bbPress support forums Topic: how the bbpress's front page controller works?

bbPress support forums Topic: how the bbpress's front page controller works? http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Topic: how the bbpress's front page controller works? en Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:30:55 +0000 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 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 <code>MultiViews</code> option makes this happen because the server tries to find the best match to your URL. It looks first for <code>forums</code> and finds it, so then it looks for <code>topic</code> in forums, which doesn't exist, so it tries the next best thing, which is to look for an <code>index</code> of some kind, and it finds the bbPress <code>index.php</code>. When bbPress runs (through index.php) it still sees the originally requested url, so the fact that it's a request for <code>topic/242</code> 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 <code>index.php</code> loads <code>bb-load.php</code>, <code>bb-load.php</code> loads your <code>config.php</code>, which specifies where your DB is (so the content can be generated), <code>config.php</code> then loads <code>bb-settings.php</code> 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: <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/242?replies=4" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/242?replies=4</a> 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. <a href="http://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks</a> 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: <a href="http://localhost/wordpress/bbpress/topic/1?replies=1" rel="nofollow">http://localhost/wordpress/bbpress/topic/1?replies=1</a> 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