[MiY4Gi]

Is it possible to hide categories on the main forum and then show those categories on a specific subforum?

I have specific categories which are designed for local (e.g. South African) users, and so I only want to show those categories on the South African subforum za.myforum.tld. However, as it is, the categories also show up on the main forum, something which do not want.

I've considered using Membergroups, but that won't work since I want all members to be able to access a subforum, not just those that are part of that membergroup.

I was thinking that one might need to create a new kind of Permission system that checks whether the user is at a specific subdomain/subforum, and then only serve the allowed board categories. So this permission would look at the current URL, and not at the user's membergroup.

[luuuciano]

I do not have a public "main forum" only admin access... all my forums will be subdomains

Maybe you like that way

[MiY4Gi]

I considered having my main forum restricted to admins, but it won't work for me. In my case I actually have a main forum that's designed for the general public, and many subforum's which are designed for smaller specific groups of the public.

[feline]

Is it possible to hide categories on the main forum and then show those categories on a specific subforum?

That is not possible .. the Main Forum is the "normal" SMF installation.
You can protect the Main forum, that only member with Admin rights have access (check Admin access only in the Subforum configuration).

[luuuciano]

I considered having my main forum restricted to admins, but it won't work for me. In my case I actually have a main forum that's designed for the general public, and many subforum's which are designed for smaller specific groups of the public.

Well... maybe you can start showing that general forum as a subdomain too...

[MiY4Gi]

If anyone's interested I did it by editing my theme.

Open: /Themes/YOUR_THEME/BoardIndex.template.php

Find:

Code: (find) [Select]

foreach ($context['categories'] as $category)
{


Code: (add after) [Select]

        if($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == 'myanimeclub.net' && in_array($category['id'], array(2,3))) continue;

Note that the above code is what I use on my forum (SMF 2.0.2) so you'll need to replace myanimeclub.net with your site's domain, and the 2,3 in array(2,3) with the ID's of the categories you'd like to hide at the site domain you specified.

Demo:     http://myanimeclub.net
Alias 1:    http://za.myanimeclub.net
Alias 2:    http://us.myanimeclub.net