[LaFaucon]

Argh, this was driving me batty. Thank you!

[wpitn2shape]

I only visited the forum URL which leads to install page. I couldn’t get further.

I just downloaded the latest version. Didn’t set any language or upload language folders (I read that was optional.)

I’m not sure how to compare on my server versus the one on my computer, which is default. Well I think I might know how, but I’m really tired right now, I’ll attempt that soon.

I don’t have secret keys. Did I miss that in the install instructions?

The whole error message is:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/.ufo/elladesigner/new.pursedlips.net/forum/bb-includes/functions.php on line 2256

Thanks, I’ll look into it more when I’m able.

[chrishajer]

What are you doing when you get that error? Are you integrated with WordPress? What version of bbPress did you install? Are you using a language other than the default?

Can you compare the version of bb-admin/functions.php to the default one for whatever version you’re using (to make sure the whole thing was uploaded properly)?

Do your secret keys have any weird characters in them (things that work properly in WordPress have created problems in bbPress before. Things like ‘ / > <.)

Can you post what you were trying to do and the whole error message?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Thanks for the input _ck_, as always

I’m not often trying to replace an entire function from template-functions.php, i just want to overwrite one function once. But i get now that it has to be in pluggable.php, which is cool.

I suppose my issue here is this: why are many functions that output hardcoded HTML hardcoded into templates-functions.php in the core and not in pluggable.php so that theme / plugin developers can’t overwrite them?

In my opinion (and it’s just my opinion) there are far too few hooks in BBpress and some of them are in the ‘wrong’ or difficult place for theme development or front-end plugin development. This may seem daft to alot of people and long time BBpress contributors, but with the likes of _ck_ writing so many great back end plugins, most of mine focus on making BBpress work in a slightly more modern way (ajax, nestings, wysiwyg, etc); and i keep hitting these ‘walls’ of where BBpress has hardcoded something.

Basically I struggle to see why BBpress doesn’t have a functions.php file in the theme directory. As it stands we’ve got to create a theme the way we want it, then integrate it into the WordPress theme, then remove the conflicts for the WP and BBpress theme as the standard BBpress theme came with a different div structure to the standard WP one (madness), then add the hooks for all the stuff thats not got a hook, then move hooks for the one in a ridiculous place, then write a plugin to load up all the functions that your theme will use as standard (cos god forbid we’d have a functions.php like wordpress).

It makes developing a theme that does anything more than background colour of posts and what happens around/outside the forum a real nightmare. And what’s worse, it means that any theme to stray away from the ‘default’ kakumei theme, needs to have a plugin installed as well.

While this may seem like no big deal to people (and it’s not a huge deal), given that we use a different structure for our folders to WP (again – crazily stoopid given the market BBpress’s aimed at even at this stage), we’re reliant on the user to install and activate everything properly.

example:

Instructions with a theme if we had a functions.php and WP structure:

• Copy theme folder to your theme directory.
• Load up admin section, and select the new theme.

Instructions with a theme as is:

• Create a my-themes folder in your BBpress directory
• Copy the theme folder into that directory
• Create a my-plugins folder in the your BBpress directory
• Copy the plugin folder into that directory
• load up admin section, and select new theme
• activate new plugin to make theme reliant functions work

Now, obviously there is nothing too taxing on the second version, but it’s long been my experience that the less steps users have to undertake the less errors are made. Especially, and this is the bit I don’t get, when WordPress does things in a really simple manner (and has done so for ages).

I appreciate that forums of the nature we create are never going to be the most exciting or ground breaking in the world, but for those who think i’m wrong about more modern / different theme’s being available for bbpress let me ask this:

1. If you look at the Top 20 forums in _ck_’s list (http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100), can you tell it’s a BBpress forum before seeing the “powered by BBpress” at the bottom? If you’re bored do the same for the rest of the top100 and see how many you need to check are running BBpress.
2. By comparison, when you go to a non-BBpress forum on the internet, can you automatically tell what forum software it is every time?
3. But i bet you can tell it’s NOT BBpress straight away. Why do you think that is?

