Simple Forums Integration

[s1r0n]

hi Folks. I need S2 to be integrated with simple forums. just simple. person registers and subscribes, then given a certain user level in the forums (which are on a different blog, same network). is this possible, easy? probable?

[Eduan]

Yes it is possible as long as you customize it correctly.
I'm not sure if it's easy as I have never done it but I think it's hard as you need to know your way around Wordpress and HTML. Though maybe it's easier than I think .

[Cristián Lávaque]

Well, s2Member in a multisite network, will not work across the blogs in it. Each blog will have a separate instance of s2Member, independent of the others. So you can't have an access restriction from one blog to work on another one.

[s1r0n]

actually, you can. I have a multisite installationa and I control all access to materials through a single blog. all a user has to do is login to the current site to have the appropriate permissions replied

ask me how I do it. haha

[Cristián Lávaque]

lol nice.

Had to do some customization?

[helenwlee]

actually, you can. I have a multisite installationa and I control all access to materials through a single blog. all a user has to do is login to the current site to have the appropriate permissions replied

ask me how I do it. haha

OK, I´m asking! This is what I need. We are making a course website, multisite WP and instead of having all the different courses on one site we want to have each course on a subdomain, accessible as a additional purchase (using Custom Capabilities) independent of membership level and for one level all those courses included. Problem is to handle users across the network so they don´t have to re-register or re-log in to access those sub-domains they have the right to view.

They will have no rights to create their own blogs so the blogfram solution is not applicable and also doesn´t handle users across the network if I understand correctly.

What´s the (stable!) workaround for this?

Been testing so far 4 plug-ins with no good result

[Harty]

actually, you can. I have a multisite installationa and I control all access to materials through a single blog. all a user has to do is login to the current site to have the appropriate permissions replied

ask me how I do it. haha

Great you found a solution, but what is the point of your post?

[s1r0n]

the point of my post was to ask if if was possible to integrate s2 wit simpleforums. the point of the other post was to say I know a way to control access to content. i don't have a solution to the simpleforums problem.

[SantiAzpi]

Hi s1r0n,

If what you refer to as "simple forums" is Simple:Press, then I have had some success on development, and according to This post: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=14128#p34054 other people too.

So if you have manage to integrate the membership across the multisite install, there should not be any problem assigning roles to access levels in Simple:press then...

It looks to me it would help if you provide more information on what you have accomplished and what exact forum you want to integrate.

And yes, I would also love to know too how you accomplished the multisite installation with access control from only one blog.

[texaspike]

s1r0n-

I've been struggling with the same problem as helenwlee...created a paid fishing club site for students, with each chapter having it's own subdomain. I need the kids to be able to have the same access on the subdomain that they do after registering and paying on the main site through s2m.

Please help!!!

-Thomas