[adam613]

A little about me: I’m working on a hobby web site. It was going to have a forum, a few database-based applications I’ve written the back-end for, and in the process of deciding what should go on the front page, I figured I should start a blog too. I have a version of the site sort of written using phpBB as the the forum and the templating engine for the web apps, but it’s very frustrating getting phpBB to do what I want it to do…you really can’t do much without editing the core code. On the recommendation of a co-worker, I decided to check out WordPress/bbPress. I’m not sure WP/bbPress is the right solution, but I haven’t found anything I like better….it seems like it’s pretty easy to rearrange things on the page and add new elements as needed.

What I want: My forum should appear on the site similar to a Page. I don’t think I need “deep integration”…I’m not terribly concerned about data integration, other than the fact that signing into WP should sign you into the forums and vice versa. I don’t need the forum to be able to interact with other pages on the site…if I need data from my other apps in the forum, I’ll just grab it from the database using a forum plugin. But I am concerned about appearance integration…I want the WP header and footer, including my logo and nav bar, to show up at the top of the forum page, and I want the forum theme to be similar to (if not identical to) the WP theme.

What’s the safest way to make this happen? I’m very new to WP/bbPress, but I’m not afraid to write code…a certain major website pays me a good bit of money do so during the week

[Ehegwer]

Howdy!

Just wanted to see if anyone had a fix for a salt value. I’m working on installing the latest bbpress alpha 1.0.4a intp wordpress mu 2.6.5 with working buddypress integration. I can log into wordpress and bbpress independently, but the values aren’t passing.

Here’s how I’ve mapped the keys and salts (notice one is missing):

????? –> WordPress “auth” cookie salt

SECURE_AUTH_SALT –> WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt

LOGGED_IN_SALT –> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt

AUTH_KEY –> BB_AUTH_KEY

SECURE_AUTH_KEY –> BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY

LOGGED_IN_KEY –> BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY

I’ve tried almost everything, and was hoping someone had a solution.

Cheers,

E

[Ganzuelo]

thanks A1ex. Can you tell me how to add links back to wordpress from bbpress? http://www.willclan4food.net/bbpress/

[A1ex]

See https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/link-to-forum-from-wordpress

[overide]

So just figurd out that this only happens if a use registers from wordpress, if a user registers from bbpress everything works great in bbpress and wordpress so for now ill just make everyone register through bbpress but this seems to be some coding bug that people might want to check into.

[Famous]

I get this:

bbPress is already installed, but appears to require an upgrade.

With the finished installation saying:

Referrer is OK, beginning installation…

>>> Setting up custom user table constants

Step 1 – Creating database tables

>>> Database is already installed!!!

Step 2 – WordPress integration (optional)

>>> WordPress address (URL): http://test.com/

>>> Blog address (URL): http://test.com/

>>> WordPress cookie keys set.

>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt set from input.

>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt set from input.

>>> Fetching missing WordPress cookie salts.

>>>>>> WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt not set.

>>> User database table prefix: wp_

Step 3 – Site settings

>>> Site name: Forums

>>> Site address (URL): http://test.com/forums/

>>> From email address: info@test.com

>>> Key master role assigned to existing user

>>>>>> Username: admin

>>>>>> Email address: info@test.com

>>>>>> Password: Your existing password

>>> Description: Just another bbPress community

>>> Forum could not be created!

>>> Key master email sent

There were some errors encountered during installation!

[zeroprobe]

Hi,

The site is hosted by a Plesk enviroment which runs linux. bbpress version the latest beta and the current stable one. I intend to integrate it with wordpress but I did’t even get that far.

[chrishajer]

There are no other errors but that one?

What type of host OS are you using?

What version bbPress did you install?

Are you integrating with WordPress and if so, what version?

[zeroprobe]

I know my config file is right and the database name, user and password are ok. I installed WordPress no problem.

when I go to /bbpress , I get the inital screen where you enter the details but as soon as I went to step 2 I just got a blank screen. As soon as there is a config file I get nothing !!.

I’ve looked in the errors and I see “open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/bb-includes/db.php) is not within the allowed path(s):”

Is open_basedir the problem?

Thanks

[overide]

Hi there i just installed bbpress 1.0-alpha with wordpress 2.7 everything went great untill i started creating useres.

If you go under admin to the user edit profile page i get this error under user type

Warning:array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: the second argument should be an array or an object in functions-bb-template.php on line 2021 >Key Master

Warning:array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: the second argument should be an array or an object in functions-bb-template.php on line 2021 >Administrator

Warning:array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: the second argument should be an array or an object in functions-bb-template.php on line 2021 >Moderator

Warning:array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: the second argument should be an array or an object in functions-bb-template.php on line 2021 >Member

and so on for all user types

this is what i got from line 2021 in functions-bb-template.php

<option value=”<?php echo $r; ?>”<?php if ( array_key_exists($r, $user->capabilities) ) echo ‘ selected=”selected”‘; ?>><?php echo $n; ?></option>

with this error only admin can post comments all other users i guess dont have a type assigned because of this error

wordpress and bbpress our using the same data base, i can login to wordpress and go to bbpress and still be loged in so i know that part works just something with transferring the user type is not working.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[marjolein]

I run phpbb in combination with WordPress. It’s not the best package, but it’s free and looks good .

