by Ditocoaf on Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:10 pm
I only have experience with invision forums, not with php, but I assume that they're similar. In invision, you can ban a player from specific parts of the forum, without banning them from the entire forum. Couldn't you ban someone from viewing any parts of the board, without taking away their access to their profile?
All you would need to do is create a new usergroup "banned", that does not have access to any parts of the posting area. That way, they would still be acknowledged by php (and the "control panel"), but they wouldn't be able to post or read posts.