[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

1) An easy WYSIWYG editor in bbpress for normal users(frontend).

You can enable the TinyMCE Visual Editor with instructions shown here:

Enable Visual Editor

2) With an image “upload” feature, but is not working like an attachment like “GD bbPress Attachments”.

I’m only aware of the “GD bbPress Attachments” plugin that offers this for bbPress, you should be asking in their support forums for any issues relating to why this plugin doesn’t work for you.

3) All the uploaded images will be separated by folder(user name or individual name for an user).

bbPress does NOT support attachments or media uploads ‘out of the box’
I would also suggest you also contact the “GD bbPress Attachments” support forum to request any enhancements you would like to see in the plugin.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

Set WP_DEBUG to false define('WP_DEBUG', false); in your wp-config.php file, this is a known issue.

More info on this:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2309 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24169

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

If you only have a few forums you could design a page with each forum title and below each forum title use the following shortcode [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id]

e.g.

My Forums Page

My First Forum
[bbp-single-forum id=123]
My Second Forum
[bbp-single-forum id=456]
My Third Forum
[bbp-single-forum id=789]

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

bbPress doesn’t actually support the use of signatures ‘out of the box’.

What we can do though is still import that data and store it in the wp_usermeta table, then if you do add a plugin that supports signatures in bbPress you can then copy that data (Using phpMyAdmin for example) from your imported database to however that plugin supports signatures.

Simply add this field map:

// User Signature (Stored in usermeta)
$this->field_map[] = array(
	'from_tablename'  => 'FORUM_MEMBERS',
	'from_fieldname'  => 'M_SIG',
	'to_type'         => 'user',
	'to_fieldname'    => '_bbp_snitz_user_sig'
);

Thus once you (if you do) add a plugin to support signatures to can then query against the _bbp_snitz_user_sig field directly with MySQL and update your user profile fields.

I just added the above to the Gist also, you can see the changes via the ‘revisions’ link.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

And just because I could and it was quick and easy, here is a copy of the Snitz.php based on the latest Example.php with Robin’s fields mappings.

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/2f057071dd05f9758570

You can also compare the revisions (Seeing the changes made from the source Example.php)
https://gist.github.com/ntwb/2f057071dd05f9758570/revisions

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

One more thing, when making a custom importer always base it of the Example.php importer, I keep that updated with examples and any other changes I make for bbPress.

The latest (updated 3 days ago) is here:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/src/includes/admin/converters/Example.php

As Robin points out, you just delete/remove the sections or fields that are not applicable to your import e.g. ‘tags’ or if your database doesn’t include the ‘counts’ for topics in forums then remove that part in the forum section.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

Cool, I just edited a couple of the posts above to wrap some code in ‘code’ tags to make things a little clearer 🙂

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

@pratipghosh No, the process cannot be automated, you need to set it up manually.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

It sounds like you are looking for a plugin like Stream, I’m not sure if Stream supports bbPress but is the only plugin I can think of that sounds like what you are looking for.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/stream/

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

Sorry, I misread your post, I’ll take another look.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

Thanks, I’ll add the BBCode [video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video] as part of the vBulletin importer.

And yes, let me know how it goes.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

Sorry my dump wasn’t successful in helping you out here…

Your dump was fine, it was just for quicker for me to install the plugin and have the examples included, if I wasn’t so tired the other night I would have done that in the first place and not asked. 😉

Slug vs. stub, I missed that one, I tried your version on my test install and it works !! It converted forum / topics / replies. Thanks! Couple of issues, questions, comments…

Awesome

In WPS terminology, there’s one forum made of categories. They can be nested. Along with subforums, they may contain topics with replies. One of these cats may be made the “default category” which users will be prompted with when posting in the forum frontpage, that’s ‘symposium_cats.defaultcat’. If not set, the first of the list will be the default. I’m not sure what happens if two or more cats are made default…

Cool, for example per this picture is what you are saying if I understand correctly is that I could choose the ‘Sun Dreesses’ forum to be the default forum selected when clicking ‘New Toipic’ from the WPS forums hopme page it will default to showing the ‘Sun Dresses’ forum as the destination for my topic unless I select another forum?

If that is the case then we can ignore this as we do not have that functionality in bbPress.

‘Allow new topics’ will basically close the category to new topics. Likewise, in a topic there’s a checkbox to allow new replies or close the topic.

I already implemented this for topics and partially for forums, I will fix this for forums shortly.

‘remote_addr’ is for monitoring spammers, I don’t think it deserves much interest in importing forum content as it’s mainly a short-time asset.

We do use IP addresses for Akismet and spam protection, we have some upcoming updates for this that will also take into account the users existing history on the site and from emory this can include the users IP address so I will take a look and see what can be done to add support for IPv6 as currently we only support IPv4.

I’ll go through your callback functions tomorrow, but a quick comment about values in WPS: they are either ‘on’ or anything else, possibly not set, so it’s better to revert the switch and test against the “case ‘on’” and any other “default” ?

That is what I have done for closed topics and will do the same for closed forums.

