[_ck_]

Actually, the best thing to do is completely replace the search facility. That’s what I do in Super Search. bbPress’s search is very weak, so weak that there wasn’t even a link to it on any page in 0.9 (it’s similar to WordPress’s search, which also sucks, it’s the ugly truth no one seems to talk about).

I assume you are using the bb-benchmark plugin to watch those queries happen (if not, you should be).

Stupid question but you DO have the mysql cache turned on? I only ask because on many server configs (like CPANEL) it’s turned off by default. What does your my.cnf look like? (do a cat /etc/my.cnf in your shell)

Try going into phpmyadmin (or command line) and test that first test query against adding AND post_text REGEXP ':<:%test%:>:' to the query like so:

SELECT p.*, 0 AS search_score, MAX(post_time) AS post_time FROM bb_posts AS p JOIN bb_topics as t ON ( t.topic_id = p.topic_id ) WHERE p.post_text LIKE '%test%' AND p.post_text REGEXP ':<:%test%:>:' AND p.post_status = '0' AND t.topic_status = '0' GROUP BY t.topic_id ORDER BY p.post_time DESC LIMIT 5;

I suspect in the end due to your huge db size you are going to need to completely replace the search functions with something like this http://sphinxsearch.com which has a PHP api. Fortunately in bbPress it’s very simple to hook the internal search and bypass it entirely without even template hacks. A quick google shows that a few WordPress plugins have sphinxsearch support so that would be easy to copy over to bbPress. If you find the keyword “sphinxsearch” on this source for example, you can see how it’s done: http://svn.scriblio.net/plugin/trunk/scriblio.php

[chrishajer]

azsportshub: what version bbPress and WordPress did you install?

[chrishajer]

Hmm – that makes no sense to me. What is the exact error you get if you do not include the if (file_exists statement?

[nekita]

I’m using the functions get_header and get_footer in my front-page.php etc. and it’s working just fine as you can see on my site.

[chrishajer]

Nekita – the reason that works is because it’s not including the wp-blog-header.php (can’t find it), but it doesn’t error out because you’re saying “if it’s there, then include it”: otherwise, just continue on, but it’s not included.

So, it errors out when you don’t have the conditional, but with the conditional there, do you have access to WordPress functions, or you can just access specific theme files? Accessing the theme files would not require integration. But using the functions like get_header, get_sidebar, get_footer would all rely on integration being correct.

This assumes that the errors are the same as doyle640:

PHP Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]:

Failed opening required '../wp-config.php'

[nekita]

Discussion taken to this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101?replies=92

[nekita]

To give you an idea of what I’m talking about:

http://chocolatebydeath.com/forum/

User: Rauko

PW: IIlCuxOmYRpn

This is a test user I just registered. Once you log in with this data, you’ll see that this account is extremely restricted for whatever reason. It’s the same with my own admin account and other user accounts.

[Clicknathan]

The error was from a Private Messaging plugin (note: not a private forums plugin).

I have the default Akismet & Bozo plugins installed, and also the “Use Display Name” (which just changes your username to your nicename) and BBPrivate Messaging Plugin (as mentioned above) plugins installed. Removing them does not allow me to see the forums content either.

I just noticed that actually only admins can see the forum content.

You asked:

You didn’t make all your forums categories in the admin, did you?

I’m not sure what you mean, I’m new to BBPress. I converted an old WordPress XDForum plugin to BBPress, so perhaps something happened with permissions there, but even so, any direction as to how to open these up to everyone would be great!

[nekita]

In my case, yes, the relative path works just fine, given that I have access to my WP scheme files after I utilize it.

However, I just found out that adding:

if (file_exists(‘../wp-blog-header.php’))

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

instead of just

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

does the trick, at least to get access to the admin area.

I’m still stuck with the limitation of my admin account though. Once it’s integrated and I log on the bbP, I can’t write a post nor reply or edit my own profile because the admin user receives the status “Inactive”.

[chrishajer]

Is the wp-config.php actually located at ../ ?

Also, you could try the absolute path rather than a relative one. I have heard before that that might be a problem (although I’ve never seen that. I don’t use MAMP though.)

First verify if the wp-config.php is located ../ from bb-config.php. If it is, try the full absolute path rather than a relative one. Something like /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wp-config.php.

[doyle640]

here is my errors when I try to access the bbpress admin section:

[15-Sep-2008 12:10:48] PHP Warning: require_once(../wp-config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/forum/bb-config.php on line 34

[15-Sep-2008 12:10:48] PHP Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../wp-config.php’ (include_path=’.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php’) in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/forum/bb-config.php on line 34

On the regular part of the forum, I do not get these errors.

