Hi all,

I’m trying to integrate the BuddyPress favorite (aka like system) system with BBPress.

On my site: http://www.starry-night.nl I use the BuddyPress Activity page as homepage, this means that forum topics and replies are
shown on the activity wall, and can be liked.

For easy navigation I made a custom “comment” button which links to the BBPress topic or reply. BBPress activity items (topics or replies)
can be liked.

Going to a forum topic of replies of course doesn’t show any likes in the BBPress topic and replies.

Integrating the BuddyPress favorite system with BBPress is at least in my mind the cleanest way and from a functionality point of view, the way
to go.

On the BuddyPress forum I found the following code (below) which implements the BuddyPress favorite button in blogpost (and this works), so a rewrite
should be possible to make this work for BBPress.

In single.php for blogpost and in the future in the loop-single-reply.php for BBPress.

<?php echo get_fav_or_unfav_button_for_post( $post ); ?>

In function.php:

/ Buddypress favorites
function get_fav_or_unfav_button_for_post( $post ) {
global $bp, $activities_template;
        // user is not logged ? Show nothing.
	if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
	return '';
	}
	
	$activity_id = bp_activity_get_activity_id( array(
		'user_id' => $post->post_author,
		'type' => 'new_blog_post',
		'component' => 'blogs',
		'item_id' => 1,
		'secondary_item_id' => $post->ID
		) );
	
	if ( ! $activity_id ) {
	return '';
	}
	
		bp_has_activities(); // update $activities_template of user's fav
		$old_value = false;
		
		if ( isset( $activities_template->activity->id ) ) {
		$old_value = $activities_template->activity->id;
		$activities_template->activity->id = $activity_id;
		} else {
		$activities_template->activity = (object) array( 'id' => $activity_id );
		}
	
		// building the template
	$code = '';
	$code .= '<div class="activity-meta">'."\n";

		if ( ! bp_get_activity_is_favorite() ) {
		// if not favorited, add a fav button
		$code .= ' <a href="'.bp_get_activity_favorite_link( ).'" class="button fav bp-secondary-action" title="'.__( 'Like', 'buddypress' ).'">'.__( 'Like', 'buddyboss' ).'</a>'."\n";
		
		} else {
		
		// if already favorited, a button to unfav
		$code .= ' <a href="'.bp_get_activity_unfavorite_link( ).'" class="button unfav bp-secondary-action" title="'.__( 'Unlike', 'buddypress' ).'">'.__( 'Unlike', 'buddyboss' ).'</a>'."\n";
		
		// bonus button to show user's all favs
		$code .= ' <a href="'.bp_loggedin_user_domain() . 'activity/favorites/" class="button unfav bp-secondary-action">'.__( 'My Likes', 'buddyboss' ).'</a>'."\n";
		}
		
		// closing .activity-meta
	$code .= '</div>'."\n"; 

		if ( false !== $old_value ) {
		$activities_template->activity->id = $old_value;
		} else {
		$activities_template->activity = null;
		}
	return $code;
}

I’m having problems with rewriting the array for bbpress:

$activity_id = bp_activity_get_activity_id( array(
		'user_id' => $post->post_author,
		'type' => 'new_blog_post',
		'component' => 'blogs',
		'item_id' => 1,
		'secondary_item_id' => $post->ID
		) );

Help for figuring this one out is appreciated.

Best regards,

Marc

[@mth75 Participant 7 years, 11 months ago]

Solved:

function get_fav_or_unfav_button_for_bpp( $reply ) {
global $bp, $activities_template;
        // user is not logged ? Show nothing.
	if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) {
	return '';
	}
	
	$activity_id = (int) get_post_meta( bbp_get_reply_id( $reply_id ), '_bbp_activity_id', true ); 
	
	if ( ! $activity_id ) {
	return '';
	}
	
		bp_has_activities(); // update $activities_template of user's fav
		$old_value = false;
		
		if ( isset( $activities_template->activity->id ) ) {
		$old_value = $activities_template->activity->id;
		$activities_template->activity->id = $activity_id;
		} else {
		$activities_template->activity = (object) array( 'id' => $activity_id );
		}
	
		// building the template
	$code = '';
	$code .= '<div class="activity-like-count">'."\n";

		if ( ! bp_get_activity_is_favorite() ) {
		// if not favorited, add a fav button
		$code .= ' <a href="'.bp_get_activity_favorite_link( ).'" class="acomment-like fav-comment bp-secondary-action" title="'.__( 'Like', 'buddypress' ).'">'.__( 'Like', 'buddyboss' ).'</a>'."\n";
		
		} else {
		
		// if already favorited, a button to unfav
		$code .= ' <a href="'.bp_get_activity_unfavorite_link( ).'" class="acomment-like unfav-comment bp-secondary-action" title="'.__( 'Unlike', 'buddypress' ).'">'.__( 'Unlike', 'buddyboss' ).'</a>'."\n";
		
		}
		
		// closing .activity-meta
	$code .= '</div>'."\n"; 

		if ( false !== $old_value ) {
		$activities_template->activity->id = $old_value;
		} else {
		$activities_template->activity = null;
		}
	return $code;
	
}

?>

Add to loop-single-reply.php for BBPress:

<?php echo get_fav_or_unfav_button_for_post( reply ); ?> or in the bbp_reply_menu, which i’m still trying to figure out:

add my own menu option to the bbp-reply-header

[@mth75 Participant 7 years, 11 months ago]

I order to add a Like option to the BBPress header menu in topics and replies I resorted to this quick solution (not perfect yet):

 <span class="bbp-admin-links">
		<?php echo get_fav_or_unfav_button_for_bpp(); ?>
 </span>

Add after <?php bbp_reply_admin_links(); ?> in loop-single-reply.php

But mission accomplished, the integration of the Buddypress Favorite system with BBPress is complete.

[@mth75 Participant 7 years, 11 months ago]

I am using the original Buddyboss Theme, this gives me the chance to show who likes topics and replies (with link to userprofiles) below the content, and some nice extra logic:

[@mth75 Participant 7 years, 11 months ago]

Hi Stephen @netweb ,

Is it possible to integrate the above (functionality) (except the theme dependent functionality) in future BBPress releases. As a user, for me it’s a integration issue between Buddypress & BBpress.

Best regards,

Marc

[@netweb Keymaster 7 years, 11 months ago]

@mth75 Sure, kind of like how BP’s profiles, if active, replace bbPress’ profiles we could possibly do something similar for BuddyPress favourites.

Create a ticket on Trac and if you can, take a stab at writing a patch maybe?

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

[@mth75 Participant 7 years, 11 months ago]

@netweb Thx for your reply.

“Create a ticket on Trac and if you can, take a stab at writing a patch maybe?”

I will create a ticket, and why not try to do it myself 🙂 .

[@netweb Keymaster 7 years, 11 months ago]

Awesome 🙂

[@bitlupus Participant 5 years, 4 months ago]

Hi all,

trying to rebuild this case. Also want to make each post “likeable”, but if I use the source code above and paste it at same part in

Add after <?php bbp_reply_admin_links(); ?> in loop-single-reply.php

it won’t work… You also said, paste it in functions.php – functions.php for replies?
Or is there a better (maybe built in) solution created in the past two years?

thanks a lot