Everyone has access to categories of other user groups when posting news

 $result = dbquery("SELECT
 ns.news_id AS id,
 ns.news_subject AS title,
 ns.news_news AS content,
 ns.news_reads AS views_count,
 ns.news_datestamp AS datestamp,
 nc.news_cat_id AS cat_id,
 nc.news_cat_name AS cat_name,
 ni.news_image AS image_main,
 ni.news_image_t1 AS image_thumb,
 ni.news_image_t2 AS image_thumb2,
 nc.news_cat_image AS cat_image,
 ".(!empty($comments_query) ? $comments_query : '')."
 ".(!empty($ratings_query) ? $ratings_query : '')."
 u.user_id, u.user_name, u.user_status
 FROM ".DB_NEWS." AS ns
 LEFT JOIN ".DB_NEWS_IMAGES." AS ni ON ni.news_id=ns.news_id
 LEFT JOIN ".DB_NEWS_CATS." AS nc ON nc.news_cat_id = ns.news_cat
 LEFT JOIN ".DB_USERS." AS u ON ns.news_name = u.user_id
 WHERE (".time()." > ns.news_start OR ns.news_start = 0)
 AND ns.news_draft = 0
 AND (".time()." < ns.news_end OR ns.news_end = 0)
 AND ".groupaccess('ns.news_visibility')." ".(multilang_table("NS") ? "AND ".in_group('news_language', LANGUAGE) : "")."
 GROUP BY ns.news_id
 ORDER BY ns.news_datestamp DESC LIMIT ".$limit
 );

 $result = dbquery("SELECT
 ns.news_id AS id,
 ns.news_subject AS title,
 ns.news_news AS content,
 ns.news_reads AS views_count,
 ns.news_datestamp AS datestamp,
 nc.news_cat_id AS cat_id,
 nc.news_cat_name AS cat_name,
 ni.news_image AS image_main,
 ni.news_image_t1 AS image_thumb,
 ni.news_image_t2 AS image_thumb2,
 nc.news_cat_image AS cat_image,
 ".(!empty($comments_query) ? $comments_query : '')."
 ".(!empty($ratings_query) ? $ratings_query : '')."
 u.user_id, u.user_name, u.user_status
 FROM ".DB_NEWS." AS ns
 LEFT JOIN ".DB_NEWS_IMAGES." AS ni > ns.news_start OR ns.news_start = 0)
 AND ns.news_draft = 0
 AND (".time()." < ns.news_end OR ns.news_end = 0)
 AND ".groupaccess('ns.news_visibility')." AND ".groupaccess("nc.news_cat_visibility")." ".(multilang_table("NS") ? "AND ".in_group('news_language', LANGUAGE) : "")."
 GROUP BY ns.news_id
 ORDER BY ns.news_datestamp DESC LIMIT ".$limit
 );

 protected static function getNewsQuery(array $filters = []) {
 $news_settings = self::getNewsSettings();
 $cat_filter = self::checkNewsFilter();
 $pattern = "SELECT %s(nr.rating_vote) FROM ".DB_RATINGS." AS nr WHERE nr.rating_item_id = n.news_id AND nr.rating_type = 'N'";
 $sql_count = sprintf($pattern, 'COUNT');
 $sql_sum = sprintf($pattern, 'SUM');
 return "SELECT n.*, nc.*, nu.user_id, nu.user_name, nu.user_status, nu.user_avatar , nu.user_level, nu.user_joined,
 ($sql_sum) AS news_sum_rating,
 ($sql_count) AS news_count_votes,
 (SELECT COUNT(ncc.comment_id) FROM ".DB_COMMENTS." AS ncc WHERE ncc.comment_item_id = n.news_id AND ncc.comment_type = 'N') AS comments_count,
 ni.news_image, ni.news_image_t1, ni.news_image_t2
 FROM ".DB_NEWS." AS n
 LEFT JOIN ".DB_NEWS_IMAGES." AS ni >='".time()."') AND news_draft='0'
 ".(!empty($filters['condition']) ? "AND ".$filters['condition'] : '')."
 GROUP BY ".(!empty($filters['group_by']) ? $filters['group_by'] : 'news_id')."
 ORDER BY ".(!empty($filters['order']) ? $filters['order'].',' : '')." news_sticky DESC, ".$cat_filter['order']."
 LIMIT ".(!empty($filters['limit']) ? $filters['limit'] : $_GET['rowstart'].",".(!empty($news_settings['news_pagination']) ? $news_settings['news_pagination'] : 12)
 );
 }

 protected static function getNewsQuery(array $filters = []) {
 $news_settings = self::getNewsSettings();
 $cat_filter = self::checkNewsFilter();
 $pattern = "SELECT %s(nr.rating_vote) FROM ".DB_RATINGS." AS nr WHERE nr.rating_item_id = n.news_id AND nr.rating_type = 'N'";
 $sql_count = sprintf($pattern, 'COUNT');
 $sql_sum = sprintf($pattern, 'SUM');
 return "SELECT n.*, nc.*, nu.user_id, nu.user_name, nu.user_status, nu.user_avatar , nu.user_level, nu.user_joined,
 ($sql_sum) AS news_sum_rating,
 ($sql_count) AS news_count_votes,
 (SELECT COUNT(ncc.comment_id) FROM ".DB_COMMENTS." AS ncc WHERE ncc.comment_item_id = n.news_id AND ncc.comment_type = 'N') AS comments_count,
 ni.news_image, ni.news_image_t1, ni.news_image_t2
 FROM ".DB_NEWS." AS n
 LEFT JOIN ".DB_NEWS_IMAGES." AS ni ON ni.news_id=n.news_id AND ".(!empty($_GET['readmore']) ? "n.news_image_full_default=ni.news_image_id" : "n.news_image_front_default=ni.news_image_id")."
 LEFT JOIN ".DB_USERS." AS nu ON n.news_name=nu.user_id
 LEFT JOIN ".DB_NEWS_CATS." AS nc ON n.news_cat=nc.news_cat_id
 ".(multilang_table("NS") ? "WHERE ".in_group('news_language', LANGUAGE)." AND " : "WHERE ").groupaccess('news_visibility')." AND ".groupaccess("nc.news_cat_visibility")." AND (news_start='0'||news_start<='".time()."')
 AND (news_end='0'||news_end>='".time()."') AND news_draft='0'
 ".(!empty($filters['condition']) ? "AND ".$filters['condition'] : '')."
 GROUP BY ".(!empty($filters['group_by']) ? $filters['group_by'] : 'news_id')."
 ORDER BY ".(!empty($filters['order']) ? $filters['order'].',' : '')." news_sticky DESC, ".$cat_filter['order']."
 LIMIT ".(!empty($filters['limit']) ? $filters['limit'] : $_GET['rowstart'].",".(!empty($news_settings['news_pagination']) ? $news_settings['news_pagination'] : 12)
 );
 }