is there a way to limit the maximum number of characters for a username?
ok i’ll stay away from that then, thanks.
rock & roll, gentlemen. that was it, bobbyh and yes i was using ie6 on win2k. thank you very much, i really love these forums!
is there a way to tweak this so you can simply list the latest posters on the front page (as username/profile link)?
i think that mysterious text appears when some kind of system text is missing:
for example, when i changed this line in login.php from:
<h2><?php isset($_POST) ? _e(‘Log in Failed’) : _e(‘Log in’) ; ?></h2>
to
<h2><?php isset($_POST) ? _e(‘Log in Failed’) : _e(”) ; ?></h2>
that crazy text appeared where ‘Log in’ should have been. hope this helps.
yeah, login with this info:
Your username is: supercoolman
Your password is: 1c46c2
You can now log in: http://www.manonfire.cc/sk6ers/
then click here:
http://www.manonfire.cc/sk6ers/topic.php?id=4&page&replies=3
it appears above the textarea box
one thing though, i just noticed. above all of my forms, the following text is appearing:
Project-Id-Version: POT-Creation-Date: PO-Revision-Date: 2007-07-23 13:42-0500 Last-Translator: NJO Language-Team: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
is there a way to get rid of that?
worked like a CHARM. thank you so much.
where can i change this default text for these links at the bottom of topic.php:
<?php topic_delete_link(); ?> <?php topic_close_link(); ?> <?php topic_sticky_link(); ?>
i can’t find it except in template-functions.php, which i won’t ever touch again 
YES!!! oh, you’ve made my week, thank you so much
the log in text is here in template-functions.php:
if ( ( is_topic() && bb_current_user_can( ‘write_post’, $topic->topic_id ) && $page == $last_page ) || ( !is_topic() && bb_current_user_can( ‘write_topic’, $forum->forum_id ) ) ) {
echo “<form class=’postform’ name=’postform’ id=’postform’ method=’post’ action='” . bb_get_option(‘uri’) . “bb-post.php’>n”;
bb_load_template( ‘post-form.php’, array(‘h2’ => $h2) );
bb_nonce_field( is_topic() ? ‘create-post_’ . $topic->topic_id : ‘create-topic’ );
if ( is_forum() )
echo “<input type=’hidden’ name=’forum_id’ value=’$forum->forum_id’ />n”;
else if ( is_topic() )
echo “<input type=’hidden’ name=’topic_id’ value=’$topic->topic_id’ />n”;
do_action(‘post_form’);
echo “n</form>”;
} elseif ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {
echo ‘<p>’;
printf(__(‘You must log in to post.’), attribute_escape( bb_get_option(‘uri’) . ‘bb-login.php’ ));
echo ‘</p>’;
}
do_action(‘post_post_form’);
}
this is the last piece of the puzzle for me 
sweet, thanks.
now the only one i’m getting hung up on is the “add new topic” page because the page url is http://www.example.com/bbpress/?new=1 and i can’t see which page that actually is referring to (i can usually see something like “/topic.php?id=35&page&replies=2” in the url to know what page to edit. i know the actual form itself resides in post-form.php but the <h2> i’m trying to alter isn’t actually in that file. same goes with the line breaks before it, they would go in the same place.
i can see where it is in the template-functions.php:
elseif ( is_bb_tag() || is_front() )
$h2 = __(‘Add New Topic’);
i simply can’t find it elsewhere in the code and i’m going mad and blind!
all your help is much appreciated.
ps: one more thing! do you know where would i change the “you must log in to post” text?
excellent! thank you very much.
one more question in regards to the same thing:
function post_form( $h2 = ” ) {
global $bb, $page, $topic, $forum;
$add = topic_pages_add();
if ( empty($h2) && false !== $h2 ) {
if ( is_topic() )
$h2 = __(‘Reply’);
elseif ( is_forum() )
$h2 = __(‘New Topic in this Forum’);
elseif ( is_bb_tag() || is_front() )
$h2 = __(‘Add New Topic’);
}
how do i change the text that says ‘add new topic’ like i did with your “post_form(‘Take some Pizza’)”. i can’t find where to change that.
also, if i wanted to add two line breaks above the <h2>, how would i do that other than in template-functions.php?
thanks so much for your help.
i got the upgrade to work, thank you for your advice. and your php code worked great. now the only thing i need to know is, how do i change the word “reply” to “post a reply” without altering the template-functions.php? or any other predetermined text for that matter?
i tried upgrading before and as you can imagine, it broke a lot my stuff so i had to go back down because i couldn’t figure out how to fix it all. and just so you know, i always upgrade my wordpress the day it comes out but this time i was a little out of my league with bbpress. i don’t waste people’s time, i’ve tried everything i know how.
i will try that right now, thank you.
can i still download 0.8.1? that’s the version i have and i want to do a diff on templates-functions.php
i didn’t know that 
i tried your code but i couldn’t get it to work because i didn’t fully understand it. i think i pieced it together wrong or left out something.
do i just paste the whole thing into topic.php? or some other file?
thanks. after much editing of template-functions.php, i got it to work. this is what did it:
function post_form( $h2 = ” ) {
global $bb, $page, $topic, $forum;
$add = topic_pages_add();
if ( empty($h2) && false !== $h2 ) {
if ( is_topic() )
$h2 = __(”);
elseif ( is_forum() )
$h2 = __(‘New Topic in this Forum’);
elseif ( is_tag() || is_front() )
$h2 = __(‘CREATE A THREAD’);
}
$last_page = get_page_number( $topic->topic_posts + $add );
if ( $page != $last_page ) {
echo “<h2 class=’post-form’>$h2</h2>n”;
}
else
echo “<h2 class=’post-form’>POST A REPLY</h2>n”;
