[davidbessler]

Figured it out. Kind of dumb. $topic->forum_id

[ardentfrost]

Your answer is in the database. Try to find it, but if you can’t, I’ll give you the answer

[davidbessler]

OK. Thanks. It turned out bb_head() was only called (as part of an if () statement) when the page is a topic. So I see that my above plugin works on a topic page. Awesome.

My long-term project is a forum-access plugin where you can grant or restrict access to individual users. Not roles-based.

Does anyone know a hook to use for intercepting an individual forum listing in front-page.php? You’d think get_forum would work, but for some reason … anyway.

I’ll keep you posted on my adventures of learning to write plugins.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

I cannot think of anything you’d have to do besides re-edit your config.php unless you’ve hardcoded your domain into any custom templates.

[startribe]

Is that it? I am actually working with both WordPress and bbPress integrated. There is quite alot of work that needs to be done WP on the database side ( https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL ) , so I was figuring something similar would need to be done for bbPress. Although, they are sharing a database, not sure if that makes a difference. Any other thoughts?

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

I hope you’ll continue to populate the plugins browser with your clever works

https://bbpress.org/plugins/

[ear1grey]

That’s very difficult to decipher, so for maintainability may I suggest you break out the code so you create variables first then use them when creating the echo statement.

It looks like you need to use call_user_func(tabel["is"]) to run the function names that you’re retrieving from the db.

[Null]

Euuhh well still can’t get it to work…

I have the function:

function get_bb_menu() {

global $bbdb;

return $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->menu WHERE set = 'active' ORDER BY order ASC");

}

This will give (tabel sperated with – ):

set – item – page – is – order

active – Forums – index.php – is_front() – 0

active – Statistic – statistics.php – is_bb_stats() – 1

active – Search – search.php – is_bb_search() – 2

Now I want this in a for each so it generates (note this is A PART what it should generate):

<li><a <?php if (is_bb_search())

{

echo "id="current"";

}?> href="<?php option('uri'); ?>search.php">Search</a></li>

<li><a <?php if (is_bb_stats())

{

echo "id="current"";

}?> href="<?php option('uri'); ?>statistics.php">Statistics</a></li>

But how to do this???

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

davidbessler,

Your theme needs to have a call to bb_head() in its header.php.

If you’re using a version of the default header, make sure bb_head() is actually being executed on every page load. There was a bug in early versions of bbPress that prevented bb_head() from being called on anything but topic pages.

As an aside, if you’re adding javascript, you should definitely use bb_enqueue_script().

bb_enqueue_script( 'give-it-some-name', '/soruce/file.js');

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

It will be longer than we thought originally

We guessed too optimistically. Oops!

[Null]

Nah it will take some weeks before it’s released, so call down

[Null]

You mean the green background when hovering?

.notice {

border: 2px solid #4c9545;

background: #abd8a2;

color: #4c9545;

font-size: 1.1em;

font-weight: bold;

padding: 10px 15px;

margin: 0 0 1.1em;

}

Not sure though

[spencerp]

That is SWEET!! I’ve just implemented the last patch, running 0.8alpha.

Here’s my site for view: http://spencerp.net/forums/

Only thing I’m waiting on now, is the: /bb-admin/content-categories.php page itself.. I’m getting a blog 404 when going there, but of course, didn’t see that file included, so..

And also getting the 404, after clicking on the link:

http://spencerp.net/forums/category/0

But that’s to be expected right.. lol!

Anyway, hopefully this might push the “project” along a little quicker LoL!.

spencerp

/By the way, I left the same comment on your ticket Sam..

[davidbessler]

This is frustrating. Tell me why this simplest of all plugins does not work.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Add something to the header

Plugin URI: http://davidbessler.com

Description: My first plugin

Author: David Bessler

Author URI: http://davidbessler.com

Version: 1.0

*/

function add_something_to_the_header (){

echo "<!--Something I added-->n";

}

add_action ('bb_head' , 'add_something_to_the_header');

?>

[ardentfrost]

There is no instructions on how to write plugins as far as I know. You just gotta do it like the rest of us: look through the code and figure out how it’s written. It’s not too hard and it’s written logically. You need to be able to either grep or search inside the files (there’s a way to search inside php files using windows search). If you want to look for hooks, look for add_action or add_filter and see where they all are. If you want to see how to use them, look through other plugins.

And if you have specific questions, these forums are here and there are plenty of people who try to help

[AphelionZ]

I can’t begin to express how psyched I am that you did this! I really do think its a good idea and will help a lot of forums increase their activity.

