[pawanahluwalia]

Hi,

I have WP V5.8 and bbPress V5.0 with OceanWP theme.

I have a custom function.php file in which I control access to pages by user role. For example user_role1 may only access pages with /user_role1/ in the url path.

I have then added a custom forum page called qaforums.

In the bbPress settings I have made this as my Forum Root.

I have then added /qaforums/forum/ and /qaforums/topic/ as permitted paths for user_role1.

Now here is where things get strange.

Let’s say I have a range of forums with the permalinks:

mywebsite.com/qaforums/forum/forum_name1/
mywebsite.com/qaforums/forum/forum_name2/
mywebsite.com/qaforums/forum/forum_name3/
etc.

In theory, my user access rules should permit users to see these forums. However, they don’t.

What I discovered is that in order for my access rules to work I need to include permalink /forum_name3/ in the permitted paths list.

In testing, I discovered that the get_page_link() function on the root forum page returns the path:

mywebsite.com/forum_name3/forum_name3/

instead of

mywebsite.com/qaforums/

forum_name3 happens to be the forum with the highest Forum ID.

So my questions are:

1. Why is the get_page_link() function returning a different url on the the root forum page?

2. Why is the permalink mywebsite.com/qaforums/forum/forum_name3/ being changed to mywebsite.com/forum_name3/forum_name3/ ?

And by the way, the get_the_ID() function confirms the same thing.

Any help in understanding this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Robin W]

I’d suspect that because each forum is not an real individual wordpress page (ie not in dashboard>pages) , then retrieving the page_link might well return a ‘virtual’ ID, and this might be the top forum – not proven, just a hunch.

My initial suggestions would be that you try get_permalink instead of get_page_link() – this retrieves the full url of the current displayed page, and should in theory get you what you want.

If you need the existing get_page_link() for your other pages, you could try wrapping it in an if… eg:

if (is_bbpress()) {
get_permalink etc.
}
else {
get_page_link()
}

Let us know if that helps

[pawanahluwalia]

Thanks!

However, is_bbpress() only seems to be true if you are on the root forum page.

How can I test for any forum page?

I tried

echo get_permalink();

on a forum page, but it does not display anything. It does display it on the root forum page, but it does not match the root forum page permalink. It again shows the highest Forum ID permalink instead.

Presumably the page is being created in code and is overwriting the content of the current forum page.

Any further suggestions?

[Robin W]

if get_page link returns :

mywebsite.com/forum_name3/forum_name3/

then you could just test for this eg

if (get_page_link() == 'mywebsite.com/forum_name3/forum_name3/')  {
get_permalink etc.
}
else {
get_page_link()
}

[pawanahluwalia]

The only trouble with this solution is, it is not permanent. You would need to the change the code each time a new forum is added.

[Robin W]

would you like to post your current code?

[pawanahluwalia]

I don’t think that is necessary. Using the example you have used above, you would have to change the bold part each time a new forum is added.

if (get_page_link() == ‘mywebsite.com/forum_name3/forum_name3/’)

How could this be avoided?

[Robin W]

ok, I had understood that get_page_link() returned mywebsite.com/forum_name3/forum_name3/ in all cases

is this not correct?

[pawanahluwalia]

I haven’t tried adding an extra forum to test it. I am just assuming it defaults to the highest forum ID, which is what it is currently doing.

[Robin W]

ok, not sure there’s much more I can do to help in that case 🙂

[pawanahluwalia]

How do we address this question to the plugin authors?

[Robin W]

what is the question ?

[pawanahluwalia]

My original questions above.

[Robin W]

sorry, I have given you some code which addresses, which does not seem to satisfy you.

I am not quite sure why you think the plugin authors would want to make their plugin work for your exact circumstances, but if you want to post a defect then go here

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/

[pawanahluwalia]

I am just trying to understand how the plugin works and why the php code is not giving the correct url that matches what is visible in the browser. I have tried your suggestions but I still can’t determine why the urls being generated by either get_page_link() or get_permalink() are different to the ones being displayed in the browser address line.

[Robin W]

ok, so this is the first time you have said that the get_permalink does not match the display.

so for a forum as a specific example, please state

the displayed url
the get_page_link
the get_permalink

[pawanahluwalia]

I mentioned I had tried get_permalink() above, below the post where you first suggested it and said it didn’t match.

This is what I am getting on the root forum page:

the displayed url: mywebsite.com/qaforums/
the get_page_link: mywebsite.com/forum_name3/
the get_permalink: mywebsite.com/qaforums/forum/forum_name3/

However, when I try and view these on any subpages of mywebsite.com/qaforums/, nothing is returned. I don’t know why.

[pawanahluwalia]

I have managed to analyse the subpage urls further and have verified that get_permalink() gives the correct urls which matches the browser address line.

get_page_link() doesn’t do this.

So thanks for suggesting to use get_permalink() instead of get_page_link().

But I still don’t know why it is not doing the same thing on the forum root page.

[Robin W]

ok you could also use a PHP variable rather than a wordpress function

so

$current_url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

should give you the displayed URL in all cases.

you can then do an ‘if’ test to see if you are in forums using say

if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/qaforums/') == true ) …then you are in the forums

[pawanahluwalia]

Thank you, that works perfectly! 🙂

Thank you for your patience and help. I really appreciate it!

[Robin W]

great – glad we got there !!