Hi there,
Due to a high number of spambot registrations, any user who registers for the forum initially gets “Spectator” rights. Once I check (usually within 12-24 hours) that they are not spam, I change them to “Participant”.
Some people get annoyed that they cannot post immediately. And I would like to create a popup banner that appears when users login for the first time but cannot post. I am capable of the JS and the CSS, but not quite the PHP.

Basically, I want to enqueue a JS file if the user is a “spectator” and is “logged in”.

Could you please advise how to complete my function (hopefully just the commented parts), which will go in the functions.php file, and what add_action arguments should be applied if I am wrong?

function forum_user_is_spectator(){
if ( is_bbpress() && is_user_logged_in() ) {
    //$User_ID = get user ID
    //$Spectator = find out if User Has Spectator rights
    if ($Spectator){
       wp_enqueue_script( 'spectator-js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/spectator.js', array(), false, true);
       }
    }
}

add_action('wp_enqueue_scripts', 'forum_user_is_spectator');

thx in advance

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 8 months ago]

you add action is right, and I’d have this as the function (not tested!)

function forum_user_is_spectator(){
if ( is_bbpress() && is_user_logged_in() ) {
   $User_ID = get_current_user_id() ;
	$Spectator = (!empty(current_user_can( 'spectate' )) ? 1  : 0) ;
    if ($Spectator){
       wp_enqueue_script( 'spectator-js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/spectator.js', array(), false, true);
       }
    }
}

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 8 months ago]

Sorry, I’m being brain dead this afternoon.

Spectate is a capability shared by many roles, so the code above is rubbish !

Try this

function forum_user_is_spectator(){
if ( is_bbpress() && is_user_logged_in() ) {
    $user_ID = get_current_user_id() ;
    $role = bbp_get_user_role( $user_id );
    if ($role == bbp_get_spectator_role()){
       wp_enqueue_script( 'spectator-js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/spectator.js', array(), false, true);
       }
    }
}

[@haddlyapis Participant 3 years, 8 months ago]

great @robin-w , this is very useful.
Unfortunately, I just copied and pasted your code into my functions.php file and it didn’t work.
Took me 3 hours to figure out that the variable is spelled incorrectly within the bbp_get_spectator() function. Once I corrected this, it works!!
Thx for your prompt help. All the best. This topic is now closed.

[@robin-w Moderator 3 years, 8 months ago]

great- glad you are fixed, and sorry for the spelling !