API: Create Private Group
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Kia ora Robin
Thank you for a BRILLIANT awesome plugin. Much respect. I have bought a couple of the extensions, and would like to donate, but the paypal link seems broken?Also…. For our usage, we will be creating a LOT of private groups (we’re a small charity that supports people who are suicidal… hence the need for private groups for support). Is there any way to do this with an API call, please? It would make our process a gazillion times easier. I see you’ve included some calls in the plugin for joining people to groups, which is cool – but I also need to create a private group for each new person, and would very much prefer not to have to do that through the ui.
Yours hopefully and gratefully, Jamie
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this is the guts of the code needed
function rew_add_private_group ($user_id) { /*** FIRST ADD A NEW GROUP ***/ //get user and set up username $user = get_userdata($user_id) ; $username = $user->user_login; //count the number of current user groups and increment by 1 $options = get_option('rpg_groups'); $count=count ($options)+1 ; //set the group up and called it the username $options['group'.$count] = $username; //Update the database update_option('rpg_groups', $options); /*** THEN CREATE A NEW FORUM ***/ $forum_data = apply_filters( 'rew_new_forum_pre_insert', array( 'post_author' => $username, 'post_title' => $username, 'post_content' => '', 'post_parent' => '', 'post_status' => bbp_get_public_status_id(), 'post_type' => bbp_get_forum_post_type(), 'comment_status' => 'closed' ) ); // Insert forum $forum_id = wp_insert_post( $forum_data, true ); //and add meta data update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_forum_id' , 0 ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_last_topic_id' , 0 ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_last_reply_id' , 0 ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_last_active_id' , 0 ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_last_active_time' , 0 ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_forum_subforum_count' , 0 ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_reply_count' , 0 ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_total_reply_count' , 0 ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_total_reply_count' , 0 ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_topic_count' , 0 ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_topic_count_hidden' , 0 ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_reply_count_hidden' , 0 ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_status' , 'open' ) ; update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_bbp_forum_type' , 'forum' ) ; /*** THEN SET THIS FORUM TO JUST HAVE THIS GROUP ***/ update_post_meta ($forum_id , '_private_group' , 'group'.$count) ; /*** AND FINALLY SET THE USER TO BE IN THIS GROUP ***/ update_user_meta( $user_id, 'private_group', '*group'.$count.'*'); }so question – what do you want the group and the forum called? – at the moment they are the username, but can be anything that can be automatically generated. You will need to balance having a forum name the user sees as friendly against maybe having several users with the same name – eg John Smith? could look confusing to admins or maybe ok?
BIG WARNING :
This process looks at the number of groups that are there and adds 1 to it to create the new group. It is technically possible that if 2 users were created at the same instant that the same group number would be used. In that case 1 forum might get 2 users allocated to it. The chances of this happening are I think very very small, we are looking at 2 users within say .5 second of each other, probably less. If the creation is automatic – ie done from them registering then this is technically possible. If you do this as part of manual user creation, then it should be entirely possible that you make sure only 1 admin is setting up users at any one time.
If you go with this code as is, then please test it more than once to make sure it is doing what you want. As with my Private Groups plugin, I offer this code with no warranty that it works, but the belief that it does !!
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