[chrishajer]

Why is your bbPress calling a WordPress function?

wp-includes/functions.php

Is there more to your setup than it appears?

Actually, I just went to your forum and it is working?

[livibetter]

The workaround won’t work for plugins.

@sambauers: I think there is no complete working solution if you don’t touch the core files.

First, load_default_textdomain and load_plugin_textdomain are WordPress version, they only look language files in WordPress directories. So, in bbPress, all text won’t be translated since language file are not loaded because WordPress load_*_textdomain won’t find language files in bbPress’ directories.

Second, WordPress and bbPress both use default as textdomain when calling __() or _e() without assigning textdomain, that means we can only use either WordPress’ or bbPress’ language files at the same time, not both.

(edit: plugin’s problem can be solved by add a bb_load_plugin_textdomain, but bbPress’s part. If we don’t want to use something like bb__(), bb_e(), maybe we can try to merge bbPress translations into WordPress’ in runtime? or search bbPress’ first, then WordPress’ if can’t find)

[Sam Bauers]

streams.php and gettext.php are just libraries, so if they are loaded by WordPress, then they don’t need to be loaded again. Although “include_once” should take care of that.

The problem with the language file not loading is because of the next couple of lines. They say that if WordPress is loaded not to load the kses.php and l10n.php files. This means it is looking for yor language file for bbPress in the same place as the WordPress language file.

It’s possible (but I don’t know enough about how gettext works) that just dropping the bbPress mo file into the same place as the WordPress mo file will work… just call the bbPress mo file bbpress-de.mo or something like that.

I think someone solved this before… search a little harder through the forums I think.

[livibetter]

Seems you will use a lot of stuff from WordPress. If your WordPress template is already written in German, then you should have no problems. If not or some functions use gettext functions, then you will see many text in original language.

[livibetter]

This is a quick workaround:

if ( defined('BBLANG') && '' != constant('BBLANG') ) {

if ( function_exists('load_default_textdomain') ) :

global $l10n;



$locale = BBLANG;

$mofile = BBLANGDIR . "$locale.mo";



load_textdomain('default', $mofile);

else:

include_once(BBPATH . BBINC . 'streams.php');

include_once(BBPATH . BBINC . 'gettext.php');

endif;

}

if ( !( defined('DB_NAME') || defined('WP_BB') && WP_BB ) ) {  // Don't include these when WP is running.

require( BBPATH . BBINC . 'kses.php');

if ( !function_exists('load_default_textdomain') )

require( BBPATH . BBINC . 'l10n.php');

}

It should drops WordPress’ language file, and replaces with bbPress’. That means translations need to be done in WordPress won’t be translated since this code drops language file. This wont happen when you read your blog. However, I don’t have any language files, so this is coded by guessing.

This is not a solution, just a temporary fix. I will file a ticket.

[livibetter]

I think this needs to change bbPress core and even WordPress’.

What’s the WordPress function that you are planning to use?

[livibetter]

Then, you should trace in bbPress’ code to find out where causes an exit.

BTW, you can also test error_log(get_option('blogname')); to make sure WordPress loaded database correctly.

PS. debugging with no debugger is a crazy thing. You have to guess by experiences for best shot.

[ixray2]

thanks, livibetter.

well, i tried your method, and “WordPress loaded” does show up in the error log..

[livibetter]

I don’t have any clues to solve you problem.

If I were you, I will

1. put error_log('WordPress loaded'); after that request_once to make sure wp has been loaded.

2. check error log for WordPress loaded, if I get that, that means the problem should be on bbPress, or on WordPress.

3. keep using error_log, find out where causes a program end.

This is my no-debugger-debugging method.

[livibetter]

Well, I didn’t mean that kind of error message. If your hosting provider gives you cpanel, there should be a “Error Logs”

And put that line top of original config.php is correct, but to bottom isn’t.

Maybe you can try to use relative path? (I don’t think this will help…)

What are the versions of WordPress and bbPress which you are using?

Still need the error log.

