Topic: author only view?

Is it possible (with a modification or something) to get the following:

A forum where the author can only view it's own topics and not the topics/posts of others. I want to create some kind of personal support forum where moderators can view all topics but normal users can only see their own topics.

Re: author only view?

I haven't heard of anyone having implemented that feature.
I understand and see usefulnes though...
You want a kind of "ticket" system really - not a forum.... they exist open source aswell...

Re: author only view?

I'm familiar with ticket systems indeed.

Point is: I need both (forum and ticket-system) and a forum is a more 'complete' package than a ticket system.

I can script some PHP -> can I adjust it hardcoded?

Re: author only view?

You need to add a check to the file viewforum.php. If the user is not an administrator, then only the posts created by the user should be sought for in the database. To do this, change the appropriate WHERE clause added to it:

.' AND t.poster = \''. $forum_user ['username'].'\'' 

Similar changes should also be done in the file viewtopic.php'

Re: author only view?

Gordei4ik wrote:

You need to add a check to the file viewforum.php. If the user is not an administrator, then only the posts created by the user should be sought for in the database. To do this, change the appropriate WHERE clause added to it:

.' AND t.poster = \''. $forum_user ['username'].'\'' 

Similar changes should also be done in the file viewtopic.php'

Thanks, will give it a try!  smile