Worth making clear that 0.9 code will stop working once you upgrade to 1.0: Users with bespoke roles loose their capabilities, although those old roles do remain in the database, so can be found by new code.

The code below creates a new role, adds capabilities that mimic the 'member' role, plus extra capabilities you specify.

global $bb_roles; // Get the master list of roles
$key = 'role_internal_name'; // Edit: Name of new role, as used internally by BBPress
$name = __('Role Public Name'); // Edit: Name of new role, as shown in public
$cap = array ( 'view_by_ip', ); // Edit: Add extra capabilities within this array. Must be pre-defined capabilities. Empty if you just wish to apply member capabilities.
$r = new BP_Role(); // New role class
$r->name = $key; // Assign the internal name
$r->capabilities = $bb_roles->role_objects[ 'member' ]->capabilities; // Copies member capabilities to the new role
foreach ( $cap as $add ) $r->capabilities[ $add ] = 1; // Adds extra capabilities
$bb_roles->role_objects[ $key ] = $r; // Adds the new role to $bb_roles
$bb_roles->role_names[ $key ] = $name; // Adds the new role to the list of role names

Hooked using: add_action/add_filter( 'bb_got_roles', 'my_function_name' );

I have no idea whether this is the most efficient way of doing this. So I'd welcome improvements.

The original code kinda worked, because it did create a new user group with the name I had chosen. I soon realized, however, the users in the user group I made had no capabilities and therefore couldn't post, edit their profile at all, etc. I was expecting they would have the same capabilities as members.

So I made a few changes and...here's the plugin code I used:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Add lusers
Description: adds the luser role
Author: fel64
*/

add_filter('get_roles', 'addlusers');

function addlusers( $roles ) {
$roles['luser'] =& $luser; //convenience
$luser['name'] = __('Luser');
$lusercaps = array('participate','edit_favorites','edit_tags','edit_topics','edit_posts','edit_profile','write_topics','write_posts','change_password','read');
foreach( $lusercaps AS $cap ) {
$luser['capabilities'][$cap] = true;
}
return $roles;
}
?>

Basically I removed the first line of the function, because for some reason it wasn't working. I then copied all the capabilities of a regular member in an array format. You can get other capabilities (like for moderators, admins, and key masters) from the capabilities.php file in /bb-includes/.

Just save the code in a .php file and upload it to your plugins folder and activate. You would also probably want to change the "Luser" name to something else.

Now I know this probably isn't the best way to do it, but it worked for me, so I thought I'd share it here. Hopefully some of you get some use out of it.

Is it not possible to just do bascially a copy-paste of the bb_init_roles function from functions.bb-capabilites.php, rename it, make new roles and modify existing ones, then use something like add_filter('init_roles','my_bb_init_roles') to hook it to init_roles? Obviously I'm a complete noob to this since my attempts are completely failing and what I know is just scraped together from looking at other plugins and some limited reading on making WordPress plugins. Any assistance here would be greatly appreciated.

after i have activated the plugin i can not select luser. What to do?

Thanks

oh by the way if any one wants to pay me.. by all means :)

cheers

If you're on an Apache web server, you want to look up "basic auth", .htpasswd and .htaccess if you want to do this.

For what the approval thing is needed, then? For example, Vanilla discussion forum uses registration approval in a way we would appreciate to copy for our project. The idea of people not registering an account but applying for one would suit our project really well. "Why do you want to join this forum?" is a question we would like people to answer before letting them post anything.

A Finnish online magazine covering ice hockey, Jatkoaika.com, has a forum that has grown into a lively discussion community for over 13,000 registered users without losing its, well, usefulness. It's not only because of strict moderation of discussions, they require their users to apply for registration as well. Given that the topic is ice hockey (you know, that game with all the tackling and fighting and strong emotions) and most forum users are hockey fans ("We want blood!") and male ("We want blood!"), we consider that a great role model for this forum project of ours, even though we don't expect our forum to become as popular (and we are not about ice hockey.)

(In what comes to our project, we might still decide to NOT having approval for registration. There are advantages in also not having that, of course.)

Someone would have to explain the need for registration approval to me before I would bother making such a plugin.

Starting with the function bb_send_pass function in bb-includes/registration-functions.php: I added an optional third parameters, so the function signature now looks like:


function bb_send_pass( $user, $pass, $toAdmin = false ) {


If the toAdmin flag is set I want this email to go to me, not the requesting user. So, just above the "$message = ..." line, I added this:


$recipient = bb_get_user_email( $user->ID );
$rawRecipient = $recipient;
if ($toAdmin)
$recipient = 'myemail@example.com';


I'm sure there is a better way to grab an administrator's email, but like I said, I don't know anything about bbPress... And what's this about $rawRecipient? To make my life easier, I'm also including the email address in the email's body (so I can forward it to the correct person without having to look up their info again). I did this by adding "Your email:" to the "$message = ..." line:


$message = __("Your username is: %1\$s \nYour password is: %2\$s \nYour email is: %4\$s \nYou can now log in: %3
\$s \n\nEnjoy!");


And then including "$rawRecipient" as the 4th parameter to the sprintf call at the end of the function. Again, you could get fancy here (only include the email address if it's going to an admin, for example), but whatever, this works. :)

Okay, with that function done, we just need to change the registration code that calls it. I went to the bb_new_user function in bb-includes/pluggable.php. Just before that function returns there's an "if ( defined ('BB_INSTALLING') )" check. The else case calls bb_send_pass (the function we just changed). Add a third parameter (sending 'true'), and the registration code should now send an email to you instead of the newly registered user.

As a final touch, I updated the registration success page (bb-templates/kakumei/register-success.php in my case), telling the user that an admin will verify their request and then email them.

Hope this helps someone out.

wordpressuser_[[site-unique hash]]=[[your username]]
wordpresspass_[[site-unique hash]]=[[hash of your password]]

With his settings, bb should now be using that too.

Thanks! I have sorted it out, besides "$bb->cookiepath = '/'; ", I added the following in bbpress config.php

"
$bb->path = '/bbpressfolder/';
$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';
$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';
"
It is strange that I still can not find any cookie file generated when I logged in WP but my WP works correctly, so weird... anyway, my problem is resolved, I am happy now:)

Thanks for your reply!

I added "$bb->cookiepath = '/';" in the configure.php, but it does not make any difference, then I check my cookie, and find something interesting, when I logged in WP, it did not create any cookie at all, but when I logged bbpress, it creates cookie for mysite.com, probably that is the reason caused the problem, how do you think? thanks!

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

If this is not working, please check your browser's cookies. See what WordPress and bbPress send to you with what host and path. If you not sure what to check, try to clean cookies, then log in WordPress and bbPress.

yes, $bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl set as http://mysite.com

do you mean this link:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookie-domain-settings?replies=4

There is a setting can force bbPress to access specific cookie path (like /, that is what you need), but I don't remember what it is. You can try to search for that.

If you find that post, please also link to it in this topic.

Thanks for your reply! yes, I installed them as you said, and my WP is in the root directory.

WP: http://mysite.com
bbPress: http://mystie.com/forum

When I logged in WP, then go to bbPress, it need sign again, actually, I can sign in with another different account in bbPress, and it won't impact the account in WP, like they are absolutely in different cookie domain.

Do you have any idea about this? thanks!

If so, just download WordPress package, and extract index.php from it, then put it into /home.