Private Forum

Luongmyno

Hi everyone!
i am making forum for student in my school, so how to set it private just for student, not teacher?
Thanks!

AmauryPi

In the permission section of your administration panel, you can allow only authenticated users to see the forum. If both students and teachers are in the same forum, you can create a group for students (still in the permissions page) and restrict a tag for them (by clicking the + link next to “Global” in this page).

With that teachers will still be able to login. You can either disable login (but Flarum is currently missing an option to manage users and create accounts manually), either globally protect the forum using a .htaccess/.htpasswd (google it if you don't know how to do this).

I hope I'm not missing the point :p .

Luongmyno

i have idea, student in my school use email form: name+studentnumber@fpt.edu.vn
and teacher is: name@fpt.edu.vn
so we just accept sign up with student email form, but i don't know how to do it

jordanjay29

Luongmyno If you have more input into the school's IT, you might consider setting up an oauth2 service provider. Flarum has several oauth2 Single-Sign-On extensions, and several more made by the community, that would be an example for creating your own. Basically, the idea is that a student/teacher would be authenticated by the school, and then Flarum would get that authentication, and they would be registered/logged in.

If you don't have that kind of control, it's going to be much harder. A suggestion would be to use Davis' Invite Only extension, and generate per-user invites and send them to their emails. Depending on your school population, this would be an enormous task, but might be able to be automated by modifying the Invite extension for your own purposes.

Kulga

Barring some kind of "smart" filter, you can choose either to let everyone in and selectively remove certain accounts or bar everyone and selectively allow certain accounts.

Personally, I would see a forum that lets everyone register but only have users in the group Student be able to see threads posted with a Student tag to be the way to go right now.
You (and whoever you allow) will need to examine every user registered though.

I personally see this as a limitation of the current implementation of flarum right now. Unlike other forums where there's a "place" where threads are secure or more public, in flarum you have to remember to tag it for it to be secure.
It can be difficult to tell who can see what posts are restricted to who when they're all jumbled together in "All Discussions"

Luongmyno

Kulga Actually, i wan't to create a private forum, member is all student in campus, but no one know who are they, it like a hidden network
jordanjay29 Yeah, https://discuss.flarum.org/d/2722-davis-invite-only is feasible, but forum is private, so if student can get referal code automatic, that awesome.

luceos

Luongmyno you could create a small extension that adds new users to a certain group automatically based on the email address they provided during sign up.