[chrishajer]

Why did you put bbPress into the wp-plugins folder? It’s not a WordPress plugin.

[nekita]

Seems as if I have the same problem as doyle640. Integrated the Alpha with WP 2.6.2 and after adding “require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);” to bb-config.php I can’t access the bbP Admin section anymore. the “Reply” and “New Topic” area is gone as well, Profile can’t be edited etc. The title under my Admin name (“Key Master” by default) will also change to Invalid.

The loading error for the admin section is indeed a 500 error. At first I figured it might be related to some class conflicts within the WP and bbP CSS structure but fiddling with that didn’t help either.

Now it seems more likely that the User Account looses all of it’s user privileges in bbP once it’s integrated with WP for some reason.

[nekita]

Narrowing down on the problem, I’m now able to log in even with the integration code added (by using the exact same setting for WordPress address and Blog address as used in General Settings), however the account is extremely limited in use.

It’s basically the same issue described by user doyle640 here (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101/page/3), the Admin screen is unaccessable (blank page) as well as the Profile edit options, even the form to add a new topic is completely missing.

This is true for the Admin account as well as any user account.

Once the line “require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);” is deleted from bb-config.php, everything is accessable as usual.

The login synchronization now works both ways as it should though.

[chrishajer]

> Is this the reason why bbPress 0.9.0.2 shouldn’t be

> intergrated with WordPress 2.6 and I need to try bbPress

> 1.0 Alpha instead?

Yes. bbPress 0.9.0.2 and WordPress 2.6.* are not cookie-compatible.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17409

[nekita]

Hi there.

I just installed bbPress 0.9.0.2 and integrated it with my WP 2.6.2.

I also added WordPress functions via require_once in bb-config.php so I can utilize my blog’s header and footer for the forum.

Now everything looks the way I want it, but I just can’t login to a bbPress account anymore (direct login via bbPress interface). When I enter wrong login data, it takes me to the failed login screen as expected. When I enter the right login data it will just return me to a blank login form.

Is this the reason why bbPress 0.9.0.2 shouldn’t be intergrated with WordPress 2.6 and I need to try bbPress 1.0 Alpha instead?

Or should I still be able to login via the bbPress interface, just not synchronized via WP, and the problem is located elsewhere?

Thanks a bunch

Lars

[chrishajer]

If the browser is blank when you load a page, it’s probably due to a 500 error. Do you have access to error logs to see what’s causing that error? I have not hear of that before when including WordPress in bbPress.

[doyle640]

Does anyone know why the admin section is displaying blank when the wordpress functions are included in bbpress?

[isaacgreenspan]

@ck:

based on my recollections, as i’m on a road trip and can’t readily pull up the code, WP2.6 (maybe older, too, i don’t know), in the midst of their new cookies, has an action hook that can be tapped at cookie-creation to make an additional cookie for bbPress to read (in my instance, bbPress is in /forums/ so the new cookie is restricted to that path). the function that destroys the cookies at logout doesn’t have an action hook, so it has to be overridden (it’s pluggable). on the bbPress end, it’s virtually identical–use an action hook at login to create the various cookies that WP expects, override the pluggable cookie-destroying function.

there’s also some work in syncing up all the various secrets.

it’s worth noting that the cookie that’s now restricted to wp-admin/ in WP2.6.x is the same cookie that was unrestricted in path previously, so the mechanics of the cookie contents and whatnot aren’t any different, just the path restrictions.

[doyle640]

that works, however, i can no longer access the admin section, it only loads as blank, any ideas why? thanks for your help with this.

the rest of the functions work on the main pages of the forum.

[chrishajer]

To use the WordPress functions get_sidebar and get_header, you need to include WordPress inside bbPress:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func

This might help as well:

http://www.adityanaik.com/integratepress-part-i/

[doyle640]

I successfully integrated bbpress alpha with the latest wordpress. The install is pretty flawless.

Now, I want to pull in the header and sidebar from wordpress. Does anyone have any tips for me on how to do this?

[chrishajer]

You need to log in on the front page of your forum, as keymaster, and then next to your name, after you log in, will be a link to admin. Click that, and you’re in. If logging in does not show the admin link, then the user you are logged in as is not the keymaster.

Do not try to access the bb-admin/index.php directly. It doesn’t work like WordPress.

[leoleoleo]

logout and use bbPress login not wordpress.

[_ck_]

“.mysite.com” should cover all subdomains.

Techincally .www.mysite.com is a subdomain.

I don’t know why it didn’t work for you

unless perhaps it was already “.www.mysite.com” on the WP side. They have to match.