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Agreed. Put the fields right there! (this should actually be simple to do with a little template editing) the bbPress dev team might be better to delegate this one…

I agree. Get someone on it!

In blogs open without registration I usually put an address @example.com. I’ve also found quite a few people use one time addresses. So if this is going to be done, it should be made clear that the address is not just for gravatars and other such stuff. Also, unconfirmed users should be removed after some time to avoid “usernames starvation”.

1 Year ago latest reply posted.

I Wonder if this has got any progress in v1.0.2 or if it is easiy doable by templates.

I was thinking about this and it would be ideal to ask for Name, Email, and Post, when asking for a reply, if it’s a new user, he will be registered as described above, if it matches an existing user, it’ll ask for password before posting.

It would be a killer feature for me.

It’s a microwave dinner world… I hate registering on sites that have a mile long page full of demographic information that is an absolute invasion of privacy – I usually move on when I come across those. But when registration consists of username+email+submit… if it ain’t microwaveable, it ain’t worth the effort, I guess.

“I think there should be at least a minimal psychological barrier to prevent thoughtless, spontaneous posts from visitors who might never return anyway. “

Which brings me to my second thought; allowing such a registration system would be an open invitation for a database full of once used member accounts, as well as inviting in the slashdot paradigm. I don’t want anonymous cowards *anywhere* on any site I participate on.

Wouldn’t it be easier to enable anonymous posting (there’s a plugin for it somewhere) and add a captcha to that or something? I just had a go at writing a register+post system, but it’s proving hard for me at least not to open up a can of worms bypassing half the checks to prevent non-logged in users from posting.

Edit: Nevermind, being a bit silly there, newly generated users must have the same capabilities as a standard user anyway.

Okay, after much lucky guessing with regards to the user object handling, I have an ALPHA VERSION of a plugin to do this. There’s nothing to stop spambots, this is purely a proof of concept, I’ll try adding a captcha or something later if necessary. Email verification sounds like a royal pain though. Save the files exactly where I’ve said and as ever, make sure you leave no whitespace around the PHP tags. Apart from that, please test it but it’s your own risk if you run it on a production server.

my-plugins/register-post/load.php:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Register & Post

Description: Allows a user to register and make a post at the same time.

Author: Kawauso

Version: Alpha

*/



// Add the post form

add_action( 'post_post_form', 'register_post_form' );



function register_post_form() {



global $h2, $forum, $topic;



if( bb_is_user_logged_in() )

return;



// Setup the register form



$profile_info_keys = bb_get_profile_info_keys();



unset( $profile_info_keys['first_name'], $profile_info_keys['last_name'], $profile_info_keys['display_name'], $profile_info_keys['occ'], $profile_info_keys['from'], $profile_info_keys['user_url'], $profile_info_keys['interest'] );



$bb_register_error = new WP_Error;



$user_login_error = $bb_register_error->get_error_message( 'user_login' );



?>

<style type="text/css">p#post-form-forum-container{display:none}</style>

<form class="postform post-form" id="postform" method="post" action="<?php bb_uri( 'my-plugins/register-post/create.php', null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_FORM_ACTION )?>">

<h2 class="postform">Register and post?</h2>

<fieldset>

<table width="100%">

<tr class="form-field form-required required<?php if ( $user_login_error ) echo ' form-invalid error'; ?>">

<th scope="row">

<label for="user_login"><?php _e('Username'); ?></label>

<?php if ( $user_login_error ) echo "<em>$user_login_error</em>"; ?>

</th>

<td>

<input name="user_login" type="text" id="user_login" size="30" maxlength="30" value="<?php echo $user_login; ?>" />

</td>

</tr>

<?php



if ( is_array($profile_info_keys) ) :

foreach ( $profile_info_keys as $key => $label ) :

$class = 'form-field';

if ( $label[0] ) {

$class .= ' form-required required';

}

if ( $profile_info_key_error = $bb_register_error->get_error_message( $key ) )

$class .= ' form-invalid error';



?>



<tr class="<?php echo $class?>">

<th scope="row">

<label for="<?php echo $key?>"><?php echo $label[1]?></label>

<?php if ( $profile_info_key_error ) echo "<em>$profile_info_key_error</em>"; ?>

</th>

<td>

<input name="<?php echo $key?>" type="text" id="<?php echo $key?>" size="30" maxlength="140" value="<?php echo $$key?>" />

</td>

</tr>



<?php



endforeach; // profile_info_keys

endif; // profile_info_keys



?>

</table>



<br />



<?php

bb_load_template( 'post-form.php', array('h2' => $h2) );

bb_nonce_field( bb_is_topic() ? 'create-post_' . $topic->topic_id : 'create-topic' );

if ( bb_is_forum() ) {

echo '<input type="hidden" name="forum_id" value="' . $forum->forum_id . '" />' . "n";

} elseif ( bb_is_topic() ) {

echo '<input type="hidden" name="topic_id" value="' . $topic->topic_id . '" />' . "n";

}

echo "n</fieldset>n</form>n";



}

my-plugins/register-post/create.php:

<?php



require_once('../../bb-load.php');



$profile_info_keys = bb_get_profile_info_keys();



unset( $profile_info_keys['first_name'], $profile_info_keys['last_name'], $profile_info_keys['display_name'], $profile_info_keys['occ'], $profile_info_keys['from'], $profile_info_keys['user_url'], $profile_info_keys['interest'] );



$user_login = '';

$user_safe = true;



$bb_register_error = new WP_Error;



if ( $_POST && 'post' == strtolower($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']) ) {

