[wizbor]

Ok after a few more trys, I got it to load. I think I might have had a carriage return (ha, they still use that term?) in the cut and pasting. Now the work to get them to match begins. I need to now get info from the bb_header file into the front-page.

Thanks.

Rob

[AphelionZ]

the one-word-login thing is inferior to wordpress’ login, which allows spaces in usernames. This will become problematic to people who are integrating with WP.

I agree though, that row should be added to the table.

[wizbor]

Yes right at the top right after <?php

The congfig.php file at the bottom where it asks about wp intigration also has a statement.

//define(‘WP_BB’, true); When I uncokmmented that it failed so I changed WP_BB to wp_bb and it worked. I’ve set up the wp url and siteurl as well. This all works.

So when I added your code to the top I’ve tried all combinations, that is, lowercase, commenting out the define(‘WP_BB’, true); at the bottom of the config file etc.

Thanks for responding!

Rob

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[jasonmez]

Okay, first thing’s first… if this is the forum on the bbPress site itself, it really needs to be a bit more of a better example. As it is, when I get to the forum I’m first faced with a giant tagcloud, then I have to scroll all the way down past a huge list of posts to get to the actual individual forums such as this one. Of course, I could hit the button to start a new topic at the top of the top of the page but not only is that counterintuitive, it’s a really bad idea in general that will get people just Pcoming in and posting without looking at other posts first. I’d hoped the layout would have been changed by now at least.

Second problem, and this is one I’ve had on the wordpress forums as well but never bothered to ask about it. At the bottom of the post box it lists allowed tags (shortly after mentioning “Enter a few words (called tags)” with a link to the tagcloud rather than a definition of tags), but what gets me is “Put code in between backticks.” I’ve been running forums since before ISPs could offer residential Internet connections and yet I have absolutely no clue what that means. Unless this software is only meant for WordPress users (which I’m one of, btw), it would be best to get a bit more accessible to ordinary people in terms of language/jargon.

My other large beef is that the forums read like blog comments rather than forum discussions. Threading would be my number one request if I intended to use it. I guess my number two request would be integrating said threaded comments into the comments section of blog entries for those using it with a WP blog, though that’s a lot more complicated. I’d want to start off with the other way around by having the blog able to automatically display posts from certain sections such as Announcements and such. I’m not sure if that functionality exists yet, so apologies if it does. If not, I suppose a workaround could be reading the rss feed from that section into the blog section, but aggregating your own feeds is a fairly silly notion.

That’s it for initial feedback right now. I may come take another look when the software has matured a bit… by that I mean the core, it shouldn’t have to depend on plugins and themes to have very basic funcionality on its own.

Jason

Ps. Oh, and I’ve had strange issues logging in here on two seperate occasions.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

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

define(‘WP_BB’, true);

Where are you putting that? It should be the very first thing in bbPress config.php

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

This can also be caused by defining WP_BB to true without manually loading WordPress as well.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

In addition to editing bbPress’ cookie information, you will have to edit WordPress’:

for both bbPress and WordPress

the domain should be .salatti.net (note the first .)

the path should be /

So in bbPress’ config.php:

$bb->cookiedomain = ‘.salatti.net’;

$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;

in WordPress’ wp-config.php:

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.salatti.net’);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

define(‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

Let us know how it works.

[Atsutane]

PHP Warning: rawurlencode() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /home/spider/public_html/wp/wp-includes/classes.php on line 1658

Well i have that problem when i integrate my bbpress with wordpress. It only happen when i view “manage->post” and “manage->pages”. I already edit the classes.php and it only fix my “manage->post”. My “manage->pages” are still broken.

If i disable the integration, everything work perfectly without any error. Anyone know how to fix this thing?

[Atsutane]

@kannued

Actually u can load bbpress into wordpress I have tried it and it work perfectly. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/61?replies=3

[wizbor]

First let me say what a breeze to install and intigrate. I didnot even realize it was integrated untill I noticed while logged into WP admin I brought up the forum in another tab and was logged in there too! Nice job.

Ok now to my question, Im trying to get the forum to look like wp, in my cae its http://dentalceramics.com and http://dentalceramics.com/forums. Like what youve done with this site.

My problem is that every time I try and ad

<?php

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

define(‘WP_BB’, true);

I get a crash. Interestingly though define(‘WP_BB’, true); works under the last section of the config.php file but only as define(‘wp_bb’,true); Its how its defined now.

So my thouht is do I need to even do this? Can I just start adding wp tags tp my bb_template files? If so what should for example <?php bb_get_header(); ?> be changed to in the front-page.php file if this is the way to go about it.

Many thanks,

Rob

Oh, sorry no access to my error log files which is a real bummer for stuff like this to help.

[salatti]

I’m trying to get cookies integration with wordpress working, but after some failed attempts (I read the FAQs and searched on the forum) I can’t figure out how to do this. My WordPress installation is at http://www.salatti.net while bbPress is at forum.salatti.net (so bbPress is not in a subdirectory of WP, but on a third level domain). What should I do?

