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@DJPaul – I was just taking that Anahita tone a bit further with the “patch job” wording, because that social engine seemed to imply that it would be better than anything out there, including BP (which I find phenomenal), just because it had an MVC architecture
Not sure about the importance of having an MVC in place when you’re building something as big as this, but from what Peterverkooijen says, it does seem somewhat useful to a certain extent. On some level, it’s interesting to put this conversation into the limelight and see what people think — competition breeds competitiveness and better products
IMHO, BP definitely has the most steam behind it and the new groups_new_group_extension() sounds promising, as well, so I’d love to see BP become something so grand that it could prove having an MVC isn’t as crucial as Anahita WebDevs suggest.
Member management in WPMU/Buddypress seems patchy as hell to me, with member data spread out over several database tables that aren’t synchronized between xprofile and wpmu, mixing different methods to store data. The registration process is horribly inflexible. Basic things like styling the registration form or editing system emails require hacking core files.
Not sure if this would have been better if WordPress/Buddypress followed an MVC architecture. Wikipedia’s description of MVC:
Model-view-controller (MVC) … isolates business logic from the user interface, permitting one to be freely modified without affecting the other. The controller collects user input, the model manipulates application data, and the view presents results to the user …
I like the sound of “isolating business logic”. I want the end user functionality that WPMU/BP provides (“… WordPress’s usability …”), but have serious concerns about having to rely on WPMU/BP for central member management and registration, the foundation of my project. Unfortunately I can’t have one without the other.
Please don’t dismiss the criticism.
if there’s someone moaning about how any particular bit of software is not written following MVC, they have two options – write their own, or shut up.
They did. They are developing Anahita Social Engine on Joomla. I may have to check it out.
I’ve since uploaded everything again and it’s working – second time this has happened – I have NO idea what was wrong!
Alex
@ Burt:
It might be. The site was running fine and out of nowhere, the problem began occuring. To answer your questions:
[Before the problem came up] –
Does bp live in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress? (not /mu-plugins)?
-> Yes. Absolutely. I’m aware that post RC1 BP got shirted to plugins directory. It was & is in /wp-content/plugins/buddypress folder.
Have you activated bp sitewide?
-> Yes. The plugin was active sitewide and everything was working fine.
Does it activate properly?
-> Yep. Users could perform all the activities.
I’m facing a strange problem. I’m running WPMU 2.7.1 (latest) and when I enter my admin credentials, I get logged in as a normal user. Therefore, I do not see ‘plugins’ section or ‘buddypress’ in the admin panel. Also, I’m unable to activate/deactivate themes.
To fix this. I’ve removed BP (Plugins and Themes) using FTP. But the problem still persists. No admin options for me! What’s going wrong now?
$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;
TheEasyButton
Oh, thank god you exist in this world
You were right…
I actually made several mistakes, that I wanted to point out, and then my final post on this topic will lead to the url to where I found out how to fix my issues.
But, thanks to TheEasyButton and John James Jacoby for their help. As it truly helped.
Also a big thanks to Trent Adams for writing up that helpful tutorial found sticky on these buddypress forums.
I had forgotten several steps
– Add the code to the bottom of the bb-config file, that TheEasyButton mentioned above.
– Disable forum discussions on new or existing group forums, and then re-enable them after they are created or working.
– Needed to be signed in to both WPMU and BBPRESS as the administrator and not the key master. I had forgotten to set up my new admin account to have admin priviledges on the bbpress side. Woops… like big woops.
There are two MAJOR things I wanted to point out.
– If you tried to intall bbpress 1.0.1 by itself as fresh install, then I kept getting a major error that said, “Could not create new forum” during installing. I had to install bbpress 1.0 first to a new SQL database, then I removed all the files from the BBPRESS folder, and then uploaded the new bbpress 1.0.1 files. Which once I installed this new version, the SQL database was already set up for bbpress, so it just treated it as updating. Someone at BBPRESS really needs to fix that, as I’m sure many people are running into that problem.
– The last thing I would like to mention, is that I didn’t really see on the tutorial article about helpful forum integration on the buddypress forums, about the cookies. I probably just missed that part, but it is very important that even when you overwrite your bbpress files, that when you over write your bb_config file, that you make sure the cookies are set and match wp_config cookies, of course with the bb_ prefix within the cookie parameters. Such as:
define( ‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’ );
define( ‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’);
define( ‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’ );
define( ‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’ );
define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’);
define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’);
define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’);
define( ‘WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION’, 1 );
If you forget that last line, then it will definitely mess up everything too. But, the plugins placed into the right directories are the most important. This also doesn’t include that some buddy press plugins require that you move certain files from those plugins into your default buddy press theme. You also have to have a default buddy press theme in order to see everything properly too.
One more thing,
Hopefully, one day, someone will create an easier way to do all of this. Everything is so scattered all over the place, and right now, it can take a newbie several hours to get everything set up the way it is suppose to be. So, hopefully, somebody might create a program or something that will just automatically do everything for you or done through a central area at least.
Thanks again for the help,
my problem is solved.
Burt Adsit developed a plugin called “Community Blogs for BuddyPress”. The cool thing is that it adds users silently to the set blog by the admin.
I will look at his approach and see if it is at all possible to have moderators of the group added silently as well. And maybe members at a different level.
So an group admin would be the blog admin. Group moderators would be editors and group members, authors.
Probably an additional menu should be available to select what role group members get assigned. I thought about this as well, so good feature request
