Hi all I've recently transferred my php forum into a joomla site. It's integrated into the site through some sort of bridging modification. Since this, I can't get group permissions to work correctly. In the forum ACP, I have the newly registered users group set for 15 posts, so people remain in this group until they have made more than 15 posts. I then use this to prohibit access to certain forums for the new user group (i.e I have a couple of password forums which can't be accessed by people with less than 15 posts). Since I have integrated the forum with joomla, this is no longer working. People with less than 15 posts are accessing these forums, when all the permissions set are saying they shouldn't be able to see it. I think it may have something to do with the joomla site registration and the php forum not communicating correctly or something? It seems to not be recognising that these new users are in the "newly registered users" group. I have the same "no access" permissions set for guests, and this works, guest users cannot access the private forums. So I'm nearly positive it's not a settings issue. Thoughts?
Sounds like a setting issue to me, since all other permissions are working correctly. I'm recommending to Double check your setting. You can also create a new group (name it something different from your current group), add all necessary permissions, and create some new users. This may solve the issue if something went wrong with the database migration.