Thanks,

Daniele

[chrisjb]

Yeah i already renamed it – actually I copied it and changed the name of my copy then edited it:

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘themboy7_bbpres’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘themboy7_tmgforu’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘**********’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// If your bbPress URL is http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ , the examples would be correct.

// Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL.

// Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here.

$bb->domain = ‘http://www.themortgageguide.org.uk&#8217;; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com&#8217;

// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. ‘/’ is fine if the site is in root.

$bb->path = ‘/forum/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘TMG Forum’;

// This must be set before running the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘forum@themortgageguide.org.uk’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = true;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = 0;

// 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 = ***********;

[abc12345]

Dear astereo,

Great guide! One thing I would add, however, is what to do when there are errors, ie troubleshooting. For some reason I get stuck at the install.php file telling me “Cannot select DB.” This is despite the fact that I have followed the directions you mentioned (and those included on this website) to a T and have successfully installed WordPress, phpBB, and other php/mysql web programs with no problem. Also it seems like the member n2 is having the same problem. If the solution is found to this, perhaps it could be put in your ultimate guide, so that others do not fall into the same trap. Thank you.

[edwinkort]

Great, thanks. Although I’m still having problems installing this

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/bookieb/public_html/bbpress/config.php on line 46

Line 46 (and further):

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix.

$bb->wp_home = ‘www.bookieboy.co.uk’; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘www.bookieboy.co.uk’; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash

[ranrar]

why not do as wordpress does? just copy a script/code into a folder and then activate the plug-in and then folow the install instructions acorting too the plug-in readme about tags? and so on?

then you can easly can deside yourself witch you need this plug-in ore not just like wordpress.

[ranrar]

Yes its quit nice skin to bbpress, i hope in the futre there vil come more cool skins to bbpress like wordpress

[mistainu]

#1. have a smoother “intuitive” integration between wordpress and bbpress?

#2. plugins and theme options pages in control panel *doh*

#3. in the bbpress control panel, have a link that says “over to wordpress” and vice versa; that would require bbpress and wordpress to “recognize” each other’s presence on the website. a result of suggestion #1

#4. search function? etc

that’s all i can muster… otherwise it’s awesome.

[mistainu]

nevermind, i figured out what went wrong:

near the bottom…

// Use the following line *only* if you will be loading WordPress everytime you load bbPress.

//define('WP_BB', true);

so i removed the //

define('WP_BB', true);

and that’s what caused the problem… now that i replaced the // back, integration works fine. but i have a question?

what was that line even supposed to do? i thought load everytime means i can callup the wordpress functions in the bbpress template? or something to that extent? someone please clarify?

[mistainu]

it said something about capabilities.php had an error… so that’s why i added both plugins again, yet both failed to fix the problem.

consider me a first timer dummy and guide me step by step how to go about integrating bbpress to my wordpress?

[Jaxia]

Ahhh, my bad. I thought that is what ”pretty’ permalinks did. Something to look forward to

(BTW, xdforum uses mod rewrite rules to make it work. It’s a wordpress forum plugin. Nifty, but I guess it depends on which features are more important to the end user right now )

[mistainu]

none of the above helped with my situation. here’s my predicament:

i’ve got a full running WP. so i install bb in a directory inside WP’s means ROOT/ is WP and ROOT/bbpress is bb. bbpress worked fine when it was in it’s own database too. but when i edited the few lines… at the bottom of bbpress’ config.php, to direct to wordpress’ prefixes and urls (i also edited the top lines to direct to my wordpress database as well).

then it didn’t work… what went wrong>?

here’s a link to the thread i started abt it…

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/98

[mistainu]

first, i setup my bbPress, tested it… worked great! now i went to the config.php and changed the settings to point to my wordpress. my wordpress has in the root directory and mt bbpress was i a folder root/forums/ … for the configuration, i’m sure i did everything right. changed the wordpress prefix from false to wp_ then added in the urls of my wordpress as required. i then removed the // on the next line as the instructions said.

now i loaded the directory with bbpress… i expected to go thru the whole installation thing again but it failed. someone please help?

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

I believe there are several plugins for WordPress (and even a sidebar widget) that pull content from RSS feeds.

I’d use the widget since I don’t know the names of the plugins off the top of my head. I’m sure Google does, though

[p3t3r]

@ear1grey: Maybe I´ve got the plugin you want to have – some time ago I created a plugin like that for a bbpress+wordpress site which is no more online – I´ll search it on my HD and test it, and if it still works I´ll put it up for download…

[ben-h]

larmir,

I had a similar thing happen to me on WordPress. Just about went nuts trying to figure it out, but I finally did. I would think that since bbpress is made by the same folks who did WordPress that you’re experiencing the same thing I did with WordPress. I’m guessing that when you created your database that you didn’t create it in UTF-8 format. If you check the installation documentation, see if it recommends UTF-8. Then, check to see what kind of encoding is on your database. If that is the problem, you can solve the problem fairly easily. Here’s a link to instructions that I wrote for fixing the problem in WordPress:

http://www.minc.info/?p=32

You should be able to do the same thing to fix it with bbpress. *NOTE* I haven’t tried this with bbpress so I can’t guarantee it will work.

Hope that helps,

Ben