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Does nothing to remove it. It’s kinda like a mattress tag. I complained about that and Andy put a filter in there for group creation. We can override the forum name that gets created and the description I think.

@john, I included some template tags in the bbGroups package that demonstrates some of that theme’s use of bp centric features. I didn’t include the forums feature because it was specific to the theme. I’ll just zip up that theme and post it on my blog for you to look at the code. Gimme a few.

OK. It’s here: http://ourcommoninterest.org/downloads/oci.zip

You should just be able to unzip that in my-templates. One thing though. bbPress doesn’t seem to have a functions.php file that gets run in each theme/template as wp does. So I had all the template specific code being launched from my oci_bb_group_forums.php plugin. I’ve got all the template code living in oci_bb_custom.php so it get loaded up automatically. I included my oci_bb_custom.php file in the template zip. Just drop that in my-plugins and it’ll be loaded by the bbGroups plugin in bbpress.

If you look at the front-page.php file you’ll see how the forum list is generated.

<?php oci_forum_list('open', 'Community Forums', false); ?>

<?php oci_forum_list('readonly', 'Group Forums', true); ?>

<?php oci_forum_list('hidden', 'Private Forums', true); ?>

That fn is a little out of date. I used to have an option in there to generate identicon avatars for all forums. Even the forums that weren’t bp related. I took that capability out. What it does do now is display avs for the currently logged in user’s groups only.

This is the error Fatal error: Cannot use object of type stdClass as array in /home/blogpeor/public_html/wp-content/member-themes/buddypress-member/functions.php on line 13

This is for sites that want to use bbPress as it was intended. As a forum. bbPress is designed to be that. The feature set of vertical software is more rich than horizontal software. bbPress does things now that bp doesn’t do and may never do.

I like having a forum interface to bbPress in bp. I’d like to see a blog interface also. I don’t expect the feature set to be the same.

It’s wonderful that bp has a forum interface since I think that forums are an extremely important part of social software. People who get together in groups like to talk. I think that the tools we use to communicate can constrain or enable that communication.

The purpose of bbGroups is to extend bp’s native strengths.

Hey John. I was just going to suggest on the other thread that we move any discussion to here. You’re way ahead of me.

Keep banging on it.

There are things that have been left out intentionally. Lack of time. Don’t know what to do with certain things. Certain areas in bp haven’t been fully developed yet.

Haha… You know I can sense your sarcasm, even through the internet.

I’m gonna. Gotta do some things first.

We have liftoff! All systems go! Let me take a look around and see what this thing can do!

Okay, got everything installed, no errors, however when I try to import, I get…

Last import Saturday 14th of February 2009 03:41:32 PM, 1 seconds



0 groups with forums enabled

0 forums updated

0 users updated

However I do have 1 group, with 4 users in it, that does have a forum already active. There aren’t any topics in that forum however.

When activating the oci_bb_groups_forums.php plugin, I receive this error…

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare oci_server_methods() (previously declared in [...]/wp-content/mu-plugins/oci_bp_group_forums.php:417) in [...]/discussions/my-plugins/oci_bb_group_forums.php on line 249

This comes from my using “deep integration” on the bbPress side, including wp-load.php to allow access to the WP/BP functions (despite being told not to do this, ha!)

Adding some if function does not exist checks might be a good measure…

Did this for:

oci_service_methods

oci_escape

oci_authenticate

oci_xmlrpc_query

trailingslashit

untrailingslashit

Also, I added this around the ixr inclusion:

if (defined(BACKPRESS_PATH)) {

require_once( BACKPRESS_PATH . '/class.ixr.php' );

}

Might not be correct, but it did get rid of the double inclusion for me.

After those changes I was able to get that file to include without problem. Gonna keep testing.

lol! Yay! I’m gonna give it a whirl right now! Ha ha!

Yay! Very happy to hear about this, and I will try to be one of the first to try it out!