Is it possible to create a forum to which I can assign specific members that are allowed to post on that forum, while the forum is readable to everyone?

Currently no :-( only administration can make posts in post-only forums.

Bud this is good idea to think in the next release!
Thanks!

I've came up with idea... a very nice idea how to do it in current miniBB version :-)

So, specify $clForums and $clForumsUsers in bb_specials.php like it is described in manual. For example:

this will specify closed forum with IDs 7 and 5, and specify users with IDs 9 and 10 with allowed access to forum 7, and with ID 11 - to forum 5.

Then, paste the code you your language pack (lang/eng.php or whatever):

That's all! Users specified in $clForumsUsers will have usual access to these forums. On your choise, any other signed in user or anonymous will be able to read these forums.

miniBB rocks and I am the Walrus :-)

...and the solution tested for the latest release, of course.

Hi. In a similar way, I wish to disable anonymous posting from my entire bb, but allow anonymous viewing.

Is this possible already? Sorry I'm a n00b.

oops. It already does that if I make the forums registered only, it seems.

Sorry about that, and thanks for a great little piece of software.

Thank you so much for the replies.
Hack works like a charm! :)

Thank you very much for the solution. It works splendid. The only issue remaining with it, I've got two error messages in the administrative panel page. They look uniformly, like the following:
"Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /data/www/.../lang/eng.php on line 421

Could you suggest, how get rid of it?
Thank you in advance.

You may try the code above - it's a condition excluding execution of this code from admin panel.

After applying this trick, one notification has gone, the other one is still there. :(

Strange. Both notifications and they lead to the same error line? Or is there another error line mentioned?

The same error line, # 421 in my case, or, to be certain, this one:

$clForumsUsers[#]=array_merge($clForumsUsers[#], array(0,$user_id));

(a particular forum ID was changed to a # symbol in this example).
Is it possible, some other template calls this code as well, when displaying the admin panel? My admin panel has the anti-troll (IP<>ID) extention.

The condition I provided really should cover all cases related to admin panel. So I don't know where the reason is. It works on my side.

Make sure you have put this condition properly. I've fixed the initial solution above to provide the exact piece of code.

And an private forum, not visible to everyone - but all reg useres can read and write ?

in bb_specials:

// forum 10 for all reg users, but not visible for guests
$clForumsUsers[10]=array();

and at the end of language-file

if($user_id!=0) {
$clForumsUsers[10][]=$user_id;
}

right ?