I did a quick search but did not find the answers to my question. I'm wanting to create a hidden board that only admin can see. I then want to add topics to that board and replies to topics. I want to then use SSI to show those topics (one topic, and it's replies).
For example;
I would have a board called "Homepage Articles" and the following topics
"Sample 1", "Sample 2", "Sample 3" (and so on)
Then on my homepage I would use SSI to include "Sample 1" and it's replies. Also, possibly an option to show only "Sample 1" and no replies (or show certain replies). Is this possible?
maybe to look at all ssi functions?
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/ssi_examples.php
Too long ago, I was trying to build an article system. So thought the same.
What I did was this; on the board index, I made my articles board as hidden for all members excluding admin. (You can do it by adding a few lines of code to your BoardIndex.template.php) But everybody had permission to view that boards, just I hid it from template.
Then I used ssi_boardNews() to get the information.
If you like the idea, I can provide you the codes.
I'm interested in this code if you'd like to share :P
It's just simple.
../Themes/your_theme/BoardIndex.template.php
Find:
foreach ($category['boards'] as $board)
{
Replace:
foreach ($category['boards'] as $board)
{
$article_boards = array(1,2,3,4,5);
$article_admins = array(1,2,3,4,5);
if(in_array($board['id'], $article_boards) && !in_array($context['user']['id'], $article_admins))
continue;
$article_boards are the ID of the boards to hide.
$article_admins are the ID of users that will see the boards.
If user ID is not avaible in $article_admins array, $article_boards will not be shown.