1. The warnings are from using PHP 5.3 on Windows (normally.) If you can use PHP 5.2 that would be better. If not, you can download the latest trunk version instead of 1.0.2 as the warnings will not occur with that version.
2. If bb_ tables are present in the database you are using when you go to reinstall, the installer will complain that bbPress is already installed. So, drop the bb_ tables or use a different database.
3. Where is your forum actually installed?
http://www.happybod.com/happybod_web/forum/
or
http://www.happybod.com/forum/
I am guessing it’s the 2nd location since the first looks like it contains the file system path from your host. Your WordPress files are probably installed in the happybod_web folder and accessible at http://www.happybod.com/ (right?) If so, and you placed a “forum” directory inside happybod_web, at the same level as wp-config.php, then your forum will be located at http://www.happybod.com/forum/
Please switch the search over. We mentioned that here soon after WordPress switched.
https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/sphinx
Matt, we’re at cross purposes. Your previous definition of “core plugin” aside, I still don’t quite understand why it wouldn’t be useful to have a place in the taxonomy for something that…
1. is a plugin
2. is released with core (same release criteria etc.)
Like akismet today. I think there are a ton of advantages, but I’ve mentioned them above and I won’t belabor them. I didn’t suggest that it was necessarily 80% functionality, so maybe it does fit your definition of core plugin to some extent.
I guess “bloat” is a bit pejorative and wasn’t my intention to poke at WordPress. But any large piece of software needs to have a strategy to deal with the inevitable growth of the code base as it evolves.
Milan, BBXF is a nice idea but, like BackPress, it’s a bit of a boil-the-ocean approach. From our point of view rather than getting every system in the world to adopt this new format, it’s better to just target importers for specific platforms as the market demands it, which has worked well on the WP side.
Every system in the world doesn’t have to adopt BBXF. Since importers will already exist, why not make importers which will create BBXF if we already have some code and “standard”?
ashfame, I wouldn’t recommend downgrading to 0.9, it has not had updates or even a security review in a long time. If someone wants to fork it and start updating it that’s one thing, but as it stands using 0.9 is inadvisable.
_KB_, absolutely with regards to importers for other systems. We’ve held off on any importers so far because I really didn’t feel like bbPress was ready for switchers, there was so much fundamentally broken about its experience.
Milan, BBXF is a nice idea but, like BackPress, it’s a bit of a boil-the-ocean approach. From our point of view rather than getting every system in the world to adopt this new format, it’s better to just target importers for specific platforms as the market demands it, which has worked well on the WP side.
I think Dailytalker was using deep integration, which loads the whole of WordPress on bbPress page loads so that you can call functions on the WordPress side from bbPress itself. Thus making virtually every WP plugin to work inside bbPress
While it’s great that Matt is overseeing the complete reqrite of this project into something that requires WordPress to run, I think we should be just a tad guarded against getting euphoric about 1 line in 1 interview.
First off, the interview took places months before it’s published date, and lets remember that on 1st May (only 2 months ago) Matt’s opinion was this:
http://bbshowcase.org/audio/Matt-on-bbPress-2010-May-1.mp3
bbPress and WordPress use gravatar which is the same service.
Does this work good, or should I keep looking for a better solution? I want avatars to match on WordPress and BBpress integrated site.
Some days old post but really optimistic for bbPress.
I don’t need to personally write code much these days because we have so many talented folks involved but I am jumping back in on bbPress and will be hacking around in there.
@gordonsa thanks dear,
I definitely know that the easiest way to protect with .htacess. but again
I don’t want to use .htacess method, I want to use php
Because sometime some scripts works with open directories. If I protect a directory via .htacess then this script or plugin will not work with this…
e.g. This wordpress plugin
User-Name-less systems like facebook need to be designed from scratch like that. The WordPress/bbPress system unfortunately is user_login/user_id based.
You could force user_id for the profile stub if that makes you like it better, bbPress will accept either.
BTW in a forum based system, how would you deal with two dozen users that insisted on using “Greg” as their display name and similar avatars?
By the way, I don’t think I released it yet but should by the end of the month, just have to write a “readme.txt” – I have a “rename user” plugin for bbPress to change user_login across the system.
It even supports multiple bbpress and wordpress systems attached to the same user db table and will fix all topics and wp comments.
So, not meant for constant username changes, but good for occasional fixes. Also detects existing username collisions.
Non-plugin bbPress development is going to continue until we have a perfect importer so people will be able to bring their content out of the legacy codebase.
So, will BBXF finally have some use?
I’ve tried another integration with no “www”, it works 50%.
Now I just can’t access my bb-admin and not able to logout from wp admin 
,
I’ve installed _ck_ plugin fixed admin access, but its not working in this situation. I’ve find other ways from bbPress Search but still not solved. any idea?
Non-plugin bbPress development is going to continue until we have a perfect importer so people will be able to bring their content out of the legacy codebase.
Simply I love this statement!!
@ Matt Mullenweg, with this perfect importer, will we able to switch from other channels like vBulletin, phpbb, ip board? did you ever think about it? Any Plan?
Thanks r-a-y for the compliments, and thanks chrishajer for resuscitating the post!
This is what happened. I said:
Try again to contact him. I have a modified version of bbPM with 1), 2) and 3) but I don’t share it cause the nightgunner5 is active in this site.
In my opinion a mere fork is a bad idea when the original author is still around. I have built zaerl Visibility on top of hidden forums cause _ck_ wasn’t active in the last X months.
Then the plugin has been announced. So I dediced that writing plugin will not be funny anymore. I have announced this in my 7 plugins pages:
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-editor/page/2/#post-5992
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-random-description/#post-5993
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-visibility/page/3/#post-5994
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-simple-registration/#post-5995
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-url-preview/#post-5996
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-post-permalink/#post-5997
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-wordpress-3-integration/#post-5998
(no direct link in order to not be triggered as spam.)
That’s it.
Just rescued this post from Akismet.
The reason why many of my plugins require editing is because it’s usually a “set and forget” situation and nothing can top that for maximum performance. Some I just couldn’t be motivated to do all the work for an admin menu until I knew people were actually using it, and based on donations, virtually no-one is using my plugins or wants them improved.
Plus until I came up with an idea for external admin code, I hated how they were often larger than the plugin itself.
In any case admin menu frameworks can easily be changed. There were several plugins for WordPress 2.5 and earlier that reformatted all the menus, the design in WordPress today was lifted from those plugins directly.
The idea that there will be a “perfect” standalone to plugin converter is incredibly naive. It will convert data, all your plugins and themes will be dead.
In any case bbPress will definitely be forked, I am hoping there will be several forks.
ps. @Greg, Display Names can be “accessed” from bbPress 0.9 since they are just in the user metadata and autoload when the user is fetched, you just have no UI elements to set or change them from 0.9 (but if you have WP integrated, just use that). It would be easy to make a plugin that displayed the Display Name in bbpress.
Sure, i’ll do that tonight when I get home
@kevinjohngallagher what about Toy Story3? I think that will be really interesting so that you’ve forget abt this topic 
What’s all missing in terms of features in 0.9 when we compare it to bbPress 1.0+ ?
- XMLRPC – but do we use it right now? I haven’t heard of anything using bbPress XMLRPC
- WordPress matching backend
What else? I never used 0.9 much. BTW, I think most of the functionality a forum owner would need are covered by _ck_’s plugins 
I would like to hear from you guys.
