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Some of these additions are either done with a simple plugin or template modifications…
Personally I’d like to see bbPress continue on with it’s development without spending resources to integrate the two programs together. Rather bbPress should stand alone as a forum system and not just a glorified WordPress plugin. It is my opinion that current forum systems offer way too many features and confuse themselves with content managment systems and social networking sites. Huge avatars and signatures take away from actual content and private message systems have been around for ages disguised as email.
The community around bbPress should develope plugins for all of these specific features. Remember that 90% of your users will just read and post on your forum and all those other goodies are just taking up resources that aren’t contributing to the overall “digital discussion” philosophy of a forum. Usenet is still pretty popular and that hasn’t changed much in years.
I’d like to see improvements on security, speed, and ease of use in the next releases rather than glittering goodies and features.
I am working on another ghetto plugin to highlight threads that have been started since your last visit. It’s been painful and frustrating to work on this since it’s been so long since I’ve worked with php but man is it fun. Another thing I’d like to see in the next release is a list or plan of what is going to happen next so I don’t waste time creating a plugin that is going to be in the next release.
Although it is fun.
P.S.
I’m biased on this issue as I’ve been in web stuffs for a number of years now so I can easily integrate a theme. It should be very simple as most of your design should be located inside your wp css file. The only thing you really have to change is some <div> placement. I threw away the default bbpress css theme and just flung bbPress into my WordPress site’s containers and it worked pretty well.
I wanted that functionality as well so I ripped some WP code, played around, and finally got something I could use. This is a highly sloppy work as I am out of practice and not really a great PHP programmer anyway. The plugin is mostly a rip of the WordPress code with a filter. It is not elegant or tested completely but so far it has been getting the job done.
Note: This plugin will not work without a default install of WordPress.
You have to create a directory called /my-plugins/, copy this code into a file called whatever-you-want.php, upload and enjoy!
Feedback appreciated! Maybe I can improve on this and increase my PHP/*press skills.
<?php/*
Plugin Name: WordPress Smiley Integrator .0002
Plugin URI: none
Description: Gives WordPress Smiley Functionality to bbPress
Author: John Farrell
Version: 1.0
Author URI: none
*/
function convert_smilies($text) {
$wpsmiliestrans = array(
':mrgreen:' => 'icon_mrgreen.gif',
':neutral:' => 'icon_neutral.gif',
':twisted:' => 'icon_twisted.gif',
':arrow:' => 'icon_arrow.gif',
':shock:' => 'icon_eek.gif',
':smile:' => 'icon_smile.gif',
'
??:' => 'icon_confused.gif',':cool:' => 'icon_cool.gif',
':evil:' => 'icon_evil.gif',
':grin:' => 'icon_biggrin.gif',
':idea:' => 'icon_idea.gif',
':oops:' => 'icon_redface.gif',
':razz:' => 'icon_razz.gif',
':roll:' => 'icon_rolleyes.gif',
':wink:' => 'icon_wink.gif',
':cry:' => 'icon_cry.gif',
':eek:' => 'icon_surprised.gif',
':lol:' => 'icon_lol.gif',
':mad:' => 'icon_mad.gif',
':sad:' => 'icon_sad.gif',
'
' => 'icon_cool.gif','8-O' => 'icon_eek.gif',
'
' => 'icon_sad.gif','
' => 'icon_smile.gif','
' => 'icon_confused.gif','
' => 'icon_biggrin.gif','
' => 'icon_razz.gif',':-o' => 'icon_surprised.gif',
':-x' => 'icon_mad.gif',
'
' => 'icon_neutral.gif','
' => 'icon_wink.gif','
' => 'icon_cool.gif','8O' => 'icon_eek.gif',
'
' => 'icon_sad.gif','
' => 'icon_smile.gif','
' => 'icon_confused.gif','
' => 'icon_biggrin.gif','
' => 'icon_razz.gif',':o' => 'icon_surprised.gif',
':x' => 'icon_mad.gif',
'
' => 'icon_neutral.gif','
' => 'icon_wink.gif',':!:' => 'icon_exclaim.gif',
'
:' => 'icon_question.gif',);
// generates smilies' search & replace arrays
foreach($wpsmiliestrans as $smiley => $img) {
$wp_smiliessearch[] = $smiley;
$smiley_masked = htmlspecialchars( trim($smiley) , ENT_QUOTES);
$wp_smiliesreplace[] = " <img src='/wp-includes/images/smilies/$img' alt='$smiley_masked' class='wp-smiley' /> ";
}
$output = '';
// HTML loop taken from texturize function, could possible be consolidated
$textarr = preg_split("/(<.*>)/U", $text, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE); // capture the tags as well as in between
$stop = count($textarr);// loop stuff
for ($i = 0; $i < $stop; $i++) {
$content = $textarr[$i];
if ((strlen($content) > 0) && ('<' != $content{0})) { // If it's not a tag
$content = str_replace($wp_smiliessearch, $wp_smiliesreplace, $content);
}
$output .= $content;
}
return $output;
}
//add the filter
add_filter('post_text', 'convert_smilies');
?>