(infact the first one i’d to scroll to the bottom to check it was made my bbpress and it was – a number have switched away form bbpress – was http://soccerlens.com/forum/ which is using one of my template hacks from last year. the other worth mentioning is http://www.dragonballalcine.com/foro/ which is lovely and innovative – so that’s 2 out of the top100)

[_ck_]

Very nice conversion and I am very partial to the blue vs default green of bbPress.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Rather than using the crazy structure of BBpress’s header.php file – actually while i’m on that can i ask why BBpress DID NOT use the same div nesting as WP so that integration was simple? madness – if you use this one, your BBpress forum should automatically look 90% like it’s in your WordPress page if you use the default theme, default K2 or sandbox.

You will have to tweak bits of course, this isn’t fool proof, but in terms of the basics, it makes life alot easier.

I mentioned these changes back in October, so i’m used to the copying and pasting of them now as it doesn’t look like making thing easy for the end user is part of the goal here; hence the plugin. I too hope we get an answer on the bug soon

[chrishajer]

> 1, Do I create database first before running install.php?

> Both I try ( no database to install and after create database

> to install), it doesn’t work.

You need to create a database first, then supply that database name to the installer. In addition, you will need a database user, password and maybe host name.

> 2, I can’t find the path where is I created database save in, so

> I entered localhost in the Database Host. I really don’t understand

> what is the database host and search it in internet, is it belong

> to company? I use Mysql 5.0.45 . and bbpress-0.9.0.4 . How can find

> the path about my database in Linux.

This information comes from the company that hosts your website. If they allow you to set up a database, somewhere on that page or near that page will show the database name, user name, password and maybe host.

> 3, I don’t choose the Show Advanced Settings (default), it is still stuck step 1.

You probably need to do this, but first you need to get the host name from your website host.

> It is always (There was a problem connection to the database you specified.

> Please check the settings, then try again.)

I am going to guess this is because you have not entered all the proper information, or you entered incorrect information. Your host may have to help you with some of these details.

> Is it terrible to install it?

No, not once you have all the correct details. If you can’t tell bbPress how to connect to your database, you’re going to be stuck right there until you get some help.

[DTI]

Thanks, Chrishajer.

More question:

1, Do I create database first before running install.php? Both I try ( no database to install and after create database to install), it doesn’t work.

2, I can’t find the path where is I created database save in, so I entered localhost in the Database Host. I really don’t understand what is the database host and search it in internet, is it belong to company? I use Mysql 5.0.45 . and bbpress-0.9.0.4 . How can find the path about my database in Linux.

3, I don’t choose the Show Advanced Settings (default), it is still stuck step 1.

It is always (There was a problem connection to the database you specified. Please check the settings, then try again.)

Is it terrible to install it?

[tema5]

I’m with godaddy.com

It uses php 4.x by default, but supports PHP5 for .php5 files.

I changes handle of .php files to PHP5 too.

But I got the same error. What to do?

[deadlyhifi]

the latest bleeding edge release (from subversion) adds paging to the ‘Latest Discussions’. But if any of the arguments are used in ‘get_latest_topics’ the paging doesn’t work.

from functions.bb-topics.php

function get_latest_topics( $args = null ) {

$defaults = array( 'forum' => false, 'page' => 1, 'exclude' => false, 'number' => false );

so I’ve tried it with

$topics = get_latest_topics('forum=-3');

and

$topics = get_latest_topics('exclude=3');

both have same results but no paging.

[tliebig]

@_ck_:

A note on deep integration: As of 0.9.0.4, deep integration will break the localization due to the localization methods being used from WP’s core files (bb_settings.php line 75), causing the system to look for bbPress-language files in the WP language directory. Here’s what to fix to make bbPress load it’s own language files from bb_includes/languages when using deep integration:

In line 376-377 of bb-settings.php, replace

// Load the default text localization domain.

load_default_textdomain();

with

// Load the default text localization domain.

if ( !(defined('DB_NAME')) ) {  // Include localization the bbPress-way when WP is not running.

load_default_textdomain();

}

else {

$locale = get_locale();

$mofile = BB_LANG_DIR . "$locale.mo";



load_textdomain('default', $mofile);

};

[chrishajer]

If you want 10 separate sites, you can have 10 separate installations of bbPress, and they can all use the same database. You just need to use a different table prefix for each one (instead of the default bb_.) But, are you going to need to share anything between the different installations? If so, then this is not the way to go.

