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I just thought I’d ask before I dive into php…

I need the entire Forum module to be hidden within an extranet (behind a login).

I’m assuming this can be done if I enable php in the forums, and in the main header put in some kind of conditional to check the user group of the current user. If the user isn’t in the correct group I should be able to die() or forward to a login template.

Possible? Has it been done? Anybody have a code example of how to accomplish this?

The easiest way to do this is to run the forum from a template. That way you can set the permissions level based on the template. Does that help?

yes, but when running the forum from a template, will the forum still be accessible outside the template ie. /forum/?

I figure this method is a bit more efficient than calling through the template parser.

I put this in the beginning of /themes/forum_themes/scaffold/forum_global/html_header.html

<?php 

$this->EE =& get_instance();

$group = $this->EE->session->userdata['group_id'];

// list of group id numbers allowed in the forum below
if (!in_array($group, array(1,5,6,7,8))){
    header("Location: /login"); // a login page
    exit();
}

?>

Very good, and thanks for sharing. Please post again as needed.