[fel64]

Hey,

I just wanted to say that I just installed bbPress in a subdomain from my forum and got the cookie syncing to work fine.

Much thank to Trent, who provided half the solution:

$bb->cookiedomain = '.lumanation.com';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

made it so that forum-generated cookies worked for the entire website. I had to go into wordpress root and edit wp-settings.php line 190:

define(COOKIE_DOMAIN, '.example.com');

I do not understand how it worked previously, as it defined it simply as false (I assume that the browser will automagically substitute the domain that the user is currently on?). However, hardcoding the domain worked for me, and as long as I remember to change this in future upgrades I should be fine.

I did have troubles, especially logging out, while testing all this, and found that it’s vital to clear your cookies manually as the wordpress/bbpress logouts were clearing different cookies and you could stay logged in despite trying to log out.

But yeah, I’m all good. Thanks guys.

[macwise]

Ok, this is the solution that worked for me. I did have to add the rewrite rule, as multiviews isn’t working on my server??? (I think I’m running on php4, is that why?) So, for others who want a wal-mart type bb build here’s a recap of what I did:

I created a page in my bbpress root called contest.php. Inside of that page I put:

<?php

require('./bb-load.php');

bb_load_template( 'contest.php' );

?>

I then created my contest.php page with the content I needed (the template)

The last thing I did was to put these two lines in my .htaccess file IN MY FORUM ROOT FOLDER, (not my wordpress root folder):

RewriteRule ^contest/$ /forum/contest.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^contest$ /forum/contest.php [L,QSA]

This basically says that myurl.com/my/forum/directory/contest (without the trailing backslash)

and myurl.com/my/forum/directory/contest (with the trailing backslash)

will both point to the contest.php page in the root forum directory.

As so1o said, this last part in .htaccess may be unnecessary if you have multiviews enabled (if your .htaccess file in your FORUM directory has this line: “Options +MultiViews”). Maybe someone else can confirm/deny this, as my configuration is different.

Hope this helps someone else who needs some custom functionality out of bbpress.

[so1o]

macwise..

if you are ok hacking the code.. create a page contest.php in the root forum folder

add require_once('./bb-load.php'); on the top of the page. and write whatever code you want in the page.. that should create a static page with bbpress functions..

as far as rewrite is concerned.. im not 100% sure but i think multiviews will automatically translate /contest.php to /contest/. test it and see.

[macwise]

bbolman,

thanks for the idea. I would probably prefer to do this. However, I have a few bbpress functions being called in the code on the page, and though I could probably dig about and find out how to replace it with wp code, it was not the most pleasant thought. I figured I’d just throw a page up on the bbpress side, and have it resolve at a myurl.com/directory/ as is common with wordpress. I found out how to take care of this…I achieved this by adding two lines in the .htaccess file…

RewriteRule ^contest/$ /forum/contest.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^contest$ /forum/contest.php [L,QSA]

I’m not trying to start a battle here, but I think your response, Null, might be a bit short-sighted and aggressive. After all, if I feel my software needs a static page, that may just be what it in fact does need.

I agree with bbolman that this would probably be more efficiently handled by wordpress. However, since bbpress is still in it’s infancy, and it’s not integrated fully yet with wordpress, (this is my way of trying to sound like I’m not a completely right-brained individual), I think it’s fair to say that these decisions aren’t so cut and dried. Anyway, I appreciate the responses all the same, and will post any further findings here…

[macwise]

Ziyphr,

Thank you so much for your reply. I think this is really the solution that I have been looking for. It just doesn’t make sense to me to only have one subdomain registered in the cookies, and I wasn’t sure how wordpress handled the adding of a subdomain.

I am still moderately new to php, so I’m not sure I follow the last paragraph in terms of proper form and syntax, and so I’d prefer to ask that “stupid question” rather than sound smart and fail. . Can you let me know exactly what you think should go there, in terms of syntax? That would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. It sounded like you meant to say “You should NOT need to use .htaccess? Just checking to be sure…

Thanks so much for your help.

[hery]

There is an attempt here… Maybe usefull or not.

http://hery.blaogy.org/2007/02/21/mediawiki-wordpress-integration/

[bbolman]

Why not just make a wordpress page? People would still be logged in to see it if you have an integrated installation.

