[simple_gpr]

To add to the list of potential solutions to the Fatal errors for require_once people are encountering whilst completing deep integration of BBpress into WordPress.

If in your error log something similar to this:

PHP Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/var/www/vhost<domain>/httpdocs/wp-load.php’ (include_path=’.:’) in /var/www/vhost/<domain>/forum/httpdocs/bb-config.php on line

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and you have tried using absolute paths instead of relative paths and the other various solutions people have suggested don’t work. Then you will need to change your php.ini file and add the directory for your wordpress installation to the open_basedir variable.

i.e. open_basedir = /var/www/vhost/<domain>/httpdocs

The other option is to turn off open_basedir altogether.

If you are on a sharedhost and do not have access to php.ini your webhost will have a vhost.conf or similar file which will allow you to send directives to Apache for your particular domain. In this case you will need to have this within your vhost.conf file.

<Directory “/var/www/vhosts/<domain>/forum/httpdocs”>

php_admin_value open_basedir “/var/www/vhosts/<domain>/httpdocs:/tmp”

php_admin_value include_path “.:”

</Directory>

I hope this helps those having issues with deep integration whitepages / require_once fatal errors and saves people some time.

[DigitalGdn]

@Josh – Thanks for posting this. Massively useful, I was unaware of a the conversion script.

@Sincever – I think the script will convert the SMF/phpBB users to bbPress users. You could then move all the tables into a single database, but that in itself wouldn’t change which table bbPress uses for users. This answers your question, but if you’re referring more to WordPress users vs bbPress users and reconciling that, I can’t comment as I’ve not tried the integration before.

[pagal]

@korti Thanks mate, Its my pleasure!

I really surprised that why did not Kev suggest you to find the solution first from Google then Write here.

[thomasfals]

Let me just add that it is the shared login that does not work. The deep integration is working and I am using the wordpress menu inside the bbpress theme without any problems.

[thomasfals]

Hi Kevin

Thanks for the tip. However, I have already followed the guide once and I just did it again to double check.

All keys match in both config files. The bb press once has BB_ added in front of the key names. The cookie paths has been set, users mapped, and even the wp-load.php has been set. Keys are correct as they appear locked in the “wordpress integration” section of bbpress – also the table_prefix is set to wp_ as it should. Basically I think everything has been set up as it should.

I am testing this using mamp pro and the bbpress folder is inside the wordpress folder. I am beginning to think it has something to do with my setup. I have been trying to figure it out for days now.

[zaerl]

_ck_’s bbPress Theme Switcher plugin.

[korti]

@pagal Thanks, I will certainly try out the plug ins.

@kevinjohngallagher I’m not going to argue with you, not enough time unless I turn on my dragon… akismet works spectacular on wordpress and needs some love on bbpress. If I was a programmer i would be on it. I only need this to work on one site.

yes, for real I have a lot of sites (stopped counting at 70) and you will always find me here at my pc. I have made a living on the internet since 1997. Friends at Google, seo professional and just learning the css stuff loving wordpress.

I love bbpress and do not use any captcha for anything but my email forms, and the people who are not using it are are not getting a lot of traffic. if I didnt have captcha on my sites for email forms it would be game over. I get maybe 1-2 human spams a week if that. And my sales are going up up and up.

BBpress was hard enough to learn how to install it and then get all the spam.

and ya know I may have something goofed up in one of my files causing askimet to not work. I have two forums going and one gets only 3 spams a day the other gets 20. Then again the one that gets 20 I think was just indexed and has a lot of content.

the other was just a test site. I will reinstall and see what happens.

I just wont be able to handle it with one site that it is in the top 5 for many major keywords and we get 50 questions(emails) a day. I know the forum would be a smash instantly as they are using the feed back comments like mad.

I will try a few thing s and see what works. This site makes me way to much money to have it not work. I am still debating on moving it over to wordpress.

Lots of pros and cons to everything these days! Anyways, I have been dong this a long long time, so far my system is definitely working for me. I just have one small hurdle. If I did only have one or two sites it would be a piece of cake. As a SEO professional, I’m like a kid in a candy store. And every day I find an easier way and that is what is all about. That and to learn from one another.

meanwhile imagine bbpress with no forum… and they just got emails all day asking how to do this or how to do that…. that is where I am at.

so all in all i guess it depends on what you are doing on the net and how you are making your money..

captcha has never slowed me down but I type extremely fast to. I forget about the two finger typers.

I can say this, one time I forgot to put a captcha code on one website and wow what a mess 500 spams a day! I have also used every site builder under the sun and they all recommend it. To me it is like a seat belt law, you hate to put it on, but you know it is for the smart thing to do.

Thanks again sorry for typos, sleepy! 240 am here in Texas.

[_ck_]

You’ll get incorrect dates when the bbpress api cannot see the correct time.

But if you are saying the mouseover is working, that means that $topic has the right time.

I suspect you do not have $topic as a global before your loop.

So find the foreach you have and put global $topic; before it.

[_ck_]

It’s possible one of the plugins that relies on post_text is messing with the content.

All these work with post_text

Allow Images

BBcode Lite

bbPress signatures

bbPress Smilies

Improved Spoiler (makes a spoiler bar)

Profanity Filter

If you can consistantly make the problem happen (and cure it) then put bbpress into safemode by putting this into your bb-config.php

$bb->safemode=true;

and then try making the problem happen again.