[Patrick Daly]

I’m having the same issue. Any other suggestions?

My setup:

Integrated:

WP 2.7.1

bbPress 1.0-alpha-6

Using the default bb-config charset & collation:

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”);

Using the defauly wp-config charset & collation:

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

Using the default language file. In other words, I haven’t changed anything and it should be using the English.

Database is:

UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)

utf8_unicode_ci

[Detective]

Also, thanks for the welcome, ck! I do more theme customizations for WP but usually do it all the quick and dirty way, cramming things into function.php file rather than packaging it up nicely, and I often just hack features into other plugins to get it all working the way I want. Right now as far as bbPress is concerned on my to-do list is to find a good solution for manually marking spam posts, work email notification into the pm plugin, and set up the post notification to send email by default. Just haven’t had time to look into all that yet… if there are any existing solutions/patches, please let me know! Otherwise I’ll probably look into it at some point and contribute what I can (if anyone else is interested).

Great! I was going to work on that in a few weeks

[superann]

Thanks johnmc! I worked hard on the site; haven’t spent nearly as much time with bbPress as I have with WP so I kind of did the absolute minimum to start and was lazy about the cookie integration that didn’t work out of the box… until someone else on my forums complained…

WP and bbPress are running side by side off the same user database, same process to set up as described in the integration thread here. No deep integration, just customized the templates to match. Registrations are routed to WP via a direct link to it in the login-form.php template, which is cool as I use the Register Plus plugin there to customize things a bit. Logins (and outs) are integrated via cookies using the plugin which you can grab here:

http://superann.com/2009/02/26/wordpress-26-27-bbpress-09-cookie-integration-plugin/

Also, thanks for the welcome, ck! I do more theme customizations for WP but usually do it all the quick and dirty way, cramming things into function.php file rather than packaging it up nicely, and I often just hack features into other plugins to get it all working the way I want. Right now as far as bbPress is concerned on my to-do list is to find a good solution for manually marking spam posts, work email notification into the pm plugin, and set up the post notification to send email by default. Just haven’t had time to look into all that yet… if there are any existing solutions/patches, please let me know! Otherwise I’ll probably look into it at some point and contribute what I can (if anyone else is interested).

[chrishajer]

Why didn’t you set a host name when installing? It’s on the same page as the database name, username and password, it’s just not shown by default. I think it’s a link that says something like “show advanced database settings.” I wouldn’t modify the core at all to connect to the database.

The error comes from not having a host name and the software trying to connect to localhost via port 3306, but that’s not where your database lives, it’s on a machine called internal-db.s41093.gridserver.com.

[teddyc]

Got this error script url right under my “add this topic to your favorites” option:

(/(false|true|and|or|xor|__FILE__|exception|__LINE__|

array|as|break|case|class|const|continue|declare|default|die|do|echo|else|elseif|empty|

enddeclare|endfor|endforeach|endif|endswitch|endwhile|eval|exit|extends|for|foreach|

function|global|if|include|include_once|isset|list|new|print|require|require_once|

return|static|switch|unset|use|var|while|__FUNCTION__|__CLASS__|__METHOD__

|final|php_user_filter|interface|implements|extends|public|private|protected|

abstract|clone|try|catch|throw|this)([ .”‘{(;&<])/g)

It links to this URL: /forums/profile.php?id=3&tab=favorites

When I click on this: “Subscribe to your favorites’ RSS feed.” which links to this: /forums/rss.php?profile=3

It is just a blank screen.

This just started showing after I removed a signature from my profile. No idea if they are related…

Using BBpress 1.0-alpha-6

[WPAlex]

Ipstenu, thanks. To solve this problem I delete all messy code from profile-edit.php of Refresh theme and replace it with default one from Kakumei.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Flip back to the default themes and see if the problem persists. If no, it’s the theme. If it persists, collect the following:

1) bbPress version

2) Plugins

3) WP version (if integrated)

and report back!

[pro101]

I just setup v0.9 and the default URL structure works. However if I try to select another permalink option and save settings, it saves the settings but then breaks all external URLs = page not found. All I have right now is 1 category and the 1 sample post. Both break, and become functional again when I revert back to default permalink.

Any idea how to make this work?

