I need help with my messageboard

[lpworld]

I just have a question about my messageboard that I have through HostRocket. How can I edit other peoples posts. Everytime I go to click on "edit", it says: "You are not permitted to view this forum." I should be about to edit posts since I own the messageboard. I can't seem to find a place where I can turn that feature on. Can someone help me please? Thank you.

my messageboard can be found at: http://www.linkin-parkworld.com/messageb/

[SnakEyez]

If you are the administrator for the forums, then you should be able to log the admin control panel for XMB and the option to change it will be right in there. If your account is not an admin account you need to give it a unique group, or make get it made into an admin account so you can change the permissions on your account to allow you to edit any post.

[lpworld]

I am the administrator of my message board. When I log into my message board with my administrator name, all I see for changing options in control panel and administrator panel. I've looked every where inside both of those options but I haven't seen anything that would let me enable "Editing other peoples posts".

[TomD]

Originally posted by lpworld
I just have a question about my messageboard that I have through HostRocket. How can I edit other peoples posts. Everytime I go to click on "edit", it says: "You are not permitted to view this forum." I should be about to edit posts since I own the messageboard. I can't seem to find a place where I can turn that feature on. Can someone help me please? Thank you.

my messageboard can be found at: http://www.linkin-parkworld.com/messageb/

You might try posting the question at the XMB site and see if anyone there can help you.

If you realy can't edit a post by another user even when you are logged in as administrator you might try doing it through the database files.

Tom

[SnakEyez]

Well first thing is to make sure you follow these instructions to fix XMB 1.6 which HR is giving you.

Board effected
XMB 1.6 Magic Lantern

Bug
index_log.log

Solutions
Secure your 1.6 board!
Please remove this file so as not to place your server at risk!_

Load index.php and delete the following 3 lines_

include "index_add.php"_
?>_
<?_
_

These are under the comments, save and upload._
If you require assistance please visit our support forums and someone would be glad to assist you.

Secondly I installed it myself and well, your 100% right there is nothing to allow you to do it. I ended up going to XMB's website forums and looked it up. These people really seem to be clueless about what they are doing when making this board from looking at posts I see bugs, but that's not the problem. The problem is that they are all fixes that require you to actually get involved with the coding and fix that. Here is the fix you need.

You have to open viewthread.php. And find this line in the coding:


$querypost = $db->query("SELECT p.*, a.*, m.* FROM $table_posts p LEFT JOIN $table_members m ON m.username=p.author LEFT JOIN $table_attachments a
ON a.pid=p.pid WHERE p.fid='$fid' AND p.tid='$tid' ORDER BY dateline LIMIT $start_limit, $ppp");

Then you must replace it with this line:


$querypost = $db->query("SELECT p.*, a.aid, a.filename, a.filetype, a.filesize, a.attachment, a.downloads, m.* FROM $table_posts p LEFT JOIN
$table_members m ON m.username=p.author LEFT JOIN $table_attachments a ON a.pid=p.pid AND a.tid=p.tid WHERE p.fid='$fid' AND p.tid='$tid' ORDER BY
dateline LIMIT $start_limit, $ppp");

If you want to view the post yourself you will need to register at their website www.xmbforum.com and then go to this page:

http://www.xmbforum.com/community/boards/viewthread.php?tid=5762

Also in another, more recent, post they saying that they will be releasing v1.8 soon. Whether HR will place this much needed upgrade to this forum software in the cp or not I don't know, but on the forums staff from XMB is saying not to edit the code too much because they have fixed most of it for the 1.8 release which they say will be out soon.

[lpworld]

alright, thank you very much. I'll give it a try. :)

[lpworld]

Thanks for helping me out. I did what you said and now my message board works correctly. Thank you! :cool:

[Quintopia]

hmm, this is why i use phpBB2