[ixray2]

Well, actually it’s a Safari error message and it’s in German, but I’ll post it anyway:

“Safari kann die Seite „..“ nicht öffnen, da der Server die Verbindung unerwartet beendet hat. Dies tritt manchmal auf, wenn ein Server überlastet ist. Möglicherweise können Sie die Seite später öffnen.”

Rough translation: “Safari can’t open the page .., because the connection was unexpectedly reset by the server. This may occur if the server is busy. You might try again later.”

In Firefox, I just get a white page, no error message.

When I add the “”require_once(‘/var/www/web7/web/wp-blog-header.php’);” line to the bottom of config.php, I get this error message:

“Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _http_build_query() in /var/www/web7/web/wp-includes/compat.php on line 108”

Again, both WordPress and bbPress are running fine on its own, but it seems as soon as I try to load them together, something goes wrong.

[ixray2]

Hi,

I have bbPress running along with WordPress. It’s working fine so far, but now I’m trying to use WP functions in my bbPress theme.

I followed the directions and added “require_once(‘/var/www/web7/web/wp-blog-header.php’);” to the top of my bbPress config.php file.

But all I get is “Connection Reset by Server” when I open bbPress. As soon as I remove that line, it’ll work again, but without the WP functions, of course.

What am I doing wrong here?

[livibetter]

fel64 is right. So I made a change.

<?php

// from wp_trim_excerpt() in WordPress 2.3.1 formatting.php, just removed few lines

function make_excerpt($text) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed

$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);

$text = strip_tags($text);

$excerpt_length = 55;

$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);

if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {

array_pop($words);

array_push($words, '[...]');

$text = implode(' ', $words);

}

return $text;

}



if ( $topics ) :

$last_post_ids = array();

foreach ( $topics as $topic )

$last_post_ids[] = $topic->topic_last_post_id;

global $bbdb;

$post_ids = $bbdb->get_col( "SELECT post_id, post_text FROM $bbdb->posts WHERE post_id IN (" . implode(',', $last_post_ids) . ")");

$post_texts = $bbdb->get_col( null, 1 );

$post_excerpts = array();

foreach($post_ids as $idx => $post_id)

$post_excerpts[$post_id] = make_excerpt( $post_texts[$idx] );

endif;

?>

<?php if ( $topics ) : foreach ( $topics as $topic ) : ?>

<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>

<td><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> <a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a>

<?php echo $post_excerpts[$topic->topic_last_post_id]; ?>

</td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><small><?php topic_time(); ?></small></td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?>

On my test forum, 15 posts, without excerpts takes .119 sec, with excerpts takes .127 sec. Previous code takes .140 sec.

[livibetter]

Replace the similar part with it in front-page.php (Kakumei):

<?php if ( $topics ) : foreach ( $topics as $topic ) : ?>

<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>

<td><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> <a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a>

<?php

// from wp_trim_excerpt() in WordPress 2.3.1 formatting.php, just removed few lines

function make_excerpt($text) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed

$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);

$text = strip_tags($text);

$excerpt_length = 55;

$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);

if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {

array_pop($words);

array_push($words, '[...]');

$text = implode(' ', $words);

}

return $text;

}



echo make_excerpt( get_post_text( $topic->topic_last_post_id ) );

?>

</td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><small><?php topic_time(); ?></small></td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?>

It generates an excerpt of latest reply of topic.

[talbina]

Thanks a lot guys. I really appreciate it.

What are you guys waiting for? Get cracking. (joking). How much do you guys think this would cost me? I know, it’s something you cant predict right now. I dont know any development/design, so i cant predict anything at all. Maybe 1000, 2000, 3000? More than 3000?

But seriously, why doesnt Matt introduce an open source social networking software?

Im not actually asking so i can get my hands on it. Its an analyst’s perspective.

Im also very interested in finding out why WordPress has been so successful, and why other blog softwares might not have been as succesful. I believe it has to do a lot with the “corporate image” of wordpress/automattic and the love they have for their community.

