[C Bog]

I am currently running a website which was initially built around e107. I also have a forum (e107 plugin) integrated in that website which reached over 1,000 posts. I am now planning migrating the hole solution to wordpress and bbpress. The biggest issue was to preserve the existing data (users and posts). I tried looking for a tool that acomplished this, but it was all in vain. I really wanted to migrate from e107 and wordpress with bbpress seemed to be a really good choice so I have built some migration scripts. They are written in PHP and are released under GPL.

There are two scripts. One that migrates the users to wordpress tables, and the other that migrates the posts of the forums. I would like to share these scripts with the community, hoping that there are users that could use them.

Please let me know what is the preffered way to share them.

Thanks!

[marc-brazeau]

My BBPress installation cannot find my salt cookies even when I plug them into the install from wp-config.

They do not appear in my WPMU admin options menu.

I always get this message at the end of install:

>>> WordPress “auth” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> Could not fetch “auth” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “auth” cookie salt in your database.

>>> WordPress “logged in” cookie salt not set.

>>>>>> Could not fetch “logged in” cookie salt from the WordPress options table.

>>>>>> You will need to manually define the “logged in” cookie salt in your database.

Forum could not be created!

Nevertheless, I get an email saying that the install was successful. But when I go to the BBPress admin in the WPMU dashboard it doesn’t see the installation.

[pro101]

Angie: I’ve not touched the htaccess file, and I probably need to do it. WordPress usually updates it automatically… what should I put in it? I want to use the name based option …/forum/first-forum.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

For one, bbPress isn’t a WordPress plugin.

It should be in it’s own folder outside of the WP structure.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Sumit1988 has it right.

yokima, how did you share login with MediaWiki and bbPress/Wordpress?

[tfab69fr]

Unfortunately this causes an error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _http_build_query() (previously declared in E:wampwwwrs_prod_nextforumbb-includesbackpressfunctions.compat.php:21) in E:wampwwwrs_prod_nextwp-includescompat.php on line 45

[johnhiler]

You could use create a new Role, and then restrict access to a specific forum only to people in that role or higher using Hidden Forums:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/

You’d still need a hook into Paypal, if you wanted to automate purchasing of access to your premium forum… but you could take that code from some of the existing WordPress or WordPress MU programs out there?

[sumit1988]

i think i remember, that here in the forum are a lot of threads that says:

WP 2.7 + bbPress 0.xx = Nope!

WP < 2.7 +bbPress 0,xx = yes

and finally

WP 2.7 + bbpress 1.0 = yes

So, either you downgrade your WP or you use the alpha version of BBpress.

You shouldn’T get issues with login then…

[yokima]

Ah yes, I did have issues with logout as well. I did however combine it together with MediaWiki shared login so that’s pretty good for me so far..

[John James Jacoby]

I wish that bbPress could incorporate the same type of threaded functionality that WordPress has, because I think it just works amazingly well.

[chrishajer]

Shouldn’t that require_once be at the top of the wp-config.php file, right after the opening <?php ?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

In your bb-config:

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_econome'; // WordPress table prefix. Example: 'wp_';

In your wp-config:

$table_prefix = 'wp_econome_'; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

Looks like you’re missing an underscore in bb-config.

Also try changing this on your bbconfig: $bb->sitecookiepath = '/starteconome/blog/';

[lasthero]

I have done all the above directions but still can’t seem to get anything to work. It is not detecting the cookie and having be already logged in to bbpress after wordpress login. I have been working on this for some time.

I have the exact same scenario that schmitt has at the beginning of this thread.

Please help me out here, I have posted several thread but no one has helped me or taken a look at my config files.

Here they are:

bb-config.php

<?php



// ** MySQL settings ** //

removed for security



define('BBDB_CHARSET', '');      // If you are *upgrading*, and your old bb-config.php does

define('BBDB_COLLATE', '');          // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here



// Change BB_SECRET_KEY to a unique phrase.  You won't have to remember it later,

// so make it long and complicated.  You can visit https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm

// to get a phrase generated for you, or just make something up.

// If you are integrating logins with WordPress, you will need to match the value

// of the "SECRET_KEY" in the WordPress file wp-config.php

define('BB_AUTH_KEY', '7k67k67k76'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', '67k67k76k67k76'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', '67k76'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define('BB_SECRET_KEY', 'thisisone{crazy}sectret9084biugfhKey'); // Change this to a unique phrase.



// If you are running multiple bbPress installations in a single database,

// you will probably want to change this.

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



// Change this to localize bbPress.  A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BB_LANG to 'de'

// to enable German language support.

define('BB_LANG', '');



/* Stop editing */



if ( !defined('BB_PATH') )

define('BB_PATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );

require_once( BB_PATH . 'bb-settings.php' );



// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you're not, just leave the rest as it is.



