[Steven Hodson]

@Gautam .. I did manage to find one of the things that was causing a problem. It has to do as I suspected with the PHP $_SERVER[“DOCUMENT_ROOT”] variable. It doesn’t exist in an PHP install on IIS.

Now I have found a work-around that <gasp> works and when tested returns the proper path (eg: C:/Domains/winextra.com/bb-attachments/ – which from what I can tell in the “instructions” is exactly how it is suppose to be)

But when I try to upload a file (text/image) I get the following two errors and I was hoping that maybe you could help figure out what might be causing them

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Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for 83def462ed888db6e1ad898505ea40b6 in C:Domainswinextra.comwwwrootforumsmy-pluginsbb-attachmentsbb-attachments.php on line 342

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:Domainswinextra.comwwwrootforumsmy-pluginsbb-attachmentsbb-attachments.php:342) in C:Domainswinextra.comwwwrootforumsbb-includesfunctions.bb-pluggable.php on line 228

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any help (from anyone ) would be greatly appreciated as this is the last real big complaint my members have.

EDIT: The files are getting uploaded but to the root folder and they are not being entered into the bb-attachments table – http://screencast.com/t/Y2UyZGQ4

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Are you sharing user tables too?

If both the installations are fresh, I would say integrate them as per my tutorial – http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/07/integrate-bbpress-10-with-wordpress-28/

[Cyndy Otty]

Well this is an odd thing, I’m running a BuddyPress site at http://guide-dogs.org and I just finished integrating bbPress into it. On the surface things are spiffy, when logged in I can post and comment and all the other user type stuff.

However, if I, as the admin, log in via the main part of the website, when I try to visit the admin panel for bbPress, I just get redirected back to the forums. (I can SEE the “Admin” link and all, so it seems to recognize that I’m the “key master/administrator.”) Even more strange is if I log in via the forums this isn’t an issue and I can access both admin panels (WP and bbPress).

I’m pretty sure it’s not supposed to work like that.

[Steven Hodson]

@Gautam I gave your ‘fixed’ plugin a shot but it still isn’t wanting to play nice with my set-up (PHP / IIS) as you can see from the screenshot – http://screencast.com/t/MTQ1NDFl

back the to hair-pulling I guess

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

http://blog.ashfame.com/2010/01/fix-bbpress-installation-problem/

It was fixed in 2383

[Steven Hodson]

@navjotjsingh – much apologies but I’ve had my head down recently in both work and another side project which has kind of delayed my posting about the experience. Hopefully I will be able to get back on track at some point next week and pull all my notes together and get the posts written.

[Taeo]

Did I say Dan? It was late. I meant to thank Tom! lol

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi flowiesowieso,

Deprecated errors:

This is a common error with WAMP runing PHP 5.3.

You should go to the WAMP homepage > addons > PHP > 5.2.x (latest one)

Download, Install and then next time you start WAMP, you can click the menu-bar option (bottom right of the screen) and change the PHP version it’s running.

This issue has been fixed for the next release of bbPress, so it’s only a small issue.

Cannot determine:

This is an upgrade issue.

The easiest way is to head into phpmyadmin and look through your meta table and see if you see anything weird or blank. I know that’s kind of vague (sorry), but there’s a good chance you’ll see your URL slightly wrong in one of the fields (no http, or no localhost or something).

let us know what you find.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I suppose what I might not have put across well is that I don’t want bbPress to become the monster that some of the other boards out there are. I’m very cool with lightweight and fast, it’s more that… bbPress has never had a “fixit” release y’know.

• 0.8 added some new functionality while removing alot of the hardcoded stuff (remember when you HAD to set the time displayed to the time zone you server was physically located in?).
• 0.9 added loads of new functionality
• 1.0 added backPress and new admin section.
• 1.1 is adding Anon posting and Email notification.

For me, having things like https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/2377 sitting in trac (for the 2nd time btw) for over 5 months is crazy. Why do we have to have a year between releases?

I guess the way i’d put it is that there’s a difference between “basic” features and “standard” features in terms of forums. Simleys, BBcode, private messaging are fairly standard these days. I can absolutely live with them being a plugin. But the ability to delete a user from the backend inside the ‘3 click rule’ is a “basic” feature (why isn’t it one click?).

There’s a whole lot of places, especially in the backend, where there is legacy code or integrated plugin code that’s just made to work with 1.0. Take editing your forums placement, it uses an old AJAX routine from 0.8 to send to a page that’s not actually part of the current admin set up, and has no hooks/actions/filters/triggers. No plugin can interact with it. (I’m not against AJAX or the use of javascript, but there’s only 1 place in the whole admin area where there’s no actual posting back of info, and it just so happens to also be the one place where there’s hooks/action/fiters).

