UUh... The DOwnload is dead.

GeoCities is dead too. 30 months ago it was up and running. Damn.

Edit: At the risk of looking sarcastic, or derailling this a little: Zaerl man, i really miss my Geocities page. I kept my "SunsetStrip" page for almost 14 years. Is it wrong to miss my animated Jawa gif ?

http://spectaclar.org is no longer online. Can someone post the code here or link to a working site? If I can find the code I would love to resurrect this project; that is unless someone has a better way of creating a single sign on setup for WP, bbPress, and MediaWiki.

As I said, I'd be more than happy for someone else to use my code as reference on how to implement such a feature, since it's pretty much just butchered up parts of core bbPress code, but as it stands I simply don't have the time to work on the plugin and guarantee it's to a production standard, paid or not.

As to the requesting login details later part, I think that was requested before, and I did look into doing it, but because of the way bbPress is structured internally, you have to bypass so many checks against the referring page and carry over the post data to be passed later on. Do-able yes, but not really a 5 minute job, since as far as I know you'd still need to re-do the post function as I did previously.

It's nice to know there's still interest in this though, and I'll look into trying to implement it more cleanly later on with requested features. Having pulled and learnt the login and post system once, it should be easier a second time. Really, really wish we had a bbPress codex, so it could be documented more.

I'd love to pay, and I will. You must consider nonetheless I live and work in colombia. My current salary is les than $5 an hour. And I can't even pay half that :( BUT! Im happy to give "donations" if the developer is ok. How much do you charge?

I've thought about anonymous, but that isn't the idea. If an account can be created, why not?

I will surely use instant pasword! thanks for that!

That gives me even more clear ideas about this.

The reply form in a topic, if a user is logged out. Should include login, password, and reply.
If the account exists, login and post. If it doesn't exist; ask for email, createaccount, login and post.

A special message could be shown. Your reply has been posted! And an account has been created for you. Thanks for joining our community.

What do you think about it?

Regarding waiting for the password over email - you can address that with this plugin! I use it on all my sites and can vouch for it:
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/

This may also simplify the registration process... I haven't used this one yet though:
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/openid/

Good luck!

So, as much as i Will test it. I don't think im using it in production enivonment yet.

But, my concept of a forum, the way I am conceiving it, designin it, and targeting it, REQUIRES this feature. I won't use it right now but I'm sure the lack of it will almost fully stop the growth of the site.

Simple as is, mi site "¿Cómo diablos.. ?" is targeted to solve basic questions to tech newbies in spanish, you can imagine there are a LOT of people, and grownups how are just getting to know a computer. And the process of registering, in a separate page, activating through email, and then asking some really basic question, it just really doesn't work.

What we've been using until now is a WordPress site, with reply to coment mail notification enabled. So they just ask, and get the answer to their mails. It's working ok. But we really think the right way of doing it is using a forum. Auto-creating an account when the user signs up could be incredibly useful for getting recurent visitors and building local support communities in common language.

Sorry for writing so much in such a bad english :P hope you understand.

I would love to see a plugin where after a non-logged in user attempts to submit a post, it then prompts them to login or create an account.

Functionally, it would work exactly how StreetEasy's forum system works.

Linked below is an example:

http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/15563-weird-floor-plans

Note how it displays the TEXTAREA prompting the user to contribute to the discussion and only once you click "submit" it checks to see if you're logged in. If not, it prompts you to login or create the account.

my-plugins/register-post/load.php:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Register & Post
Description: Allows a user to register and make a post at the same time.
Author: Kawauso
Version: Alpha
*/

// Add the post form
add_action( 'post_post_form', 'register_post_form' );

function register_post_form() {

	global $h2, $forum, $topic;

	if( bb_is_user_logged_in() )
		return;

	// Setup the register form

	$profile_info_keys = bb_get_profile_info_keys();

	unset( $profile_info_keys['first_name'], $profile_info_keys['last_name'], $profile_info_keys['display_name'], $profile_info_keys['occ'], $profile_info_keys['from'], $profile_info_keys['user_url'], $profile_info_keys['interest'] );

	$bb_register_error = new WP_Error;

	$user_login_error = $bb_register_error->get_error_message( 'user_login' );

