[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.

[slambert1971]

Unfortunately the only way I have found to do this is to edit the “content.php” and “content-posts.php” files in the bb-admin folder and edit line 9 in each file as follows:

content.php: Change ‘topic_status’ => 1 to ‘topic_status’ => ‘all’

content-posts.php: Change ‘post_status’ => 1 to ‘post_status’ => ‘all’

I hate to modify core code, but I don’t see any other way to change this as it is hard coded in the files. Perhaps an option could be added under “General Settings”, but this would need to be done in the core code. It wouldn’t be that hard to do, I would think.

[pschena]

Super noobie to bbpress, and currently setting up an install for a client at: http://brainwave.org.au/forum

Got most things working to a point where I am semi happy with to start with, but having a couple of problems that need help with.

1. When logging out of a topic or forum page, I get taken to a default page. Would like to get back to the forum landing page – any ideas how to do that?
2. Same as point 1 when using Terms of Service plugin and tick box not ticked. Looks like all error pages use the same template – can this be changed?
3. Client wants a private, locked down forum, and needs to ask more questions at registration time. Is it just a process of adding fields to the form and database? Which file should I be editing?

These would set me well on the way to appeasing the client.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Cheers,

Paul

[slambert1971]

So am I to assume there is no way to add pages to bbPress? Oly the default pages can be used? Darn, might have to look for something else.

[mzimmers]

Here’s a first approximation of a right sidebar.

http://scopedin.com/bbpress/

As you can see, I need just a little more room on the right than I’m getting with the current defaults for the theme. I tried altering the width parameters in style.css, but that quickly became a rat’s nest. I concluded I wasn’t approaching it correctly.

It’s really preferable (from my perspective) to shrink the width of the tags and/or discussions sections, so the right sidebar can fit. That way, the right sidebar can remain consistent between the forums and the blog.

Chris: I was unaware of the wealth of other themes available; thanks for the link. Do you have any idea whether some of those might be more flexible?

[mzimmers]

Well…I’m running into some difficulties with this. It seems that the default theme (kakumei) doesn’t like to be compressed into any less (horizontal) space than it currently uses.

Any opinions on whether my right sidebar should be typed under main or outside of it? If I do it within, I need to chase down some width definitions, both explicit and otherwise.

[deadlyhifi]

When editing a profile (your own or others) the ‘website’ field does not update.

First name, Last name, Location, Occupation, Interests, work fine.

If I put in a website during registration it is added. However, if I try and edit this after registration the field goes blank again.

This in version 1.06a

I’ve also tried it in the latest version (using subversion), with default themes and my own, but no joy.

[deadlyhifi]

I would like to modify the bb_list_tags to show who the author of that tag was (to moderators)

So I created a functions.php in my theme and have copied function bb_list_tags from functions.bb-templates.php file. And done the following (note the changes to the function have not yet been made)

<?php

// to override bb_list_tags to show tag author



remove_filter('bb_list_tags', 'bb_list_tag');



function bb_list_tag( $args = null ) {

$defaults = array(

'tags' => false,

'format' => 'list',

'topic' => 0,

'list_id' => 'tags-list'

);



$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );

extract( $args, EXTR_SKIP );



if ( !$topic = get_topic( get_topic_id( $topic ) ) )

return false;



if ( !is_array($tags) )

$tags = bb_get_topic_tags( $topic->topic_id );



if ( !$tags )

return false;



$list_id = attribute_escape( $list_id );



$r = '';

switch ( strtolower($format) ) :

case 'table' :

break;

case 'list' :

default :

$args['format'] = 'list';

$r .= "<ul id='$list_id' class='tags-list list:tag'>n";

foreach ( $tags as $tag )

$r .= _bb_list_tag_item( $tag, $args );

$r .= "</ul>";

endswitch;

echo $r;

}



add_filter('bb_list_tags', 'bb_list_tag');



?>

Is this the correct way to change a core function? Changing anything within it doesn’t appear to override the original function.

[slambert1971]

WordPress uses Magpie for doing RSS and by default will cache the feeds for 1 hour. To change this, you can add a line to your wp-config file like:

define(‘MAGPIE_CACHE_AGE’, TIME);

Replace the word ‘TIME’ with the length of time in seconds to cache. You can also turn off the Magpie cache with:

define(‘MAGPIE_CACHE_ON’, false);

Hope that helps.

[brad_langdon]

You will have to excuse my ignorance but I have no idea what that means.

I just use normal ftp to edit the site, I am guessing sftp is secure ftp but would that really matter as I am only uploading files with it…once they are live is when they get hacked is that not right?

Clear text passwords?

You mean on the database? I just use whatever default settings bbpress operates with.

Sorry for all of the questions, I am investigating this on my own as well so I dont nag you guys too much.

Also not sure what ssh is.

[Andrew]

I am upgrading an old .83 bbpress installation to Alpha 1.0r6.

I have about 6k posts in the .83 database.