[hoppie]

Additional: I noticed that the tags field is being pre-filled when I look at the Add A New Topic form that sits below the list of posts tagged with tag X. That’s great.

What remains is the behaviour of bbPress when sending it a URL …/tags/X where X does not exist yet. The Forum now decides to revert to the default query and shows all available tags. It could, like a Wiki, have chosen to show an empty Topic list with the pre-filled Add A New Topic form. That would make sense to me.

[chazbeaner]

I successfully integrated WP and BB and mapped the user roles and everything was going swimmingly. A user went in today (roughly 24 hrs later) and noticed that the forum was asking him to login to post a reply even though he was showing as logged in on the WP and BB sites. I went into the CMS (was recognizing me as being logged in as admin obv) and noticed that the User Roles had been reset to default, as if they had never been mapped.

So, I remapped the User Roles between WP and BB and now everything works as it is supposed to on the front end, but on the back end BB is now telling me that I have “No Users Matching That Request” under the Users page and no matter what search I run there are no Users listed anywhere on the back end.

Thoughts? I have integrated bbPress within the framework of WP, so maybe that is the issue, but it seems to be a DB disconnect.

[MrPeteH]

I’m a not-quite-noob on WP/WPmu, and a total noob here on bbPress. I’m attempting my first integrated install, from scratch. WPmu latest (2.7 trunk as of a couple weeks ago) and bb 1.0 alpha 6. I thought I’d share a new-user experience… knowing that this kind of stuff is hard to remember later.

I’m wanting integration of users and logins, and went through the install with that in mind.

Anomalies, strangeness and bugs found:

1) It asks for both the site URL and blog URL. WPmu doesn’t have both items, so that’s confusing. Should mention that the same value can be copied in.

2) It doesn’t suggest the URL needs “http://&#8221; attached until after you save settings and get an error.

3) [suggestion] why not ask for the location of the WP/WPmu install, and pull the keys etc from wp-config.php??? That would save a ton of typing and confusion.

4) Once I got everything entered, it let me login ok… HOWEVER:

5) It quickly LOST all my settings and the database appeared broken. Here’s how:

* I clicked on “Admin” to go to the admin panel

* Went to Settings->WordPress Integration

* Set up role mappings and saved

* Either at that point, or with one more click (Save in User Integration), I was suddenly locked out and getting mysql connect errors in the header.

* Examining the page I was on showed the “advanced database settings” had defaulted to different info: apparently it used my admin login (user admin) rather than the WP db user/pass I had provided.

* It was impossible to reset this info on that page due to the DB connect error. [suggestion: maintain ‘admin’ login/pw in a bb_* table for emergency admin use of the WP connection breaks!]

* Confusingly, the DB info in bb-config.php is correct and I could not find the (wrong) wp DB info in any text file. Presumably it is stored in the bb-* database?!

My workaround, which is now in use: hand code the settings ($bb->user_bbdb_user etc) into bb-config.php. That works.

Bottom line: either the integrated installation process, or perhaps the settings->Integration page, is busted.

Hope that helps!

[PS: I’m the author of the wptuner performance analysis/debugging plugin for WP/WPmu. Would a BB version be helpful?]

[pschena]

Thanks for the reply Sam.

I managed to hack my way through /bb-images and /bb-admin to fashion a type of branded error page.

Should get us out of trouble for now.

Will have to fiddle a heap more to make the extra fields work though.

Am I correct in understanding that your suggestion is to make a plugin for this?

Haven’t done that before, can you recommend a place to look to learn this at all?

[Sam Bauers]

The default error page is a sore spot in bbPress. It currently isn’t theme-able. That will change, but not until we get a bit further into 1.0 alpha development.

Private forums are possible via a couple of plugins, take a look at the “Extend” area of this site.

Adding extra profile info is pretty easy via a plugin if they are just simple text fields. You need to add the fields to the profile_info_keys. See get_profile_info_keys() function. Here is some example plugin code…

function my_add_profile_info_keys( $keys )

{

$keys['ice_cream'] = array( 1, 'Favourite ice cream' );

return $keys;

}

add_filter( 'get_profile_info_keys', 'my_add_profile_info_keys' );

Adding checkboxes and dropdowns currently isn’t supported via the API.