[macwise]

I am currently having a problem where when I log in to wordpress (or bbpress) at url:myurl.com, then click a link that is directed to http://www.myurl.com, then I am no longer logged in. (Cookie issues). I am trying to figure out how to define either *.babyquestions101.com (preferably), or if that won’t work then babyquestions101.com AND http://www.babyquestions101.com.

Give it a shot here:

http://babyquestions101.com/

and the forum is here:

http://babyquestions101.com/forum/

PLEASE CREATE ANY ACCOUNTS WITH THE WORD “TEST” AND ANOTHER WORD/NAME IN THE ACCOUNT NAME, unless of course you intend on keeping the account.

UPDATE:

My wordpress options blog url (in the wordpress admin panel) is listed WITH the “www” in front of the domain.. I am digging into mod_rewrite directives, but to be honest, I’m not really grasping it. Right when I think I have it figured out, it throws me. I have been able to get requests going to http://babyquestions101.com to redirect to http://www.babyquestions101.com/ using mod_rewrite in the .htaccess files. However, when I try it out in the forums, (http://babyquestions101.com/forum/) it just resolves at that address, and doesn’t insert the www. Any ideas?

[enquirer32]

I have installed the latest version of bbPress in a sub-directory of my blog ../bb

Links for template pages generally work and so does the link to the admin and presentation, plugins etc.

But the links to Add Topic, Forums etc all just take me back to the blog home page. Is this something to with WordPress Integration which I have somehow messed up?

Any help much appreciated

[Null]

This is a forum!!!!!!! Not a CMS or something else……..

[macwise]

Hello,

I need to add a custom page to my forum that acts like any other page, but with custom content I have added. It’s actually going to be a “Contest Status” page, where users can check to see if they have completed the steps necessary to enter the contest, and once they have to track the contest’s progress. I know how to create a custom page in wordpress that just points to:

http://www.myurl.com/chosen-page-name

but I can’t quite wrap my brain around this in bbpress. I want the most elegant, simplest, and most unobtrusive solution I can find. I would love the page to resolve to:

http://www.myurl.com/forum/contest

Is this functionality built in? Is it plugin-able? (I’ve never built a plugin). Is there a simple workaround?

Any tips or information is greatly appreciated.

[mirce]

Thanx,

I am not sure that ?page=2 will be followed by search engines. bbPress have a better spiderability then all the other forums and WordPress, it would be a shame to loose so many pages.

[mirce]

Hi,

Mod rewrite rules set up for bbPress are OK and are better then the ones WordPress uses. However some tweaking can be done to make things better.

I’ve tried to put up together a permalinks plugin. I think that I am half way done but I need some help finishing things up.

The plugin can be downloaded from:

http://www.phpdigest.net/

You can take a look to my test site:

http://www.dfur.com (the template is not finished)

The forum link was changed from:

http://www.example.com/forum/forum_id

to

http://www.example.com/forum_name

The topic link was changed from:

http://www.example.com/topic/topic_id

to

http://www.example.com/forum/topic_id

I need help with creating the pagination mod_rewrite rules (page_2 ). Please let me know if anyone can help with setting up new pagination mod_rewrite rules for this page:

http://www.dfur.com/designer_furniture/topic5

Thank you,

Mircea Piturca and Paun Narcis Iulian.

[bbolman]

To throw in my two cents… I personally would lean towards “themes.” My reasoning: since one of the biggest parts of bbPress is the WordPress integration, I believe bbPress and WordPress oughta use the same lingo for that. If a template author wants to do matching templates for bb and WordPress he’ll have to have the “Blank Theme” for WordPress and the “Blank Template” for bbPress. To me this adds to the confusion, and since WordPress has been around and people are used to theme, why make them have to learn more lingo?

[chrishajer]

I think template is simple enough, it’s just different

I also personally feel “template” is more ‘correct’ than “theme”. Unlearning “template” when starting with WordPress was hard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme

I think bbPress is correct, and WordPress is wrong.

