How can I choose my own group names?

the group numbers and indeed names are only used for admin. I am not planning to remove the numbers, many sites have lots of groups, and finding them quickly is important. Sorry.

I haven’t thought about export/import – in fact no-one has ever asked about this. The group names are stored in the options table.

Are you happy coding? if so, then I can probably find functions or hooks

this should get you close to what you want – not fully debugged or tested, so you might need to play with it

in essence in the user meta ‘private_group’ is set to the groups as a string with ‘*’ as delimiter eg

*group6*group8*group36*group39*group102*group103*group38*

so

//add assign group to register, 
add_action ('bbp_user_register', 'rew_add_group') ;

//and to wp-login
add_action('wp_login', 'rew_add_group_login', 10, 2);

//and on every visit
add_action('init', 'rew_add_group_on_init');

function rew_add_group ($user_id) {
	if ($user_id == 0) return ;  // bail if no user ID
	rew_set_group ($user_id) ;
}

function rew_add_group_login($user_login, $user) {
	$user_id = $user->ID ; 
	rew_set_group ($user_id) ;
}

function rew_add_group_on_init () {
	$user = wp_get_current_user();
	$user_id = $user->ID ; 
	rew_set_group ($user_id) ;
}

function rew_set_group ($user_id) {
$check = get_user_meta ($user_id , 'some_parameter' , true ) ;
if ($check == 'hello') {
	$newgroup = 'group38' ;
}
else return ;
$group_string=get_user_meta( $user_id, 'private_group',true);
$group_string = rtrim($group_string, '*');
$group_list = explode ('*' , $group_string) ;
//if exists, then dont need to add 
if (in_array ( $newgroup, $group_list)) {
	return ;
}
else {
	$group_list[] = $newgroup ;
	$new_list = implode ('*' , $group_list).'*' ;
	update_user_meta( $user_id, 'private_group', $new_list);
}

what custom login are you using? chances are that it also hooks to that link, so the easiest way is just to test it to see that it works.

this code should work for a name (untested!)

function rew_set_group ($user_id) {
$newgroupname = get_user_meta ($user_id , 'some_parameter' , true ) ;
//quit if empty
if (empty ($newgroupname)) return ;
global $rpg_groups ;
foreach ( $rpg_groups as $group => $name ) {
	if ($name == $newgroupname) {
	$newgroup = $group ;
	continue ;
	}
}
//quit if the name does not have a group
if (empty ($newgroup)) return ;
$group_string=get_user_meta( $user_id, 'private_group',true);
$group_string = rtrim($group_string, '*');
$group_list = explode ('*' , $group_string) ;
//if exists, then dont need to add 
if (in_array ( $newgroup, $group_list)) {
	return ;
}
else {
	$group_list[] = $newgroup ;
	$new_list = implode ('*' , $group_list).'*' ;
	update_user_meta( $user_id, 'private_group', $new_list);
}

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Robin W.