I am new to phpBB3. I have just installed phpBB3 on my localhost. I have gone through it. I am getting one problem that if I want to create two types of forum
1. Pre Sales which can be seen by any visitor or visitors who are logged in
2. Post Sales which can be accessed by only the visitors who have paid for that
please guys is there any solution for that?
For the Pre sales forum, you don't have to do anything special. Guests will be able to see that forum by default.
For Post Sales, you will create your forum, but do not copy permissions from any other forum when you do so. Then log into your Administrator Control Panel, select the Forums tab. On the left select Forum Permissions.
You have two options at this point. If you are placing users into groups, for example a customer group that can access Post Sales, you will use the Groups column. Otherwise, you'll be managing each individual user. I'm making the assumption that you will want to do this by group.
Select the group(s) you want to have access to this forum from the bottom right box. Click Add Permissions and they will appear in the upper right box. Now highlight all of them and select Edit Permissions.
From the next screen you can customize what they can('t) do on this specific forum. The easiest is to select one of the preconfigured options (Standard, Standard+Polls, etc), but if you want to can manage specific permissions as well.