Also, if you’ve ever used K2 with WordPress, you know that they have something called schemes which are pure CSS modifications to change the look. To confuse things even more, the “schemes” in K2 are in a folder called “styles.”

sorry for all the edits …

[Trent Adams]

Without stepping out too far on a limb, I think that each blog (or forum) has it’s own key to keep track of what is done with each user and require their own key. Since they are free, it isn’t too hard to get one, just go to this post and follow the directions.

I see what you mean about having a special bbPress key, but I doubt if it will ever happen in the near future.

Trent

[ukrob12]

I uploaded everything then went to install, just to be faced by “Cannot select DB.”

I had a look around these forums but can’t seem to find anything to get it working. WordPress is working fine from the same database.

Thanks in advance for any help

[chrishajer]

I personally don’t think this is a big issue. I had to change my brain to think of templates as themes in WordPress, so it doesn’t matter much to me. What they’re called is much less important than how they’re managed and modified.

[Null]

I agree with this all. This is also one of the reasons I’ve started the bbPortal project (bbportal.org) The idea is to use bbPress as the basic and build some nice stuff around it. It’s not much yet, I’ve just started it).

WordPress is great for BLOGGING and some people forget this. It’s designed for a personal blog not for a whole community. Sure you can extend it with plugins etc, but still.

bbPortal is/will be more for communities like clans/guilds that use the forum heavily. (so forum driven and not blog driven.)

You can also take a look at wordpressMU (multiuser), That can give every user a own wordpressblog that you can administrate. If I may be so bold I see it like this:

Personal/blog………….>>…………Community driven

..wordpress

……………………….wordpressMU

………………………………………………………. bbPortal

(ignore the dots, they where needed for outlining)

Joomla and Drupal are way bigger, but to my oppinion, needs some more understanding about php and coding aswell.

Though choise huh

[davidbessler]

An educated consumer is our best customer. Take a look at Drupal (www.drupal.org) and Joomla (www.joomla.org), as these may be more along the lines of what you are looking for. They are the equivalent of the all-inclusive resort of online community systems. They offer a lot of what you are looking for almost out of the box. The idea behind bbpress is that while WordPress is a great system for blooging and news (A few people write, lots of people read), it did not offer anything in the way of serious egalitarian discussion, like many conventional message boards. So, bbPress was born to fill that gap. But, it was just born. I think, the future lies in modular community bulding, where people pick and choose each module of their system, and they all work together. bbPress is along those lines, and that’s why I love it. However, if you want to plop a community down on the web with all sorts of gadgetry, chattery, and photo-uploadery, check out Drupal, Joomla, or some of the other CMS (Content Management Systems) … Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems

Sorry, fellow bbPressers, I have to give an honest opinion.

So, again, bbPress and WordPress are like booking a vacation to the far east and choosing a great hotel your friends recommended, then reserving a spot on a cool mountain-climbing excursion you read about in a magazine, and then dining at that revolving restaurant you had always heard about etc … Drupal or any other CMS, is like calling 1-800-awesome-trips, plunking down your credit card, and relying on them to decide all those things for you. Truth is, you may have an AWESOME vacation EITHER way. It depends on the person. And THAT’S the truth.

[Trent Adams]

We do not have a special key hidden, It has to be added to your config.php! Example:

// Your Akismet Key.  You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet's powerful spam blocking, you'll need one.  You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ''; // Example: '0123456789ab'

Still requires getting a key from wordpress.com to work!

With the recent re-works of the admin, this might be a great option to store in the database through a core plugin!

Trent

[linickx]

I’ve seen lots of posts requesting this functionality, but couldn’t find any plugins. Well I’ve had a go at porting Jeff Moore wordpress plugin, not all bbcode tags work as the markup isn’t allowed by default within bbpress, but it’s a start !

Download Here.

Blog Post.

[Trent Adams]

The great thing about bbPress is that it can handle a great deal of things that you want and integrates really well (perfect user integration) with WordPress that can handle all the things that bbPress cannot do. There are also many plugins for galleries and chat with WordPress as well. bbPress has plugins for private messenging and other great things! I would think, between the 2, you could have a great online community!

Trent

[chrishajer]

> First question am I at a good starting place with

> bbpress.org to create an online community?

