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• Started 3 years ago by irr1449
• Latest reply from chrishajer
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Piggyback onto bbPress user management

1. • 
   • irr1449
   • Member

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   My site currently does not have a user management system where people can register etc. I'm looking for a system to integrate that I can just piggyback off of and access the users table to do my own development.

   Would bbPress be a good fit here? I played around with the code a little bit and I just included "bb-load.php" and I was able call functions like " bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' )" without actually displaying anything related to the forum.

   The only downside is that it added about .2 seconds to my average php render times.
2. • 
   • chrishajer
   • Moderator

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   I think the WordPress user registration functions are more mature than bbPress. Maybe you could use that somehow?
3. • 
   • irr1449
   • Member

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   The thing is that I'm the most interested in the forum functionality of bbPress and I don't really care about the blog features of wordpress.

   Would you not recommend using bbPress as the backend user system and forum for my site?
4. • 
   • chrishajer
   • Moderator

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   I didn't catch that you were looking for a forum in your first post, only that you wanted the registration functions. If you want a forum and registration functions, then yes, bbPress will be fine.
5. • 
   • irr1449
   • Member

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks for the response Chrishajer,

   Would you recommend waiting until bbPress goes 1.0? I will be changing a lot of source so any upgrade in the future will probably be sort of a pain. I would like to integrate once and not have to worry about upgrading for awhile.

   Thanks,

   Ian
6. • 
   • chrishajer
   • Moderator

   • Posted 3 years ago #

   If you're going to be modifying the source, there's probably no sense in waiting. You'll have to keep up with security fixes manually at that point anyway.

   I don't recommend modifying any core files. I bet most of what you want to do can be done with plugins and then you can keep upgrading as new bbPress releases come out.

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