bbPress Support Forums » Topic: how the bbpress's front page controller works? http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-the-bbpresss-front-page-controller-works bbPress Support Forums » Topic: how the bbpress's front page controller works? en-US Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:22:22 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1 Michael Adams (mdawaffe) on "how the bbpress's front page controller works?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-the-bbpresss-front-page-controller-works#post-1377 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:33:46 +0000 Michael Adams (mdawaffe) 1377@http://bbpress.org/forums/ ear1grey,

Actually MultiViews looks for topic.php if it hasn't found topic/, but otherwise you're spot on.

You can also use RewriteRules which forces the server to do the same thing 'manually'.

hywl51,

When you request that URL, Apache's MultiViews or RewriteRules (whichever you are using) loads topic.php. That file then prepares a bunch of data and displays it with my-templates/topic.php (If that file exists) or bb-templates/topic.php (otherwise).

If you are familiar with the way WordPress works, it may not help much :) This is one area where WordPress and bbPress are quite different.

]]> ear1grey on "how the bbpress's front page controller works?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-the-bbpresss-front-page-controller-works#post-1358 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:34:23 +0000 ear1grey 1358@http://bbpress.org/forums/ You'll have noticed that there's no "topic" subdirectory inside your "forums" directory, so what I think you're asking is "is bbPress really serving a page that doesn't physically exist on my hard drive?"

The answer is yes, bbPress generates the page on the fly, so there is no stored page that has the content of that URL.

Apache's MultiViews option makes this happen because the server tries to find the best match to your URL. It looks first for forums and finds it, so then it looks for topic in forums, which doesn't exist, so it tries the next best thing, which is to look for an index of some kind, and it finds the bbPress index.php.

When bbPress runs (through index.php) it still sees the originally requested url, so the fact that it's a request for topic/242 is spotted by the code - it's a simple as stripping the integer value from the string and using that as the primary key for the database lookup.

Briefly, the sequence is that index.php loads bb-load.php, bb-load.php loads your config.php, which specifies where your DB is (so the content can be generated), config.php then loads bb-settings.php which is where most of the core request-processing is done.

At least... that's what I got from looking through the code :) A core dev. might be able to describe it better.

]]> hywl51 on "how the bbpress's front page controller works?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-the-bbpresss-front-page-controller-works#post-1355 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:55:11 +0000 hywl51 1355@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hi Atsutane

Let's explain the question clearly:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/242?replies=4

For url above, I want to know which page that url will finally located on. I guess all request will be first directed to index.php, but how about the next step and which page on earth will be directed to display the main body of page.

I am not native English, I don't know if I have made the question clear.

Thanks for you kind response.
hywl51

]]> Atsutane on "how the bbpress's front page controller works?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-the-bbpresss-front-page-controller-works#post-1290 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:32:34 +0000 Atsutane 1290@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Actually i don't know what do you mean by "how the bbpress front page works?" Do you mean the page structure or do you mean the url structure?

]]> hywl51 on "how the bbpress's front page controller works?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-the-bbpresss-front-page-controller-works#post-1289 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:47:15 +0000 hywl51 1289@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Thank Atsutane.

I set pretty permalink and got bbpress working.

I am a newbie for PHP and eager to know how the box work behind the page. Can you please give me some advice or link about the question I mentioned before--how the bbpress front page works?

Thanks
hywl51

]]> Atsutane on "how the bbpress's front page controller works?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-the-bbpresss-front-page-controller-works#post-1221 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:07:42 +0000 Atsutane 1221@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Most likely you forgot to set pretty permalink. http://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

]]> hywl51 on "how the bbpress's front page controller works?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-the-bbpresss-front-page-controller-works#post-1217 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:46:07 +0000 hywl51 1217@http://bbpress.org/forums/ hi,

I installed a bbpress with the wordpress integration. But when I access one topic like:
http://localhost/wordpress/bbpress/topic/1?replies=1
the browser display:
404 Not Found
The requested URL /bbpress/topic/1?replies=1 does not exist.

I don't know how the bbpress front page works, so I cann't find the real page the url above specify. Can someone give me some guids or any document about it. I browered and searched this site and found nothing about it.

Thanks
hywl51

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