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  • #65804
    ssandys
    Member

    I ran into the same problem.

    When you enable integration, there are a couple of rows that are created in the bbp_topicsmeta table, including wp_siteurl, wp_home, and wp_table_prefix.

    After deleting these rows, I was able to log back into my bbPress forum.

    #71306
    brad_langdon
    Member

    You will have to excuse my ignorance but I have no idea what that means.

    I just use normal ftp to edit the site, I am guessing sftp is secure ftp but would that really matter as I am only uploading files with it…once they are live is when they get hacked is that not right?

    Clear text passwords?

    You mean on the database? I just use whatever default settings bbpress operates with.

    Sorry for all of the questions, I am investigating this on my own as well so I dont nag you guys too much.

    Also not sure what ssh is.

    #62284

    In reply to: Import/Export Work

    chrishajer
    Participant

    Also, in general, bbPress, WordPress, most modern forums and modern blogging platforms use a database to store the data for the site. There are files on the filesystem as well, but in addition to those, there is almost always data stored in a database. In anything other than a simple static site (and with systems that use flat files rather than a database for data storage) you’ll find that there is almost always a database involved.

    You’ll see on this page that there are some flat file systems, no database required, but most forums and content management systems and blogging platforms use a database back-end for storage:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_content_management_systems

    #62283

    In reply to: Import/Export Work

    chrishajer
    Participant

    If you’re doing this for a client, I think you should get some assistance to make sure it goes well.

    The database lives on a host that the client is (probably) paying for right now, maybe his web host. They probably have a control panel and in there some sort of tool for managing a database. Depending on the tool, there should be a way to export or dump the database. Once you have that file saved locally on your computer, you can go about using a similar tool on your host, in reverse though, for import instead of export. That takes care of the database.

    Then you need to grab all the bbPress files off their web host, and transfer those to your web host.

    If you’re not changing domain names, just hosting, then you need only worry about DNS, not modifying any of the settings for the site (other than database connection details: those will certainly be different on your server.)

    Also, in general, don’t forget about any email addresses they might have created at the old web host. You’ll need to recreate those on your server. That’s got nothing to do with bbPress, but I almost always forget to do that, and then remember it later.

    Good luck.

    #67717
    myballard
    Participant

    To me, this would be the single most important bbPress feature imaginable. Facebook, not OpenID.

    #62279

    In reply to: Import/Export Work

    A2annie
    Member

    not sure if this is the right place for this question.

    My client needs to have his bbpress forums moved from one server to mine. I am unfamiliar with bbpress (for now). Can I simply download all the files from the current host and upload to the new? Providing that the new has adequate server requirements?

    #62278

    In reply to: Import/Export Work

    mzimmers
    Member

    Bump this topic. Are there any tools for migrating from, say, MSN Groups into BBpress, and preserving the old content?

    #71301
    brad_langdon
    Member

    That’s the thing, I have no idea which one was changed, all I got was the error and then I noticed that the table and the table that bbpress was looking for were named differently.

    I guess it is almost impossible to figure out what happened when I don’t know which was changed.

    I am guessing that if someone was tampering with it that it would be easier to tamper with the config file than the actual database?

    #64928
    chrishajer
    Participant

    It says, in plain English, “If the file wp-blog-header.php exists in a directory one level up, include it, otherwise, look one MORE level up, and include that.” If it’s in neither place, it won’t be included. The reason for including it is so you have access to WordPress functions in bbPress (functions like get_header(), get_footer(), get_sidebar()).

    #70392
    hoppie
    Member

    I have no clue whether this will help you, and I guess not. But who knows.

    I was also stuck with a stubborn refusal of the installer to progress beyond the very first page (zero). No error message, no nothing. Just would not advance.

    After removing all stuff and retrying, and failing again, and making all kinds of increasingly desperate Unix file permission changes, I suddenly remembered that I had just installed MySQL for the first time (I am a PostgreSQL guy). Although the server and client work perfectly, I didn’t install the PHP5 libraries for it! Duh..

    $ sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

    $ sudo invoke-rc.d apache2 reload

    et voila…

    Hint to bbPress developers: add that silly check for the MySQL PHP lib… easily done, and another problem solved.

    Jeroen

    #64927
    venzie
    Member

    thanks gerikg. what does the

    $bb->WP_BB = true;

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

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

    else

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

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

    after <?php tag.

    do?

    #71298

    It’s a bit late for it, but you could have checked the ‘last edited’ timestamp on that file.

    As is, check your bbPress (and WP if integrated) for any users with weird access levels. See if anything else is weird. Change your passwords, too.

    #71497
    Andrew
    Member

    I never found the source of the problem, but was able to find a solution.

    I used the Manage -> Recount function in the BBPress interface and recalculated all parameters. After doing this, things appeared to work.

    Perhaps this function should be called whenever there is a database upgrade.

    #71472
    eclipsenow
    Member

    I don’t know php, or plan to learn it in the foreseeable future.

    I’m trying to learn XHTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, and WordPress and finally bbpress.

