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Here’s the code I use in the current version of my site – Kunal17 asked about it:

// Include the SimplePie library

require_once 'simplepie.inc';

require_once 'shorten.php';



// Because we're using multiple feeds, let's just set the headers here.

header('Content-type:text/html; charset=utf-8');



// These are the feeds we want to use

mysql_connect(localhost,$db_username,$db_password);

@mysql_select_db($db_name) or die( "Unable to select database");



$query = "SELECT id, email, firstname, surname, rssfeed FROM members WHERE rssfeed != ''";

$result = mysql_query($query);



$feeds = array();

$id_array = array();

$first = array();

$user = array();



$userinfo = array();



while ($cur_feed = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))

{

$feeds[] = $cur_feed['rssfeed'];

$userinfo[$cur_feed['rssfeed']] = $cur_feed;

}



// This array will hold the items we'll be grabbing.

$first_items = array();



// Let's go through the array, feed by feed, and store the items we want.

$ix = 0;



foreach ($feeds as $url)

{

$user_id = $id_array[$ix];

$firstname = $first[$ix];

$surname = $sur[$ix];

$email = $user[$ix];

$ix++;



// Use the long syntax

$feed = new SimplePie();

$feed->set_feed_url($url);

$feed->init();



// How many items per feed should we try to grab?

$items_per_feed = 1;



// As long as we're not trying to grab more items than the feed has, go through them one by one and add them to the array.

for ($x = 0; $x < $feed->get_item_quantity($items_per_feed); $x++)

{

$first_items[] = $feed->get_item($x);

}



// We're done with this feed, so let's release some memory.

unset($feed);

}



// We need to sort the items by date with a user-defined sorting function.  Since usort() won't accept "SimplePie::sort_items", we need to wrap it in a new function.

function sort_items($a, $b)

{

return SimplePie::sort_items($a, $b);

}



// Now we can sort $first_items with our custom sorting function.

usort($first_items, "sort_items");



$counter=0;

foreach($first_items as $item)

{

$feed = $item->get_feed();

$info = $userinfo[$item->feed->feed_url];



$counter++;

if($counter >= 7)

break;



if ($img_size = @getimagesize('members/img/avatars/'.$info['id'].'.jpg'))

$avatar_field = '<img src="members/img/avatars/'.$info['id'].'.jpg" alt="" />';

else

$avatar_field = '<img src="members/img/avatars/nopicture.png" alt="" />';



$picture = '<div id="feedpicture"><a href="members/member.php?id='.$info['id'].'" title="'.$info['firstname'].'\'s Member Page">'.$avatar_field.'</a></div>';



// Begin the (X)HTML page.

?>



<h3><?php echo $picture; ?><a href="<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo html_entity_decode($item->get_title(), ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); ?></a></h3>



<!-- get_content() prefers full content over summaries -->

<? echo trim(substr((str_replace("\n", ' ', str_replace("\r", ' ', strip_tags($item->get_description())))),0,300)); ?>

... <i>more</i></a><br />



<p class="info"><a href="members/member.php?id=<?php echo $info['id']; ?>" title="<?php echo $info['firstname'].'\'s Member Page'; ?>"><?php echo $info['firstname'].' '.$info['surname']; ?></a> | <a href="<?php echo $feed->get_permalink(); ?>" target="_blank"><?php echo $feed->get_title(); ?></a> | <?php echo $item->get_date('M j, Y | g:i a'); ?></p>

<br />



<?php

}

?>

It shows the latest blog posts from members on a page, if they have an RSS feed in the database. It uses SimplePie. The code above is customized from regular SimplePie feed code. Member management in my current site is based on PunBB, not WordPress.

I’d have no clue how to modify this code for Buddypress. Can’t figure out member management in Buddypress for starters, with x-profile vs wpmu and similar data stored in different places. It all looks kinda messy and inconsistent to me.

Doubtful you should take this as starting point. I’ll wait for the integrated solution.

What? Just when I had figured out how to decode the old permalink structure you go and make it better.

This is a very welcome improvement!

Funny, I have followed the steps in the integration – and I could not make the Forums appear in Buddypress Groups. I tried a lot but the only solution to my problem (and perhaps NOTME31’s problem also) is just to go to DASHBOARD > Buddypress > Component Setup > and “disable” Buddypress BBForums option, save it and then “enable” it again.

Voila! It worked! No need to use the BBPress Integration plugin nor modify WP-CONFIG and BB-CONFIG.

I am using the latest release of Buddypress, and BBpress rel 1. “Bechet”. My site is at http://www.animejoints.com, although I cared not to go into “deep integration” this time. I am already happy with the BBPress Forum sharing same login as with the Buddypress and Forums are working.

HINT: Simply follow the steps outlined on the first post of this thread.

bbPress Side (First):

1) you have bbpress installed and a new user created on the “bbPress” side which you granted “administrator” rights by the keymaster

2) you copy the “buddypress-enable.php” plugin out of the bp-forums folders and copy it into your /my-plugins/ folder (create if it doesn’t exist) so it is /my-plugins/buddypress-enable.php ****People ask about /bb-plugins/ versus /my-plugins/ and put it in /my-plugins/

3) Enable the plugin through your bbPress administration side for plugins

4) Edit “settings” to enable xmlrpc and pingbacks (both)

5) edit your bb-config.php and just before the closing php call at the bottom of the page put:

$bb->bb_xmlrpc_allow_user_switching = true;

buddypress Side (Second):

6) Go into your main blog dashboard as the “site-admin” and go to the “bbPress Forums” page. Put in the URL of your forum like http://yoursite.com/forums/ and make sure you have the ending slash on that one.

7) Put in the user that you created in step 1 with the bbPress “administration” rights and their password. I never changed the password, just used the random one it sent me, but it is up to you. I usually save it a couple of times to ensure it was entered due to a refreshing bug at time of writing this.

Before you go to your Group Admin Setting to enable Forum, go to BuddyPress> Component Setup > and disable – save – enable BBPress Forums.

@Tracedef, Are you starting the plugin or what?

Nice work Sam!

After months of development, the Duzzn Link-List Sharing site is now open to the public. The system is finally in place, but desperately needs more user content. Come check it out – opinions and posts are welcome – http://duzzn.com

Wow, it’s awesome. I was thinking for days of this very same concept for my buddypress based wiki, here comes the solution Good work!

Renaming this thread, since this was not a BuddyPress bug.

I think you’ve banged your head against the table too much, and that’s why you’ve been off your game, TheEasyButton!

I managed to get that error again. Turns out I forgot to enable buddypress in the plugins. LOL Duh!!! Maybe this mistake will help others.

If you made no changes & a call to your webhost fixed it, I’d say they did some changes to the server that made everything go crazy. Then when you called & they realized what happened, they fixed it.

But…. YAY!! lol So glad to see you’re back up and running correctly.