone not in one of those usergroups will see your news from your default news forum.


mv540 - Off the top of my head I'm not sure what would need to be changed to have the new topics stay around longer. I'm pretty sure that goes by the last time a user visited your site, but I don't remember for sure. You could probably find an answer if you asked in the General Hacking Discussion forum though.