?>
	<style type="text/css">p#post-form-forum-container{display:none}</style>
	<form class="postform post-form" id="postform" method="post" action="<?php bb_uri( 'my-plugins/register-post/create.php', null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_FORM_ACTION )?>">
	<h2 class="postform">Register and post?</h2>
	<fieldset>
<table width="100%">
	<tr class="form-field form-required required<?php if ( $user_login_error ) echo ' form-invalid error'; ?>">
		<th scope="row">
			<label for="user_login"><?php _e('Username'); ?></label>
			<?php if ( $user_login_error ) echo "<em>$user_login_error</em>"; ?>
		</th>
		<td>
			<input name="user_login" type="text" id="user_login" size="30" maxlength="30" value="<?php echo $user_login; ?>" />
		</td>
	</tr>
<?php

if ( is_array($profile_info_keys) ) :
	foreach ( $profile_info_keys as $key => $label ) :
		$class = 'form-field';
		if ( $label[0] ) {
			$class .= ' form-required required';
		}
		if ( $profile_info_key_error = $bb_register_error->get_error_message( $key ) )
			$class .= ' form-invalid error';

?>

	<tr class="<?php echo $class?>">
		<th scope="row">
			<label for="<?php echo $key?>"><?php echo $label[1]?></label>
			<?php if ( $profile_info_key_error ) echo "<em>$profile_info_key_error</em>"; ?>
		</th>
		<td>
			<input name="<?php echo $key?>" type="text" id="<?php echo $key?>" size="30" maxlength="140" value="<?php echo $$key?>" />
		</td>
	</tr>

<?php

	endforeach; // profile_info_keys
endif; // profile_info_keys

?>
</table>

<br />

<?php
	bb_load_template( 'post-form.php', array('h2' => $h2) );
	bb_nonce_field( bb_is_topic() ? 'create-post_' . $topic->topic_id : 'create-topic' );
	if ( bb_is_forum() ) {
		echo '<input type="hidden" name="forum_id" value="' . $forum->forum_id . '" />' . "\n";
	} elseif ( bb_is_topic() ) {
		echo '<input type="hidden" name="topic_id" value="' . $topic->topic_id . '" />' . "\n";
	}
	echo "\n</fieldset>\n</form>\n";

}

my-plugins/register-post/create.php:

<?php

require_once('../../bb-load.php');

$profile_info_keys = bb_get_profile_info_keys();

unset( $profile_info_keys['first_name'], $profile_info_keys['last_name'], $profile_info_keys['display_name'], $profile_info_keys['occ'], $profile_info_keys['from'], $profile_info_keys['user_url'], $profile_info_keys['interest'] );

$user_login = '';
$user_safe = true;

$bb_register_error = new WP_Error;

if ( $_POST && 'post' == strtolower($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']) ) {
	$_POST = stripslashes_deep( $_POST );
	$_POST['user_login'] = trim( $_POST['user_login'] );
	$user_login = sanitize_user( $_POST['user_login'], true );
	if ( $user_login !== $_POST['user_login'] ) {
		$bad_input = true;
		if ( $user_login )
			$bb_register_error->add( 'user_login', sprintf( __( "%s is an invalid username. How's this one? <strong>%s</strong>" ), esc_html( $_POST['user_login'] ), $user_login ) );
		else
			$bb_register_error->add( 'user_login', sprintf( __( '%s is an invalid username.' ), esc_html( $_POST['user_login'] ) ) );
	}

	foreach ( $profile_info_keys as $key => $label ) {
		if ( is_string($$key) )
			$$key = esc_attr( $$key );
		elseif ( is_null($$key) )
			$$key = esc_attr( $_POST[$key] );

		if ( !$$key && $label[0] == 1 ) {
			$bad_input = true;
			$$key = false;
			$bb_register_error->add( $key, sprintf( __( '%s is required' ), $label[1] ) );
		}
	}

	if ( !$bad_input ) {

		// Invoke non-user post checks here
		if ( !$post_content = trim($_POST['post_content']) )
			bb_die(__('You need to actually submit some content!'));

		if ( isset($_POST['topic']) && $forum_id = (int) $_POST['forum_id'] ) {

			$topic = trim( $_POST['topic'] );

			if ('' == $topic)
				bb_die(__('Please enter a topic title'));

		} elseif ( isset($_POST['topic_id'] ) ) {
			$topic_id = (int) $_POST['topic_id'];
			bb_check_admin_referer( 'create-post_' . $topic_id );
		}

		if ( !topic_is_open( $topic_id ) )
			bb_die(__('This topic has been closed'));