[Trent Adams]

Logins and such are best used with default everything until you know they work. Try the default template again and report back any specific things you have going on there. As well, once you start fiddling with integrating with WP in the config.php it will use the WordPress members. Another thing if you don’t have Akismet setup would be to put:

$bb->akismet_key = false;

Trent

[Trent Adams]

#1) This is simple enough as MU is built for that.

#2) If you are talking about each member having their own bbPress forum as well in #2, I would suggest that would be a massive problem. If you just mean having them using a single forum, I think this can be done.

#3) Avatars can be down with many plugins you can find in these forums or over at https://bbpress.org/plugins/ . Combining with MU might be a little difficult or require a plugin. I would suggest looking around to see if anyone on MU has come up with a solution already. That or use Gravatar

#4) Combination of plugins and RSS feed grabbers could do that without very much hassle. What is written already might be sufficient from the plugins area, but a couple different database requests would make new plugins for this quickly I am sure.

#5) You didn’t have one

#6) People out there have successfully integrated bbPress and WordPressMU logins, but you might need to search a bit over at http://mu.wordpress.com/forums/ as well for the answer It also depends on your answer to #2 though…..

#7) You already know the answer and Null helped with the others.

Trent

[Null]

[7] Private messaging. This can be done with bbpress.

Yes, there is a plugin for this

[8] Groups. Can this be done?

Not yet (put it on trac as request). There is a way with an plugin I believe. Make a new group (e.g. like moderators) and put your people in it.

[9] AND THE BIGGEST OF ALL – Can “friends” be made for a member, where you click his/her profile and friends are listed?

I was working on a plugin that does this, but I got stuck with it, so it’s back on the selve for now.

Can’t help you with the other questions

Null

[Doobus]

I’m mediocre at best when it comes to php, so I’m a bit confused as to what to call, all I really know are the functions for WordPress, any code suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[talbina]

Come on in guys .

[talbina]

Hello people,

It’s been a while since i posted here.

I just had this great idea, and im over excited at the moment.

A Social Network using bbpress/wordpress mu.

THE BIG Q – Can it be done?

Im not a developer or designer or anything. But look here.

What do i mean by a social network? It would be more of a “professional” one. You can view examples here http://www.cafemom.com/ and http://www.gooruze.com/.

The 2 biggest sections are forums and blogs. Each member would have a blog, and there would be a forum for everyone.

So here:

[1] Each person has a blog. This is using wordpress mu.

[2] Forums. This is using bbpress.

[3] Profile picture is your avatar. But can i have some of the avatars of the members on the front page like this http://microblogr.com/ and http://www.gooruze.com/ ?

[4] A recent activity section, where it shows all the recent activities of all the members, ie; blog posts, forum posts, and comments on blogs. Can this be done?

[6] The biggest question is this – Can the same login be used for all this? Is this what you call wordpress integration with bbpress?

[7] Private messaging. This can be done with bbpress.

[8] Groups. Can this be done?

[9] AND THE BIGGEST OF ALL – Can “friends” be made for a member, where you click his/her profile and friends are listed?

Would you think this would be overtly expensive? How much do you think it can be done for, with a nice clean simple design like this http://dfckr.com/?

***OR***

Or, shall forget about all this and get a free social network like this http://www.adgabber.com/ from http://www.ning.com ?

It just seems too bulky, and i won’t be able to customize it(i mean me pay someone do it). Only the theme would be customizable.

Thanks a lot everyone.

[anasohbet]

thanks mdawaffe…

[Sam Bauers]

user_nicename isn’t what you are after. You want the display_name column. user_nicename in WordPress is a URL safe version of the username. Future versions of bbPress will utilise this field for that purpose too.

[hishamabu]

This has now been fixed. Again, thank you livibetter.

[hishamabu]

Thank you so much for your response livibetter, but I’m not getting this at all. I’m not a programmer/coder by any stretch of the imagination. My abilities go no further than copy & pasting code.

With regards to Unix sockets, I’m on a Dreamhost hosting package if that helps at all.

Can you please tell me how the trac thing work?

Thank you again.