By the way, it worked without a hitch and i have it installed over at http://outletzine.org/forums now

[davidbessler]

OK look at this:

$forum_restrict_keys = array(

"1" => "davidbessler,testman",

"3" => "davidbessler,",

);

function forum_restrict_check_name() {

global $bb_current_user,$forum_restrict_keys;

if ($bb_current_user){

$allowed = strpos($forum_restrict_keys[get_forum_id()], get_user_name( $bb_current_user->ID ));

if ($allowed == "") {

echo "[blocked]";

add_filter( 'get_forum_name', 'forum_restrict_blank_name');

} else {

echo "[Not blocked]";

}

}

}

function forum_restrict_blank_name (){

echo "";

}

add_action( 'get_forum_name', 'forum_restrict_check_name');

?>

That puts [blocked] instead of the forum name in a forum that user is not allowed to see, and [not blocked] on a forum he is allowed to see. How do I get the forum name back in there instead of [not blocked]?

[spencerp]

@nateolsen, I just added ALL 3 databases into ONE database, like such:

database_name (holding all three)

bb_forums

bb_posts

bb_privatemessages

bb_tagged

bb_tags

bb_topicmeta

bb_topics

mw_archive

mw_categorylinks

mw_externallinks

mw_filearchive

mw_hitcounter

mw_image

mw_imagelinks

mw_interwiki

mw_ipblocks

mw_job

mw_langlinks

mw_logging

mw_math

mw_objectcache

mw_oldimage

mw_page

mw_pagelinks

mw_querycache

mw_querycachetwo

mw_querycache_info

mw_recentchanges

mw_redirect

mw_revision

mw_searchindex

mw_site_stats

mw_templatelinks

mw_text

mw_trackbacks

mw_transcache

mw_user

mw_user_groups

mw_user_newtalk

mw_watchlist

sk2_blacklist

wp_bad_behavior

wp_bas_log

wp_bas_os

wp_bas_pages

wp_bas_refer

wp_bas_searches

wp_bas_ua

wp_bas_visitors

wp_bbpress_post_options

wp_bbpress_post_posts

wp_categories

wp_comments

wp_link2cat

wp_linkcategories

wp_links

wp_options

wp_post2cat

wp_post2tag

wp_postmeta

wp_posts

wp_secureimage

wp_sk2_logs

wp_sk2_spams

wp_tags

wp_tag_synonyms

wp_usermeta

wp_users

Of course, used the normal database prefix for each one specifically. It was mentioned though, that for the mw_ ones, you didn’t have to use the “mw_” prefix for when trying to mesh with bbpress/WP.. but, to play it safe, I used the default “mw_” prefix anyway.. Choice is your’s really..

@mozey, nice!! I’ll have to try that out sometime, well, when I get more time. Thanks for tips and pointers!

spencerp

[davidbessler]

I’m REALLY new at making plugins. Let’s start there.

I’m looking to hide certain forums from a defined list of people. Or actually, I’m looking to only allow certain people to see certain forums. Anyway, I’m starting with just trying to make that happen on the front page. How do I “hijack” the page just at the point where it is about to spit out the forums on the front-page? I think this is what hooks are for right? So that I don’t need to actually edit my front-page.php?

Basically what I am looking to do, is during the “foreach” loop in front-page.php, I want to compare the upcoming forum_id with a list of usernames in an array who are allowed to see that forum. If there’s a match, it shows the forum, if not, it doesn’t.

The array looks like this:

$forum_restriction_keys = array(

"1" => "bob, sam, jim, jane",

"3" = > "bob",

);

So, to start, I need the right hook.

[Trent Adams]

I would just use the full path on the server:

<?php include

('var/usr/www/yourdirectory/whatever.file'); ?>

That should work shouldn’t it?

Referencing this post

Trent

[davidbessler]

so:

Function BlahBlah () {

global $bb_current_user;

$myName = get_user_name( $bb_current_user->ID );

echo "Hello, my name is ".$myName;

}

Like that?

Where can I find a list of all these variables and functions? Like how did the author of that plugin know there was such a thing as get_user_name()?

[startribe]

Thanks Trent, I am still pushing along… I understand, those late nights get to me too.

All the Best,

Orion

[startribe]

I am trying to use a call to navigate to the root directory in order to call on an include that is located in a directory outside of the bbPress directory.

Is there anyone out there who could help me with a BB PHP command that will bounce me back to the root directory. I tried…

<?php include('../../etc/etc'); ?> with out results.

So, any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

All the Best,

Orion

[mozey]

On my setup, (different system, same concept),

i used a centralized mysql table which contains a mesh of all of the variables of all systems!. The reason wy i did that is, some of these usertables contain information which would change the bahaviour of the software, such as roll, last login etc. SO its not a mater of authentication and session ONLY. You also need the other stuff!!!.

i ALSO used a single portal for signup/signin. THIS SHOULD NOT BE SCARY (assuming that thinking does’nt hurt your brain). A good IDE will get everything done for you (search replace globally, find all instances of a function etc).

I reccomend http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ as an editor, and use PHP IDE as an ide ontop of eclipse. Be patiant, if you have’nt installed before, it could be a bit strang, but do take a better part of a weekend to figure out hw it works. TRUST ME, php will be your bizatch afterwards

[flaerpen]

Hehe, I’m blind! Sorry, just open poEdit and do what it says .