Ok so I’m not sure if this is the best way, but I turned on WordPress integration but without sharing database tables. Now I can access the cookies on any page that I include bb-load!
Fixed by adding the variable I want the templates to use as global in bb_load_template of the template_functions file.
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
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?
It would actually be best if upon entering the registration info and some sort of captcha, the user was automatically logged in and returned to the point where they hit the “Register” button.
People are lazy. They don’t want to sign up, wait for the email, copy and paste the password (because good luck remembering “D7e98DF”), sign in, and then return to the spot that made them register in the first place.
I know this would probably cause some technical issues and would not be the most secure, but I think it would greatly increase user attach rate.
I don’t have the code infront of me right now, but is it just going to be something like
$_SESSION
And then that would give me the userId which I could then query the users table with?
