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I'm not being clear enough. Obviously admin doesn't have the password of all of the users... and I'm wondering if there is a MOD that allows admin to be able to take control of ANY user on his board.

LOL....should I take that as a "No, no MOD for that"?

I tried searching for this in the MOD database but didn't have any luck. Is there a MOD that allows admin to take over a user? So, for example, as admin, they can switch to "user3" and then post, reply, delete, etc as THAT user? Does my question make sense?

BEAUTIFUL! THANKS!

Thanks so much for the responses! I apologize for taking so long to come back. I've had internet issues. Daniel was correct when he said: I think the OP is asking how to create a menu that will change depending on what group your in, so Adaministrators would have differents links than what moderator...

It's a long, boring story but I'm basically taking advantage of the phpbb ranking system to manage other areas of my site. For example, if the user has a rank of 2, a different menu will appear than for someone with a rank of 0. I just need to know how to include it in the template.

Can anyone tell me how I can add something to the overall_header so I can display an image based on the user's rank?

you can't put php in the template files unless you have it turned on in the admin panel and unless you use the phpbb php variable for it. if your goal is to make your menu only viewable by registered users then you should use the built in phpbb variable that controls that. <!-- IF S_USER_LOGGED_IN ...

I just want to make sure I'm being clear on what I'm asking. My site uses phpbb's session management on other pages aside from the forum. I have a menu that will only appear when users are logged in. This is all working fine on my non-forum pages. I just want to include this code in my overall_heade...

If that conditional switch works, then it would only appear to logged in users, because Guests do not have a rank and therefore could not satisfy the condition. Yes, that is what it's supposed to accomplish. It works fine on all of my other pages. I'm just trying to add it to the overall_header so ...

Yes. It works fine on the other pages. Do you need it? It's basically:

I want to add a customized menu to the overall_header file, but I only want it to appear if the user is logged in. Can someone give me a quick idea how to do this? In my other (non-phpbb forum) pages I simply use: <?php if($userdata['session_logged_in']){ include_once ('/includes/member_menu.php'); ...

HELP!!!! I can't get onto my board! I'm getting the following error message: You were not logged out as the request did not match your session. Please contact the board administrator if you continue to experience problems. I have tried using a friend's computer to login but with the same result. I d...

I love how phpbb will automatically shorten a URL but I'm wondering if I can shorten them even more.

For example instead of this:

http://www.mywebsite.com/fo...9101112131415.htm

it would show this:

http://www.mywebsite.com/fo...1415.htm

Where can I adjust this?

Where can I change the length of the hyperlinks so that they're shorter after it cuts off and adds the "..."?