Hey all,

I had a previous post where i logged a user into bbpress by passing credentials from our site in the url. that worked fine but we were not using bbpress embedded in wordpress at the time.

Now we have changed the configuration by setting up a full WP site with bbpress as a plugin.

the goal is still the same: Send a user to our bbpress forum and automatically log them in.

We are using a single forum so i have made changes to

bbpress\bbp-theme-compat\bbpress\content-single-forum.php

Currently the user is logged in correctly. However when any topic link is pressed the “You must log in….” message is shown. Apparently is_user_logged_in returns false.

Any help on how to make the logged in user persist to more than the first page would be greatly appreciated.

We are using bbpress 2.1.2 and wp 3.4.1

My code for logging in a user is:

<br />
$loginCreds = array();<br />
$loginCreds['user_login'] = $user_login;<br />
$loginCreds['user_password'] = $_GET['password'] ;<br />
$loginCreds['remember'] = true ;<br />
$user = wp_signon( $loginCreds, false );<br />
if ( is_wp_error($user) ){<br />
echo $user-&gt;get_error_message();<br />
echo $_GET['password'] ;<br />
} else {<br />
$user_id = $user-&gt;ID;<br />
wp_set_current_user($user_id);<br />
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id, true);<br />
}

[@lynq Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

When you say send the user to your bbPress forum and log them in, is this happening during another process or are they clicking a link or? I am not too sure on how the sending is working and just wanted to get it clarified so I could try and help.

All the best.

[@bryanforst Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

Hi Lynq
Yes we have a link on our website that takes the user to our forum installed at
http://www.s4ndb0x.com/forums/forum/b3tz-issues/

that link includes parameters to send a userid, password, email, first and last name. If the user is in the wordpress DB then we log them in. (if not we register them using insert_new_user) this all works and the user shows up as being logged in, they can reply to the current topic if they wish

The problem is that when they click on another topic bbpress does not see them as logged in any longer.

thanks
bryan

[@bryanforst Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

Is it possibly a server config issue?
I am also getting this error:

Error: Are you sure you wanted to do that? New install, no bbpress files changed

and their fix was to move from a godaddy test server to a real domain…..

[@bryanforst Participant 12 years, 3 months ago]

ok, found the solution to this one also.

I had to move the login sequence way up into the WP hierarchy. Seems that wp_signon does not well if its not run normally and too far into the display of your forum.
I’ve got it in wp-blog-header and it seems to work.

Does anyone know if there is a better place to put this?