Groups synchronization

[Mikas]

Hi Everyone!

By default there were already 4 groups in Coppermine and none in phpBB. Then after I did the integration I synchronized Groups and started creating my 10 phpBB groups. When I was done I checked Coppermine, and there were 14 groups (4 original and the new 10 from phpBB).
So far so good but since 4 of my 10 phpBB groups have the same name as the 4 original Coppermine groups (Admin, Members, Guests and Banned), now I have duplicated each one of these 4 in Coppermine (the originals plus the ones from phpBB).

My question is very simple: Since I don't want this, how can I delete groups in Coppermine, so that I have exactly the same 10 groups in both apps? I don't find any way of deleting groups in Coppermine...

Thanks in advance!

Mikas.

[Joachim Müller]

You can't (and mustn't) delete those 4 basic coppermine groups. Either rename you phpBB groups (recommended) or edit the groups with identical names to have similar permissions, then it won't matter (except the admin group from phpbb that won't be coppermine admin). Afaik phpbb comes with built-in groups as well, and coppermine takes those groups into account, so don't fully understand what you meant by

By default there were already 4 groups in Coppermine and none in phpBB.

If you feel like experimenting, you could take a look at the bridge file and play with

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// Group definitions
define('PHPBB_ADMIN_GROUP', 1);
define('PHPBB_MEMBERS_GROUP', 2);
define('PHPBB_GUEST_GROUP', 3);
define('PHPBB_BANNED_GROUP', 4);

Joachim

[Mikas]

I'm sorry GauGau, but I must insist: By default phpBB comes with no groups...
I have 2 phpBB Froums installed and none has any groups by default. After you install phpBB, if you click on "Usergroups" on the main page, you get a window saying: "Information: No Groups Exist".

So how can I have exactly the same number of groups both in Coppermine and phpBB, if Coppermine comes with 4 default groups that cannot be deleted??

Miguel.

[Joachim Müller]

phpBB doesn't come with usergroups out-of-the-box that are visible or editable, but I can assure you, they are there. This is the way any bbs works - it categorizes users into groups. I'm not sure what happened to your install, maybe someone who is actually running cpg+phpbb can help you on this.

Joachim