[djuggler]

My dbs are limited to 100MB and I’ve watched a spam attack add 20-40MB in a heartbeat on WordPress alone. Granted part of the solution is having SpamKarma purge more frequently.

I was concerned that if I added bbpress to the same database, and if it received any significant traffic, that I would find myself faced with running out of space in my database.

Naturally, the solution seems to be to have wordpress and bbpress use two separate databases but pull user information from the wordpress db. (Or find a hosting provider that doesn’t limit the db size to 100mb)

[howtogeek]

I’ve been struggling with exactly the same problem myself.

I tend to think that the bbPress profile is the correct place to store and edit this information. Here’s what I see as the requirements:

1) Plugin for WordPress to redirect the “Profile Edit” link to the bbPress profile edit screen, as well as link the profile view to the bbPress profile view.

2) Plugin for bbPress to allow for editing of WordPress profile fields as well as a customizable list of new/extra fields. I believe that there is a plugin that does at least part of this already.

3) The bbPress plugin would need to either know about WordPress settings like notifications, or would need to run the wordpress plugin filters that apply to profile edit. I’m not sure that the latter would be easy.

[Vili]

If you have integrated your bbPress with WordPress, you must have at least once thought about the problem of your users having two separate interfaces for modifying their profile settings.

Furthermore, if your bbPress and WordPress both use a good deal of plugins, you end up with a situation where some settings (say, email notifications for new WordPress posts) have to be set on a WordPress profile page, whereas other settings (for example email notifications for new forum topics or replies) must be set through the bbPress interface. This will confuse your average user so much that they will simply not use any of your website’s fancy features at all.

It would therefore be good to have just one user profile page that would merge everything from the two together. Preferably, this should also be a page that could be displayed within the website template, so that it would really look like being part of the website, and not behind a completely different-looking interface as is the case with WordPress user pages. (Those also scare people.)

Would this be doable?

I am personally not much of a coder, so I don’t know all the details of what is going on when the WordPress and bbPress profile pages get served, and how various plugins get to modify that process by adding new fields and buttons on those pages.

I assume, however, that the most difficult thing for a “one profile page to rule them all” sort of an approach that I am thinking about here would be to keep track of additions to those profile pages. It should somehow be able to notice that some new bbPress or WordPress plugin has modified one of those user profile pages, and incorporate those changes to the merged profile page that is actually displayed to the end user.

I would love to hear some input from those of you who know more than I do about the behind-the-scenes activity when it comes to user profiles in bbPress and WordPress. What do you think, how difficult would a plugin like this be to code?

[maphew]

Hi All,

When I go to “bbpress dashboard > Content > Akismet Spam” I’m told “The API key you have specified is invalid. Please double check the $bb->akismet_key variable in your config.php file. If you don’t have an API key yet, you can get one at WordPress.com.”

Which I’ve checked and double-checked. I’m positive I’m putting the same string in that I see when I login to http://wordpress.com/profile/

When I check my wordpress blog, running on a different host and different domain from bbpress, the same key is there and wp reports the akismet plugin is working.

Another post from 6 months ago said replacing single quotes with double quotes in config.php fixed the problem for them. Doesn’t work for me though. http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/146?replies=4

I’m running bbpress 0.8.1 on Sourceforge.net.

Any ideas what’s wrong?

thanks!

-matt

[tecfre]

finally i was able to do it myself .. hehehe … Still more things need to be added. it was all from avatar_upload plugin and memberlist plugin. I just tried to modified some code and it worked …

check out

http://www.tecfre.com/memberlist/ (hosted on wordpress)

http://www.tecfre.com/forum/mlist.php (on forum)

[davidbaldiwn]

This is what the config file looks like:

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘turner_wrdp3’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘***********’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘*****************’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// If your bbPress URL is http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ , the examples would be correct.

// Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL.

// Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here.

$bb->domain = ‘http://forums.ppacp.org’; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com’

// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. ‘/’ is fine if the site is in root.

$bb->path = ‘/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Professional Photographers Againsts Copying Photographs’;

// This must be set before running the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘*********@ppacp.org’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = -4;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ‘*************’; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave the rest as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://ppacp.org’; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com’

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://ppacp.org’; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com’

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

[davidbaldiwn]

Are you supposed to install bbPress with the same or different Database information as WordPress?

