Adding invite url to chat

[Jenny]

Hi again! I have another question today that I couldn't really find googling. I understand that I can definitely manipulate the code in let's say the demo .jsp pages, however, my front-end is running off wordpress and using the wordpress plugin to allow my multisite members to create rooms. (They are digging it - btw!) However, they are looking for an invite link where they can copy that particular session link and share it, as you know wordpress is php and so there is a disconnect for me in terms of calling the <%invite%> string in php. I would be happy just to find a way to render it in the welcome string in chat, but am getting stuck. Any help would be so appreciated.

[Fred Dixon]

Hi,

>  I would be happy just to find a way to render it in the welcome string in chat

You can pass whatever text you want in the welcome message.  You would need to modify the PHP code for the WordPress integration to pass a link to the WordPress page where they would login.

Here's an example of how to pass a clickable link in the welcome message.

  For help on using BigBlueButton see these (short) <a href="event:http://www.bigbluebutton.org/content/videos"><u>tutorial videos</u></a>.

Regards,... Fred

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Jenny <thespiri...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi again! I have another question today that I couldn't really find googling. I understand that I can definitely manipulate the code in let's say the demo .jsp pages, however, my front-end is running off wordpress and using the wordpress plugin to allow my multisite members to create rooms. (They are digging it - btw!) However, they are looking for an invite link where they can copy that particular session link and share it, as you know wordpress is php and so there is a disconnect for me in terms of calling the <%invite%> string in php. I would be happy just to find a way to render it in the welcome string in chat, but am getting stuck. Any help would be so appreciated.

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[Jenny]

Thanks, Fred. Yeah, no, I probably didn't ask my question properly. My project just went live a few days ago and I'm tired! lol

What I'm asking is, there is an invite link available in the create.jsp in the packaged demos. Something like this:

String inviteURL = url + "create.jsp?action=invite&meetingID=" + URLEncoder.encode(meetingID, "UTF-8");
%>

And I understand that as it's written above, but for php it would be very different to get that to show on the chat welcome like:

Copy and paste this link to invite others to the class:<br> <%=inviteURL%>

So, I'm basically wondering where I might add the call in php in order for the invite link to show up. Gosh, I hope that makes sense now. Sorry!

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Jenny,

The API demos give examples (in JSP) of how to use the BigBlueButton API in various use cases.

For the invite URL, it's using the JSP page create.jsp and passing parameters action=invite and meetingID=<meeting_ID>.

In WordPress, it's much easier if you put in a URL into chat that leads to a landing page on your WordPress site.  At that page, you can use the BigBlueButton WordPress plugin to allow the user to enter their name and password to join a room.

The welcome message could read like

  To invite another user to join, have them visit http://my.site.com/join and enter password "joinNow" (no quotes).

> So, I'm basically wondering where I might add the call in php in order for the invite link to show up. 

You'll need to modify the code in the BigBlueButtonBN WordPress plugin.  Here's the function that creates a meeting

   https://github.com/blindsidenetworks/wordpress-plugin_bigbluebutton/blob/master/php/bbb_api.php#L126

Which is called here

  https://github.com/blindsidenetworks/wordpress-plugin_bigbluebutton/blob/master/php/bbb_api.php#L247

and here

  https://github.com/blindsidenetworks/wordpress-plugin_bigbluebutton/blob/master/bigbluebutton-plugin.php#L483

I'm not trying to point out the places to change; rather, give you a start on where to look at the code.  You'll want to trace through the steps that WordPress follows in the BigBlueButton plugin when creating a meeting.  This will help you understand where to modify the code to change the contents of the 'welcome' parameter.

Regards,... Fred

[Jenny]

OMG thank you, all of that is very helpful. You're right, it would be much easier to just add the join page. But because you did point out where I need to look, I think I can do that, instead, as that was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for your patience and help, Fred. You rock. :)