[gimperdaniel]

I know this has been talked about before and some people disagree… but i will ask cause i am not wanting you to work for me.. i just need some guidance…

I know some php and mysql.. i understand queries , functions.. and all that basic php/mysql implemantation… i also understand relational databases… what i dont understand is how plugin works… hooks, api…. and all that techninality people talk of at wordpress.org

Having sad that.. this is what I am trying to accomplish in order to integrate both bbpress and wordpress..

Create a forum category in wordpress, so when i post i select the regular category..(ex: news) and if I want that news to be posted in the forum i also select the “forum” category.

Then i create a relational table that contains all post ids.. and the forum posts ids… that way i can quickly pull the info in bbpress and/or wordpress..

What I dont know is how to integrate this in the Write Panel… because i don´t understand it how it works. If someone can help me to understand it.. i could create a query on the write panel to post to the forum whenever i select the “forum” category

that could also be a plugin.. but i dont kno whow to make plugins… mabe somone can point me out to a tutorial…

Anyway… bbpress is nice.. and wordpress is awesome. Thanks for working so hard to make this possible.

[otherjohn]

Hi all,

I have installed bbpress,bbsync, and wordpress. I would like to redirect comments (the link) to the bbpress discussion.

How do I do so?

John

[cartmanffc]

a few days ago I successfully integrated bbPress with WordPress and installed this amazing plugin bbSync; for a few days it all worked seamlessly – every comment in WordPress was going to relevant topic in bbPress and if someone went straigtforward to forum and commented there their comments were included inside relevant post in Wordpres; just brilliant!

but…

I upgraded to WP 2.6.1 and integrated with 1.0 Alpha (trunk) and it all went wrong; it’s true, even in WP 2.5 + 0..9.2 there occurred some errors but integration between the forum and the site was perfect; and now it does nothing at all and all I get is the following error:

“Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /users/adado/www/fulham.pl/forum/bb-includes/functions.php on line 20”

it looks like the author of the plugin doesn’t maintain his project and it’s really sad ’cause this is THE PERFECT INTEGRATION of both applications

I would be in seventh heaven if I woke up one beautiful morning, checked the bbPress.or and.. there it is! a new built-in feature of bbPress 1.0 which makes what bbSync used to do

I’m PHP amateur so I cant’ do this by myself but I strongly believe there are some brainy people who could make life of many people happier; and looking at the list of plugins: bb Reputation, New User Notification, Post Count Plus, bbPress Signatures, Unread Posts… and many many more I’m talking about one specific person

all I’m begging for is one more plugin

please!

[soundofsilver]

I’m running WordPress 2.6 under root; bbPress under /forums and also using K2 1.0RC7 as my WordPress theme.

I have made a new page called ‘Forums’ on WordPress which is now in the navbar and have used the plugin ‘Page Links To’ to make this page point to /forums.

However, what would be the best way to get the blog acting like this one, for example:

http://onvertigo.com/ …. clicking ‘Forum’ lets bbPress load underneath the header.

There is a K2 theme floating around for bbPress but it doesn’t have the top nav…..

Any help would be appreciated!

[cartmanffc]

I just checked the plugin (Edit History) and it might be quite useful (I wouldn’t mind having this integrated in next version of bbPress …) which I can’t tell about Post Revisions in WordPress….

IMHO every new feature should have option to disable it within admin panel without resorting to tinkering with wp/bb-config files

hopefully the stable version packed with new features (like the i-Phone related one) will leave users the choice to use them or not

[hyapadi]

I agree with the ideas of having a plugin that will do the integration of both standalone BBPress and WordPress.

One of the strength of WordPress is its easy installation & expansion through plugins. But the only missing thing is good plugin that will do the integration with forums seamlessly.

I’m really looking forward for this.

[nekita]

Hello Sam,

yes I thought as much, but I had a database backup ready so it’s all good.

So is it safe to assume that one is better adviced to wait with deeper integration until 1.0 or a stable beta is released?

Thanks

Lars

[Sam Bauers]

@Nekita

Don’t modify your bb-config file until after you have installed bbPress.

Even then I can’t guarantee it will work with Trunk as it isn’t tested for deep integration yet.

[nekita]

The essence of this is that it screws with the usermeta data in the database once you try and integrate WP functions, up to a point where even your admin account for WP doesn’t work anymore.