Yes, it’s fine software for an online community.

> Am I still in the right starting place if my community

> needs the capability to upload and manage/organize photos?

IMO, no. There is no provision for uploading, managing and organizing photos built into bbPress.

> I want the community to be very user controled. Meaning

> I would like the members to have allot of control over their

> profiles. Template, colour schemes etc…

Also, no. bbPress, IMO, is not set up to allow that level of control over the user’s profiles.

> I would also like this community to become very friendly

> for advertisers.

There’s nothing inherently good or bad about bbPress as far as advertising goes. There are a few themes with Google Adsense space built into them already. Other sorts of advertising would be equally easy.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/304?replies=9#post-1494

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/434?replies=9#post-2418

There’s also an Adsense plugin:

http://boakes.org/talk/tags/bbpress-adsense

> My main focus is getting the community started. Does

> bbpress.org sound like a good starting place?

bbPress is great for community building and it’s lightweight and easy to use. It will not be the solution for you for photo sharing though. You might consider bbPress for your forum, and another package for managing and sharing photos, similar to the way that a lot of users here use WordPress for their site and bbPress for their forums.

I wish you luck.

[rootin]

hello,

i changed config.php, i sent all doc. for my server and start bb-admin/install.php but i didnt see any thing ,it doesn t start to install.what is the problem i don t understand.

*sorry for my bad english

config.php ;

// Tek veritabanına birden fazla veritabanı kuracaksanız tablo önekini değiştirin.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Sadece sayı, harf!

// Eğer bbPress URL’niz http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ şeklindeyse, örnekler doğru olacak.

// Buradaki değerleri kendi alan adınıza ve bbPress dizininize göre ayarlayın.

// Sadece alan adı; dizin veya yol olmasın. Adresin sonunda ‘/’ olmamalı.

$bb->domain = ‘http://forum.webbilgisi.com’; // Örnek: ‘http://bbpress.example.com’

// Hem başta hem de sonda ‘/’ işareti olmalı. Forum alt dizinde değilse, kök dizindeyse ‘/’ olarak bırakın.

$bb->path = ‘/’; // Örnek: ‘/forum/’

// Forumun ismi ne olsun?

$bb->name = ‘Webbilgisi Forumları’;

// Kurulum yapmadan önce yönetici e-posta adresini ayarlamalısınız.

$bb->admin_email = ‘webbilgisi@webbilgisi.com’;

// Düzenli ve göze hoş gelen kalıcı bağlantıları kullanmak istiyorsanız bu değer true olmalı.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

// Her sayfada gösterilecek konu sayısı.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// Kullanıcıların mesajlarını düzenlemeleri için izin verilen süre; dakika cinsinden.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Zaman diliminiz. Örnek: Türkiye için +2 olarak ayarlı olabilir.

$bb->gmt_offset = +2;

// Bu değeri değiştirmenize gerek yok! Zaten Türkçe’ye ayarlı.

// bb-includes/languages dizini altında tr_TR.mo dosyasının bulunduğundan emin olun.

define(‘BBLANG’, ‘tr_TR’);

// Akismet Anahtarınız. bbPress’i çalıştırmak için bir anahtara ihtiyacınız yok.

// Fakat istenmeyen (spam) mesajların Akismet ile önlenmesini istiyorsanız bir anahtarınız olmalı.

// Akismet anahtarı almak için http://wordpress.com/api-keys/ adresine bakın.

$bb->akismet_key = ”; // Örnek: ‘0123456789ab’

// bbPress forumunuzu WordPress blogunuzla entegre edecekseniz aşağıdaki değerleri ayarlamalısınız.

// Entegre etmeyecekseniz, bundan sonra düzenleme yapmayın.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ”; // WordPress tablo önekiniz. Örnek: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ”; // WordPress – Tercihler->Genel: Blog adresi (URL) // Sonda ‘/’ olmasın. Örnek: ‘http://example.com’

$bb->wp_siteurl = ”; // WordPress – Tercihler->Genel: WordPress adresi (URL) // Sonda ‘/’ olmasın. Örnek: ‘http://example.com’

/* Düzenleme sonu */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

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

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>