Hi Lazarus,

I am afraid I don't know of other ways to do what you are setting out to do - perhaps you could ask in the Agora forums?

I can however advise on the MetaMod solution. Here's some code which can identify which Agora groups the logged-in user is in. It doesn't distinguish exactly which page it's on inside Agora forums, as you didn't indicate exactly which page type you are going to use. Perhaps you could let me know which type you are after?

if ($option == 'com_agora') {

  if ( $user->id > 0 ) {

    $query = 'SELECT ug.group_id from #__agora_user_group ug, #__agora_users u

      WHERE ug.user_id = u.id and u.jos_id = ' . (int)$user->id ;

    $db->setQuery( $query );

    $res = $db->loadResultArray();

    $mods = array();



    // is the user in group number WWW? if so add mod XXX

    if ( array_search( WWW , $res) !== false ) $mods[] = XXX;

    // is the user in group number YYY? if so add mod ZZZ

    if ( array_search( YYY, $res) !== false ) $mods[] = ZZZ;

    return $mods;

  }

}

Replace WWW and YYY with the group id numbers that are going to see particular modules on this page. Replace XXX and ZZZ with the respective modules that should be displayed for these groups.

You're probably going to need to restrict these modules to a particular page on the Agora forum. To do this, change that first line:

if ($option == 'com_agora') {

If you want to restrict the modules to just the "forum" (ie. category list) pages, use:

if ($option == 'com_agora' and JRequest::getVar("task") == "forum") {

If you want to restrict the modules to pages displaying a thread in a topic, use:

if ($option == 'com_agora' and JRequest::getVar("task") == "topic") {


I hope that covers most bases. If you need any variation of these, please write back.

Cheers,
Stephen