[725450]

Hi there,

I hope I’m in the right category here. I have a problem here on bbpress.org. When I look at my profile, I get an error message, telling me that I don’t exist ;(

How come?

[chrishajer]

I think the reason it was correct sometimes would be due to the content of the password. bbPress originally (or a while ago anyway, pre-0.9*) used a 6 character alpha-numeric password. Now, it uses something more complex, and depending on what characters are in the password, maybe some certain characters get dropped in that plugin. If you post a link to the plugin you’re using, I can look at it and see if this is likely. You could also contact the plugin author and see if they have any idea.

On the special characters in the password email. I suspect the message is just sent as plain text, but those are html entities. I didn’t look too hard at it. Maybe you could just put the è in the text of the message and hope the email client can handle it.

[chrishajer]

It’s great that you have shell access. You can backup all the files with something like rsync, and you can use a shell script to backup the database tables you want. Since there are no wildcards in mysqldump, you will need to explicitly name all the tables in your installation; just separate them with spaces.

You can put something like this into a bash script and run it daily (or whenever) from cron:

mysqldump --add-drop-table -h host -u user -p password dbname 

( bb_forums 

bb_meta 

bb_posts 

bb_tagged 

bb_tags 

bb_terms 

bb_term_relationships 

bb_term_taxonomy 

bb_topics 

bb_topicmeta 

bb_users 

bb_usermeta ) | bzip2 -c | bbpress.bak.sql.bz2

 

You would have to consider putting the password into the script and hiding that from prying eyes. Alternatively, you could create a user with limited privileges and no password, and use that in the backup script.

You should also verify the table prefix, and that those are all your bbPress tables. I think there are different tables for different bbPress versions.

Good luck.

[chrishajer]

That line is supposed to allow you to use WordPress functions from inside a bbPress page. It looks like you just got the path to it wrong. Does the file wp-blog-header.php actually exist one directory level up from where the bb-config.php is right now?

[724719]

note:-

I just removed the “require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);” line from bb-config.php.

and all seems to be working fine, i can login as admin on both WP-admin and bbpress .

So what is that line supposed to do, how is that supposed to intergrate the two together i didnt and still dont understand it.

[724719]

Ok, first of all I should note that this is the second time iv installed this and i still got the “minor error: duplicate user_nicename” message or something like that.

But this time it worked well and I logged in straight away as the admin. But when I went to login to the WP-Admin, I couldnt log back in the bbPress as admin and as any username.

So what I then did was clear all the cookies, then it allowed me to log back in as admin in bbPress, so now im in. But… I click on the “Admin” link at the top to go to the settings and all that stuff. and its spits out this:-

Warning: require_once(../wp-blog-header.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/picbico/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 2

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/picbico/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 2

I also might need to mention that I tried to ‘intergrate’ the wordpress functions with it by applying this line to the bb-config.php file : require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

thanks for any help let alone all the work you guys have put into this forum. i appreciate it

[hinch]

I have successfully merged bbpress with my website and it works fine sharing user data and logging in/out… very almost.

When a user first moves to the forum it shows them as not logged in, though if they click a forum link or refresh the page they are then shown as logged in.

I only modified pluggable.php a little to make the cookie easier to handle and I’ve tried adding a function (below) in index.php and template header. Very crude , checking a cookie is set and calling the login function, but it’s just a test:

if (isset($_COOKIE[bbpres...]) &&  isset($_COOKIE[IHuser...]) && isset($_COOKIE[IHpass...])){

$login = decode($_COOKIE[IHuser...]);

$password = decode($_COOKIE[IHpass...]);

bb_login($login, $password, $remember = false);

}

Really I’m looking for where bbpress first checks to see if a user is logged in and sets headers but so far I’m out of luck. Where do I need to put my function so a user will be shown as logged in as soon as the navigate to the forum?

P.S. I will build a more solid function so a users password isn’t in a cookie, like I say – just a test!

[threevisual]

daleanthony.com [at] gmail.com

cheers.

[chrishajer]

Please post your contact details and then a moderator will close this topic.

[Tranny]

Chris, thanks a lot. Now the forum page pulls and no longer gives an error message, but all my formatting and custom layout is gone. And the links to forums don’t work. It takes me to the bbpress default telling me that forum is not found.

[Caesar]

Thank you so, so much, sepidol! You’ve made my day! I’ve spent hours trawling the bbPress and WPMU forums for this…

For what it’s worth, my problem was the SECRET_SALT. I’d done everything else right, but each time I logged into either bb or wp I was logged out of the other ’cause of the cookie value being encrypted differently… I thought the salt may have been the problem, but I wasn’t quite sure what it did. This is the first thread I’ve found which even mentions it!

Thanks…

Caesar

[chrishajer]

fiat, to do what you’re talking about, you can load WordPress inside bbPress, to have access to WordPress functions inside bbPress. It’s not recommended, but here it is:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wp-integration-header-integration#post-17084

[ashes999]

Yeah, I have shell access…

I had a shell script before to back up my whole schema; but I just want to back up the bbpress schema now, not the wordpress schema.

[chrishajer]

Do you have access to a shell at your host? If so, you can do it pretty easily. If not, I don’t know of an automatic backup plugin for bbPress.

[ashes999]

WordPress has a great plugin called wp-backup that allows you to schedule a nightly backup of your database. Is there something similar for bbPress? If not, how should I back up my data regularly?

[723891]

Why switch to bbpress? WordPress is highly configurable and there are a lot of plugins. And if you want you can change the source code on your own server…..

[Sam Bauers]

I don’t think they are even using WordPress. Looks like it is all custom code.

[Sam Bauers]

We will probably start using some form of display name in bbPress in the next version.

There is already a built-in way to map user roles between WordPress and bbPress within the admin area under WordPress Integration.

[jfz]

Hi. Can someone tell me if emptees.com is using bbpress for their talk section? I love the layout and theme of the forum their using. It reminds me of wordpress blog posts & bbpress? but it might be a customized version they made themselves. Is there anyone who would be willing to work on a free bbpress theme that looks like that? I’d pay for a theme that looked like that! Thanks.

[chrishajer]

I think you need to set up permalinks on your server if you want pretty or name based ones. False works fine, so it’s definitely a permalinks issue. Not sure why it was working before, but this is what needs to be done now:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

[f1f]

No I haven’t moved the forum. The last thing I changed – which must have been a week ago or longer – was adding the following code into the .htaccess file for WordPress (not BBPress):

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

Could that have had an effect? If so it seems odd that it took so long to manifest itself.

Thanks for the speedy response by the way

[chrishajer]

You can make the data dynamic, but you need to use bbPress functions, not WordPress functions.

If you are intent on using WordPress functions, read this and this.

[chrishajer]

I don’t know of a plugin yet that will take an RSS feed and display it in bbPress.

How about creating a plugin out of something like RSS2HTML and using that in bbPress?

http://www.rss2html.com/

[chrishajer]

To anyone reading in the future:

Please use different table prefixes for bbPress and WordPress. bb_ for bbPress and wp_ for WordPress are the defaults, for good reason. You can change them to something else if you like, but make sure they are different for WordPress, bbPress, and anything else you might install in that database.

Integration does not require the same table prefix, and using the same table prefix means bbPress will try to use WordPress tables (of the same name) that have already been created.

[chrishajer]

I think you want bbSync, at least to start:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/