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.

[amykhar]

Yes. But, I don't have time to do it for you at this point. If you don't read code, you are going to have to rely on the kindness of strangers and hope somebody else wants that change and posts it for you.

Amy

[Benj]

ok i cant read code so anyone

[wcbryant]

I've got it set up on a test forum, but for some reason the new usergroups aren't being given permission to even view the new forum.

So user 11 'Dotty' (name changed to protect the innocent) is in a usergroup allowed to create. She makes one, and both the 'Dottyhideaway' group and the 'Dotty's Hideaway Forum' are both successfully created. People can apply to Dotty's group, she can add people. But no one can see or access the forum, even with a direct link (except me, the administrator). When I go in to 'Edit Forum Permissions For Usergroup: Dottyhideaway in Forum Dotty's Hideaway Forum', it's set to all no straight down through the options.

Clearly I've done something wrong along the way if no one else has run into it, but after looking around with some help for a while at the hideaway.php code (stock from the download with the modifications directed in this thread), I'm not seeing where the problem is.

Thanks in advance, and great extensions, Amy. I've flagged a few of yours as features I'd like to go live with on my production site.

[Holidazed]

I installed the mod and it seems to work. However, when somebody who already has a Hideaway forum clicks the "Create" link, it gives them an error that says:

Could not find phrase 'hideaway_exists'.

I went in and added the phrase, but I still get the same error.

[amykhar]

It has to be in the right phrase group.

[Holidazed]

It is in the "Permissions" group. What group is it supposed to be in?

[amykhar]

When I wrote it, it worked in Permissions. Not sure where it needs to be since the upgrade and haven't had time to play with it. Won't have time to play with it for a while, either.

[Holidazed]

Argh!! sorry to hear that. It is such a great mod. But this error causes problems. Maybe it should be pulled from the release list until it is working properly.

[hbalagh1]

Yes this is a great mod, specially for your paid members, i hope that phrase issue is resolved soon

[hbalagh1]

anyone know how to create if conditions for this, so if they haven't created their private forum yet the edit private forum link doesn't show, and if they have created it, the creat private forum link doesn't show???

Thanks