I have an experimental plugin for bbPress I’ve been working on this week that adds an “Import” wizard under the admin area “Tools” menu. As it stands I have been using a phpBB 2.0.23 forum with 3 users (“Anonymous”, “admin” and one other) and about a dozen posts for testing and things look pretty good.
The “Import” plugin needs beta testers who’re willing to give it a run through and provide feedback.
The plugin reads data from the phpBB database, and rather than generate an enormous SQL file that is version specific, the plugin calls the same internal methods inside bbPress as occur when you manually create forums/topics/posts/users. A mapping is maintained between old and new user/post/topic/forum ID values, and referential integrity is maintained throughout.
yoyopop, that happened to me the first few times as well. (I converted a database with about 120,000 posts this morning.) PHP was just running out of allocated memory. I bumped it up to 16 MB, then 64 MB, then 256 MB and finally 1 GB. After I gave it 1 GB the conversion went through.
So check your Apache error_log or your PHP error log to see if it is running out of memory… then give it as much as you can.
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OKTeaRoom – Ah I’m using bbPress Polls on a number of my installs, and it works great! What features are missing for you, just out of curiosity…
I tried BB Polls just now and it DID work for me but it’s a weak poll solution.
Is there a fix for the polldaddy plugin, possibly?
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/polldaddy-for-bbpress/
have been attempting this as well but getting the same problem as eslavin83
the script says it’s connected to the server and exporting the forums/users etc but nothing comes up after ‘Sending all your database e-mails to all major world-wide spam sending mafias…’ – I’m waiting for it to say its exported the new db, or give me an error message, but nothing else happens.
Any ideas?
thanks in adance!
I’m assuming your bbPress forums folder is on a separate domain than the buddyPress install? It’s not in the ‘default’ /forums location, right?
Correct, standalone bbPress is installed on a subdomain (forums.mydomain.com) and obviously the group forum is activated within buddypress (mydomain.com/forums) as well. All share the same bb tables; so group discussions can be carried on via a more direct forum feel with extra bells and whistles.
How the heck have you gotten BuddyPress’s activity stream to work with an external bbPress install?
There is a plugin for BuddyPress called bbGroups (uses xmlrpc) but is outdated. I had to update the code for 1.2 due to the activity stream changes. (and i need to update once more since 1.2 RC1) – the XMLRPC is not ideal but does carry over the hidden/read-only and who has access. (i’d probably code it to access the db directly – but it works for my testing)
Seems redundant to have 2 forum interfaces but this allows “outside” forums which may not be appropriate for setting up a group.
But at some point BuddyPress 1.2 now expects the dates in GMT while standalone bbPress 1.0.2 must insert the timestamp on a topic/post differently. (I just haven’t had the time to sift over the code to figure it out yet)
I’ve been checking the IRC logs and it doesn’t look like much is happening. Perhaps somebody can reassure this non-developer that bbPress development is continuing…
@josh16 – You may find that the theme will be released uner GPL after the launch – though there is no guarantee.
@etiviti:
Glad you brought this up. How the heck have you gotten BuddyPress’s activity stream to work with an external bbPress install? (I’m assuming your bbPress forums folder is on a separate domain than the buddyPress install? It’s not in the ‘default’ /forums location, right?)
I’m been unable to get the bbPress activity to show up in the BuddyPress activity stream even when the bbpress install is located in the /forums location.
This whole ‘groups’ vs. ‘forums’ thing is driving me nuts.
Grrrr…when people post questions about bbPress working with BuddyPress on the BuddyPress forum it seems like they always send up back here!
I’d be interested to hear from anyone that has converted larger forums (100,000+ posts) from phpBB2 to bbPress. I’ve got 0.7 running in a dev environment, I’ve got the conversion script, but I haven’t fired it up yet. I’m going to take this slow and methodical. I also want to import user passwords and topic_watch (email subscriptions). Those I know I’ll end up having to do myself. I’m planning on temporarily storing phpBB passwords in a new table using two-way encryption as people login to the current site so that I can transfer those over when the time happens. I’ll also be working on my custom theme/templates before the conversion as well to make it as seamless as possible for users. Finally I might try to build a database of common words and do some auto tagging of old threads… that might be a bit too ambitious though.
Still… I’d be eager to hear from anyone that has converted a 100,000+ post site with the script for any info or tips.
Fantastic new theme, hope to see it soon. Though, I’m sure that it would be released anyway in some way shape or form, that is, if there are any planned updates with the bbPress software. Would you be able to release the CSS file at least, if any of us do want to make a clone version?
If you’re getting a blank screen, it’s likely a 500 Internal Server Error. If you have access to logs you will be able to resolve this.
Where did you put that code? It should start at the 2nd line of bb-config.php, right after the opening <?php. If not, use a syntax highlighting editor to see what’s going on with the bb-config.php file.
This should be in bbPress by default, the ability to upload your own avatar picture.
I know you can achieve this via plugin, but honestly, it was a nightmare for me to get this working.
Any webmaster that isn’t really tech savvy or doesn’t have the time to figure this out, will just leave it.
I have search the forum and find there is a slolution like this
put following code in to bb-config.php
Code:
require_once(‘path/wp/wp-blog-header.php’);
that I can call wordpress functions in bbpress template
but once I add the line to bb-config.php . The homepage of the forum became a blank page. no html , no error hints, just a blank page
I am sure the path to wp-blog-header.php is correct . I do not know what happend and how to fix .
The wordpress version is 2.91 and the bbpress is 1.02 .
Thank you for your help
I have a unique install (buddypress + bbpress for groups + external bbpress – which are hooked together)
The problem is when posting via the external bbPress the freshness dates are off, as Andy from BP noted they need to be in GMT format.
see ticket
http://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1727
I don’t mind hacking the core but what do I need to modify to sync up all my GMT dates.
gerikg, thanks so much for clearing things.
there is 1 problem though, when you login/logout with bbpress everything works, you automatically logged in/logged out to wordpress too.
but when you login or loggout from wordpress it does no effect on bbpress.
Do you have any idea with this issue?
Perhaps that’s implicitly done by activating the plugin itself?
That’s correct. You should be good to go.
I have also written a short tutorial here on how to do this – http://gaut.am/translating-wordpress-or-bbpress-plugins/
Hello Chrishajer,
I checked php info by above mentioned method.I found no temp folder so I created a folder called “tmp” in root directory.It worked.Now I am able to upload avatars to “avarars” folder in root directory.
But picture is not displayed after uploading.It gives message “Your avatar has been uploaded.” But its not displayed instead a blank box is displayed replacing default avatar.
I checked this error in google chrome by using “inspect element” context menu..the error says: ” 403 Forbidden “
Here is the link to plugin I am using : https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/avatar-upload/#post-219
Plz help !!
Paul,
I know this may be really obvious, and apologies if it is, but PHP’s built in functions for handling json are very much release dependant. There was a large change from php5 to php5.2 as i recall.
It’s 5.36am here, so you’ll have to forgive me for the lack of links, but i’d do a little googling into that. At the end of the day you either stats a minimum PHP version, or test for the php version and do and if/else.
OK, I had found that, but that seems to be mostly options. I don’t see anything in there that actually lets me enable/disable signatures. Perhaps that’s implicitly done by activating the plugin itself?
Thanks.
It’s actually under the “Plugins” menu. It should be there in the left-hand column in v1.0.2.
In 0.9.0.6, you’ll need to look under the “Plugins” menu at the top of the page.
