Yes, use the same database. It makes installation easier, and there’s no reason not to use one database.
@davklaud – if you’re having trouble please start a new topic and list the version of the software you’re using. Thank you.
At this point, I would suggest upgrading to bbPress 1.0 and troubleshoot from there. No sense rehashing alpha bugs.
I think at this point I would just hide the display with CSS (I think Sam added a class for this select area too). This is much better than it was, for sure. It’s a valid point though.
Do you have an .htaccess file with rewrite rules in it, and are you using permalinks? Also, what version of bbPress did you install?
Can’t you edit the template files to put the Gravatar instructions in there for your installation?
If only that one table is open when MySQL crashes, you might have exactly this problem. Posts, users and topics are all stored in other tables, but the theme and plugins you’re using are indeed recorded in bb_topicmeta (in my 0.9.0.4 installation). So, if bb_topicmeta gets corrupted, I could see this happening. The database version is stored there as well, and if bbPress doesn’t find that, I think you would get the “upgrade the database” message as well.
I think the question is to find out why MySQL or the server is crashing.
What version of the software are you talking about Marcomail?
What is your question exactly? Do you have existing WordPress users and you’re wondering if they will be integrated with bbPress after integration?
If you post your email address here, we can close this topic and people can contact you directly.
I think you could do it with a plugin and a template, with no changes to bbPress at all. I get the vision and I think it’s pretty interesting.
Or, the FAQ here:
https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks
Note, for people who cannot get this to work on a 1&1 server, you need to put this at the top of your .htaccess file:
Options -MultiViews
The Options +MultiViews does not work (IME) at 1&1, so in addition to creating the rewrite rules manually as in the FAQ, you need to DISABLE MultiViews to make this work. Worked for me.
Can you explain exactly what you’re looking for here? I don’t see any friends function on areforum.org/forums/ (but I didn’t look too hard) but I am familiar with Facebook. What would you like to see in bbPress?
Frooyo, to answer your question, you can remove that dropdown as you did, but first you need to add the forum name as hidden value to the form. You can look at the source of a rendered page, find the select, grab the form field name and value, and just code that into the form as a hidden value. That way, when you submit the form, it looks the same to bbPress as if someone had actually selected one (of one) value for a forum name.
Mine looks like this (your forum ID might be different):
<input type="hidden" name="forum_id" value="1" />
Heh, Sam. It’s been like that since the 0.7 series I think. I’ve only ever had one forum, but it always showed the dropdown 
I used to fix it but them maintaining the changes across updates became a hassle.
Also, the width of the dropdown was never wide enough, in FF3 (and FF2) at least. Never really tested it. I can’t recall if it was fixable with CSS or if that width was in the template. I think in the template with a width=”xx” value.
Was going to take a screenshot just now, but I realized I took the select out in my installation, so people don’t have to choose, and hardcoded the value into the form. BUT, there is still a dropdown with just one value (if you have just one forum) when you’re logged in as keymaster and you have the option to move the topic to another forum. Probably shouldn’t even show the option to move it to another forum if there’s only one.
Weird that this is just coming up now. I always just thought it was normal.
I thought at first the permalink thing was because it was a Windows server maybe, but then I noticed these headers. Is it normal to have this many (seemingly) duplicate cookies?
http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/freelanceswitch.txt
I wasn’t even logged in.
I posted this a few weeks back. Someone was going to post a “how to” of exactly that:
bbPress, WPMU and BuddyPress Integration help is coming
Doesn’t look like the linked-to pages have been updated yet.
The allowable HTML tags are in an array called bb_allowed_tags. I think you could create a plugin that just empties that array.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/hooks-038-filters-docu#post-6740
I’ve only seen people requesting the opposite, allowing additional HTML markup, so I’m not sure exactly how to do this.
Thanks Sam. I didn’t know what was wrong, but I did see the typo.
I don’t think there was a 404.php template until the 1.0 version. What did you do to create one and how did you expect it to work?
You could always do a custom error page with Apache and .htaccess, but I understand you wanting to create a 404.php template page (like WordPress and bbPress in the 1.0 series.)
Hopefully this is only a typo here, not in your actual code:
global $bddb;
Should be $bbdb.
You have the latest stable bbPress then, 0.9.0.5? When you log in as keymaster, what version is shown at the bottom of the backend admin screens?
What is your database name and what is the table prefix from your bb_config.php?
I am guessing you need to change your
RewriteBase
from
RewriteBase /
to
RewriteBase /forum/
where forum is the name of your subfolder.
Sounds like there is a conflict between .htaccess files now that the forum is in a subfolder after being moved. Did you update your .htaccess rules for the new folder you installed the forum in?
That table name looks wrong (based on the table name from the Simple Online List you posted in the other topic). What version of bbPress are you using and how are you getting the avatars to show? Plugin?
monstet5_bbp01.bb_online
Looks like monstet5_bbp01 is the database name, and bb_ is the table prefix, and online is the table name created by the Simple Online List?
If that’s the case there, how do you have an options table here with no table prefix, just a database name?
Unless you used bbp01. as your table prefix instead of bbp01_?
