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Hi,
With the skeleton plugin what I did was create the DB access stuff (the basic create, some inserts etc) in the classes file.
then most of my functions are in the templatetags file (some also access/insert/update the db).
the form is in the main plugin php file (resides under wp-content/plugins) and it calls all the necessary files.
when you post the data in the form and then call a specific function to do the processing you can access the form variables using $_POST (that is in case you use post in your form).
If you need more help or having specific questions let me know. I am not a big expert but I got several plugins created using the skeleton and if its working…dont touch it
Shai
Thanks for your reply. And I apologize for my ambiguity. My question was more to satisfy my own curiosity than to anticipate any user demands.
Giving my users the ability to switch between templates is not terribly important to me at this time. And I would tend to agree with keeping layouts more on the uniform side… I can just see my inbox flooding with “how do I fix this” type of questions.
On the other hand, being a creative fellow myself – who really likes to fiddle with things, sometimes to the point of breaking them – I imagine many users would appreciate having the option to switch their album layout between 2 or 3 styles. (Of course, the lack of uniformity here could conceivably be cause for confusion among users.)
We are building communities. I believe our focus thus needs to be on what our community desires as a whole, rather than on the caprices of individuals. But who am I to impose my own beliefs upon others? Ultimately, if a choice can be made, it should be by the user.
My conclusion: keep it as admin-only for now – to get the next release out on schedule
. But let’s have some discussion about whether or not the option could – or should – be added to a future release.What say you gang?
Peter: PS, most of what you’re doing will be irrelevant when I release a version that works with BP out-of-the-box, so u dont really need to spend the time hacking it
Also, most of the questions ur asking (i.e. what if u want to require an email?) are all clearly documented on the plugin homepage.
Utterly respect what you are saying Erwin, sad though that you feel you have to state this so emphatically.
From my personal and selfish
perspective coming to BP from Ning one of the things I was asked to replicate was an events page similar to that which our small community had enjoyed and used, naturally after hunting around came across your plugin and was happy to find it then a little sad to find that the mapping functionality was not working due to a BP upgrade and your lack of time to fix this aspect; no matter i thought it will be sorted eventually and the rest of the plugin behaved perfectly and we needed it so I proceeded with implementing and styling to our requirements, at this point it’s worth noting the, and this has been raised elsewhere, notion of the Canonical plugin, we have been surprised at the lack of what many would consider core Social Networking features in BP by this I mean aspects such as Links. Events, and general Media capabilities, all things evident in the other big players in this arena. Events was a plugin that I felt and still feel ought to be part of the core and NOT a plugin along with BP-Album and the Links plugin.Events was further broken ireprably by of all things our upgrade to WPMU 2.9.1 at which point I had to remove it altogether, this didn’t look good and I was asked questions for which I had to try and reassure people that Events would reappear when we did the next phased upgrade of the community to BP 1.2.
The above is in no way intended to attempt to make you feel guilty whatsoever I honestly sympathize with your situation, What it is intended to try and illustrate is how vital certain plugins and the functionality they add are, we can come to rely on them yet find that there is no real support for them or that the author simply doesn’t have time to continually work on keeping them up to date; of course the response can often be that we are free to take on the plugin ourselves after all this is all open source stuff!! But like yourself I have precious little time, I cannot sit all day playing with plugin code, code that at this stage I am not up to speed with, all the free development time I have is devoted to trying to get a working theme ready so we can upgrade to BP 1.2 most of my time in reality is spent keeping the core of our small web development company running.
So what to do? Plugins are both at once a strength and a weakness to projects such as this, strange as this may sound.
Your plugin was great and I only hope that perhaps someone with more time on their hands can take up the running with this and more importantly that maybe the core developers can maybe look at what constitutes the real core offering of a Social Network App in terms of features and make plans to bring in the work you have done to date and make it a solid part of the core rather than a plugin.
Whatever happens be assured that I think most of us with any development experience and / or too little time to get anything done appreciate your feelings and frustrations at the pressure brought to bear
Read this post I made on the bbPress forums:
Yes, bbPress is necessary if you want group forums.
You might want to read this post by Boone Gorges as to what he did to transfer an existing bbPress install into BP:
http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/12/06/upgrading-from-buddypress-1-0-to-1-1/
Another bbPress to BP guide is available here:
https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/completely-integrating-a-previous-bbpress-install
I think I might add this to the FAQ
Idotter –
Couple questions – Is your avatar upload process working? Group Documents shares some code with avatars, particularly with the directories is uses.
Also, you mentioned this occurs after you upgraded to 0.3.1 – Did you have version 0.3.0 working? Or did you go straight from 0.2.5 to 0.3.1? The reason I ask, is that 0.3.1 didn’t change anything in that section of the code from 0.3.0.
Sorry, that was a lot of numbers to keep straight