Here’s an example:

Variant1:

1. Upload bbP to the Server

2. Change the bb-config.php including the require_once line

3. Run the Installer

4. After Installation is finished you can’t log on to your WP admin anymore because the admin user suddenly has insufficient access rights, requiring a database restore.

Variant 2:

1. Upload bbP to the Server

2. Change the bb-config.php excluding the require_once line

3. Run the Installer

4. Add the require_once line after installation is finished

5. Your WP admin account is still working as it should and you can even use it for bbP, but with the Inactive user status.

Doesn’t make much sense, does it?

[doyle640]

By the way, i am also having the problem with the some of the forms, like the reply forms, disappearing. No html is posted whatsoever. I haven’t looked into it thoroughly yet though.

[doyle640]

The absolute path works completely, I don’t understand why, but it does.

Thank you so much.

[cartmanffc]

I was tired of self pingback and just a few days ago I installed no-self-ping for wordpress and now it turns out it’s going to be a new cool feature in final version of bbPress! omg…

so how abou adding some kind of post revisions? good idea as well…

[nekita]

Chris,

thanks for your reply. You are right, there’s not much general sense in that problem to begin with.

Unfortunately the issue already starts with the use of a relative vs. an absolute path because the absolute variant isn’t even recognized. The only two options available seem to be either the relative take with

require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

or something that could be called absolute, but is pretty inconvenient to use:

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

require_once(WPPATH . ‘wp-blog-header.php’);

Both of these result in the availability of WP commands like get_header etc. which would be needed to visually integrate bbP with WP, but with the major problem that all my accounts in bbP are Inactive for some weird reason.

Every other attempt where the path to wp-blog-header.php would really be false would just result in the forum link to not work any longer. Therefore it does seem much more likely that different elements of bbP are more or less able to deal with this way of WP integration or access to that file. I would love to give you more detailed error information about the 500 error but I’m not sure where to aquire it.

Furthermore, that problem with Inactive accounts doesn’t seem to be entirely new. I did some research via google and it does pop up every now and then, here’s an example even from way back in 2006: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/bbdev/2006-September/000719.html

> > > There is an issue with posting:

> > > bbpress shows the users (admin) as Inactive.  This lets me login, but

> > > I cannot post since the post form is hidden.

> >

> > You must have integrated an old bbPress install with WP (that is, you

> > must have run the bbPress install script before integrating the

> > two).  If that's the case, none of your bbPress users exist anymore

> > (they're not defined in WP's user table), and your admin account is

> > inactive.  To fix your admin account, you'll have to change the usermeta

> >

> > bb_capabilities = a:1:{s:8:"inactive";b:1;}

> >

> > to

> >

> > bb_capabilities = a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;}

> >

> > for your admin account.  (Where 'bb_' is your $bb_table_prefix.)

Unfortunately the usermeta in my database is already set as a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}, but it’s still acting as if users are inactive.

It really is pretty tiresome and after many many database restores and bbP reinstalls I come to the conclusion that integration of WP Functions is somewhat poorly treated so far.

For now my best bet seems to be to either try and replicate my WP scheme within bbP which would take a lot of double work and maintenance when I apply changes to my blog or go with a different forum solution altogether. : /

[_ck_]

That roadmap is wildly inaccurate and just guesses.

Not only does 1.0 gut huge sections of code that were perfectly working under 0.9 and need to be replaced but it also replaces entire concepts (like the new object cache). There is a huge amount of work to do and I don’t envy Sam and Michael’s jobs right now. Then it will need lots of testing and debugging.

Then there is plugin stability since everything is in a state of flux. I can’t even keep up with the changes anymore, I’ve stopped updating my plugins until things settle down a bit.

Sam is currently working on trackbacks (pingbacks) now which was suppose to be the big new “feature” for 1.0 IMHO it’s a huge waste of time that could be spent elsewhere in the code but pingbacks on forums was something Matt wanted, so he gets what he wants obviously. However it will be the first feature I delete (not just disable, but delete) since XML-RPC was the #1 security problem with WordPress over the years. It’s also going to be a spammer’s delight.

[_ck_]

Actually, the best thing to do is completely replace the search facility. That’s what I do in Super Search. bbPress’s search is very weak, so weak that there wasn’t even a link to it on any page in 0.9 (it’s similar to WordPress’s search, which also sucks, it’s the ugly truth no one seems to talk about).

