[Doobus]

I’m mediocre at best when it comes to php, so I’m a bit confused as to what to call, all I really know are the functions for WordPress, any code suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[talbina]

Come on in guys .

[talbina]

Hello people,

It’s been a while since i posted here.

I just had this great idea, and im over excited at the moment.

A Social Network using bbpress/wordpress mu.

THE BIG Q – Can it be done?

Im not a developer or designer or anything. But look here.

What do i mean by a social network? It would be more of a “professional” one. You can view examples here http://www.cafemom.com/ and http://www.gooruze.com/.

The 2 biggest sections are forums and blogs. Each member would have a blog, and there would be a forum for everyone.

So here:

[1] Each person has a blog. This is using wordpress mu.

[2] Forums. This is using bbpress.

[3] Profile picture is your avatar. But can i have some of the avatars of the members on the front page like this http://microblogr.com/ and http://www.gooruze.com/ ?

[4] A recent activity section, where it shows all the recent activities of all the members, ie; blog posts, forum posts, and comments on blogs. Can this be done?

[6] The biggest question is this – Can the same login be used for all this? Is this what you call wordpress integration with bbpress?

[7] Private messaging. This can be done with bbpress.

[8] Groups. Can this be done?

[9] AND THE BIGGEST OF ALL – Can “friends” be made for a member, where you click his/her profile and friends are listed?

Would you think this would be overtly expensive? How much do you think it can be done for, with a nice clean simple design like this http://dfckr.com/?

***OR***

Or, shall forget about all this and get a free social network like this http://www.adgabber.com/ from http://www.ning.com ?

It just seems too bulky, and i won’t be able to customize it(i mean me pay someone do it). Only the theme would be customizable.

Thanks a lot everyone.

[anasohbet]

thanks mdawaffe…

[Sam Bauers]

user_nicename isn’t what you are after. You want the display_name column. user_nicename in WordPress is a URL safe version of the username. Future versions of bbPress will utilise this field for that purpose too.

[hishamabu]

This has now been fixed. Again, thank you livibetter.

[hishamabu]

Thank you so much for your response livibetter, but I’m not getting this at all. I’m not a programmer/coder by any stretch of the imagination. My abilities go no further than copy & pasting code.

With regards to Unix sockets, I’m on a Dreamhost hosting package if that helps at all.

Can you please tell me how the trac thing work?

Thank you again.

[livibetter]

You need this https://trac.bbpress.org/attachment/ticket/745/745c.diff

and don’t use unix socket.

If you have to use unix socket, read https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cannot-select-db-error?replies=11#post-12434

[hishamabu]

Hello,

I am trying to install bbPress onto the same Database I have installed WordPress. But I keep getting an error (see below).

As far as I’m aware I have filled in the appropriate config.php information. With the same information that I’ve got on the WordPress wd_config.php.

But still no luck. Both WordPress and bbPress have been downloaded from the official websites merely a few days back.

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) in /home/.stinkybutt/vault21/ibnmuslim.com/abdi/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/.stinkybutt/vault21/ibnmuslim.com/abdi/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

I really do appreciate any and all help with regards to this matter.

Kindest regards

Hisham

[livibetter]

If you just call the template functions of WordPress, that won’t work. I meant get the part you need. (sorry for misleading)

PS. If you still can’t get it work, please paste your code and error message, if any.

[Trent Adams]

bbPress and WP are easily integrated so that bbPress uses the wp_users table in the database, so what you are trying to accomplish is very easy to do. As for embedding gallery into WP, from personal experience it works fine and permalinks are configurable. I would check https://wordpress.org/support/ for more data on that though, but integrating the 3 should be pretty easy and straight forward! Integration is covered in the “FAQ” link of this forum!

Trent

[refueled]

I have just released my latest bbPress theme: Misty Morning.

Demo

Download

I also have a matching WordPress theme:

Demo

Download

Let me know what you think!

[toxicshocktv]

I actually already tried that. Here’s my config as of now:

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

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

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

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

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

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

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

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://www.toxicshock.tv/board/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Toxic Shock TV Forum’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘toxicshocktv@gmail.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based 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 = 0;

// 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: ’64f1b30caafe’

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

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

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

$bb->wp_home = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

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

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

?>

[livibetter]

I think you can just copy/use WordPress’ excerpt generating function, just a thought but I know that will work.