The group forum post from my demo install was converted. In the list of topics it is indicated as ‘no forum’ which is true (as per my previous post). We should either create a forum (named like the group itself for instance) or discard group forums topics altogether (WHERE symposium_topics.topic_group != 0).

phpBB has a similar sceanrio for a special sticky post, it is not assigned a forum. bbPress supports topics not having a forum so this technically doesn’t break things but we don’t have a ‘view’ that can show us topic s that are not in a forum.

I haven’t tried the WPS groups but I will create one and see what we can (or cannot) do with them.

About importing users, you raise an interesting point. I’d like to understand if this tool is a converter or an importer. Being located in a folder called /converter/ I had assumed it should work within the same WordPress install and convert it from one plugin to another, but you seem to move it towards the import of data accross platforms. Incidentally, I have been wondering why I need to fill the ‘Database Settings’ with db name / user / password / prefix, while I’m converting an existing forum within the same base. I’m happy with both, although I would tend to consider that most WP-to-WP imports will be performed within the same site…?

I would say it is more importer than converter though interchanging those terms is not much of a stretch as we do not only import stuff we also convert stuff then import :/

In total aside from WPS the only other importers that are also plugins ontop of WordPress are Mingle and SimplePress, the other 23 in most sceanarios would be a seperate database from the WordPress database. To extend the same issue I stated previously on how to handle users the same case applies, you are not explicitly limited to adding the bbPress plugin to your existing WP/WPS install and importing your data, you can also create a fresh WordPress install with a fresh database and import your data into that. So in theory we could ‘hide’ the database settings IF we knew your intented scenario before the fact. It would be nice in a future iteration to make the importer a ‘step by step wizard’ and we could then do such things and many more things to make the process a little less daunting…

The other topics I’d like to bring at some point in our discussion are the attachments and the avatars. I’m not sure yet how bbPress handles attachments, for WPS they are physically stored in a location set from the “params” tab, and displayed either online or as links (depending on a setting). As far as avatars, once WPS is deactivated they are all gone, is anything possible or is this too dependent upon the plugin the admin may install for avatars ?

There is a post in the Kunena importer thread where @cybnet has written an attachment importer with details on how to change it for your own Kunena forum. The source is here and no doubt could be adapted for WPS.

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

Kunena converter for bbPress 2.4

https://github.com/cybnet/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress/blob/master/kunena-attachments-to-bbpress.php

Edit: I should have added that bbPress does not include support for attachments, there is one or two plugins that do add support for attachments so I would look to using one of those and use that plugins architecture to facilitate how the attachments are handled. We’d like to support attachments in bbPress ‘one day’ though we have some bigger implementation details to work out before we have a crack at this.

Avatars are a bit trickier as bbPress nor WordPress do not support custom avatars for user profiles out of the box. There are many plugins for this so at the moment this is not something we can support. We can’t make avatar import support the hundres of avatar plugins available.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

I just checked the difference between the current version included with bbPress and that version you linked above. The version included with bbPress has quite a few enhancements, password support, forum categories, author IP, closed topics, sticky topics and topic tag slugs.

The difference that you need is the BBCodes:

// This is what is currently included with bbPress for YouTube:

$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );

//And this is what we had in that custom linked version:

// Replace '[video=youtube;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );
		
// Replace '[video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video]' with '$2"
$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[video\=youtube_share;(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/video\]/', '$2', $vbulletin_markup );
// Replace '[SOUNDCLOUD]$1[/SOUNDCLOUD]' with '$1"
$vbulletin_markup = preg_replace( '/\[SOUNDCLOUD\](.*?)\[\/SOUNDCLOUD\]/', '$1', $vbulletin_markup );

So the addition of these two BBCodes:

[video=youtube_share;$1]$2[/video] and [SOUNDCLOUD]$1[/SOUNDCLOUD]

Do you know if both of these BBCodes are included with all vBulletin versions or are these custom BBCodes you manuallly created in your vBulletin install?

Either way I just updated that gist with the above BBCode that you should be able to download and test as you did 8 months ago, it has ‘all the things’ above included in it. 🙂

https://gist.github.com/ntwb/513187363f36b56ec77d

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

For reference the core SQL queries: (Don’t forget the table prefix e.g. wp_)

Forums:

SELECT 
symposium_cats.cid AS cid,
symposium_cats.cat_parent AS cat_parent,
symposium_cats.title AS title,
symposium_cats.stub AS stub,
symposium_cats.cat_desc AS cat_desc,
symposium_cats.listorder AS listorder 
FROM wp_symposium_cats AS symposium_cats

Topics

SELECT 
symposium_topics.tid AS tid,
symposium_topics.topic_category AS topic_category,
symposium_topics.topic_owner AS topic_owner,
symposium_topics.topic_post AS topic_post,
symposium_topics.topic_subject AS topic_subject,
symposium_topics.stub AS stub,
symposium_topics.allow_replies AS allow_replies,
symposium_topics.topic_sticky AS topic_sticky,
symposium_topics.topic_started AS topic_started,
symposium_topics.topic_date AS topic_date 
FROM wp_symposium_topics AS symposium_topics 
WHERE symposium_topics.topic_parent = 0

