[ateale]

doh! i am an idiot!

I’ve gotta learn to read ALL the instructions.

WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash.

Cheers Trent the login seems to work fine now!

Any ideas on the embedding thing? Just a matter of chopping into the my-template files?

Cheers!

[Trent Adams]

I would try the cookie sharing stuff in both bbPress config.php:

$bb->cookiedomain = '.lumanation.com';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

And then maybe the cookie stuff that you can put in WordPress wp-config.php (can’t remember the format) if the first stuff just doesn’t work out straight away.

If the users are there it is because the integration is working, just the cookies are not sharing. Try that out and let me know.

Trent

[ateale]

hey guys,

i have followed the instructions on the forums/extend for intgegrating bbpress and wordpress.

It all seems to work – bbpress knows about the wordpress users.

Only problem is that i have to login to both wordpress & bbpress seperately – I thought it was supposed to support 1 login for both – using the same cookie or something?

the test site is:

blog.lumanation.com

the forums link at the top takes you to the bbpress install

any help would be greatly appreciated!

also – any ideas on how to embed the bbpress install into wordpress – is it just a matter of hacking up the bbpress templates or is there a more elegant way similar to the wordpress rs-discuss/xdforum plugins?

Cheers!

Adam

[startribe]

Wow! Thanks a lot spencerp. As a visual person, a visual tutorial is priceless.

I am in love with WordPress and bbPress. I was originally thinking of going with phpbb, but man, this bbPress is so sleek, so easy to customize, and has so much potential.

Thanks again,

Orion

[spencerp]

Going along with what Trent said, I usually follow Podz’s guide for it:

http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

All other guides can be found here:

http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/

spencerp

[startribe]

Is that it? I am actually working with both WordPress and bbPress integrated. There is quite alot of work that needs to be done WP on the database side ( https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL ) , so I was figuring something similar would need to be done for bbPress. Although, they are sharing a database, not sure if that makes a difference. Any other thoughts?

[dfpradio]

Glad to hear someone else is having the same problem as me… misery loves company, right?!? I have found one thing that may be helpful. When I removed the:

require_once( ‘/…/wp-config.php’);

define(‘WP_BB’, ‘true’);

The problem magically vanishes… So, I’m pretty sure it has something to do with the WP integration. Interestingly, I checked my phpinfo and my magic_quotes are all off as well and my php version is 4.4.4.

My forums are at: http://www.digitalfrontierplus.com/wordpress/forums/

[dfpradio]

I have a unique problem it seems. I have bbpress 0.75 installed and WP 2.0.5 installed and playing together nicely… except that I get a forward slash in front of apostrophes and quotation marks. I have found that if I take out the require_once( ‘/…/wp-config.php’); and define(‘WP_BB’, ‘true’); from the bbpress config.php the problem vanishes. I have been searching all over the forums, but haven’t found anything that seems to match.

My forums are at: http://www.digitalfrontierplus.com/wordpress/forums

bbPress config.php:

<?php

//This will get all the functions from WordPress into bbPress

//require_once(‘path/to/wp-config.php’)

require_once( ‘/home/users/web/b1442/pow.drinknbud/htdocs/wordpress/wp-config.php’);

//Set this value in the config file so the functions defined in WordPress are not redefined

define(‘WP_BB’, ‘true’);

// ** MySQL settings ** //

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

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

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

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

// ** WordPress MySQL settings ** //

define(‘USER_BBDB_NAME’, ‘*****’);

define(‘USER_BBDB_USER’, ‘*****’);

define(‘USER_BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘****’);

define(‘USER_BBDB_HOST’, ‘*****’);

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

$bb_table_prefix = ‘***’; // 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://www.digitalfrontierplus.com&#8217;; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com&#8217;

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

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

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘DFP Forums’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘****’;

// 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 = -5;

// 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 = ‘*******’;

// 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 = ‘***’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.digitalfrontierplus.com/wordpress&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.digitalfrontierplus.com/wordpress&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash

/* Stop editing */

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

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

?>

[spencerp]

@nateolsen, I just added ALL 3 databases into ONE database, like such:

database_name (holding all three)

bb_forums

bb_posts

bb_privatemessages

bb_tagged

bb_tags

bb_topicmeta

bb_topics

mw_archive

mw_categorylinks

mw_externallinks

mw_filearchive

mw_hitcounter

mw_image

mw_imagelinks

mw_interwiki

mw_ipblocks

mw_job

mw_langlinks

mw_logging

mw_math

mw_objectcache

mw_oldimage

mw_page

mw_pagelinks

mw_querycache

mw_querycachetwo

mw_querycache_info

mw_recentchanges

mw_redirect

mw_revision

mw_searchindex

mw_site_stats

mw_templatelinks

mw_text

mw_trackbacks

mw_transcache

mw_user

mw_user_groups

mw_user_newtalk

mw_watchlist

sk2_blacklist

wp_bad_behavior

wp_bas_log

wp_bas_os

wp_bas_pages

wp_bas_refer

wp_bas_searches

wp_bas_ua

wp_bas_visitors

wp_bbpress_post_options

wp_bbpress_post_posts

wp_categories

wp_comments

wp_link2cat

wp_linkcategories

wp_links

wp_options

wp_post2cat

wp_post2tag

wp_postmeta

wp_posts

wp_secureimage

wp_sk2_logs

wp_sk2_spams

wp_tags

wp_tag_synonyms

wp_usermeta

wp_users

Of course, used the normal database prefix for each one specifically. It was mentioned though, that for the mw_ ones, you didn’t have to use the “mw_” prefix for when trying to mesh with bbpress/WP.. but, to play it safe, I used the default “mw_” prefix anyway.. Choice is your’s really..

