Anyone extremely familiar with the phpBB2 system?

[moving_target]

Our clan is expanding into new games and not all clan members are following so I was asked to make separate sections. So, I need to give certain members access to it and others not. Problem is... after recently upgrading to the latest version, I can't get the Admin Index Page to load correctly. The entire menu is missing. I've discovered I can still access individual pages by typing them but it has become a huge pain in the ass. Anyone offer any help why this might be happening? Currently the left pane is empty and the right one works fine.

Thanks,

MT

[UTK.GENOCIDE]

Why dont you jsut leave it public?

And I know invision power board very well but DO not know of anything of how to restrict access other than making the forum password protected.

So you could just make 1 forum for 1 game passworded, and the other games have diff passwords.

[moving_target]

Well most clans have a private section to discuss clan matters and matches, etc. They wanted a separate private section b/c one of our clan members is already in a CSS clan and they're starting one within our own so they didn't want a clash of interests there. I have access to it no matter what though since I pay for it.

[100hogs]

I know about one bug in phpBB2 when admin menu disappears even if you have admin access. You can fix it only if you have access to mSQL database. I had that problem once I was changing phpBB configuration. Looks like it's a common problem.

[moving_target]

I do have access to the database but I wouldn't know what needs changed. I can learn quickly though but I'd need to know what exactly causes the problem. I really don't want to roll back to before the update b/c everything else is functional.

[100hogs]

I'll try to find that fix. Some admin functions mistakenly change admnistration group privelegies id in the database. And you have to fix it manually. I'll post link when I find it.

[moving_target]

Well... I've done myself over real well this time. Not only do I not have the side control panel... now I can't access the admin's page at all

I had to open some new sections for CSS and not only did I have to create the forums manually in the database but I had to go in and manually change permissions for the members that needed access to it.

[100hogs]

Did you try to upgrade phpBB instead? It should restore some critical fields in database (unless it kills database completely ).
I tried to make a search of fix that I used to get administration panel back, but could not find it. Looks like that problem was specific for a particular build and was fixed relatively shortly after it was discovered.

[moving_target]

Lol... I did upgrade... but it didn't do what I wanted. Instead it broke more stuff. Before I was able to get to different admin pages by simply typing in the names of the file links... now I can't get to admin page at all. I had to set up the new forums and change access settings from directly within the database. It wasn't too hard to figure out but way more tedious.

[100hogs]

I just found out how to fix admin access in phpBB. It happened to my user account again, so I had to MySQL and fix it manually.
You need to run command "update php_users set user_level=1 where username='yourname';"
I know it's kinda late, but anyway.