[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

bbPress 0.9.0.2 has been released.

Several bugs have been fixed, including an important security bug.

Everyone should upgrade.

[Sam Bauers]

You would have to write a replacement for bb-includes/db.php to get bbPress to work with MSSQL.

[Sam Bauers]

> but it still seems to be breaking on some minor things (like adding a topic to your favorites while logged in)

Actually, that’s bbPress that’s broken, not your rules. Fixed in the next release

[djp]

Woohoo!!! Got the PEAR-shaped workaround working.

A guy called Rob Hartzenberg at my hosting provider wrote the plugin for bbpress that uses the PEAR mail package to allow authentication.

All I needed to do was:

1. download & edit the plugin file to reflect my own SMTP host, port number, username (email address) & my password;

2. replace the last line of the bb_mail() function in “bb-includes/pluggable.php with 2 lines of code supplied in the installation instructions;

3. Login as keymaster & activate the plugin.

Voila!

I will be uploading the plugin shortly as I reckon there will be people in need of this workaround as quite a lot of hosting providers require SMTP authentication.

What a relief

many thanks to everyone that tried to assist & an even bigger THANK YOU to Rob at Imaginet.

[irr1449]

I’m using WP/BBP as a site wide CMS. It’s been really great so far thanks to the light-weightness of bbPress. I’ve really just had to hack the tables and change a little code to get the extra info in there that I want.

The only issues I’m wondering about is how to get the user data on a non bbPress page… I need to see if the user is logged in, and then get their userId…

Just to give you an example, I allow the user to save certain things, and I use the user id from the wp/bbpress users table. Can anyone suggest a light weight way to do this?

[joerghh]

Hi there!

Why don’t use plugin authors gettext localization as bbPress itself does?!

I start testing plugins for the german community at bbpress.de and find out that absolutely NO plugin could be used without direct translation. That’s a pitty and I really wonder about this situation

Regards

Jörg

[anjap]

Has anyone tried to install bbpress on ms sql server ?

I know mysql is required, but we already have a ms sql 2003 server up and runnig and would like to use bbpress on our intranet.

Of cource we don’t want to mess up the existing stuff, but on other hand we would like to avoid having both mssql and mysql runnig.

So any experience, good advices or hints would be appreciated…

[_ck_]

bbPress 0.9 renamed the critical system email address that several plugins rely on (“admin_email” became “from_email”)

Unfortunately many plugin authors aren’t aware of this and the old setting is completely deleted from the database, which makes any older plugin that looks for “admin_email” fail and get a blank address and don’t anticipate/test for a blank. So they blindly insert the blank address into emails which causes the emailer to either fail or bounce the message.

A few of my plugins were affected, I just found another tonight, and there are several third-party ones still unpatched.

You can work around this problem by putting this into your bb-config.php (anywhere on a new line)

$bb->admin_email = 'email@your-forum.com';

where email@your-forum.com is the same email address you use inside bbPress on bb-admin/options-general.php

This won’t hurt anything, causes no extra load of any kind and simply allows older plugins to work without additional edits until the authors get a chance to upgrade them.

(Just remember you “hard coded” this address if you ever change the main one for any reason. You can delete it after 1.0 is out and all plugins have upgraded. In fact the old email address will become unused after all the plugin upgrade anyway so this can’t hurt anything in practice.)

[chrishajer]

MarcoZ: that is perfectly fine as you are describing it. WordPress in the root of the domain, bbPress in a folder. You do create a directory called forum and copy the files there.

If you are not including WordPress in your bbPress, then you won’t need this plugin to correct the WordPress 404 errors:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load#post-13156

Try your installation without that plugin first.

[citizenkeith]

Thanks for the tip. Didn’t work for me.

[gginard]

He empezado a traducir el fichero al castellano de la versión que encontré en:

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/es_ES/trunk/

Esta versión esta traducida al 65%, así que he empezado a traducirla hasta llegar al 75%, y espero tenerla acabada en unos días. Os lo podéis descargar de:

http://www.degabriel.es/2008/04/24/traduccion-de-bbpress-09-al-castellano/

Me podéis indicar que debo hacer para que la traducción sea oficial en bbPress, y la añadan a los ficheros del idioma en castellano de bbPress

[thierryyyyyyy]

Hello,

I recently upgraded to the .9 version of bb_press, and all special caracters like “é,à,è” are now converted to things like “é”.