    Is there ANY way to make this whole thing easier? Even just an easy way to change the header image and a few colours?

    I seriously thought I could just use SMF for my forum. It has all the features already built in, it looks easy enough to manage. I’m at the end of my rope here… I just need a quick solution and to get on with using it. If I find the right “overall” theme, is it easy enough to just change the header say?

    #71505

    That’s an interesting proposal. I’ll be honest and say I have no experience using any database in a multilanguage situation, but with that being said, how does a database store information in multiple languages, and can bbPress even do something like this? Would certain forums display RTL if necessary? It’s kind of a neat idea really.

    #71502
    _ck_
    Participant

    It’s really not worth the effort and you shouldn’t hack the core.

    Just disable them entirely for the fastest possible page loads.

    There are plenty of other areas of bbPress you will need to spend that kind of valuable time on.

    #71481
    ganzua
    Member

    Right now there is only one person working on the bbPress core and I wouldn’t go distracting him with stuff like this when there is plenty of far more serious work to be done.

    I get lost. What does Sam have to do with all of this? The one who is going to produce the plugin for himself is the one that is interested in the plugin.

    #4704
    Tom Lynch
    Participant

    I have recently migrated my entire phpBB over to bbPress and now want to move the bbPress users into wordpress mu so I can use wordpress integration the problem was that there is no easy way to migrate and check the users aren’t doubling up…

    I wrote a simple php script to do just that and it allowed me to list out the users where manual attention is required, it can be run just from the command line like this…. ‘php -f file.php’ and will move the users over perfectly (at least for me)…

    Note there has been no testing of this code it worked for me and may cause you issues, back up your database first!

    Comments on the code appreciated for future improvement.

    ‘<?php

    echo “n”;

    echo “+


    +n”;

    echo “| bbPress to WordPress User Migration |n”;

    echo “+


    +n”;

    echo “| Created by: |n”;

    echo “| Tom Lynch |n”;

    echo “+


    +n”;

    echo “n”;

    echo “Messages:n”;

    echo “n”;

    echo “Username Messagen”;

    echo ”



    n”;

    function printSpaces($username) {

    $spaces = 25 – strlen($username);

    echo $username;

    for ($i = 0; $i < $spaces+1; $i++) {

    echo ” “;

    }

    }

    // Enter your database host, username and password here…

    mysql_connect(‘localhost’, ‘username’, ‘password’);

    // Enter your database name here (both tables must be in same database – sorry)

    mysql_select_db(‘database’);

    $migrated = 0;

    $errors = 0;

    $query = mysql_query(“SELECT user_login, user_pass, user_nicename, user_email, user_url, user_registered, user_status, display_name FROM bb_users WHERE user_pass LIKE ‘$P$B%’;”);

    while ($data = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {

    $query2 = mysql_query(“SELECT user_login, user_email FROM wp_users WHERE user_login = ‘”.$data.”‘ || user_email = ‘”.$data.”‘;”);

    if (mysql_num_rows($query2) > 0) {

    $data2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($query2);

    if ($data == $data2 && $data == $data2) {

    // Suppressing already migrated users error

    //echo printSpaces($data) . ” has already been migrated by the looks of it!n”;

    } else if ($data == $data2) {

    echo printSpaces($data) . ” could not be migrated, that user name is already taken! (“.$data.”)n”;

    $errors++;

    } else if ($data == $data2) {

    echo printSpaces($data) . ” could not be migrated, that email address is already taken! (“.$data.”)n”;

    $errors++;

    }

    } else {

    mysql_query(“INSERT INTO wp_users (user_login, user_pass, user_nicename, user_email, user_url, user_registered, user_status, display_name) VALUES (‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘);”);

    // Suppressing user migrated message

    //echo $data . ” was migratedn”;

    $migrated++;

    }

    }

    $alreadyDone = ((mysql_num_rows($query) – $errors) – $migrated);

    echo “n”;

    echo “Stats:n”;

    echo “n”;

    echo “Users Migrated: ” . $migrated . “n”;

    echo “Already Migrated: ” . $alreadyDone . “n”;

    echo “Not Migrated: ” . $errors . “n”;

    echo “=======================================n”;

    echo “Total: ” . mysql_num_rows($query) . “n”;

    echo “n”;

    ?>’

    #71373

    In reply to: How long?

    rjeevan
    Member

    thanks for the reply guys…

    I really like this Version 1 and I done some theme work on this as well… thats Why I was & I am waiting for the Version 1 to be released…

    Most of the plug-ins DO work with V1 alpha so far (at-least the once i want).. anyway… Let me wait for may be another month (till Mid Feb) or i will go with 0.9.x

    PS: I;m Looking to start a New forum and I’m already using the Latest WordPress. I want this forum to be Integrated so that From specified Forum i can list the topics in WordPress site as well.. sort of merging wordpress into bbPress (My Idea is to keep one Forum hidden only can accessed by Mods & Admins who can post Topics and it will be Listed in the wordpress front end… sort of!)..

