allow non-admins to create meeting rooms and manage recordings

Hi,

I was in a hurry so I hacked the code to get this result. The result is that meetings can be added and managed with the same permissions the recordings can be managed. To do so, I modified the file bigbluebutton-plugin.php.

First of all, I added two more shortcodes (add the following two lines after line 68):

add_shortcode('bigbluebutton_create_meetings', 'bigbluebutton_create_meetings_shortcode');
add_shortcode('bigbluebutton_list_meetings', 'bigbluebutton_list_meetings_shortcode');

Then, I added the following three functions (add this block after the function bigbluebutton_recordings_shortcode(), after line 382):

function bigbluebutton_create_meetings_shortcode() {
  if ( bigbluebutton_can_manageRecordings(get_bbb_role()) ) {
      return bigbluebutton_create_meetings();
  }
  //else {
  //    echo "You don't have permissions to access this page.";
  //}
}

function bigbluebutton_list_meetings_shortcode() {
  if ( bigbluebutton_can_manageRecordings(get_bbb_role()) ) {
      return bigbluebutton_list_meetings();
  }
  //else {
  //    echo "You don't have permissions to access this page.";
  //}
}

function get_bbb_role() {
    global $wpdb, $wp_roles, $current_user;
    $role = null;
    if( $current_user->ID ) {
        $role = "unregistered";
        foreach($wp_roles->role_names as $_role => $Role) {
            if (array_key_exists($_role, $current_user->caps)){
                $role = $_role;
                break;
            }
        }
    } else {
        $role = "anonymous";
    }

    return $role;
}

Now, you can simply create a page like this:

[bigbluebutton_create_meetings]

[bigbluebutton_list_meetings]

[bigbluebutton_recordings title="List of recordings"]

[bigbluebutton]

Allowed users will be able to manage meetings and recordings. Unregistered users will only be able to view recordings.

HTH
Nico

Thanks again Nico,

Great contribution, I’ll take a look. We have been working for a while on a different version based on custom content types. This will solve the problem with permissions too, but in the meanwhile your contribution could solve troubles other folks have now.

I’ll take a look and run some tests, your code may be part of the next release as well.

Thanks again