http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums User Favorites: btphelps en Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:05:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/getting-bbpress-and-wordpress-to-talk-to-each-other#post-6106 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:05:20 +0000 vilimaunula 6106@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I thought about having separate headers, but concluded that sweating blood and tears now is easier than having to remember later that I have near-identical info in two different places. But it is really up to your own preferences, I suppose.</p> <p>Now that I'm able to make Wordpress recognize when it's serving bbPress pages, I can also modify the sidebar and other design features accordingly on the fly, which I think is really quite nice. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/getting-bbpress-and-wordpress-to-talk-to-each-other#post-6097 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:54:33 +0000 Arlo 6097@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>My site has a similar integration. I tossed around the idea of doing a conditional header like you describe, but in the end it was just simpler to have a second header file specific for bbpress, which is basically a copy of the WP one with some of the required bbpress stuff thrown in. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/getting-bbpress-and-wordpress-to-talk-to-each-other#post-6079 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:21:07 +0000 fel64 6079@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for coming back and telling me :D </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/getting-bbpress-and-wordpress-to-talk-to-each-other#post-6074 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:18:02 +0000 vilimaunula 6074@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Brilliant! I didn't know that global variables like this exist in PHP (I'm a hobbyist). Thanks a bunch!</p> <p>Btw, I had to change the declaration from</p> <p><code>global $forumpage = true;</code></p> <p>to</p> <p><code>global $forumpage;<br /> $forumpage = true;</code></p> <p>It gave me an error otherwise. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/getting-bbpress-and-wordpress-to-talk-to-each-other#post-6072 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:09:39 +0000 fel64 6072@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I have no idea how the bb environment can be detected, but I think I know why your $forumpage hack didn't work; the WP headers are in different files and such.<br /> When setting $forumpage, try something like this:<br /> <code>global $forumpage = true;</code></p> <p>When checking if $forumpage is true, do it something like this:</p> <pre><code>global $forumpage; if( $forumpage = true ) { ... }</code></pre> <p>If you tell PHP that you want the global variable $forumpage it should work.</p> <p>Not too confident about this, but that should tell PHP to make them global (ie. available everywhere). Otherwise you'll probably be calling <em>different</em> variables called $forumpage. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/getting-bbpress-and-wordpress-to-talk-to-each-other#post-6068 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:30:03 +0000 vilimaunula 6068@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I'm not sure if I should ask this here or over at Wordpress.org, but perhaps this is more of a bbPress question in the end.</p> <p>I have the latest bbPress and Wordpress installations, and both are running fine. The user databases are integrated, and I have also managed to get bbPress to use my Wordpress theme after some poking around.</p> <p>What I actually did with the theme integration was that I made bbPress to call the Wordpress header and footer files instead of the bbPress ones, having in turn modified the Wordpress files in a way that everything except for the page-specific content is in those two files. This way, the forum shows up where the Wordpress content (posts, pages, etc.) would otherwise go. Life is good.</p> <p>My problem now is that I would like Wordpress to recognize bbPress when it is serving a bbPress page. In other words, I would like to have something like an "if" condition for example in my Wordpress header that checks whether the page currently being shown is a bbPress page. If I could do that, then I could do something like "if bbPress then echo bbPress headers, else echo Wordpress headers".</p> <p>The most basic solution that I could come up with was the following: before having a bbPress page call the Wordpress header, introduce a variable like "$forumpage" and set it to "true". Then simply include a check in the Wordpress header that checks whether $forumpage is "true". For some reason, however, this doesn't work as the variable seems to get erased.</p> <p>I also tried something like using the condition if($forums) in the Wordpress header, which I saw was in bbPress, but that gave no results, either.</p> <p>There probably is a(n easy) solution to all this, so I would really appreciate it if someone could point me to the right direction. I've spent most of the evening working on this, and have tried just about everything that I can think of and have read about on these forums and over at Wordpress.org, but alas without the desired results.</p> <p>Thanks for reading! </p>