    Thanks again for the replies…

    #71480
    _ck_
    Participant

    I guess I should have added the word CURRENTLY.

    Not CURRENTLY possible to change via a plugin.

    But you won’t see them do it via a plugin at any time anyway.

    Translation hooks can already do it, it’s just a pain to do.

    Right now there is only one person working on the bbPress core and I wouldn’t go distracting him with stuff like this when there is plenty of far more serious work to be done.

    #71421
    wilcosky
    Participant

    :( I don’t want bbpress to get more famous honestly. I like the fact that this is a forum software that not a lot of people use, it makes my forum seem unique. But, oh well.

    #71428

    The reason why “full integration” isn’t ‘recommended’ is because WordPress is pretty sloppy with the number of database queries that it runs, sometimes into the hundreds per page load. bbPress tends to be very efficient in this department, so going from 9 queries to 30 queries for no real reason doesn’t make sense.

    _ck_ made a topic about how to create a query without doing full integration, and I highly recommend using that method in most instances. It will allow you to have much more control over what you’re doing and how it’s doing it.

    For the sake of being easy, full integration will provide you with every available WordPress function and ability, many of which you will never need or use. I personally am using full integration because I’m still poking my head around trying to figure out what’s all possible to do with it, and it does work very well, just a little slower than a non-fully integrated install of bbPress.

    #4717
    pixelfreak
    Member

    One of bbPress’s focus is to be fast, but like a lot of framework, it seems to ignore the basics rules of good client-side performance. For instance, if you are logged-in and if you are on topic’s page, there are 7 external JS requests, all of them placed in the head. Page rendering is blocked until those JS files are fully loaded. Ideally, we should minimize the number of requests (concatenating all the JS files into 1) and put them at the bottom of the page before body.

    bbPress is also using two JS frameworks that has overlapping functionalities (Prototype and jQuery), ideally we should choose one and stick with it (preferably jQuery, imho). There are also some code that duplicate functionality that already exists in the JS framework, for instance: add-load-event.js.

    I realize this might be easier said than done, but I would like to know if this is at least being considered in the roadmap. If not, is there any suggestion before I hack the core? (I don’t think a plugin can do this?)

    Thanks,

    William

    #71471
    chrishajer
    Participant

    > So can I move certain “modules” or “plug-ins” around without php?

    > EG: Can I move the log-in bar to the top or the bottom or the side

    > of the page by a “point and click” interface a bit like Joomla,

    > or do I have to know php to just move something around?

    No, it does not work like Joomla in this regard. It’s also unlike widgetized themes in WordPress. You don’t need to know PHP to move these thigns around, but you *do* need to know enough *about* PHP to know how it works, and you need to edit the theme files to move those blocks around manually.

    > Are there any “core” enhancements coming in the new bbpress that

    > will enable easier customisation?

    I can’t speak for bbPress, but there’s nothing like that that I am aware of.

    > Lastly, if I have a stunning new wordpress theme that I’ve styled up

    > in Dreamweaver, how do I make bbpress “sit” inside the header-wrapper

    > of WordPress?

    bbPress does not become a part of WordPress. If you have the design in Dreamweaver, you are going to create two themes: one for WordPress and one for bbPress. They are going to look similar, but they are not going to be identical.

    For the big commitment, that’s up to you. bbPress is a very immature package right now without a lot of resources being applied to it. WordPress on the other hand has a very vibrant development community, a good group of core employees programming for it, a regular release schedule, etc. I think it’s a mistake to lump bbPress and WordPress together. I would not hesitate to use WordPress as a CMS for nearly any website I were doing. For forums though, I think you have to consider all the possibilities. There are lots of forums available. The determining factor should be the strengths and weaknesses of each forum, and how they fit with your strengths and weaknesses. It’s a personal decision for you.

    Luckily, I’ve only had two customers request forum functionality, out of about forty websites (1 Joomla, the rest WordPress). So, I made the decision to use bbPress in both cases, but depending on the situation, I might choose something different in the future.

    #71427
    chrishajer
    Participant

    WordPress functionality means being able to use WordPress functions, in bbPress. There are WordPress functions called get_header():, get_footer();, get_sidebar(); that exist in WordPress. Some people would like to use call these functions in their bbPress templates so they can get the exact same footer, header and sidebar in their forum as they have in the WordPress site. To do that, you need to do “full integration” which is what _ck_ is recommending against.

    To just put a list of images with links in your sidebar, you need only modify your template files. You need to create space in the template where you want the sidebar (maybe forum.php in your template folder) by creating an additional div, maybe call it #rightsidebar. Now, you need to edit your style.css to make the other divs smaller (less wide, and then make the rightsidebar wider to fill the space you created. If they theme you’re using doesn’t have enough space for all that, you might need to increase the width of the whole layout.

    I think the first step is to make the space on the page where you want it, get that working. Then, get the list of images and links in there. That’s how I would go about it. It doesn’t sound like you need access to specific WordPress functions.

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