Safemode will disable all plugins and switch you to the kakumei theme. But it’s not permanent, just remove the line and you’ll be back to normal.

[rajada]

Compresses output… compresses output… if only I knew what that meant… I never installed any plugins to specifically do that.

Nope it still happens even after I clear my cache.

Custom plugins on the bbpress forum I have include:

(explained the non self-explanatory ones)

Akismet

Allow Images

AutoRank (ranks based on posts)

BBcode Buttons Toolbar

BBcode Lite

bbPress signatures

bbPress Smilies

Improved Spoiler (makes a spoiler bar)

Members Online

Profanity Filter

Unread Posts

I forgot to mention… the last time this happened my friend and fellow php’er (i use the phrase ‘fellow’ lightly as he really is the brains of this site, I have a very basic code knowledge compared to him) mentioned that the server’s cpu was pinned at 100% if that helps you any.

[zaerl]

No problems with that text.

Date	Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:04:46 GMT

Server	Apache

X-Powered-By	PHP/5.2.9

Vary	Accept-Encoding

Content-Encoding	gzip

Content-Length	2297

Keep-Alive	timeout=2, max=100

Connection	Keep-Alive

Content-Type	text/html; charset=UTF-8

Maybe you are gzip’ing the output 2 times. One at bbPress level and one at server level. I can see from HTTP response header that your main page is gzip’ed. Are you using a plugin that compress output in your forum?

Or maybe it’s a browser error. Try to clean the cache.

[notApro]

Google a few times and you will find a few free bbPress themes.

And if you don’t like them just change a bit with the css files.

It’s not to hard to change colors and sizes.

[ck13]

I was just wondering how to change the admin name for my bbpress forum? Is this even possible?

Thanks!

[zaerl]

Trying to destroy bbpress.org with 11 different quote characters:

” ̏ “ ” „ ‟ ‶ ‵ ‷ ‘ ’ ‛

I have copy-pasted on my sand-box the code but no problems arise. Do your database character-set is utf-8?

[zaerl]

although I’m not sure why you mention it now

In response to:

I’d deem a ‘subscribe to topic’ feature the most important, simply because every half-decent forum in the galaxy has one and people expect it — not to mention how convenient it is for the readers.

It was only to say that bbPress trunk (unofficial version) have a subscribe to topics functionality. It’s a very important feature.

Unfortunately developers are in stasis right now cause the standalone version will die soon and the new plugin will break every plugin written at 99%.

[zaerl]

The bbPress trunk version has “subscribe to topics.”

[zaerl]

From an Admin point of view, I’d deem a ‘subscribe to topic’ feature the most important, simply because every half-decent forum in the galaxy has one and people expect it — not to mention how convenient it is for the readers.

The bbPress trunk version has “subscribe to topics.”

[Erlend]

Thanks for that. It’s a nice way to know they’re active, but that’s about it. What I’m really looking for is a way to realize:

“aha, they’re designing those features right now, so maybe I could help by making these suggestions and illustrating these example/past/future use cases related to those features.”

But hey, small as it may be, this is a start:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/green-wordpress-admin-color-scheme

[chrishajer]

So what is in the html directory?

And how does the web server know to show bbPress when accessing your domain?

It’s almost like the web server is serving the files from another directory since everything in this bbPress directory looks OK. I’m curious what’s in the html directory and also where is the setting that tells the server what directory to serve files from.

We can do a quick test by placing a file in the html directory and one in the bbPress directory (or just one or the other) then calling it up by name. Please post a screenshot of the html directory same as you’ve done for the others so far.

The date is one day before the others which make me think something happened in there at some point. Maybe an earlier installation or maybe that’s just when the account was set up.

[robo51]

Here are the three screenshots:

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/3356/rootu.png

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/460/bbpressr.png

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/115/bbpresstmyteplates.png

Im not sure how it uses the files there is this preference menu if that helps:

http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/4130/preferences.png

I used the installer that came with bbpress if that helps.

[notApro]

Hi..

I was wondering..

When i’am ready with my WordPress/bbPress designs. what will happen when i change my language to Dutch in the wp-config.php en bb-config.php files?

Will my entire site be in Dutch language and what will happen to my plugins?

If a plugin doesn’t support Dutch language, will it crash or just work in English?

[Joe Gibson]

Z – This is actually getting interesting. Check this out:

1. I download a fresh bbPress, upload it to the site (after renaming my original folder), and the sticky topics are still at the bottom. I’ve deactivated every plugin and am using the default theme.

2. I dig up a list of bbPress forums, check out about six of them, and — sure enough — their sticky posts are at the top.

3. I make a third sticky post on my site and it’s at the top, as a new post should be. I make a regular post and it’s above the new sticky post. Ditto another regular post. So, while it won’t roll them off the back end, it’s still preferring ‘date’ to everything else.

Every day a new thrill, eh?

Joe

[chrishajer]

That’s good. Can you create 3 more? Same thing for these 3 directories:

/ (the site root)

/bbPress/

/bbPress/my-templates/

How does http://lookwhatwecando.freehostingcloud.com/ use the files that are in bbPress? Is that a setting in the control panel to set the destination for the domain to that folder?

[chrishajer]

This is the most visible activity I know of:

http://twitter.com/bbpdevel

[robo51]

Here`s a screenshot:

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/9774/bbpress.png

Please let me know if you need more.