[Justin Tadlock]

@sambauers

Yes, I’m viewing that as the Key Master. I’ll run another test with a new user to see what’s happening as well.

@johnjamesjacoby

Yes, this has been a problem since the 2.7/1.0 integration. Registration through bbPress works fine, but that won’t be an option for me once going live.

Update:

I tried adding a user through WordPress, then logging in with that profile in bbPress. No user role was set. Then, I checked it with the Key Master account and got the same error I posted above.

Users are still logged in fine across both installations.

[ganzua]

Well I implemented my silly workaround with the conditional in the header and it works;

if this is_bbress -> bbpress search form

else -> wp search form

you get results only for the forum inf you are browsing bbpress and only for wordpress if you are in wp.

[ganzua]

Thanks for the code John Half the results but it actually could solve the 404 problem.

However, adding a get_settings(‘home’) to the search form makes this search;

/wordpress/wordpress/bbpress/?s=

I had in mind that perhaps anybody developed a wordpress plugin that could search both, wp and bb and then display the results, first all the wp entries and next all the bb entries.

Or maybe a conditional in the wp template where I placed wp searcher; first the wp searcher with anything similar to John’s get_settings(‘home’) and then a conditional; if this is bbpress then use bbpress searcher and append the results. I already have a function to create bb conditionals in wp;

function is_bbpress() {

global $bb;

return $bb ? true : false;

}

There is another search plugin for bbPress that appends a WordPress search to the bbPress search.

I wanted all the contrary a wp plugin that appends bb results at the end of the search.

BTW, after finding the searcher issue I realized that 404 templates need integration too.

[John James Jacoby]

Using deep integration, if you load the WordPress search box into the header of bbPress, you can still search WordPress alone if you use something like

<form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>">

This way the search form is using the WordPress root directory as it’s destination rather than trying to redirect to a bbPress file.

As far as a unified search solution, the problem there really then becomes which engine do you use to display the results, WP or BBP? Either way it requires a plug-in on that relative side of the equation. It’s certainly possible, but you’re only making 50% of your audience happy at that point, because the other 50% will want it the other way.

[_ck_]

There is another search plugin for bbPress that appends a WordPress search to the bbPress search.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wp-search/

I will eventually add wordpress searching to super-search, I just ran out of time/interest.

[_ck_]

You did create the database first, right?

If you already use wordpress, you can look at it’s wp-config.php file to see what settings it uses.

[John James Jacoby]

@greenshady

The issue with roles has actually been since I remember integration starting with 2.7/1.0 series. It’s basically because there is no role set and no role map set for the bbPress side of it.

This issue should only occur if the user registers via WordPress. If they register via bbPress, it shouldn’t happen…

…I think…

[chrishajer]

@fernandot: this worked fine for me. I see the buttons and used them and it works just fine. See my test post. Firefox 3.0.5

http://ayudawordpress.com/foro/

[Huda Toriq]

Hi. I still don’t quite familiar with bbPress custom query system. Is there a simple way to pull the latest topics from only specific forums? In WP we can pull posts from several categories using comma separated category IDs in the query. Can bbPress do that?

And if there is, is it possible to pull it from WordPress using bbPress_Live php class in bbpress-live plugin?

Thank you in advance.

[samanathon]

Great integration, I like the clean look!

[ganzua]

I actually realized that I have a problem when using wordpress searcher after deep integration because it doesn’t work if you are browsing bbpress.

I have wp searcher in the wp header and I load this header into bbpress. Whenever you try to search while being in bbpress yo get a 404 error because the link of the search is this one;

/wordpress/bbpress/index.php?s=lorem

[ganzua]

Is there any plugin or anyway that allows wordpress searcher search bbpress topics?

I saw CK super-search plugin but it seems it is only for bbpress

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I just checked and I can reproduce that error logged in as Key Master when I go to edit their profile.

If someone registers via WordPress, all the roles show up as:

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in <b>/domain.com/forums/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 2021

Below that, under ‘Allow this user to …’ I get this

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/jorjafox/public_html/forums/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 2036

It’s not pulling the data correctly, since if I manually set them to Member, it works fine. Previously on 1.0alpha1 and alpha2, when I had users on bb with ‘no’ role, I could re-apply the WordPress Role link up (just click save) and magically everyone was fixed.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Huh. Awesome script, _ck_, you’re a goddess.

Server 1 (my personal site) – average of 0.81909894943 seconds

Server 2 (my busy site) – average of 1.08337402344 seconds

These are on identical Apache servers (actually, server 2 has more memory, but the specs are the same for the servers). Same version of Apache, PHP, SQL etc. Server 2, however, is always slow and pegging the CPU. Even when I turn off WordPress (which my isp blamed at one point) I’m hammering the hell out of the poor box.