Attachment links not working

Hello. Well, we’ll need to debug bp_docs_get_attachment_url(). So, if you can make a page-test.php file in your theme or similar, and add a <?php ?> block to it, that would be a good start.

I’d test these items: (You’ll need the ID for an attachment. You can find this by finding Employer-Champion-Leaflet.pdf in your media library and seeing what its ID is.)

var_dump( 'computed url', bp_docs_get_attachment_url( $attachment_id ) );
// Then, within that function, check a few pieces separately.
var_dump( 'protection active', bp_docs_attachment_protection() );
var_dump( '$att_base', wp_basename( get_attached_file( $attachment_id ) ) );

OK, if you’ve added a page-test.php file to your theme, then WP will use it when you visit a page called “Test”. (See https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/#single-page)

So create a page called test and visit it to execute the code in your page-test.php template part.

With an attachment ID of 163, you could do this in page-test.php:

<?php
$attachment_id = 163;
var_dump( 'computed url', bp_docs_get_attachment_url( $attachment_id ) );
// Then, within that function, check a few pieces separately.
var_dump( 'protection active', bp_docs_attachment_protection() );
var_dump( '$att_base', wp_basename( get_attached_file( $attachment_id ) ) );
?>

Huh. When I use a known BP Docs attachment ID with that code, the output looks like this:

string 'computed url' (length=12)
string 'http://bptest.local/docs/the-first-of-many/?bp-attachment=vacuum-press_1776.jpg' (length=79)
string 'protection active' (length=17)
boolean true
string '$att_base' (length=9)
string 'vacuum-press_1776.jpg' (length=21)

Can you double check that 163 is the ID of the attachment and not of the parent doc? If you go to your media library at /wp-admin/upload.php and select the attachment, you’ll see the ID in the URL like /wp-admin/upload.php?item=56.

That looks good to me! I even followed the link and the pdf downloaded fine. What did you change? Just the attachment ID, or something else?

Ok, so we know that the url is being calculated correctly, given the right attachment ID. So, if we can see that the right attachment ID is being passed to the function, then we’ll know that something else (I’m guessing the theme) is shaving off url parameter arguments.

In /wp-content/plugins/buddypress-docs/includes/templates/docs/single/attachments.php
, add this line:
<?php var_dump( 'attachment ID', $attachment->ID ); ?>
right after this statement.
<?php foreach ( bp_docs_get_doc_attachments() as $attachment ) : ?>

If that ID (it’ll be printed out on the page when you visit https://www.squarepeg.online/docs/employer-champion-leaflet/ on your test machine) matches the ID you plugged into your code on page-test.php, then we’ll know that the problem is elsewhere.

Hi Liam-

I’d follow these steps for troubleshooting code interaction:

• Switch to a “default” theme like TwentySeventeen. If the problem is fixed, then contact the BuddyBoss authors, who are helpful people.
• Start disabling plugins to see if one of them is affecting this url.

If you get down to BuddyPress and BP Docs using TwentySeventeen, then the problem is in BP Docs itself.