[API] make user X moderator on forum Y

[matteoZC]

Hello!
I'm new to phpBB.

We're developing a web app which will interact with a phpBB forum.
When a certain kind of users register on our web app, we want to give them a phpBB account with the same credentials, a forum and the moderator role on that.

Thanks to your API, I can create a new user X, I can create a new forum Y, but i don't know how to make X a moderator on Y.

I've given a look at the wiki here at area51 but i didn't get how to do it.

Can you help me, please? (I hope this is the right forum section to post)

[imkingdavid]

Actually, a better place to ask this would be on phpBB.com's Community board in the MOD Writers' Discussion forum. This board is more for discussion about actual phpBB development, rather than custom 3rd party app development.

[naderman]

This points out that we really need area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=42731 though.

[matteoZC]

I've managed to solve the problem with something like

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define('IN_PHPBB', true);
define('PHPBB_ROOT_PAHT', "/the/forum/installation/path/");
define('PHPEX', "php");
define('ROLE_MOD_STANDARD', 11);
define('PHPBB_ACL_USERS','phpbb_acl_users');

   function makeModerator($userId, $forumId) {
      global $phpbb_root_path;
      global $phpEx;
      global $db;
      global $config;
      global $user;
      global $auth;
      global $cache;
      global $template;

      $phpbb_root_path = PHPBB_ROOT_PAHT;
      $phpEx = PHPEX;

      require_once($phpbb_root_path . 'config.' . $phpEx);
      require_once($phpbb_root_path . 'common.' . $phpEx);
      
      $query = "INSERT INTO ".PHPBB_ACL_USERS." (user_id, forum_id, auth_option_id, auth_role_id, auth_setting) VALUES ('$userId', '$forumId', '0', '".ROLE_MOD_STANDARD."', '0')";
      $db->sql_query($query);
   }


...but i think it's an extremely low level solution, which i've reached looking at the differences on the db after i've added a new moderator.

Yes, a phpBB API would be great!!

[naderman]

Well you probably want to have a group for moderators which has those permissions, and then just add the user to a group, rather than assign permissions to the user himself.