After upgrading the database I’ve noticed the following problems. Several of the posts in the database were made by users no longer in the database. If a topic containing posts by these now ‘anonymous’ users is displayed, I get the following error at the top of the screen.

DB Error in wp_users::append_meta: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '32) /* WP_Users::append_meta */' at line 1



SELECT user_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_usermeta WHERE user_id IN (1,,32) /* WP_Users::append_meta */

If I delete the anonymous posts in the thread, the problem goes away. Using PHPAdmin I checked the user ID’s assigned to the posts and there are no users with those user ID’s in wp_users. (I have an integrated installation).

I thought the problem was a result of an upgrade, so I created a new user, made some posts, and then deleted that user. The problem still exists. I have not tried this on a clean install and it would be useful if someone could try that.

I am running the default Kak. Blue theme.

I believe I tracked the problem request to a backpress file.

bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-users.php:

if ( $metas = $this->db->get_results("SELECT $meta_field, meta_key, meta_value FROM {$this->db->$meta_table} WHERE $meta_field IN ($ids) /* WP_Users::append_meta */") ) {

I am not a SQL sleuth but I believe the $ids field is being populated with nulls associated with deleted users.

[chrishajer]

Looks like the function bb_tag_heat_map takes some parameters. In your tags.php template file, you will find something like this:

<?php bb_tag_heat_map( 9, 38, 'pt', 80 ); ?>

That calls this function:

function bb_tag_heat_map( $args = '' ) {

$defaults = array( 'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'limit' => 45, 'format' => 'flat' );

So, the smallest is 9pt, largest is 38pt, UOM is pt (points) and the limit, at least in my template, is to return 80 tags. That much you can control from just calling the function with different parameters. As far as most recent tags, I am uncertain how to do that, but it sounds like it would be a good plugin (not sure if this does what you want: I don’t think so):

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/enhanced-tag-heat-map/

The information is stored in the database when something is tagged, so I’m pretty sure you could grab the latest N tags by date, DESC and display them as Recent Tags.

[yokima]

Hello,

I would like to have bbPress in two languages, using the same forum DB. So when viewing in language 1, the forum’s interface would be in language 1 with all the postings listed, and in language 2, the interface would be in language 2 with the same postings listed.

I plan on achieving this with bbPress theme switcher ( http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-theme-switcher/ ) and the link to switch between the themes/languages would be /bbpress/?bbtheme=lang1 and /bbpress/?bbtheme=lang2

I would also like to set up a php page at the root of the web domain to auto-detect and forward to the appropriate mediawiki language page based on

1) user’s browser language preferences if this is a first time visit

2) last connection’s languages preferences, which would be saved in the form of bbPress’s theme preference cookie.

with a file structure of

/blog

/blog/bbpress

/blog/wiki

/langdetect.php

My code so far is:

?php

/* langdetect.php */

$defaultlang = ‘en’

$lang = $defaultlang;

/* bbPress theme cookie detection */

if cookie exists {

(read cookie and set $lang to either en or ko.. bla bla)

}

/* WordPress and/or MediaWiki last visit language detection */

elseif previous visit info exists {

(i’ll figure this out later)

}

/* detect in-browser lang pref … modified from http://kaldung.com/en/php_detectbrowserlanguage.html */

else {

$langlist = explode(‘,’, $_SERVER);

foreach($langlist as $curLang) {

$curLang = explode(‘;’, $curLang);

/* use regular expression for language detection */

if (preg_match(‘/(ko|en)-?.*/’, $curLang[0], $reg)) {

$lang = $reg[1];

break;

}

}

}

/* redirect */

if ( $lang==’ko’ ) { header( ‘Location: http://ENGLISHPAGE&#8217; ) ; }

else { header( ‘Location: http://ENGLISHPAGE&#8217; ) ; }

?>

How can I read the bbPress cookie that contains the Theme Switcher theme preference?

[ernohannink]

Chris, the Approve User Registration plugin gives an fatal error with the 1.0-alpha-2 version.

“Fatal error: Class ‘BB_User’ not found in …/bb-plugins/approve-user-registration/approve-user-registration.php on line 58”

[Ryan Hellyer]

Hi,

I’m trying to setup a demo forum of bbPress (Version 1.0-alpha-6 ) to allow users to create their own bbPress themes. The template generator itself is powered by WordPress, and bar the occasional bug seems to work fine. The bbPress themes it exports seem to be working okay too bar a few code gremlins which I intend to iron out once I get the system up and running.

What should happen, is that you should be able to go to the following URL, make as many modifications as you want, click submit and bam! a new design for your bbPress forum should be shown. However for some reason, whenever the bbPress forum loads it kills the session variables which store all of the data relating to the current design

http://pixopoint.com/demo/bbpress/?generator=on

When you go back to the WordPress version (http://pixopoint.com/?generator=on) the original design is gone and it reverts back to the default

Any ideas?

As a temporary measure I plan to create a WordPress Page with the same HTML as would be in the bbPress forum so that users can see their design as they’re modifying it. But it would make a lot more sense if they could modify it within a real live bbPress forum.