[djp]

Hi all

After much tweaking & relatively extensive style changes, I finally went live with my website.

I needed to make bbpress fit in with the clean, simple style of the rest of the site & to be completely honest, I think I did a great job. Please have a look at the forum as well as the rest of the site to get a feel of what I mean by ‘fitting in’.

Comments are most certainly welcome, good & bad

http://www.mastercleanse.co.za/forum

[deltaqo]

thanks for the reply _ck_.

i tried your suggestion, and i’m still being redirected to my blog homepage when i try to access mysite/forum/bb-admin.

i’m wondering whether my BB_PATH settings got messed up when i switched the folder name manually?

also, how would i do a forced change of my cookiepath (as you suggest above)?

[gio500000]

ck – I am very happy with bbPress because it was painless to install, modify and develop around our brand. The only feature or plugin I wish was available was a way for users to easily follow forum topics via email. Something as easy as check this box to receive emails about this topic.

Thank you,

Gio

[810798]

thanks _ck_,

It seems to be a problem with when you include the wp-config… There must be a check somewhere in one of the files included in it that checks if that has been registered or is a banned blog, and wp-admin must be hardcoded in somewhere to be a safe directory.. i just havent had time to go through and look for where that happens.. been making a bunch of other customizations instead, as this problem can be solved by just using sub-domains..

James

[_ck_]

That wpmu tag is going to be your best friend:

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/wpmu

Not many people with wpmu experience here.

I know Trent Adams uses it though (he’s also on IRC)

Also, wpmu 2.6 is a no-go with bbPress 0.9 because of cookies.

[_ck_]

Very nice! For a moment I was almost going to accuse you of advertising a non-bbpress forum here, LOL. It fooled me

[_ck_]

bb-plugins is for plugins that come with bbpress

It was created starting with 0.9 at my request to make akismet and bozo into plugins instead of automatically loaded with bbPress.

my-plugins is for your own plugins

Same concept with themes.

[Null]

Recently, there is a standard plugin folder called bb-plugins. Why is that? What is the difference between this plugin folder and the good old my-plugins folder?

Can we delete this old one and put all plugins in teh bb-plugin folder? I would like to know this so I can keep my bbpress folder clean and not having X folders containing different plugins.

So why do we have 2 plugin folders and can we delete my-plugins?

[_ck_]

Okay it was too easy so I gave in and did it for you.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mini-track/

[_ck_]

Well I started to write some code but I then remembered why I did it completely on my own. There are many problems you encounter with trying to do this efficiently with as few DB queries as possible. Using the built in bbpress functions when there’s only a couple people online are fine, but when it gets to many times that, it’s too inefficient.

There’s also the issue of tracking NON members. Much more tricky than authenticated users.

I recommend you modify simple online list to track position. Much easier.

If you know PHP, here’s the process:

1. take the IP of the current user, change it into ip2long and make that the index of an array or object

2. store the request_url for that index

3. store the time() for that index

4. if they have a user id# (a member) store that

5. save the array via bb_update_option (not usermeta)

6. on every bbpress load, do a bb_get_option for the usertracking, which is the array of all the above

7. comb through the time() for timestamps older than 30 minutes and discard them

8. count the remaining items to see how many online in past 30 minutes

9. comb the request_url to see if it == your bbpress front page and count

[_ck_]

If you know some basic PHP this is a very easy thing to store/track but you’ll need some more extensive code to print it out.

Essentially what you’d want to do is store in the usermeta the bb_location and timestamp on every load of bbpress via a simple plugin.

Then to count the number of users in the front page you’d do a mysql query to limit by time and count the number of “front-page” that appear.

I’ll give you some rough code in a minute, it’s fairly straightforward.

[_ck_]

Plugin section isn’t dead, it’s just that some authors don’t monitor it or abandoned their work.

Try the Hidden Forums plugin instead of Private Forums.

Uses newer techniques available in bbPress 0.9 so it’s faster and more complete/reliable.

