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Hi,

I installed PhocaGuestbook and really like it, but have some problems with it. The complete translation I could fix with forum serarch. My most important problem to be solved is: only users in group "Super-Administrators" are shown the delete and unpublish icons in frontend. No other group will be accepted, even when added to com_phocaguestbook\helpers\phocaguestbook.php or/and com_phocaguestbook\views\phocaguestbook\view.html.php to be flagged as administrator. I`m not an expert in coding, so I just try to find the matching passages. I installed phoca guestbook on Joomla 1.5.10 on two different webservers, but get the same result. Only Superadmin are allowed to moderate in frontend. How can I fix this?

Thanks for any help.
Bernd

Hi, you need to customize the code, so. e.g. you will set other user group or direct some user to moderate the forum, this needs to be changed:

components\com_phocaguestbook\views\phocaguestbook\view.html.php

line 31

Jan

Hi Jan,

thanks for your tip. But I already tried to add group manager here. Even tried to add just a specific user by adding "|| $user->usertype == strtolower('test')" after the administrator, but it is ignored.
Without any modification all users of the administrator group should see the trash and unpublish-icon. But on my webspace only Super-Administrator see those icons. So there must be an existing problem with the code without me (=noob ) tampering with it.

Any hints?
Bernd

Hi,

I have the same problem here,
Would like to give publishers the right to manage the messages in Phoca Guestbook, FRONT end
but I dont know how to make it happen...

Jo

hbrui

Hi, be aware, usertype is not user or username.


See the controller too:
components\com_phocaguestbook\controllers\phocaguestbook.php

436, 475

Jan

Hi, I am testing it (as administrator only) and get no problem there

Jan

hbrui wrote: ... Even tried to add just a specific user by adding "|| $user->usertype == strtolower('test')" after the administrator, but it is ignored.
...

I actually have the same problem, i want to add the group "Manager" to get the access-rights for "delete" and "unpublish", so i tried the way above ... and it's very simply, why the original script did only work with "Super Administrator" and not with "Administrator".

File /component/views/phocaguestbook/views/view.html.php Line 31:
Original (wrong): What is wrong? See the missing 'strtolower' in the second check of usertype ...

Correct: Extended with group "Manager": Hope it helps, it's working for me ...

Actually i finished to change phocaguestbook to do the publishing, unpublishing and deleting on the frontend ... working fine.

Bye
Alhifi

BTW: Sorry for my bad english ...

Hi, thank you for this information.

Jan

Wonderful, thanks for this solution. It works fine now for my Managers