$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_econome';  // WordPress table prefix.  Example: 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://www.fabuso.com/starteconome/blog';  // WordPress - Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: 'http://example.com'

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://www.fabuso.com/starteconome/blog';  // WordPress - Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: 'http://example.com'



$bb->usercookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_my has here';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_my has here';

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

$bb->cookiepath = '/';



?>

wp-config.php

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

removed for security



// Change each KEY to a different unique phrase.  You won't have to remember the phrases later,

// so make them long and complicated.  You can visit https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

// to get keys generated for you, or just make something up.  Each key should have a different phrase.

define('AUTH_KEY', '7k67k67k76'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', '67k67k76k67k76'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', '67k76'); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define('SECRET_KEY', 'thisisone{crazy}sectret9084biugfhKey');

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

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');



$wp->cookiepath = '/';

$wp->sitecookiepath = '/';

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/');



// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix

$table_prefix  = 'wp_econome_';   // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!



// Change this to localize WordPress.  A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to wp-content/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'

// to enable German language support.

define ('WPLANG', '');



/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */



if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');

require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

?>

[tfab69fr]

Hi all

After upgrading:

WP2.5 -> 2.7

BBPress 0.9.4 -> 1.0 alpha 6

WP is running badly.

In order to get access to functions of BBPress, I have these lines at the end of wp-config.php:

if ( !defined('BBDB_NAME') )

require_once(ABSPATH.'forum/bb-load.php');

Into the index.php of my WP theme, I wish to display the last topics of the forums, by doing:

<?php

$forums = get_forums();

$topics = get_latest_topics();

$super_stickies = get_sticky_topics();

for ($i=0;$i<3;$i++){

$topic = $topics[$i];

?>

" title="See the message of <?php topic_author();?>"><?php topic_title();

<?php } ?>

The display of the latest messages was working well and still working well after the upgrade, BUT WORDPRESS GETS INTO TROUBLE:

– the css style for the back admin of WP is not working

– the hooks into the plugins are not called anymore (add_action(‘wp_head’, ‘init_js’); where init_js() is never run)

– custom query vars are not detected into the url

Well, when I remove the require_once into the wp-config.php (see below), the trouble disappear.

//if ( !defined('BBDB_NAME') )

//require_once(ABSPATH.'forum/bb-load.php');

How to get it working with the bbpress function without trouble in WP ?

I think this is a very important point for the BBPress integration in WordPress

Thanks

[mikedb]

I’m just wondering if bbpress has a few features that I require, I currently maintain a website that has wordpress and phpbb on it. The forums has a whack load of sub forums along with ones only visible by certain members, I’m wondering if it is possible to make sub forums along with special ranks along with moderator and admin?

Because currently trying to make my wordpress theme work on the forums is being a real pain, I’ve gotten it to work for firefox but in IE its a mess, so I’m hoping bbpress could be my salvation if you will.

I’m also wondering if bbpress is easy to setup with Yahoo Small business hosting? I also maintain another site in works that requires a way to post “ads” kind of like craigs list but can only be posted by an admin.

Help on any of these issues would be great.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Go to bb-admin/options-wordpress.php

Scroll down to Manual bbPress config file settings

Copy that stuff into your bb-config.php

[chrishajer]

The alpha of bbPress works with WordPress 2.7, but there is no target release date that I know of.

[chrishajer]

Are you trying to access a WordPress site or bbPress site? Did you integrate bbPress with WordPress?

[lasthero]

What is that?

[ekitel]

I have integration working in that I can also log into both with the same user name and password. No problem with posting to the forum.

I really need to be able to be automatically logged into bbpress when I’m logged into WordPress, but this doesn’t work at all. I followed all the steps also, but it’s still not working. Any ideas?

Another weird thing was that every time I tried to save new salts in the bbpress wordpress integration it would log me out of bbpress and not save. I added the info manually to the bb_topicmeta table and now I can change and save these values any time from the options interface

[level200]

Really!! when will bbpress and wordpress 2.7 work together? any updates available?

[deadlyhifi]

get_header() is a wordpress function. If you try and load that within bbPress it will not know what to do with it, hence the error.

There are various discussion about this on this forum, but as yet I haven’t seen a successful way of loading wordpress function into bbPress.

[ginelle816]

Hi, I am new to wordpress and do not know why when I try to go to my website: http://www.lifeonholdmusic.com, all of the sudden this error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_header() in /home/content/l/i/f/lifeonhold/html/index.php on line 7

appears! I don’t believe I made any changes and I suddenly got this error and don’t know what to do! any help would be greatly appreciated

[deadlyhifi]

Have a look at this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/share-solution-for-bbpress-10-alpha-6-wordpress-mu-27-cookie-integration

[augrunt]

Hey guys,

I’ve been trying to fix this for 3 days now… however I am sure it is no longer a configuration issue as I went up and down with it for the past 6 hours. I’ve just deleted and installed the latest WordPress MU and started fresh, but before I started integrating I wanted to make sure the cookies were working as intended.

When I check the cookies using Firefox’s Privacy option and my own Web Designer Plugin and viewing the cookies… I notice that all of them have a blank hash at the end…

so for example, where others mentioned it should appear as

wordpress_logged_in_(hash)

mine appears as

wordpress_logged_in_

Why is this happening on a brand new installation? I also deleted the pre-existing Hash keys and let wordpress generate it’s own and put that in the config, and still the same…

I know this ain’t the forums for it, but im sure someone has come across this.