Question Could you help me with this code to moderate specific users?

Dear programmers or anyone with an idea of what to do...

This is an issue I have been trying to resolve over the years, but as I have little understanding of php code and because the need for it comes and goes, I have not been able to resolve it on my own.

It has to do with working out how to get Kunena to moderate a specific user or group of users. I figured it would be as simple as putting code to first, check if the user belongs to X group, and if so, moderate their posts, similar to how Kunena checks if someone has access to see the post. However, as I said, I can't work it out.

Someone told me that the code for checking if a new user should be moderated is found in the topic.php under controllers and the code is as follows:


Does anyone know how I can modify that so that instead of checking if they are a new user, it checks if the user belongs to a particular group?

Let's say the particular Joomla user group name is: "ModeratedUsers".

How could I modify the code so that it performs the following.

1. Check if user belongs to "ModeratedUsers" Joomla user group.
2. Put their message on hold.

Thank you for any help you can give on this.