In my opinion, at some stage someone more intelligent than myself (not difficult) needs to have a look at bbPress on the whole, not in terms of X bits of code, but more in terms of the coding philosophy behind it. Not to make radical changes, but to make sure that it’s all going in the same direction.

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@johnhiler

Thanks, i’d be very keen to know how you got round that particular issue, i personally got round it by writing a plugin after abandoning _ck_’s approach in her plugin.

Finally,

That said, please don’t (even jokingly) refer to anyone as an idiot!

You’re right of course, apologises to anyone i did offend there. I write on these forums at about 3-4am my time as that’s the busiest time for the rest of [the board], and sometimes i forget to edit myself. I am sorry

[johnhiler]

Do you have any programming resources or budget available? It’d be a pretty straightforward effort to upgrade the plugins to work with the latest bbPress version…

[gruff1927]

This is currently a problem for me as well. Like nonegiven above, I need dual language WordPress/bbPress integration, i.e. I need the facility to be able to switch the language of the bbPress forum interface from within the forum interface. Ideally this could tie in to the user’s stated language preference, or the language of the referring webpage.

However, I can only currently change the interface language by changing the settings in the bb_config.php file. This changes the language of the interface globally, which.

Like nonegiven, I’ve tried the bbPress Language Switcher plugin by _ck_ as well as User Languages and these don’t seem to work on v1.

Unfortunately, this undermines the usefulness of bbPress for multilingual websites.

Any chance that this will be on the roadmap for the future?

[Meraj Chhaya]

Hi there!

I’m planning to create a device spec site using bbPress.

I’ve got sketches with layout and functionality done, now I need someone who has PHP knowledge, who can play with bbPress themes and plugins.

Please email me, or reply here.

merajchhaya .at. gmail.com dot. com

[Gautam]

Which PHP version are you using?

[Andrea Pernici]

In my bbpress the polls plugin work only for Administrator.

I set “participate” in who can add polls but nothing showing when I login as Normal User.

What can I do ?

[Taeo]

Thanks for all the compliments!

And thank you Dan for pointing out my mistake! Doh! I’m sure there are a few other things I’ve missed along the way.

Btw, less than 48 hours since it has been live and I’ve already seen over 1,400 unique visitors

[ipunkbali]

nice, its the best bbpress forum i’ve seen so far.

[Alex Luft]

Having some problem with the TinyMCE plugin.

I uploaded to my-plugins, activated, but it doesn’t show up. It’s the only plugin activated. The header is set up properly as per another (old) thread here. Here’s the URL http://leaf-age.com/forum/

Funny thing is, I have the exact same theme running on another bbPress forum, and TinyMCE works just fine!!!! Here’s the URL to that one – http://techsnack.tv/forum/

Please help!

[chandersbs]

wow – amazing, i’d never thought it was bbPress powered….. great job

[johnhiler]

Seriously, this is a fantastic design!!!

I also hacked bbPress to power a gallery… but my design wasn’t nearly as gorgeous as yours. Congrats on an awesome theme!!

[usdavid]

I have a 2.9.2 installation of WordPress, and it is installed in the root directory of my website. I installed bbPress in a subfolder named “forum” and followed the integration instructions. Now I can’t login in to the bbPress forum in anyway. I get the error message “User does not exist.” I am trying to login using “admin” and the password is the same for both.

[flowiesowieso]

Hello,

I’m using bbpress 0.8.3.1 at my site. Since there is a 1.0 release I’ve been wanting to update my bbpress. But to make sure everything works fine I tried the update on my localhost with Wampserver. Once I follow the install instructions I’ve been asked to create a new bb-config. Filling in the 4 steps gives me an error saying:

Installation errors

Forums already exist!

Key master email not sent!

Installation log

Referrer is OK, beginning installation…

Step 1 – Creating database tables

>>> Database is already installed!!!

Step 2 – WordPress integration (optional)

>>> Integration not enabled

Step 3 – Site settings

>>> Site name: forum

>>> Site address (URL): http://localhost/forum/

>>> From email address: myadres@gmail.com

>>> Key master created

>>>>>> Username: admin

>>>>>> Email address: myadres@gmail.com

>>>>>> Password:

>>> There are existing forums in this database.

>>>>>> No new forum created.

>>> Key master email not sent!

There were some errors encountered during installation!

If I go to http://localhost/forum it says;

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in I:wampwwwforumbb-settings.php on line 186

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in I:wampwwwforumbb-includesbackpressfunctions.wp-object-cache.php on line 108

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in I:wampwwwforumbb-includesbackpresspomomo.php on line 171

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in I:wampwwwforumbb-includesfunctions.bb-l10n.php on line 484

Could not determine site URI

I’ve no idea were to resolve this problem. Can someone point me in the right direction? I’m quite scared to do this for my live verion of the forum. Or shouldn’t I and is the problem probably with trying it on my localhost with Wampserver?

[paulhawke]

OK, now THAT is one fantastic design – innovative and clean. I like it!

