Group forum subscription
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I know that email notifications for forums is coming up in a future version of BP, but it’s important enough to my BP community that I wrote a plugin to make it work now. Here it is: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/group-forum-subscription-for-buddypress/ (more info here http://teleogistic.net/2009/09/new-buddypress-bbpress-plugin-group-forum-subscription/).
Probably won’t work with 1.1 (we won’t be upgrading for a little while and we needed this functionality now, which is why I developed in 1.0.x) but I’ll be fixing that soon. Hope it’s useful to someone out there.
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Boone… great work as always!
Still on < 1.1 myself, and was thinking we needed something like this for group forums in the interim.
Just a few suggestions:
– maybe add the admin options page under the “BuddyPress” admin menu?
– is there an action that will show the “Forum subscription” block on the group forum index page instead of the group homepage?
@r-a-y – Two great ideas. Next time I push out an update I will implement both. Maybe an admin option with checkboxes for where you want the subscribed/not-subscribed messages to appear (on the group home page or on the group forum index page or both). I might get to this next week – earlier if I find bugs and need to update anyway
@Erich73 https://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/ says it’s coming in v1.3 core. That might not be for a while, though.
Boone:
These lines will fix the problem I was having in the bbPress trigger plugin:
$con = mysql_connect("localhost",constant("BBDB_USER"),constant("BBDB_PASSWORD"));
mysql_select_db(constant("BBDB_NAME"), $con) or die(mysql_error());This will work for all bbPress installs; no more assumptions
To be safe, you could probably switch out “localhost” for constant(“BBDB_HOST”).
Hi Ray,
I’m glad you got it figured out. The reason I didn’t do this in the first place, though, is that BBDB_USER and those other global variables refer (if I’m not mistaken) to the bbPress db credentials, not the BP credentials that are necessary. If you’ve got the two installed in the same database, it’s not an issue and the globals will work. But I’m running bbPress and BP in separate DBs. $bb->user_bbdb_user and the like store the WP db info that the admin enters in the bbPress admin > WP integration settings.
So I guess all this is to say that I’m glad you got your situation figured out (I think I already said that
) but the very same solution might not work for all installations.@Mike – Yes, I noticed the other day that Brent had posted the plugin, and I thought it was hilarious that we had come out with the plugins at almost the exact same time. Please feel free to pick apart my code, as I’m planning to do with your code in the near future, so that we can communicate about the best way to merge, or at least not unnecessarily duplicate work. I’ve got some ideas for making the plugin better in the future (daily digests in place of individual emails would be a big improvement but is probably pretty difficult) and we should definitely help each other!
Funny I was talking about assumptions and I assumed that your bbPress install was sharing the same DB
@Boone – We’ll have it ready NLY this weekend and send the patch your way. It’s nothing ground breaking but does focus on making the email look as simple, easy to consume as possible and with clear actions (for ex. changing “To view this message” (recipient already is!) to “To reply to this message” kind of thing. Prior to doing that, i can’t tell you how many users tried replying by actually replying to the email
. We’ll also be adding the Topic as a ref (missing) to put the message into better context.
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