1 Topic by Raeli

  • Registered: 2009-05-17
  • Posts: 11

Topic: Disable "post new topic" button but...

Hi, so basically what I want is to hide the "Post new topic" link, but only in 1 forum for a certain user group. e.g:

Forum 1
User Group 1 - link hidden.
User Group 2 - link shown.


Forum 2
User Group 1 - link shown.
User Group 2 - link shown.


Now you may be thinking, well why not just go into the options and not allow User Group 1 from making new topics in Forum 1? Well, the reason for this is that I have written a custom page that posts a preformatted topic into that page. It's basically an application form. I want to ensure that any new posts made in there by anyone but User Group 2 (Admins basically), is only done through my custom page, and the easiest way to ensure that is to just hide that link but still allow posts.

I really have no idea where to start with this, so if anyone could point me in the right direction, or can think of an easier way to do this even, that would be great.


Thanks in advance smile

2 Reply by Raeli

  • Registered: 2009-05-17
  • Posts: 11

Re: Disable "post new topic" button but...

I removed the check to see if a user had a permission to post from my custom page and just disabled the allowance of creating new posts in the forum.

It's not really the way I wanted to do it but it works at least ^^