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.

[chrishajerParticipant @chrishajer 4 years, 7 months ago]

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

[irr1449Member @irr1449 4 years, 7 months 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?

[chrishajerParticipant @chrishajer 4 years, 7 months 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.

[irr1449Member @irr1449 4 years, 7 months 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

[chrishajerParticipant @chrishajer 4 years, 7 months 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.