$_POST = stripslashes_deep( $_POST );

$_POST['user_login'] = trim( $_POST['user_login'] );

$user_login = sanitize_user( $_POST['user_login'], true );

if ( $user_login !== $_POST['user_login'] ) {

$bad_input = true;

if ( $user_login )

$bb_register_error->add( 'user_login', sprintf( __( "%s is an invalid username. How's this one? <strong>%s</strong>" ), esc_html( $_POST['user_login'] ), $user_login ) );

else

$bb_register_error->add( 'user_login', sprintf( __( '%s is an invalid username.' ), esc_html( $_POST['user_login'] ) ) );

}



foreach ( $profile_info_keys as $key => $label ) {

if ( is_string($$key) )

$$key = esc_attr( $$key );

elseif ( is_null($$key) )

$$key = esc_attr( $_POST[$key] );



if ( !$$key && $label[0] == 1 ) {

$bad_input = true;

$$key = false;

$bb_register_error->add( $key, sprintf( __( '%s is required' ), $label[1] ) );

}

}



if ( !$bad_input ) {



// Invoke non-user post checks here

if ( !$post_content = trim($_POST['post_content']) )

bb_die(__('You need to actually submit some content!'));



if ( isset($_POST['topic']) && $forum_id = (int) $_POST['forum_id'] ) {



$topic = trim( $_POST['topic'] );



if ('' == $topic)

bb_die(__('Please enter a topic title'));



} elseif ( isset($_POST['topic_id'] ) ) {

$topic_id = (int) $_POST['topic_id'];

bb_check_admin_referer( 'create-post_' . $topic_id );

}



if ( !topic_is_open( $topic_id ) )

bb_die(__('This topic has been closed'));



// Invoke registration

$user_id = bb_new_user( $user_login, $_POST['user_email'], null );

if ( is_wp_error( $user_id ) ) { // Error creating user



foreach ( $user_id->get_error_codes() as $code )

$bb_register_error->add( $code, $user_id->get_error_message( $code ) );



if ( $bb_register_error->get_error_message( 'user_login' ) )

$user_safe = false;



} elseif ( $user_id ) { // Registration success



foreach( $profile_info_keys as $key => $label )

if ( strpos($key, 'user_') !== 0 && $$key !== '' )

bb_update_usermeta( $user_id, $key, $$key );



do_action('register_user', $user_id);



// Create the current user object



$wp_auth_object->set_current_user( $user_id );



$bb_current_user = $wp_auth_object->current;



// Do last minute post/topic checks

if ( !empty($topic) && $forum_id = (int) $_POST['forum_id'] ) {



if ( !bb_current_user_can('write_posts') )

bb_die(__('You are not allowed to post.  Are you logged in?'));



if ( !bb_current_user_can( 'write_topic', $forum_id ) )

bb_die(__('You are not allowed to write new topics.'));



if ( !bb_current_user_can( 'write_topic', $forum_id ) )

bb_die(__('You are not allowed to write new topics in this forum.'));



bb_check_admin_referer( 'create-topic' );

$topic_id = bb_new_topic( $topic, $forum_id, $tags );



}



if ( !bb_current_user_can( 'write_post', $topic_id ) )

bb_die(__('You are not allowed to post in this topic.'));



// Create the new post

$post_id = bb_new_post( $topic_id, $_POST['post_content'] );



$tags  = trim( $_POST['tags']  );

bb_add_topic_tags( $topic_id, $tags );



$link = get_post_link( $post_id );



$topic = get_topic( $topic_id, false );



if ( $topic->topic_posts )

$link = add_query_arg( 'replies', $topic->topic_posts, $link );



do_action( 'bb-post.php', $post_id );



if ( $post_id )

wp_redirect( $link );

else

wp_redirect( bb_get_uri(null, null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_HEADER) );

exit;

}

}

}



// If you've reached this point, there must have been an error



$user_login_error = $bb_register_error->get_error_message( 'user_login' );



if( empty( $user_login_error ) ) // For some reason, error strings are not always available (i.e. for invalid emails)

$user_login_error = __( 'Something went wrong! Check what you entered and try again.' );



bb_die( $user_login_error );

Since there’s been no other interest and feedback on this plugin, I don’t think I’d be too inclined to try and do that as functionally this is fine. Someone else is quite welcome to use how I modified things as an example for implementing that though, it’d probably be quite easy if you get your head around how things work.

anabelle: The code that I’ve posted is fully working as a proof of concept, so you could use it. I’m not sure if this would ever be implemented into the core code though. I’ll look into re-doing it with an interstatial page at a later point if I have the time.

If your concept of the site depends on this plugin, you may want to consider hiring a developer (like Kawauso!) to build and test it for you…

Regarding waiting for the password over email – you can address that with this plugin! I use it on all my sites and can vouch for it:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/

This may also simplify the registration process… I haven’t used this one yet though:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/openid/

Good luck!

That would be great, Im sure i don’t have the best way to do it, im sure working together we can find the best way of achieving it.

I’d love to pay, and I will. You must consider nonetheless I live and work in colombia. My current salary is les than $5 an hour. And I can’t even pay half that BUT! Im happy to give “donations” if the developer is ok. How much do you charge?

I’ve thought about anonymous, but that isn’t the idea. If an account can be created, why not?

I will surely use instant pasword! thanks for that!

That gives me even more clear ideas about this.

The reply form in a topic, if a user is logged out. Should include login, password, and reply.

If the account exists, login and post. If it doesn’t exist; ask for email, createaccount, login and post.

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