About: Kenny McNett

Thanks Cristian, it took me a bit to figure out how to get the wordpress page ID as an integer dynamically, but I got things working.

For anyone else out there, here’s my solution for restricting bbPress access. In short, this checks if the current user has access to the most distant ancestor of the current page. For example:

Level 1 Forum/Category > Subforum1 > Subcategory > Subforum2 > Current Topic

No matter which page they arrive at in the tree, they must have access via s2member to the top-most level. Then it’s a simple matter of assigning a ccap to that Forum, or a membership level.

1. Include the following in your functions.php file
2. Include a call to the function in EACH of your bbPress template files BEFORE the template calls for the forum content. Match the HTML structure of the error message to suit your theme. You need to include closing tags for any open divs.
3. Test!

/******* bbPress Forum Access *******/
function checkForumAccess() {
	if(get_post_type() == 'forum' OR get_post_type() == 'topic' OR get_post_type() == 'reply') { // check if user is viewing a forum page. If so, continue.
	
	//check if they have access to the top-most parent forum/category (both are Pages in wordpress). If not, show the error verbiage. If they have access, continue and show the content like normal
	$parent = array_reverse(get_post_ancestors($post->ID)); // get an array of all the parent pages in order from most distant to closest.
	$first_parent = get_page($parent[0]); //get the first page in the array, which is the most distant parent
	$int = apply_filters('the_ID', $first_parent->ID); //filter the $first_parent to get only the wordpress page/post ID, which is an integer like 49 or 565. store it as a variable $int
	
		if (!is_page_permitted_by_s2member($int)) { // this is an s2member function. Check if the current user can access the $first_parent, via the stored page/post ID in the $int variable
// here comes your custom error message. Remember to \escape any apostrophes
			echo '
			<div>
				<h1 class="entry-title">Sorry!</h1>
				<div class="entry-content">
				<p>It looks like you don\'t have access to this forum.</p>
				<p>If this is an error and you should have access, please contact us here: (contact URL) 
			</div>
			</div><!--.postWrapper-->
		</div><!-- #content -->
	</div><!-- #contentWrapper -->
</div><!-- #primary -->
';
get_sidebar();
get_footer();
			exit; // Important. This prevents the rest of the page (the secure forum content) from displaying
		}
	}
}			 

Cristian, I’m using bbpress and things are great. I can assign CCAPs on a per-forum basis via the wp page editor because bbpress treats each forum as a standard wordpress page.

But, when viewing a single page, I need to be able to restrict access to that page based on whether the user can access its parent page. Or, better, whether the user can access the last ancestor.

I can get the last ancestor page with normal wordpress commands:

$parent = array_reverse(get_post_ancestors($post->ID));
$first_parent = get_page($parent[0]);

But how do I check to see if the current user can access that page? If the user were to navigate to that page in a browser, they would be restricted by the CCAP on that page and redirected accordingly.

So close to solving this puzzle,

Thanks!

Kenny

Thanks for the response. I found this thread after I asked the question to you: http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/buddypress-with-s2member-pro/

Does that solution work? I’m not set on the forum I want to use, so if using buddypress means I can restrict forum access by ccap, then I’ll go with buddypress.