Mods edit access masks including child forums

There was another version around on the board but it had problems with moderators who had access to moderate a forum through inheritance, ie they were moderator of a category. This code is in no way based on the other version, but no doubt will be similar as there isn't really much of a difference you can make.

This is just really an alternative to letting mods ban people from the whole forum, they can simply ban from a single forum.

Once you have done what it says in the instructions when you add a moderator you will have permission to say if they can edit forum access masks for that particular forum. Remember if they are mod of a category and the edit acccess masks option is enabled then all the forums in this category moderated by the user through inheritance have the ability.

Supermods and Admins can edit all access masks via the mod control panel.

This has been tested on
vb 2.0.1, 2.0.2 and 2.0.3 they all work
also tested on
vb 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 these also work.

I had a small error in the permissions checking for the updateaccess which i just noticed and corrected, so if you have installed this before November 21st it may be advisable to update the /mod/user.php part which involves the updateaccess part.
Not that your mods would want to change access masks for forums they don't mod

[Snake~eyes]

great, thx guys!

great support!

[Scott MacVicar]

Martz knew that one, i've never had a problem with it

[SharkY-GA]

I'm stuck on getting the access to work for some reason... Moderators with access to authorize members are getting "Do not have access."
This didnt happen on 2.2.0, no idea why on 2.2.1...

[Scott MacVicar]

ensure the column was created, ensure that they are mods of that forum and mod access mask editing is enabled for that forum. Check you made the changes in /mod/index.php

do they get an error when they try to search for the user to edit access masks for or is it when they click the link to edit the user that they found's access mask?

[SharkY-GA]

The error is when they try and search for a user.

[SharkY-GA]

*bump*
checked all of that and still can't figure out why it's not working...

[Scott MacVicar]

check this stage again

on line 45 and 59 change
if (!$perms[ismoderator] and !$ismod=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT * FROM moderator WHERE userid=$bbuserinfo[userid] AND (canbanusers=1 OR canviewprofile=1)")) {
to
if (!$perms[ismoderator] and !$ismod=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT * FROM moderator WHERE userid=$bbuserinfo[userid] AND (canbanusers=1 OR canviewprofile=1 OR caneditaccess=1)")) {

thats the only part that would cause an error, either that or the mods don't have permission to edit access masks for that forum.

[SharkY-GA]

Ok... Well that fixed that issue, now i'm flat out getting this:
"You may not edit access for someone who is not a normal registered user!"

Thanks in advance dude.

[Scott MacVicar]

you can only edit users in the usergroup 2, this is the registered usergroup, so you can't edit the access masks for admin or mods

[SharkY-GA]

That's what I figured, however it says that for registered users too... Hmm...