Hi John, sure it’s possible. bbGroups sends over an associative array of user info. I’ll add a filter mechanism to allow people to add or modify the data going across to bb. On the bb side that entire array just gets stuffed into user meta. Doesn’t care or look at what it is. It just gets pulled out in a chunk from user meta with the key ‘bbGroups’.
Gimme a few to implement that and I’ll upload that version to my site.
Burt, is there any way to add info to the bbGroups array from the extended profile area to be available inside bbPress? Or is there a different method to do this easily? I noticed that the extended profile data in the DB isn’t stored as simply as the user-meta table is, rather each entry associates itself with a corresponding value in another table.
Say for example in the extended profile area, I want to have “aim, yahoo, google talk” fields, and I want each post in bbPress to have links to what each author entered in extended profile. Possible? 
I’m also on my way to totally eliminating the bbPress profile at http://delsolownersclub.com. If only there was a “Favorites” function inside BuddyPress. Hmm… 
Don’t really think so. People will want different levels of ‘integration’ for those two products. This is really a theme related issue. If the theme developer decides to do that then it gets done. I’m doing that on a theme I’m working on for bbpress. I want to have as much bp functionality as possible in bbpress.
You can see the current state of chaos here: http://ourcommoninterest.org/bbpress
login credentials for test user:
username – hellome
password – hellome
The way I have it setup now is that when viewing a thread the user info block for each post has the bp avatar, user full name and underneath the bbpress title. The user full name takes you to the bp profile and the title takes you to the bbpress profile. Just fooling around with some ideas.
Content discovery is a filtering mechanism that narrows down the view for the user to what they want to see. Content should have top level organization of what?
Content types:
Website/Blog url
Blog post
Forum topic
Image
Wire post
Anything with an url
User interface to content. Sorting and filtering:
By date: most recent, date range, ascending, descending
By tag(s): and/or/not
By content author
By user who created the tag
By type: blog post, site url, forum topic …
Content display options:
List
Grid
Titles only
Title and excerpt
When the user browses the content should they be able to add/remove tags for each item? Like bbpress? Only group staff can maintain tags?
Questions, questions.
I know there’s a plugin or script to make members and groups private. I can’t find it or how is it done?
Not private? No it’s a completely open site. It’s been an experimental development site up to this point. I’m rushing around trying to undo all the experimental stuff and turn it into a real website now. Have to do that to do support for plugins.
It’s always going to be kind of unstable. I test alot of ideas there.
@burtadsit, You have a cool site,but its not private for members. Is that meant be?
When you use deep integration bbpress clears all the actions and filters. bp runs on actions. It does this as part of the load sequence.
In bb-settings.php:
/**
* Remove filters and action that have been set by an included WordPress install
*/
if ( defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
$wp_filter = array();
$wp_actions = array();
$merged_filters = array();
$wp_current_filter = array();
}
When I’m using xmlrpc I have to manually fire up the bp globals I want to refer to like:
function oci_bp_group_forums() {
// only do this if the xmlrpc server is firing up and we are servicing a request
if ( defined('XMLRPC_REQUEST') && XMLRPC_REQUEST ){
// bp's globals don't get set until a 'wp' action occurs. this seems to be all that is needed.
bp_core_setup_globals();
groups_setup_globals();
bp_activity_setup_globals();
}
}
add_action('init','oci_bp_group_forums');
That gets triggered by the end of the wp-load.php sequence. do_action(‘init’) is the last thing that happens there.
bp gets woke up by listening to the ‘wp’ action. I think all of bp gets activated by ‘wp’.
I just remember having some problems with xmlrpc and the ‘wp’ action so I manually tied things to the ‘init’ action. All the plugins for bp load, it’s lots of other stuff that gets initialized by ‘wp’.
You MUST share the database for them to be able to share users. bbpress will create some tables in your wordpress mu database and share the users table. If you keep separate databases, deep integration will never work.
Regarding Databases… I’m thinking that performance will be better for installs with lots of users if BBPress is kept on its own database…. let me know if my thinking is wrong here….
oh okay – yes of course – thx
Awesome, working on it now…. also, I’m assuming that you start off with a new database for BBPress and only integrate for the user tables? In step two of BBPress setup, the last checkbox is for “Show advanced database settings” and says “If your bbPress and WordPress installation do not share the same database, then you will need to add advanced settings.” ….. we don’t want to share the same database for the installs do we?
ozpoker, this really isn’t the place to do support for the bbGroups plugin. This is for bp itself. Create an account on my site and join the group ‘CommonInterest Code’ I can help you out there.
http://ourcommoninterest.org
It actually doesn’t matter if you do it during installation or after… it turns out to be the same.
Have you seen this article:
http://bavatuesdays.com/integrating-wpmu-buddypress-and-bbpress/
It was extremely helpful with my setup and includes the video you mentioned, with some additional pointers. Also read the comment section for some addtional info.
Just make sure you have the latest versions of both and start off fresh. Follow the article I quoted and give that sigh of relief when you switch from WordPress MU to bbpress and see “Welcome admin!” on top instead of “Login”….
Can I please ask someone to point me in the right direction with this.
I have implemeted a theme and can get the bbpress profile avatar next to each users post using this code :
<?php if ( $avatar = bb_get_avatar( $user->ID ) ) : ?>
<div id="useravatar"><?php echo $avatar; ?></div>
<?php unset($avatar); endif; ?>
But I can’t get the oci_user_avatar() tag in there without errors. probably I should be putting somewhere else so it qwrites directly in to the “bb_avatar”, but I got no idea.
Anyone want to help an idiot?
Anybody any ideas as to what to do with this?
Warning: require(/home/ifoundu/public_html/forum/bbpress/bb-includes/compat.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ifoundu/public_html/forum/bbpress/bb-settings.php on line 68
Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/ifoundu/public_html/forum/bbpress/bb-includes/compat.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/ifoundu/public_html/forum/bbpress/bb-settings.php on line 68
Hi Fishbowl81,
I want to make the bbpress forum to load in my buddypress site from a tab ‘forum’ which is like other tabs like home, blog, members. As you have on your site gorgeousgamers.com.
So that it incorporates the sites design theme and can still navigate through other tabs.
What is the best way around this?
Many thanks,
At this stage in development, there is no Forum widget unfortunately, and there may not be one based on the complexity of how it is put together.
There is a pseudo-widget, that will allow for some recent topic and forum display layouts, but past that everything in terms of posting, replying, etc. must be done within bbPress itself, via some integration and theme duplication.
No there’s no debug mechanism for the group forums. It’s supposed to just be correct. Here’s a little test rig I created that just tests the connection link between mu and bbpress.
http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/xmlrpc-test-rig.zip
It’s a wpmu client plugin and a bbpress server plugin. All it does is use the settings found in site admin > bbpress forums and makes bbpress say ‘hello’.
Uses the URL, username, and password. Authenticates them and says ‘hello’.
What is this thing called keymaster? What is the link to install bbpress? Was it a
good idea to install the bbpress in wp-conent/plugins or is it beter to perhaps
put it in mu-plugins maybe create a new directory in the root and call it forums.
1) you have bbpress installed and a new user created on the “bbPress” side which you granted “administrator” rights by the keymaster
Regards, Charles Pisano
./wordpress-mu-root-dirctory/whatever-you-want
Mine is at delsolownersclub.com/discussions/
You just need to make sure you reference that directory everyplace you need to within BuddyPress and bbPress to make sure they see each other.