I want to integrate the two, so I used the same database information as wordpress.

When I try to run the install, I get this error:

“Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bb_install_header() in /home/turner/public_html/forums/bb-admin/install.php on line 11”

Any ideas?

[Vili]

Hmm. Actually, the code that I copy-pasted from the above seems to be different from what I have on my hard drive. At least a number of “<p>” tags appear to be missing.

[Vili]

There’s something odd there, as the code is 193 lines long, i.e. the line 193 includes only “?>”.

Anyway, I’ll send you the code in a sec by email.

[Vili]

Ah. Yes, I use “require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’);” in my bbPress config.php.

[djuggler]

Has anyone tried to do a WordPress / BBPress integration using 2 separate databases?

Is it possible? Any caveats?

Doug

[Null]

The TRAC version already uses jQuery.

[fel64]

Yup. I think it is, I heard about it in the context of bb a while back. No news, no secrets, although there seems to be some code for view management in the bb-includes which may mean that a proper views system will be introduced (… sometime).

[c00l2sv]

WordPress 2.2 is out.

The team worked hard so they finally moved to jQuery wich I think is one of the major feature in 2.2 version. I wonder if bbPress will follow his cousin? By the way, is there any news about bbPress… Any secrets revealing?

[atomastro]

Vili, sorry for the confusion caused, what I am asking is how you are including the headers. You cannot use WordPress functions without WordPress running. Some where along the line you are including something that loads the WordPress system. Are you using the wp-blog-header.php in the bbPress config.php method from https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/ or something different?

[fel64]

Why don’t you open the file, go to line 193, and systematically take out one $ at a time until it works?

[dyaddydad]

WordPress. I have deleted Dan’s. When I try to activate it or on every single page when it is activated. Can you e-mail me the code so that I have the exact version or post it in the plugins bit. Awgandrews ATHIS gmail.com .

Same again through:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /homepages/27/d120217802/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/cmdavatar.php on line 193

I haven’t intergrated it with bbpress yet, but since I can’t get it to activate, this doesn’t seem to be the problem.

Thanks!

[sulcalibur]

Thank you!

First time I’m using BBpress but I’m REALLY fond of WordPress so I hope that this can be a good relationship with the too.

[netclift]

This type of feature is one that you see everyday users ask for all the time, but folks developing web forums tend to dislike because it can significantly complicate the administrator’s life with mailserver issues.

Sending out e-mail digests or alerts about new posts one-way is usually quite standard.

However, if someone really wants something open source that works two-way (instead of being locked into Google/YahooGroups or lacking a true web forum look like Mailman or Sympa), try GroupServer: http://groupserver.org (Note that it is Zope-based)

We use it here: http://forums.e-democracy.org

Steven Clift

E-Democracy.Org

http://e-democracy.org/blog – Happy WordPress users.

[Vili]

I thought this pretty much explained it?

Basically, I use WordPress headers and footers throughout both WordPress and bbPress, with my headers and footers containing all the layout design, and whatever is in between only being the actual content to be shown (in the case of a post the post loop, in the case of a page the page loop, in the case of a forum page the forum loop, etc.).

[Shawn Maddock]

Okay, more info:

• In Firefox, when I log into bbPress, I am logged in, but the log in form does not auto refresh to “Welcome, username! View your profile…” Same problem when I log out, it does not refresh to “Register or login…”

• In Safari and IE 7, it does refresh when logging into bbPress, but not when logging out.

• In any browser, it does not refresh when logging into WordPress, but does when logging out.

• In all instances if I hit refresh/reload, it displays the correct message.

• Cookie integration between WordPress and bbPress is otherwise successful, once I’m logged into one, I’m logged into both, and vice-versa.

• Identical problems on multiple computers/ users.

[Shawn Maddock]

I’m starting to wonder if my problem is different, as it is also occurring with a WordPress install on the same server. WordPress was fine until I did a clean install with WP/BB in the same database. I’m guessing it’s a cookie issue? An identical bbPress install on a different server works fine, reset FF, etc.

[bbolman]

very sleek. I’m a big fan.

[atomastro]

Vili what are you including where to get both systems to run? I did not see that in your post.

[detrom]

Really good work!!!