		// Invoke registration
		$user_id = bb_new_user( $user_login, $_POST['user_email'], null );
		if ( is_wp_error( $user_id ) ) { // Error creating user

			foreach ( $user_id->get_error_codes() as $code )
				$bb_register_error->add( $code, $user_id->get_error_message( $code ) );

			if ( $bb_register_error->get_error_message( 'user_login' ) )
				$user_safe = false;

		} elseif ( $user_id ) { // Registration success

			foreach( $profile_info_keys as $key => $label )
				if ( strpos($key, 'user_') !== 0 && $$key !== '' )
					bb_update_usermeta( $user_id, $key, $$key );

			do_action('register_user', $user_id);

			// Create the current user object

			$wp_auth_object->set_current_user( $user_id );

			$bb_current_user = $wp_auth_object->current;

			// Do last minute post/topic checks
			if ( !empty($topic) && $forum_id = (int) $_POST['forum_id'] ) {

				if ( !bb_current_user_can('write_posts') )
					bb_die(__('You are not allowed to post.  Are you logged in?'));

				if ( !bb_current_user_can( 'write_topic', $forum_id ) )
					bb_die(__('You are not allowed to write new topics.'));

				if ( !bb_current_user_can( 'write_topic', $forum_id ) )
					bb_die(__('You are not allowed to write new topics in this forum.'));

				bb_check_admin_referer( 'create-topic' );
				$topic_id = bb_new_topic( $topic, $forum_id, $tags );

			}

			if ( !bb_current_user_can( 'write_post', $topic_id ) )
				bb_die(__('You are not allowed to post in this topic.'));

			// Create the new post
			$post_id = bb_new_post( $topic_id, $_POST['post_content'] );

			$tags  = trim( $_POST['tags']  );
			bb_add_topic_tags( $topic_id, $tags );

			$link = get_post_link( $post_id );

			$topic = get_topic( $topic_id, false );

			if ( $topic->topic_posts )
				$link = add_query_arg( 'replies', $topic->topic_posts, $link );

			do_action( 'bb-post.php', $post_id );

			if ( $post_id )
				wp_redirect( $link );
			else
				wp_redirect( bb_get_uri(null, null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_HEADER) );
			exit;
		}
	}
}

// If you've reached this point, there must have been an error

$user_login_error = $bb_register_error->get_error_message( 'user_login' );

if( empty( $user_login_error ) ) // For some reason, error strings are not always available (i.e. for invalid emails)
	$user_login_error = __( 'Something went wrong! Check what you entered and try again.' );

bb_die( $user_login_error );

Edit: Nevermind, being a bit silly there, newly generated users must have the same capabilities as a standard user anyway.

Which brings me to my second thought; allowing such a registration system would be an open invitation for a database full of once used member accounts, as well as inviting in the slashdot paradigm. I don't want anonymous cowards *anywhere* on any site I participate on.

That said mind you, I'd give the first part a shot if I could get my head around the kind of form layout you'd need to use.

I Wonder if this has got any progress in v1.0.2 or if it is easiy doable by templates.

I was thinking about this and it would be ideal to ask for Name, Email, and Post, when asking for a reply, if it's a new user, he will be registered as described above, if it matches an existing user, it'll ask for password before posting.

It would be a killer feature for me.

wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.5.tar.gz
wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.5.tar.gz

tar -xzvf subversion-1.6.5.tar.gz
tar -xzvf subversion-deps-1.6.5.tar.gz
cd subversion-1.6.5

./configure --prefix=$HOME --without-berkeley-db  --with-ssl --with-editor=/usr/bin/vim  --without-apxs --without-apache
make
make install

Then you are ready to use it via the command line svn

If PATH is omitted, the basename of the URL will be
used as the destination.

That means it creates "trunk" for you, which you don't want.

Just delete the trunk directory and cd into the forum directory again, and run this whole thing:

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/ .

There is a / then a [space] then a period at the end there. That will put it into the current directory with no trunk directory being created.

___________

I just did that, it worked, but now what I have is a folder called "trunk" in my /forum/ folder. All the bbpress files are in /forum/trunk/ but I was hoping they would just be in /forum/. So I'm not sure what to do next.

Sorry I'm entirely new to using svn....

Thanks

require_once('/path/to/bbpress/bb-config.php');

I would use the full server path to the bb-config.php file, not a relative path like ./bbpress/bb-config.php (rumor is that full paths work better) and not a URL like http://www.example.com/bbpress/bb-config.php (URLs won't work at all here).

That's it, just one step. Good luck.