zappoman

Ahhh… I figured out what MY problem was. I had a plugin that was adding a new line in EVERY php resource request… this was breaking the tiny_mce_gzip.php code and resulting in no JS being returned when the browser loaded the page.

Tough little bugger to track down!

I’ve played around with this a little and I kinda have it working, but not quite the way I’d like.

I am trying to integrate the following…

1) WordPressMU
2) Instance of WordPress 2.1.2 running with a “wp_” prefix. This happens to be a “sitewide tags” blog (see the mu forums to know more about this).
3) A second instance of WordPress 2.1.2 with a “events_wp_” table prefix, used as a special site news and events blog (different from the main MU blog).
4) bbPress

I’ve got everything using the same cookies, so single login works across them all. And the user tables are working pretty well.

EXCEPT… using Dan’s ‘default_role’ suggestion exactly as above, I couldn’t access the admin backend to my 2nd WordPress instance (with the “events_wp_” table prefix).

I looked at the code and realized it was because even though admin was a user it was only given ‘default_role’ rights.

I got around this problem by extended Dan’s hack a little more. Namely, I added the following code…


if ( ! is_array($this->caps) ) {
$this->caps = array();
$this->roles = array();
$this->set_role(get_settings('default_role'));
}

if ($this->user_login == 'admin')
{
$this->add_role('administrator');
}

This works ok, but not great. For example, I’m not really able to use any other roles for users.

In looking at the code I wonder if the right fix is to adjust the $wpdb->prefix variable to match the prefix of the user table and user meta data. But my first attempt at modifying the “cap_key” and “role_key” didn’t seem to work. Is there a good source of documentation on how roles and capabilities are handled in the code base?

Couple suggestions… First of all, if you want to use the “Post via E-mail” feature built in to WordPress, then you have to use a POP3 server that is not running over SSL.

Gmail only supports access to POP via SSL.

So the first thing you need to do is to go find a wordpress plugin that support POPvSSL. A great choice appears to be “postie” which also supports a ton of other great features.

Look for it here… http://postie.economysizegeek.com/

Second, if you are having problems with this on a Win32 server machine, your problem may be related to these PHP bugs…

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29036
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=36496

Apparently php_imap.dll doesn’t work with php_openssl.dll on Win32.

The bug appears to have been fixed in PHP builds after Feb. 19, 2007.

Good Luck.