[paulhawke]

In theory you would make a backup of your my-plugins and my-themes directories. Then, delete the files in your existing bbPress install. Next step, run through the famous “5 minute install” of WordPress, and download the bbPress plugin and activate it. That’s the obvious part.

I would assume that a bbPress plugin would create a new top-level menu in the WordPress admin area. In a brand-new install, this would allow you to create the bbPress specific data structures in your database or to migrate existing bbPress data from an old version. After that step, the bbPress admin menu would switch to showing admin options for forums / topics / posts, etc.

My guess (if data structures remain largely the same) is that the “installation” of the plugin would merely write a WordPress option value telling the bbPress plugin what its database prefix is, and all the data already there would appear automatically.

Assuming that a bbPress plugin is connected to its data, it would need to be connected to the GUI somewhere. My guess is that you would create a WordPress static page and its content would be a short-code that the bbPress plugin replaces with its entire display.

[Il Gatto]

I solved my problem by reading this forum post:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wp-integration-coockie-does-not-work/page/2

actually it’s not necessary to set the blog and the forum without the “www”

it worked for me having the blog and the forum specified starting with www.

I’ve spent hours working on this… the solution was to rename the keys and salt cookies hashes with the BB_ prefix – something that wasn’t too clear thing to do!

I have to say this, BBPress is awesome for theming (and that’s why I love it) but sucks at many forum features that should be built (or deactivable if someone wants a very light forum) and most importantly sucks at integration with WordPress… which really does not make sense to me since it’s been around for… how long…? 2 years?

I’ve read about people debating if BBPress should become a stand alone application or a core plugin for WordPress… I’m a wordpress user and here’s my feedback: please, please, please make this a wordpress plugin ASAP; If I just want a lightweight forum there are dozens over there to chose; what I need as a wordpress user is something robust to create a community in my blog and integrate any possible function I already have in bbpress

I love the work done so far with bbpress and I love the application (otherwise I wouldn’t be here!) and it’s a shame that this project feels so abandoned

[paulhawke]

@kevinjohngallagher

… but if you give the data-structure to a DBA or heck, a basic developer they’ll scratch their heads.

The datastructures underpinning both WordPress and bbPress are shocking to me, as a senior level developer. Just because you can do a thing doesnt mean you should do a thing; just because you have “*_meta” tables that store key/value pairs (that is, post_meta, user_meta, topic_meta, etc) doesnt mean that you should use them for absolutely everything. Tables like those are a commercial DBA’s worst nightmare.

There is no way to set any forum as read only, or hidden, or anything else. Forums don’t have settings, and why is that? because they’re exactly the same as categories in wordpress. Which suits the current need of one type of forum, and that’s one that has no need for parentage (such as this forum and the WordPress support forums).

bbPress was originally designed to be simple and lightweight. There are heavy-weight PHP based forums out there and I dont believe that bbPress was designed to compete. Lean, mean and simple seem to be the guiding principles, and it shows. The design of the code is very much the minimal working set you need for a basic forum. Problem is, people expect more, so you get to the point of needing a half-dozen plugins to reach the new “baseline” expectation. Suggests to me that certain plugins need to be [a] pulled into core and need some decent data-modelling done before getting released as “core” functionality.

Hey has anyone used XML_RPC to post to their forums yet? it’s awesome…

ROFLMAO

I’d like to stress i’m not advocating a massive change to the core, honestly I’m just up for discussion. I’m really just wanting to know people’s feelings or thoughts on this. Far too much data is not readily/intrinsically/obviously available especially when said data is on a predefined 1-to-1 relationship.

I would be willing to go through and document the database, including a nice clear diagram. I would also be happy to talk (deeply) about database design issues. It wouldnt be hard to pull together a patch to submit to Automattic to enhance the internal data structures. The issue I have though, is the number of plugins that would need to be massaged after such an event. Still, I’d be up for it.

@johnhiler

My general sense is that most of what you describe can be pulled off with plugins…

Adding the end-user functionality, yes, but the issue isnt so much the functionality as the data-structures a plugin needs to wrangle to accomplish its desired purpose. Right now the low-grade of data model design hurts.

@Marius-

I would love to have a dynamic sidebar I could add or remove things with ease. Have polls on the sidebar, not arrested in a topic, and maybe a chatbox instead of having an “Off Topic” category or thread.

I would like to see all of the major pages in bbPress be “widget enabled” – the “forums list” and the “topics list” simply be widgets, the heat-cloud for tags be another and so on. That would allow me to create an alternative display of topics, and drop it onto my own forum wihtout needing to hack the template.

Not to be too controversial here, but if/when bbPress becomes a WordPress plugin, we would get that functionality for free, pretty much.

I really enjoy the beautiful minimalism of BBPress, and I dont want it to get more complicated.

Amen! Preach it brother!