Is there anyone I can pay to show me how to use the program? For now, I'm going to bypass 1ShoppingCart and manually add and remove users. I feel really dumb because I cannot figure out how to protect certain areas of my bulletin board and how to give the access. I can't find any documentation that is helpful for me. I will gladly pay someone who I can skype or speak with on the phone to teach me and do this for me. I'm in Florida. I'm just stuck and frustrated. I'm not sure if I should get the 1ShoppingCart plugin yet if I'm not ready to use that piece. Alex will install it, but until I have this working at all, I don't know what to do next. Thanks, Susan
naw, don't feel dumb...understanding permissions with phpBB3 isn't "intuitive" but once you do it once or twice it makes perfect sense. I'm not really available for I'm busy with switching all users(phpbb3, btw) into AMember and am here searching for something else but just to make sure you aren't completely down the wrong path if you are granting certain access to certain users you can't use any form of protection other than "group" access..meaning, don't use .htaccess or phpinclude. Just go into you ACP of phpBB3 and go to the "users and groups" tab. If you haven't done so already, create a group within "manage groups"...name it whatever you want. Then, apply permissions to that group by going to "group permissions". You can choose one of the predefined "roles" or just go to the "advanced" link and select each option individually. What you are doing here is just deciding if members of this group can read, post, reply, PM settings, etc. Then, you want to go to "groups forum permissions" and choose what forums that group has access to and in which way. You can then repeat this by creating another group which has a different level of access...for example, if you want both groups to have the same abilities but the 2nd group to have access to more forums you are just copying the first two steps of the 1st group but can expand the number of forums that group has access to via the "groups forum permissions". You'll see these groups in the AMember phpBB3 plugin area. I have mine set to "guest" since this is where a user defaults to without an active subscription and the "guest" group for me is very limited. It's in the products where you more than likely want to assign the new groups. For example, if you have a product, "product 1", you should see the available groups next to "phpBB3 access" and you can choose the first group you created as the one users with this subscription have access to. There's a few other ways to handle an upsell for a "product 2" but normally you would simply have the 2nd group you created here. I've noticed the "phpBB3 additional access" group listing under the initial one which I have't played with yet...a user with phpBB3 can be in multiple groups at the same time which is what I imagine this is used for and may better fit what you are trying to do.