[Michael Morris]

Running into problems with the permissions system.

I don't want the standard thread editting scripts to be able to handle the forum containing the reviews, just the custom script. How can I turn the forum off to the general scripts and retain an ability to moderate who modifies the data with the custom scripts...

Note that I'm testing this with a spells database project first (because it should be simpler). Spell data needs 10 fields of data appended to the first post only. Subsequest posts can be handled with newreply since they have no additional data (basically they are discussions concerning the spell itself).

I've created a new table with fields for the information and a new forum to hold the threads (each spell has a thread, so the new table cross-indexes on the threadid colum and can be appended using LEFTJOIN ON threadid). I've saved newthread.php as newspell.php

And here's where I'm starting to have problems. I want the script to automatically define the forum as #7 - I don't want that script to look at or modify threads in any other forum. However, each time I try to define $foruminfo or $_REQUEST['f'] I get a "Sorry, this forum isn't open for posts" error even though I know it is (I haven't changed the settings for that forum from the default.

And so, I'm getting stuck. Help would be appreciated plz.