[_ck_]

bb_location is not called by default but still is typically used on every page. It’s easier to track the request_uri and store it with the title (formal name) of the page since bb_location does not track all pages (ie. edit and topic pages are the same, all views are the same, etc). My User Track plugin does this but it’s not available to the public yet.

bbPress does not use sessions by default (because they slow the system). But there is no need to use them, you can assume after 30 minutes since the last page load the user has left the site. Most tracking plugins work like that.

update: here you go:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mini-track/

[_ck_]

There is a slight second possibility.

Their PHP may actually have that function, but it’s disabled.

Since the bbPress fallback function only checks if it exists (and it does) it never gets defined. But it’s disabled.

However your questions need answering too, what version, properly uploaded, etc.

[chrishajer]

I’m not really sure why, but I can guess. Do you have a file in bb-includes called compat.php? /bb-includes/compat.php

In that file, line 10 says “if this function does not exist, create it.” That PHP function is available in newer PHP versions only (greater than or equal to 5.1.2). So, for compatibility, if the function is not available on your server, bbPress creates it in compat.php.

Do you have that file, and does line 10 look like this?

if ( ! function_exists('hash_hmac') ):

What bbPress version did you install, if it’s not the latest 0.9.0.2 release? Are you certain all the files were uploaded properly?

[chrishajer]

IIRC, I uploaded the BMP and got the denied mime. Then, at a totally separate time when uploading a PNG I got the error described here.

I never tried to upload more than one image at a time.

I would totally disallow bitmaps as well, since they’re really not designed for the web. I was thrown off by this note from the saying they’re allowed:

allowed uploads: bmp (500 KB), doc (500 KB), gif (500 KB), gz (500 KB), jpeg (500 KB),

jpg (500 KB), pdf (500 KB), png (500 KB), txt (500 KB), xls (500 KB), zip (500 KB)

[_ck_]

It’s archived here:

http://code.google.com/p/llbbsc/wiki/HTMLTagAttributesValidatorPlugin



http://web.archive.org/web/20071227175025/http://www.livibetter.com/it/topic/plugin-html-tag-attributes-validator



http://llbbsc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/bbPress/HTMLTagAttributesValidator/HTMLTagAttributesValidator.php

That’s actually a fairly decent plugin, too bad it’s not in the extend section.

[chriskalani]

@Crowspeaker,

Very interesting! I am really excited for this. I wonder if they are going to work on bbpress integration as well for this.

[crowspeaker]

@chriskalani,

I think that’s what the buddypress initiative is about.

https://buddypress.org/

[807230]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: hash_hmac() in /mnt/w0205/d37/s17/b02ae5ed/www/horsepages.ca/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 341

Help don’t know what to do with this…

Is this because I set-up a separate database for bbpress?

If so how do I change the database settings?

[chriskalani]

hmmm… yeah. So it sounds like everyone wants it. Now we just need to find someone awesome who can make it happen.

On a side note… it would be really cool if they released a 3rd product focused more around community. Basically just an integrated bundle of bbpress and wordprss with maybe some additional integrated features. That would kick so much butt!! Drupal sucks… so does everything else. But I might end up using it if the main feature I am looking for doesn’t exist.

[chrishajer]

This is the last I heard about that:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101/page/2#post-17906

[chriskalani]

I would love something like this. In fact; That is the exact functionality I was looking for and ended up looking into Drupal. I still haven’t done anything with it yet… but if I could find a bbpress/wp solution, that would be so cool!

[810798]

Alright, i tested a few more things and it is definitely a problem when i include the wp-config.php file in bb-config.php.. here is the htaccess file im using: if i try and forward it to a directory like “forumtest” with nothing in it it will work perfectly.. and if i take out that require it will load fine as well.. but with errors because it cant find the functions that file defines..

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /blogs/

#uploaded files

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule . – [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(forum) $2 [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

<IfModule mod_security.c>

<Files async-upload.php>

SecFilterEngine Off

SecFilterScanPOST Off

</Files>

</IfModule>

[chrishajer]

On this forum, to view your profile, just click this link:

https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/stereotruth

The title under your user name is a link to your profile. You have to be logged in for this to work.

You need to log in at least once with the password that was sent to you. After that, in your profile, you can click the “Edit” tab and then enter a new password, something you can remember more easily.

What happens, after you’re logged in, when you click on the “Member” link under your username?