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1. Also latest version of WP, and BP. WordPress is installed in a sub directory.
Everything was just installed today. So latest version on everything.
No other plugins other than bbPress and Buddy Press installed.
Using the standard Buddy Press theme. I notice that you can’t really create separate forum in the bbPress version installed in BuddyPress. Is the internal version limited in someway or something???
Please help, and thanks in advance.

Also, I don’t really like the bbPress forums at all. It seems very very limited and you can’t make forum categories with it. Is there anyway to get the BuddyPress forums working with phpbb? I tried the gateway plugin, but it corrupted my database and I couldn’t find the correct files to use with it.

understood.. thanks again Boone!

thanks @boonebgorges !

WOW searching through all these new functions will be time consuming at first, but I’m sure will make things better over the long term. are these new to BP 1.5?

I’m so used to just using SQL to solve my problems these seems way complicated… (above my head and slightly to the left) So let’s say I just want to check for the whether a record exists, is it suggested that these BP functions should be used for all database communication?

for example… this checks for the existence of the field in the first place

`
$sql4 = “SELECT *
FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data XP
WHERE XP.user_id = $iUserID”;
$acheck_for_user_xprofile = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare($sql4));
if ($acheck_for_user_xprofile) {
$check_for_user_xprofile_answer = “yes“;
} else {
$check_for_user_xprofile_answer = “no”;
}
`

Hey @embergermedia,
As usual your advise dose not disappoint! I’m in the process of moving and also the creation of s second business site so as soon as I can I’ll give you an update on how it all works out! Ill also continue to mull over your problem and see if I can help at all! Talk to you soon!

Thanks both for the feedback!… looking into xprofile_insert_field() in bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-functions.php. This appears to be the function for adding a new profile field to the BP system.

`function xprofile_insert_field( $args = ” ) {
global $bp;

extract( $args );

/**
* Possible parameters (pass as assoc array):
* ‘field_id’
* ‘field_group_id’
* ‘parent_id’
* ‘type’
* ‘name’
* ‘description’
* ‘is_required’
* ‘can_delete’
* ‘field_order’
* ‘order_by’
* ‘is_default_option’
* ‘option_order’
*/

// Check we have the minimum details
if ( !$field_group_id )
return false;

// Check this is a valid field type
if ( !in_array( $type, (array) $bp->profile->field_types ) )
return false;

// Instantiate a new field object
if ( $field_id )
$field = new BP_XProfile_Field( $field_id );
else
$field = new BP_XProfile_Field;

$field->group_id = $field_group_id;

if ( !empty( $parent_id ) )
$field->parent_id = $parent_id;

if ( !empty( $type ) )
$field->type = $type;

if ( !empty( $name ) )
$field->name = $name;

if ( !empty( $description ) )
$field->description = $description;

if ( !empty( $is_required ) )
$field->is_required = $is_required;

if ( !empty( $can_delete ) )
$field->can_delete = $can_delete;

if ( !empty( $field_order ) )
$field->field_order = $field_order;

if ( !empty( $order_by ) )
$field->order_by = $order_by;

if ( !empty( $is_default_option ) )
$field->is_default_option = $is_default_option;

if ( !empty( $option_order ) )
$field->option_order = $option_order;

return $field->save();
}
`
All I really need to do is add a little record into the existing “wp_bp_xprofile_data” table

This below code works however it’s definately not Open source friendly or BP friendly

`

// grab this users nicename

$user = get_userdata( $iallusersUserID );
$nicename = $user->user_nicename;
$last_udpated = date(‘Y-m-d H:i:s’);

// create a new record in bp_xprofile_data and add the nicename

$wpdb->insert(
‘wp_bp_xprofile_data’,
array(
‘field_id’ => 1,
‘user_id’ => $iallusersUserID,
‘value’ => $nicename,
‘last_updated’ => $last_udpated
),
array(
‘%d’,
‘%d’,
‘%s’,
‘%s’
)
);
`

Any thoughts? Thanks again!

HOLY SMOKES! i figured it out, the bp-custom.php file mustve been corrupted because i deleted and simply tried to replace the code. and now it works!!!

thanks for all the help @mercime!!!!

@mercime, but it doesnt change the fact that my members are still autojoining the group when they reply to a post. the original code only disables the autojoin when starting a new topic.