@mozey, nice!! I’ll have to try that out sometime, well, when I get more time. Thanks for tips and pointers!

spencerp

[Trent Adams]

By default, the bbpress-integration.php plugin that you are using in WordPress brings over the registrations from bbPress and gives them the default role that you have for WordPress. That would mean that if they are given author status then that would be the default role for new members in WordPress. Maybe check that out.

I tested this on my test forum and then changed the default role from subscriber to admin and sure enough the new user that I created came across in WP as an admin.

Trent

[hkan]

I’ve done some searching around the forums regarding this issue; haven’t found anything sim. to my problem though – is the error on my side?

I’ve set up wordpress and bbpress on my sandbox apache server and enabled sharing accounts between wordpress and bbpress. When I create a user on the wordpress end, that user gets correct status in bbpress. However, when I register a user through bbpress, it gets far too high privileges on the wordpress side (author)!

I’d like to manually set new users to read-only on the blog side of things.

How can I prevent this?

[startribe]

Hmmm… I am going to have to dig into this a bit later. It looks like it is going to take some work. I am actually trying to integrate product advertisements that I have set up in wordpress to be pulled into my forum template. Not exactly sure how to do it. At first I imagined that I would create another directory in the root that both WP and bbP could share from, but I will have to check into this later.

It would be awesome if WP and bbPress could share includes seamlessly.

Anyhow, I have to get back to building the actual forum before I get caught up and miss our goal.

If any other ideas or etc. come up, please share.

Thanks Trent!

Orion

[mozey]

On my setup, (different system, same concept),

i used a centralized mysql table which contains a mesh of all of the variables of all systems!. The reason wy i did that is, some of these usertables contain information which would change the bahaviour of the software, such as roll, last login etc. SO its not a mater of authentication and session ONLY. You also need the other stuff!!!.

i ALSO used a single portal for signup/signin. THIS SHOULD NOT BE SCARY (assuming that thinking does’nt hurt your brain). A good IDE will get everything done for you (search replace globally, find all instances of a function etc).

I reccomend http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ as an editor, and use PHP IDE as an ide ontop of eclipse. Be patiant, if you have’nt installed before, it could be a bit strang, but do take a better part of a weekend to figure out hw it works. TRUST ME, php will be your bizatch afterwards

[Nate]

Spencer, was just hoping for a quick clarification on all this: Did you use the same MySQL database for everything? In the thread here you use terms like “MediaWiki database” and “WP database,” but I’m wondering whether that actually just means the MediaWiki tables and the WP tables, all contained in one MySQL database. Do tell.

Thanks,

Nate

[startribe]

mdawaffe,

I’m sorry, I just saw your request today, so I was not able to give your suggestion a try, but it looks like the issue was resolved.

I have been focusing on our templates for our WordPress site the last 2 weeks, but now I am back in the mix to get our forum up and running.

Its good to be back @ bbPress.

All the Best,

Orion

[startribe]

Hey Community,

I am trying to link to an image in the “my-templates” directory for my bbpress template. When editing templates in WordPress I used:

<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>

Is there something similar that I can use for bbPress?

I tried:

<?php bb_stylesheet_uri(); ?>

& it didn’t work.

Anyhow, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Orion

[Staffan]

Yeah, I’ve got that. Seems like this might be something to add to the next version of that plugin.

Anyway, thanks again Atsutane for your great plugin and the fast updates!

[Atsutane]

Maybe u gonna need this plugin

https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress-integration.0.74.zip

[Staffan]

Alright. I’ve done some investigations and I think I know why I get a blank space: when a new user registers through bbPress it seems like he’s not given any “display name”.

[Trent Adams]

$bb->path = '/bbpress/';

I am also assuming that you don’t want to integrate the logins with WP then as you don’t have your wordpress information for integration.

Trent

[freelantz]

Thanks, I was just about to give up.

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘#####’); // 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://ward3brighton.ca&#8217;; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com&#8217;

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

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

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘The Street’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘######@ward3brighton.ca’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

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

$bb->page_topics = 20;

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

$bb->edit_lock = 30;

// 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 = ”; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

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

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

?>

[freelantz]

I’m able to successfully install the bbpress. I’m installing it in a subdirectory of my PUBLIC_HTML

directory. So I have:

public_html/bbpress

public_html/wp-content

public_html/wp-admin

etc.

I run domain.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php

Everything seems okay. Then I log in at domain.com/forums and bam!… nothing but Error 404 – Not Found.

I find it strange after I login I’m directed right to my WordPress template with the 404 error. Initially I tried integrating with WordPress, but now I’m trying to get this running very simply: no mod_rewrite, no integration, disabled any plugins that might be interfering (home page control), etc.

I uninstalled (dropped all bb_ tables) and reinstalled several times but same result.

Any advice?

[Atsutane]

Correct me if i wrong .. by default when a user is regis. WP will set the “display name” equal to “username”. I try the code already and i dont get a blank name Anyway maybe i will change the code to do a double check.

[larmir]

No, we haven’t. Chrishajer’s (Chris) been graciously helping me off the forum since I’m working with a private forum. He’s spent quite a bit of time on this and hasn’t found a solution. He had some great ideas, they just didn’t work. My next step is to contact my host and talk with them. They host WordPress so perhaps they know something indepth about bbPress. If I find a solution, I’ll let you know.

I do want to thank Chris for all the time and effort he’s put into this for me. Thank you, Chris.

[Staffan]

Great. Thank you! There’s only one little problem: if the user haven’t entered a nickname no name at all is shown. I guess it should be written so that if the user has a nick name – show nick name; if the user dosen’t – show username.