If you also have a WordPress install that you’re sharing the database with, I think you can use the values in your WordPress config file in your bbPress bb-config.php…
Are you setting up a standalone bbPress install, or integrating with WordPress?
Also – who is your webhost… are you on GoDaddy?
https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers
Same concept for bbPress. You could make all those plain text if you like, they’re built that way by default for people who need to translate their sites.
Trick is for bbPress functions, half of them are WordPress functions, just sometimes with bb_ on the front, so they behave essentially the same. A fair few others are just aliases to return data instead of outputting it (i.e. get_forum_link vs. forum_link). Beyond that though, yeah it’s all pretty undocumented, but it’s usually relatively obvious from the name and parameters it takes.
I’d love to be able to help right a bbPress Codex mind you…
get_forum_id()
ie;
<?php if (get_forum_id() == 12): ?>
text block
<?php endif; ?>
A lot of these functions aren’t nearly as well documented as WordPress’ own similar functions, but can all be found inside of bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php
@gouri, bbpress is standalone software that is meant to run by itself, or alongside practically anything you choose. In the case of deep integration, if that’s your plan, yes it will work on either WordPress.org or WordPress µ 
Google? Animated fire gifs have been around longer than bbPress, BuddyPress and WordPress put together…
I’m running a forum, which has a sidebar on the left, it was a pain to edit that sidebar, so I tried some including today.
If you want to including a file in to your forum, use this code:
<?php bb_load_template(‘sidebar.php’);?>
Add that sidebar.php or whatever you want to call it in your template folder.
It works similar like the one we are used to using for WordPress:
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH.”/sidebar.php”);?>
@gerikg: There’s far more chance that someone has written something like this for WordPress in their plugin database
Glad to see what I am saying confirmed with independent realworld proof.
Pleased to be of service.
BTW, just how big is your site that you require multiple db servers?
I don’t know of a single WordPress+bbPress install, other than Automattic’s that are using multiple db servers.
(unless of course you are running other apps that have heavy db use or maybe for backup replication)
It’s more for redundancy than anything else, although before we got opcode caching in and had optimised some plugins involved we were catching traffic surges when our client tweeted new posts that were making us very very glad we had that much capacity.
It’s deep, I can access and use all my WordPress functionality. Afaik using wp-blog-header.php is deprecated for that use, I’ve been calling wp-load.php.
Thanks. I’ll keep on trying. I’m not using wordpress though, it’s a 100% custom system integrated with bbpress. I’m sure it’ll turn out to be something stupid from my part.
Hmmm. They say talking to oneself is one of the first signs of insanity…
I just found a year old thread on this topic: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load?replies=7#post-14899
So I have a couple of questions for anyone out there:
1. Aside from the ugliness of a core hack, is there any reason my workaround is a bad idea?
2. Has anyone produced a plugin that implements Beau’s idea in the thread above?
Sounds like there are a lot of people with deep integration, so I find it really strange that this is still a problem in WPMU 2.8.4a / bbPress 1.0.2.
[Opening a new thread with a more descriptive title. The old one was here: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-404-error-but-page-displays%5D
I have bbPress 1.0.2 and WPMU 2.8.4a with deep integration. Forum pages load fine in the browser, but they have a 404 status in the header, which causes a googlebot crawl error. If you have deep integration, this might be true for you too. You can use Firebug or http://web-sniffer.net/ to check.
I have posted my understanding of the problem and a workaround on the WPMU forums: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/14425?replies=1#post-83354
I think this issue will stop Google (and other search engines) from indexing your forum pages. So if you are using deep integration it might be a good idea to watch for a patch.
Use my little workaround at at your own risk.
Looks like WordPress is setting the 404 because it doesn’t recognize the bbPress page that is loading.
When the global WP object is constructed, the function WP->handle_404 calls “status_header( 404 )”.
As a workaround, I modified “handle_404” to lay off the 404 if “BB_PATH” is defined (i.e. when a bbPress page is loading). This seems to work ok.
Here’s the new “handle_404” at around line 445 in “wp-includes/classes.php”.
function handle_404() {
global $wp_query;
if ( !defined( 'BB_PATH' ) && (0 == count($wp_query->posts)) && !is_404() && !is_search() && ( $this->did_permalink || (!empty($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) && (false === strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '?'))) ) ) {
// Don't 404 for these queries if they matched an object.
if ( ( is_tag() || is_category() || is_author() ) && $wp_query->get_queried_object() ) {
if ( !is_404() )
status_header( 200 );
return;
}
$wp_query->set_404();
status_header( 404 );
nocache_headers();
} elseif ( !is_404() ) {
status_header( 200 );
}
}
It’s not too hard but it does take a while. You first have to figure out which profile you want your user to use, wordpress or bbpress.
yeah that’s what i’m doing since 2 days (i allways try things first befor i ask), and this is kinda annoying if you’re in a “productive flow” with your template design.
aaaaanyway i may find this pisser … one day 
thanks kawa
Nooo idea where they are then sorry, try using something like Find in Files with Programmer’s Notepad to search for the line
just the the other way round haha , i need to hide those existing messages completely.
I know WordPress has a page full of ’em that you can use here: https://wordpress.org/about/logos/
Not so sure if bbpress has put up such a page or not though. They don’t seem to have a similar page yet, but the team at Automattic are usually pretty damn cool about things like that (if you wanted to pull one from somewhere in the public domain), so long as you make it plain that you’re not a subsidiary.
I checked the above mentioned section, and yes, it seems that it will be alright. I will give it a try when my customer requests this.
Thank you so much, Kawauso. Arigato gozaimasu.
Not quite sure what you’re asking, but if you’re just trying to display a message to non-logged in users, use something like:
<?php if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
Welcome, please log in or register!
<?php endif; ?>
in front-page.php
My coding is pretty terrible too ;P I just learn from poking around in bbPress and WordPress and breaking things a lot, so you’re going about it the right way 
well not really kawa i’ve just copy & pasted the message from this forum here (@chand it’s right on top of this forum), my forum is in german and i thought that sounds maybe chinese for a few if i post the german message so i copied the one from here.
other than that , kawa you’re right i’m one of the most brilliant php coders you’ve ever seen, my backend know how is like …well ughhh beyond words lol
however, i use your trick with those fields, but yet an advice regarding to the “guest welcome/login message” ?
It should be. There’s an option in the Advanced Options section of the WordPress Integration section to specify different settings for the user database, so you’d just have to use that. The rest of the bbPress database could be stored locally.
Is it possible to integrate bbPress membership with a remotely hosted WordPress?
Thank you very much for your kind help.
