Moderators & Private Request.

[Martz]

1) open admin/forum.php

Find:

PHP Code:

$mods=$DB_site->query("SELECT DISTINCT moderator.userid FROM moderator,user WHERE moderator.userid=user.userid AND user.usergroupid<>6 AND user.usergroupid<>5");
    if ($DB_site->num_rows($mods)) {
      while ($mod=$DB_site->fetch_array($mods)) {
        $accessto[] = $mod['userid'];
      }
      while ( list($key,$userid)=each($accessto) ) {

  $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO access(userid,forumid,accessmask) VALUES ('$userid','$forumid',1)");
      }
    }
  } 


Change to

PHP Code:

$mods=$DB_site->query("SELECT DISTINCT moderator.userid FROM moderator,user WHERE moderator.userid=user.userid AND user.usergroupid<>6 AND user.usergroupid<>5");
    if ($DB_site->num_rows($mods)) {
      while ($mod=$DB_site->fetch_array($mods)) {
        $accessto[] = $mod['userid'];
      }
      while ( list($key,$userid)=each($accessto) ) {
// HACK - the line below is commented out to stop moderators getting custom access permissions for private forums.
//  $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO access(userid,forumid,accessmask) VALUES ('$userid','$forumid',1)");
      }
    }
  } 


Hacking at this level is easy - the work is done already. Just try and understand the php and keep reading it, soon enough it will all become a little clearer.

To check if a user has access to a private forum, Flirefly or PPN has written a hack to display this.