Comments on: External DBs

By: bbPress » Blog

bbPress » Blog — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:11:17 +0000

[...] UPDATE: I should have mentioned Matt’s external user database update from a few months ago. It allows you to pull user and user meta information from a separate database. All you have to do is define USER_BBDB_NAME, USER_BBDB_USER, USER_BBDB_PASSWORD, and USER_BBDB_HOST. [...]

By: Rich Boakes

Rich Boakes — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:41:51 +0000

I have the trunk build updating over SVN and would like to try integrating BBpress a bit more… so is the db layer interface defined/described anywhere? Any pointers to rudimentary words or a hello db world example would be like golddust.

By: Tinus

Tinus — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:00:10 +0000

@ Simon

That’s what Google tries to do with their Google Account and Microsoft with Passport. When you know what people do online you can make big bucks. Who will trust an unknown open source organization that can see what you do online? Noone. Even when they swear they will never use this information to make money.

By: MickeMus

MickeMus — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 07:50:43 +0000

Matt, how do we make use of this??? Also, I can’t find any support forum for bbPress!!! Is there one? Else, would it be too much trouble to set one up? The way the forums work for WordPress is awesome. So many people contributing… it could be contagious!!!

Cheek up… great work!!

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:11:06 +0000

it could be called something like uPress where “u” stands for “universal” and also for “you” !

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:09:54 +0000

I have an idea: why don’t you develop an open source universal user registration system, easy to use and that could become an internet standard that all the best open source applications could use? Something as great as wordpress, easy to use and to implement by third party developers. Every software could hook up to this for user data. Forums, blogs, newsletters, galleries ecc…
Also wordpress an bbpress.

What do you think?

Simon

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:38:35 +0000

Yeah I’m going to try that…
Oh I also noticed there is a theme is bbpress!

By: jazzle

jazzle — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:14:37 +0000

Hi Matt,
perhaps it’s not, but it make bbPress the ideal choice when integrating a forum into another web-app…

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:48:37 +0000

Sorry jazzle, that’s not what this feature is intended for.

By: jazzle

jazzle — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:31:27 +0000

Given that we cannow provide a value for 'CUSTOM_USER_TABLE' it would be really useful if we could also provide the names of the relevant fields in the other DB. For example, the other DB which I want to use is of the form users(id, username, password, ...) and so I can't use this method.