I assume you are using the bb-benchmark plugin to watch those queries happen (if not, you should be).

Stupid question but you DO have the mysql cache turned on? I only ask because on many server configs (like CPANEL) it’s turned off by default. What does your my.cnf look like? (do a cat /etc/my.cnf in your shell)

Try going into phpmyadmin (or command line) and test that first test query against adding AND post_text REGEXP ':<:%test%:>:' to the query like so:

SELECT p.*, 0 AS search_score, MAX(post_time) AS post_time FROM bb_posts AS p JOIN bb_topics as t ON ( t.topic_id = p.topic_id ) WHERE p.post_text LIKE '%test%' AND p.post_text REGEXP ':<:%test%:>:' AND p.post_status = '0' AND t.topic_status = '0' GROUP BY t.topic_id ORDER BY p.post_time DESC LIMIT 5;

I suspect in the end due to your huge db size you are going to need to completely replace the search functions with something like this http://sphinxsearch.com which has a PHP api. Fortunately in bbPress it’s very simple to hook the internal search and bypass it entirely without even template hacks. A quick google shows that a few WordPress plugins have sphinxsearch support so that would be easy to copy over to bbPress. If you find the keyword “sphinxsearch” on this source for example, you can see how it’s done: http://svn.scriblio.net/plugin/trunk/scriblio.php

[chrishajer]

azsportshub: what version bbPress and WordPress did you install?

[chrishajer]

Hmm – that makes no sense to me. What is the exact error you get if you do not include the if (file_exists statement?

[nekita]

I’m using the functions get_header and get_footer in my front-page.php etc. and it’s working just fine as you can see on my site.

[chrishajer]

Nekita – the reason that works is because it’s not including the wp-blog-header.php (can’t find it), but it doesn’t error out because you’re saying “if it’s there, then include it”: otherwise, just continue on, but it’s not included.

So, it errors out when you don’t have the conditional, but with the conditional there, do you have access to WordPress functions, or you can just access specific theme files? Accessing the theme files would not require integration. But using the functions like get_header, get_sidebar, get_footer would all rely on integration being correct.

This assumes that the errors are the same as doyle640:

PHP Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]:

Failed opening required '../wp-config.php'

[nekita]

Discussion taken to this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101?replies=92

[nekita]

To give you an idea of what I’m talking about:

http://chocolatebydeath.com/forum/

User: Rauko

PW: IIlCuxOmYRpn

This is a test user I just registered. Once you log in with this data, you’ll see that this account is extremely restricted for whatever reason. It’s the same with my own admin account and other user accounts.

[Clicknathan]

The error was from a Private Messaging plugin (note: not a private forums plugin).

I have the default Akismet & Bozo plugins installed, and also the “Use Display Name” (which just changes your username to your nicename) and BBPrivate Messaging Plugin (as mentioned above) plugins installed. Removing them does not allow me to see the forums content either.

I just noticed that actually only admins can see the forum content.

You asked:

You didn’t make all your forums categories in the admin, did you?

I’m not sure what you mean, I’m new to BBPress. I converted an old WordPress XDForum plugin to BBPress, so perhaps something happened with permissions there, but even so, any direction as to how to open these up to everyone would be great!

[nekita]

In my case, yes, the relative path works just fine, given that I have access to my WP scheme files after I utilize it.

However, I just found out that adding:

if (file_exists(‘../wp-blog-header.php’))

require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

instead of just

require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

does the trick, at least to get access to the admin area.

I’m still stuck with the limitation of my admin account though. Once it’s integrated and I log on the bbP, I can’t write a post nor reply or edit my own profile because the admin user receives the status “Inactive”.

[chrishajer]

Is the wp-config.php actually located at ../ ?

Also, you could try the absolute path rather than a relative one. I have heard before that that might be a problem (although I’ve never seen that. I don’t use MAMP though.)

First verify if the wp-config.php is located ../ from bb-config.php. If it is, try the full absolute path rather than a relative one. Something like /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wp-config.php.

[doyle640]

here is my errors when I try to access the bbpress admin section:

[15-Sep-2008 12:10:48] PHP Warning: require_once(../wp-config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/forum/bb-config.php on line 34

[15-Sep-2008 12:10:48] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../wp-config.php’ (include_path=’.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php’) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/forum/bb-config.php on line 34

On the regular part of the forum, I do not get these errors.