This is typic for a rookie webmaster that declare his page to be written in utf8 when it is written in ISO-8859-1 (or similar)

But I did not do this error, it worked perfectly before.

And now, newly created topics and posts are well displayed but in my database, it’s not written in good caracters. There are lots of �.

I checked the installation to be “fr_FR”, but I couldn’t expect that stupid thing to happen.

I think bbpress 0.9 added a “convert” filter, but which one is it ?

how could I desactivate it, in a manner that also disactivate it for the next upgrade ?

Thank you

[melvitax]

hey guys,

i am trying to por t a vbulletin forum to bbpress. i’ve managed to port it first to phpbb2 and then to bbpress 0.7 via converters, but know i am stuck unable to upgrade bbpress to 0.9.

0.7 seems to be working fine on first glance and i can login i can see user posts. but when i try upgrading to 0.9 i get stuck in the database conversion with a time out error. i have a dedicated server and i have changed the timing restriction from 600 to 6000 but i still get that error after hours of execution.

can anyone lend a hand? i’ve spent countless hours now trying to get this thing up and running to no avail.

thanks,

melvin

[_ck_]

I’ve never seen it done but the rules are fairly straightforward (just a bunch of them).

There must be a lighttpd support area where you can submit the existing rules and ask for help converting?

(then be sure to share the results back here

The rules on this page for something called “serendipity” look very similar to bbPress’s rules:

http://edin.dk/archives/34-Serendipity-on-Lighty.html

so you might be able to use them to get an idea?

[Marcoz]

Hi!

I’m in a similar situation. However my WordPress files are simply at http://www.marcozehe.de, and I would like bbPress to be in http://www.marcozehe.de/forum. How do I do that? I don’t mean simply creating the directory and copying the files there, but configuring things correctly so WordPress doesn’t consider the /forum folder to be one of its kind.

Thanks,

Marco

[anjap]

I have used this tutorial to create a mo file for a plugin:

http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/08/27/localizing-a-wordpress-plugin-using-poedit/

But I cann’t activate it

I have found a old topic on this issue:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-can-i-define-a-mo-file-for-a-plugin

But I cann’t see how to “name the mo files into our main mo file”

So can anyone tell me how to do this

(I’m using vers. 9.0.1)

[joerghh]

@citizenkeit:

I haven’t the same luck either. But _ck_ gave my at tip to put both files of Quicktags directly into /my-plugins/ and not into subfolder – now it works!

[djp]

Hey sambauers

Thanks for the response

I just found out that the standard php mail() function does not support SMTP authentication, and that the only way for me to rectify this problem is to either get my hosting provider to change their server settings, or some sort of workaround using the PEAR Mail package which apparently provides supporting functions useful to multiple mailer backends. It currently suppors: PHP’s native mail() function, sendmail, and SMTP.

I will keep you posted because if my hosting provider isn’t prepared to change his server authentication requirements, this PEAR-shaped workaround may turn out to be a good one for other bbpress users with the same problem.

Thanks

[_ck_]

Anything that used admin_email with bbPress 0.8.x has to be changed to from_email under 0.9 (I am not sure why it was necessary to break all the plugins like that but what is done is done).

It should take a simple edit. I still get notification emails under 0.9. I believe I posted the fix on the plugin page.

[_ck_]

That could be done via jquery but the ajax posting system in bbPress has been disabled/removed for awhile. Hopefully it will be back by the time 1.0 beta is released (later this year?)

[dangrey]

Ideally the original Censor plugin would be fixed for 0.9.

Can anybody do this? It would be invaluable.

[clockworkjoe]

Here’s the current capabilities of the admin account

a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

Can i just change this so it has both wordpress and bbpress admin powers?

[thomasklaiber]

‘Admin Add Users’ works now.

There seems to be a problem with ‘Post Notification’ which will be fixed within the next days.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

It’s possible that Private Forums is doing things correctly and that it’s really core bbPress that causes the bug to show up with that plugin.

[refueled]

I would like to add a drop down list to the post-form.php file, and I found the following on how to do this, but I am not understanding on how to grab the value after someone has posted a new thread.

Would it be possible to get additional help with this?