UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 6 Version 6 Support Missing generic groups ?

Hi, don't know if anyone can help.

I run the forums at www.nepforums.co.uk/beehive for our community websites and the guy that set up our board is of little help at the moment.

The problem I'm having is that when an unregistered user tries to post on a forum it seems to delete the forum entirely.

I've had a look and we don't seem to have the generic 'guest' group (or any other group for that moment) so that I can set the forum to lock these guys out.

I've created other groups so that people can register and use the boards, but how do I go about creating a 'guest' group, so I can lock people who haven't registered for our service ? Or how can I retrieve the initial set-up for groups?

Thanks for any help you can give.
Darren.

Run this query - and let me know the results:

SELECT *
FROM w3t_Groups

Thanks here are the results...

G_Name G_Id
Members 1
Moderators 2
TEST 3
Users 4
test2 5
Mods 6
Members 7
Guests 8

Thanx.
Dazza.

is it possible to delete all these groups and start again from scratch >?

I can't see how to do this in the admin site.

Tnx once again.

Guests should be group 3 -

I wouldn't delete the groups as that'll create more problems.

Also, does your user table have the placeholder user for anonymous posts?

Try this query.

SELECT U_Username
FROM w3t_Users
WHERE U_Number = 1

Results are

U_Username

Theres nothing else in there.

Thanks.
D

OK - there's supposed to be a placeholder user there which somehow is missing or got deleted.

This query should fix you up:


INSERT INTO w3t_Users
(U_Username,U_Groups)
VALUES
('**DONOTDELETE**','-4-')

Hi I'm afraid that didn't seem to work.

I ran the query, however I can still login as anon and post and reply to messages, and when I run the previous SQl query again its still blank.


On the plus side the forum is picking up. Though i'm crossing my fingers someone won't come along and wipe a whole forum out again!

Guess we must have not installed it correctly at the very beginning.

Thanks for your patience so far.

Daz.

Hi Josh,
just an update after a bit of fiddling with my forum settings I think I've got the desired effect, though a very messy set of groups.

Thanks for your help.
Daz.

Hi,

We've just upgraded a number of forums (v6.2.1.1) from Perl/cgi to use PHP/MySQL and have a similar problem in that there are no groups in the groups table.

What are the 'standard' groups? The imported boards table seems to refer to group ids 1,2,3 & 4 and the users table referes to grioups 1 & 3 but we don't know what these groups are to add them into the table - they don't seem to exist in the perl version.

And what is this extra user you refer to? The user with U_Number 1 on the imported databases is the administrator.

Thanks
Jon

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User #1 in threads is a placeholder user for anonymous posts and users who were deleted.

The standard groups should be:
1- Administrator
2- Moderator
3- Users
4- Guests (users who aren't logged in)

If you follow the import instructions correct, you'll first setup your threads database (that number 1 user should be there by default, as well as the groups). Did you empty the database before importing? If so you would have emptied some stuff which needs to be there.