Replies

SELECT 
symposium_topics.tid AS tid,
symposium_topics.topic_category AS topic_category,
symposium_topics.topic_parent AS topic_parent,
symposium_topics.topic_owner AS topic_owner,
symposium_topics.topic_post AS topic_post,
symposium_topics.topic_started AS topic_started 
FROM wp_symposium_topics AS symposium_topics 
WHERE symposium_topics.topic_parent != 0 

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

Created a pull request https://github.com/Lagrou/wps_extends_bbp_converter/pull/1 🙂

WPSymposium – 1st pass update …
* Cleans up PHPDoc for WPSymposium Converter
* Fixes Forum slug field mapping
* Add Topics section
* Adds Reply Section
* Adds callback_topic_status for open or closed topics
* Adds callback_sticky_status for sticky topics
* Adds reserved callback callback_forum_type to be implemented
* Adds reserved callback callback_forum_status to be implemented

Per my previous comment we should be able to determine forum type and forum status.

I haven’t added a users section yet, need to think about this a little, there are two use cases, if you add bbPress to same WordPress install as you have used for WPS vs importing into a fresh WordPress install where WPS has never existed.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

Turns out when I said it was late, it was, I downloaded and installed the plugin 😉

Firstly for most forum importers I use a set of categories and forums based on the ‘Nested Set Model’, this gives a great hierarchy layout to test with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_set_model#Example

First issue (question) is, why the converter doesn’t find forums. Or at least doesn’t convert them.

For the ‘Forum slug’ you have slug it should be stub

Does WPS ‘pretty permalinks’ even work? I am guessing that’s what these are?

Once I changed that the forums imported fine with correct title, desc, parent, order, slug.

We don’t need to worry about counts as the bbPress repair tools will do this for us

Categories or Forums I am not sure of, to set a category in WPS I set the Allow new topics? field to no we can use this to decide if the bbPress forum will be a forum or category if this is indeed the intended purpose of this field.

I’ll go take a look at the topics and replies now…

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

Cool, glad you found a way to make it work for you 🙂

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

Ah cool… In a future I dream of it would be nice to migrate these importers to standalone WordPress importers so when you import Joomla to WordPress if you also want Kunena to bbPress then check a box… Not going to happen anytime soon, but one day once the core WordPress import and export gets some loving updates this should be a little easier to implement. 🙂

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

I don’t see this coming to bbPress in the near future, we do our best to support anonymous posting with an alias and email address but reserving a username against an email address is basically the same as registering on the site.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

@stagger-lee Thanks for the heads up and I’m glad you eventually got your site converted, hopefully we will get all these issues nailed down in the not to distant future so there will be a free open source importer/converter for Joomla’s Kunena forums to bbPress 🙂

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

Cool, I will take a closer look in the morning, it’s late here down under and the brain is to fuzzy to dive in right now 😉

Can you confirm which importer you used, did you import using the vBulletin3 or vBulletin importer and what is the exact version of the vBulletin forum you are importing from. I’ll try to take a closer look at those BBCodes and also make any updates as needed.

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

Awesome… It is late here and I will take a closer look in the morning 🙂

Any chance you could post an example database scheme layout (even better a MySQL export)

It would only need to have a couple of categories, couple of forums, couple of topics, couple of replies, a couple of topic categories, a couple of xyz etc?

I can read the database schema so much easier than trying to have a conversation trying to explain the DB schema 😉

That said a couple of quick points, we can join tables together or join the same table to filter topics from replies and replies from topics.

Most likely your ‘forums’ section isn’t quite right, again this will be an issue of just mapping the correct fields to the source database schema, likewise for topic parents, they will have one in the database schema somewhere.

Counts also do not matter, they help but are not essential, we have built in tools to recount this when needed.

I’m more than happy to take a look with you and add this to the growing collection of bbPress importers 🙂

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

@zefred I hate this issue, I hit the same problem myself last week. 🙁

The root of the issue is a row (in your case the 29299th reply) in the database has some issue. What these issues are I have not been able to work out, the data looks perfect to me and for some reason it causes the import to stop. Every time I come across this issue I analyse the row from the database to try and find what the cause may be and have yet to come up with anything. It is also non forum specific so could be phpBB, vBulletin, Invision etc.

The workaround is to delete that 29299th reply from the source database and try again.

I know this is not an ideal solution but until I can identify the issue I’m unable to make the importer ‘workaround’ that invalid data. 🙁

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

This is currently how bbPress works if you have ‘revisions’ enabled each time a topic or reply is edited a new log entry will appear as per your image.

We have a ticket somewhere in Trac to update this similar to the UI experience for WordPress post or page revisions, I just kind find it right at this minute 😉

Edit: Oops, your are displaying twice, give what Robin wrote above a try 😉

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 11 months ago]

Except for the default BBCode [b], [i], [u], [img], [url] etc the vBulletin importer only has [quote], [mention], [youtube] BBCodes added at this time. You would need to manually edit your topics and replies for any SoundCloud embeds.

To test this any further I will need your vBulletin version you importing from so I can take a closer look, firstly to see if I have a copy of a vBulletin ‘version xyz’ to test against and then to see if I can see any reason why it would not be importing everything correctly.