s2member integration
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Has anyone had success in integrating the s2Member plugin into a WordPress site with a bbPress forum?
There has got to be a way to map the custom 2sM roles (ie. s2Member Level 4) to the standard WP “Subscriber” role for purposes of the bbPress platform, but I certainly haven’t figured it out yet.
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Thanks for the quick response. I’ve already done the deep integration, so I’m partially there on number 1, I guess. I’ll look into how to accomplish your suggestion before I ask you to hold my hand
At the same time, if you’ve got a link/resource that might point me in the right direction, that would be sweet too.
Thanks man.
bbPress has no way of setting up roles to forums like every other forum out there has.
So if you’re hoping to say set “contributors” to see everything and then set your s2M to move people from members to contributors on the WordPress side I’m afraid you can’t – bbPress doesn’t come with that basic forum functionality.
In that regard, and with all due respect (you’d be amazed how very few people are as polite as you are), doing anything out-with the “plug and play” variety with bbPress unless you really know your way around PHP/WP-theming and functions is not going to happen.
Now you may be able to take one of Zaerl’s plugins which allows the setting of show/hide/moderate certain forums and adapt it. Or you could contact Zaerl for some custom work (i’ve no idea if they do this btw – its just where I’d start).
If you’re going on your own, keep posting back, we’ll help when and where we can
Nah that sounds good mate. It’s basically what I was suggesting here:
2) Write some custom code for the s2Member callback API (which it supports) to add a field to the bbPress database.
Basically, what you want to do is look for the bit of code in the s2M files that writes to the wp_capabilities table, and copy it on a new line with bb_capabilities.
Or if you don’t want to go hacking around (totally understandable), make your “landing page” when people finishing paying/signing up via s2M have a bit of code that copies the last row from the wp_capabilities into bb_capabilities. This method means you wouldn’t have to touch the core of WP/bbP/s2M – but would still work.
Doesn’t matter that this isn’t a core question mate, you’re helping us break a bit of new ground here, and we’re always interested in that. bbPress isn’t feature rich, so we like to know when it’s bene extended in a way we all hadn’t thought of
And you’re polite – we like that
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<pre><code>// Line 358 if ($ccaps) /* Add custom capabilities. */
foreach (preg_split ("/[rnts;,]+/", $ccaps) as $ccap)
if (strlen ($ccap)) /* Don't add empty capabilities. */
$user->add_cap ("access_s2member_ccap_" . trim (strtolower ($ccap)));It’s the ” $user->add_cap ” That adds the capabilities to wordpress.
That said, I think the best thing to do would be to follow this:
1) Select * from wp_capabilities where User_id = User_id
2) for each ($row) insert into bb_capabilites blah blah blah
that way you don’t need to know what the s2M is doing, you just need to copy the data from wp_cap to bb_cap when you’re done
Right. Of course!
Seriously, I’m afraid I’m totally lost. I understand your logic, but my lack of PHP skills are shining bright. I’m an art director that had (until now) been successful hacking at standard WP PHP, but am clearly in over my head now. “Select the whozit and insert it into the whatzit now?” 
You’ve been very kind and I’ve never been one to straight up ask for the answer to be spelled out for me. I understand if you don’t want to give up any untested/theoretical code, especially as it pertains to a 3rd party plugin. (unless your last suggestion was to code that elsewhere??) But I do find myself against a deadline and have got to continue adding content and styling or my client is gonna kill me! Believe me, I’d rather work on solving problems all day so I can learn from them.
So, I guess I’m going to have to launch this weekend (client has a conference) and just manually change bbPress user roles on new subscribers (lo-fi and lame, by me) until I have more time next week to dedicate to this solution.
Cheers bud.
If you did that, I would be humbly in your debt. Though I won’t hold it against you if you don’t have the time to solve my problems
FWIW… I’ve found at least one other individual over on the s2M forum that could probably benefit from the solution. At least I know I’m not alone!
Your help is much appreciated.
Righty ho, so while I can’t test my code (on iPhone sorry), I can help shed some more light on this.
First Off: there is not (that I can see) a table called wp_capabilities. There is just a meta_key called “wp_capabilities” in the wp_usermata table. That actually makes some sense
The good news here is, that it’s a 1 to 1 relationship so easy to copy over.
// Show Database Errors
// Comment this line out when going live
$wpdb->show_errors();
// 99 times out of 100 this is overkill
// I’m just being on the safe side
//
// It checks what the current user ID is
if ( !$user_id ) {
$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
$user_id = $current_user->ID;
} else {
$user_id = (int) $user_id;
}
// Connects to the database
// Retrieves the value for this user for wp_capabilities
$user_cap = $wpdb->get_row( “SELECT meta_value FROM wp_usermeta WHERE user_id=$user_id AND meta_key=’wp_capabilities’ LIMIT 1” );
// Checks to see if the user already has a bb_capabilities
// If it does we’ll overwrite it
// If it doesn’t we’ll add a new one.
$user_cap_in_bb_meta = $wpdb->get_row( “SELECT meta_value FROM bb_usermeta WHERE user_id=$user_id AND meta_key=’bb_capabilities’ LIMIT 1” );
if ($user_cap_in_bb_meta)
{
// update bbPress database
$wpdb->query(“UPDATE bb_usermeta SET meta_value='”. $user_cap->meta_value .”‘ WHERE user_id=”. $user_id .” AND meta_key= ‘bb_capabilities’ “);
} else {
// Add a new row to the bbPress database
$wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO bb_usermeta (user_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES (“. $user_id .”, bb_capabilities, ‘”. $user_cap->meta_value .”‘) “);
}
// Print all Database errors
// Comment this line out when going live
$wpdb->print_error();
// Hide Database Errors
// Comment this line out when going live
$wpdb->hide_errors();
Now, the disclaimer. This rather unsurprisingly hasn’t been tested by me, and my contain (will contain) a crazy amount of typos.
What it does is relaly simple. It copies the wp_capabilities and pastes them as bb_capabilities in the bbpress table. In terms of your initial goal, firing this code once the s2M stuff is finished will achieve that goal (basically, copy and paste it on the landing/finished/thanks/congrats page).
A quick word of warning. If you’ve been using Zaerl’s plugin or anything else that utilises the “bb_capabilities” meta_key then this will overwrite it. Now as it’s overwriting it with whats in the WordPress database, it’s very unlikely to cause issues.
But if you’ve set up something funny with a bbPress Plugin then you might end up overwriting it. In theory, this shouldn’t happen because the user is registered via s2M, so that’ll be it’s first time in the bbPress database – but I’m just giving you a heads up.
I may write this, with all the failsafe functionality, into a WP/bbPress plugin if I get time in a few weeks. But I’m also a tad wary of encroaching onto ground Zaerl’s been excelling in. Good code doesn’t need my size 13s stomping all over it.
Ok mate, try this and throw me back any errors.
Aw crap. Same issue that kev was running into earlier, where the forum is turning all “greater than” characters into $gt. So all those “=&gt”s above should read…
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—/
(equal sign + greater than sign)
Pain in the…
“White pages” means you’ve got a 500 server error.
If you open up your server error log it will say what’s going wrong.
Your code to me looks fine, as much as anyone can tell with the way this bbPress forum is currently handling code output
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