[toxicshocktv]

Installed bbpress on the same site as an existing wordpress install http://www.toxicshock.tv – The board is located at http://www.toxicshock.tv/board/ . earlier today everything was dandy, of course I had just installed the software, all the logins and postings were working great. Dropped in a template, everything still good. Came back later, tried to login, and the forum redirects me to the blog??? after hours of reading and trying stuff on the forum, I thought I might just beg for help!!! Tried the Options +Multiviews .htaccess file in the /board/ directory. Still no go. Tried the other rewrite rules, and all they did was either break the blog or make the existing forum posts not work. Here’s my wordpress .htaccess info: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /news/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . [L]

</IfModule>

ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.htm

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^links.htm /links.php

RewriteRule ^index.htm /index.php

— I assume that the redirect to the /news/ is a product of the rewrite rule… but I assumed that the .htaccess in the /board/ directory would take precedence. no? maybe? argh!

[jamwol]

long story short

I have integrated wordpress with my community. As my community uses the members EMAIL as the login, I have hacked wordpress to do the same. (when a member signs up on my custom user db table, a trigger updates the wordpress wp_users table, setting BOTH email and user_login to the email address of the new member)

now I have implemented bbpress. My bbpress uses the wp_users table as well, all is fine.

to my dissapointment, bbpress displays user_login values on the forum instead of user_nicename.

I do not want to dispay user_login (because it is the email address of my members). [ I have commented out the bbpress function which forces bbpress user_logins to not contain @, . and other chars.

Is there a way to easily display user_nicename instead of user_login. If not is there an easy way to tweak this?

So an obvious second question, have i comprimised security in any manner by commenting out the sanitize function and thereby allowing email adresses as bbpress (and wordpress) “user_login” values?

thanx

[Doobus]

I’ve already looked into that as a viable solution, but WordPress’ back-end just complicates things for new users. bbPress is a lot simpler solution in that a forum is built around the idea of community, I’m just theming it not to look like a forum for advertising purposes, everyone knows that the ctr for forums are terrible. Plus I already gutted Kakumei beyond recognition, can’t turn back now .

Anyhoo, anyone know of how to put excerpts?

[aaron1728]

How should I modify my .htaccess to accomodate a bbpress install in a /forums/ subdirectory? The install worked but permalinks aren’t.

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>



# END WordPress

[rcanine]

Wouldn’t a better fix for this be to apply a filter in the “WordPress Integration” plugin? I’m not sure the exact syntax but something like:

if (function_exists('wp_head')) {

// or another check to see if WordPress has been included

add_filter('get_topic_title', 'stripslashes');

add_filter('get_post_text', 'stripslashes');

}

To me this is exactly what a WordPress Integration plugin should do.

[Sam Bauers]

The current trunk contains the new password hashing method. We will do a simultaneous release with WordPress to avoid issues for people with integrated installs.

[Andrew]

I saw the following post on WP2.4 – coming in Jan.

WordPress weekly digest 26th November to 2nd December 2007

It sounds like WP2.4 will use a new hashing scheme to store the password.

Will this interefere with bbPress users who are running WordPress User integration?

[chrishajer]

Nah – I would think anyone looking to write a plugin should already know some PHP. I would start at a plugin for bbPress since there are already lots of PHP tutorials online. With bbPress, we need stuff like this.

Thanks.

[livibetter]

That’s a good topic, however I think PHP 101 should be come next?

PS. I am re-uploading .flv and .mp4.

[chrishajer]

I haven’t watched this video yet, but I think an idea for another one would be how to write a plugin

[livibetter]

Hi!

I made a new podcast show and the first episode’s topic is “Integrating bbPress into WordPress.” This is my first video, so I’m really need your suggestions. Maybe you can tell me what are you expecting in such podcast show? I am looking forward to hearing from you!

PS. I haven’t decided what’s next episode and when will it be released.

PS2. You may want to download .ogg (I might convert .ogg to .flv and .mov without appropriate parameters, so the qualities are not good).