Hideaways

This extension lets you allow certain usergroups to create a private forum and an associated public usergroup. There are no queries to run, and you only need to change the parentid of the forums in hideaway.php before you upload it.

Access to the hideaway is denied to anybody except admins and the associated public user group.

The member who creates the forum becomes the usergroup leader and the forum moderator.

Users are responsible to advertise their own forum. No invite link is created. This is not automated. Users can either post an invitation to join their hideaway in some other forum on your site, or they can pm people to invite them. It's up to you on establishing the rules of hideaway promotion.

Users can edit their hideaway descriptions, but not the style or the forum title. The style can not be changed to ensure that we don't run into licensing issus. The title can not be changed because I use it to identify the forum for editing purposes.

The hideaway usergroups permissions are based on the registered user group's permissions. You can change what group their permissions are based off of within the code.

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FEATURES I WILL NOT ADD:
The ability for people to have more than one hideaway.
The ability for hideaway owners to create a new style for their forum.
The ability for hideaway owners to change the forum title.
The ability for hideaway owners to change any forum permissions.

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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.

[LBSources]

Originally Posted by amykhar

The first thing you need to do when debugging the problem is to look at the $usergroupinfo array and make sure it's not empty.

Also, make sure that it's getting the right usergroupid when it inserts it.

Commenting out the database inserts and putting in print statements for debugging should help you figure out why it's failing with your changes in place.

hello amy, the only thing i have done is change change your original 2 to 23 :cross-eyed: i havent made any other drastic changes except whats in the install docs .. and the db changes needed here which have it working somewhat ..

[amykhar]

yes, but to find the problem, you've got to see where in the process it's going wrong. I can't do that with the one running on my server because it works. I can't reproduce the problem

[LBSources]

understood .. unfortunately i dont know how to set the output to print ... hmmm ... ok ..

can anyone else suggest a solution .. or have any of the other members having this problem resolve them ..

[LBSources]

Well its ok .. Amy i understand your busy and dont have time to officially support this hack .. ill just uninstall since youve indicated that it can be problematic with other hacks and since i soo many hacks ill leave it at that ..