[chrishajer]

Regarding email notification, I would read this for an alternate opinion:

“Q. Could you make a feature where I check a box that says “email me if somebody replies to my post?”

A. This one feature, so easy to implement and thus so tempting to programmers, is the best way to kill dead any young forum. Implement this feature and you may never get to critical mass. Philip Greenspun’s LUSENET has this feature and you can watch it sapping the life out of young discussion groups.

Why?

What happens is that people go to the group to ask a question. If you offer the “notify me” checkbox, these people will post their question, check the box, and never come back. They’ll just read the replies in their mailbox. The end.

If you eliminate the checkbox, people are left with no choice but to check back every once in a while. And while they’re checking back, they might read another post which looks interesting. And they might have something to contribute to that post. And in the critical early days when you’re trying to get the discussion group to take off, you’ve increased the “stickiness” and you’ve got more people hanging around, which helps achieve critical mass a lot quicker.”

That’s from Joel Spolsky: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html

Regarding RSS to email, there are lots of services that will do that if you want. Feedblitz and Feedburner come to mind, but a Google search turns up lots of results as well:

http://www.google.com/search?q=RSS+to+email

Or, you could explain to your members how to use RSS.

[isopropyl24]

My installation page shows the following error messages at the top:

“PHP Error Message

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/a9286564/public_html/x/forum/bb-settings.php on line 169

PHP Error Message

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/a9286564/public_html/x/forum/bb-settings.php:169) in /home/a9286564/public_html/x/forum/bb-admin/install.php on line 10

PHP Error Message

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/a9286564/public_html/x/forum/bb-settings.php:169) in /home/a9286564/public_html/x/forum/bb-includes/functions.php on line 1910″

The only file I edited was the config.php, I tried to set everything up according to the instructions, here’s what I put in the file (minus my database info and email):

“<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘*my db name*’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘*my user name*’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘*my password*’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to

change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your

old config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in

them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the

first time, leave them here

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single

database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores

please!

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://xynson.890m.com/x/forum&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘New bbPress Site’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘*my email*’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want

to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = slugs;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = -5;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to

‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you

want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an

Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ”; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with

WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example:

‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://xynson.890m.com/x&#8217;; // WordPress –

Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://xynson.890m.com/x&#8217;; // WordPress –

Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example:

‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>”

[Bob Jones]

I had used punBB for a while and really liked it – except for the really long amount of time that it takes to update the software. They’ve been working on v1.3 for years now. That’s the version I’ve been waiting for.

punBB seems to be more robust, but the code is a little more sketchy. bbPress is more simplistic but the plugin system makes a pretty good addition. Another thing about punBB that bothered me is that topics aren’t marked as read when you read them – your cookie has to expire before a topic is marked. They have an addon for that, but all the addons rely on editing a lot of files and also is very heavy on the database.

For right now, I’m sticking with bbPress and seeing how everything will end up.

[citizenkeith]

I removed “topic_resolved” from the script. A fresh install later, and I get this error: “Column count doesn’t match value count at row 1”

[trex33]

I’ve finally narrowed down my forum choices to bbPress and Punbb. I love the speed and simplicity of bbPress but am struggling with this decision. Integration with WordPress is not an issue for me.

Does anyone have experience with both bbPress and PunBB? Which do you prefer and why? (I’ve compared both over at forummatrix.org to no avail)

My biggest concern with bbPress is the lack of email notification. Many users have no idea what RSS feed is. IMO, thread subscription is critical to forum’s success. I did see there was plugin for email notification. Are there plans to make email notification standard for bbpress? Does plugin do the trick?

[projectego]

Thanks for the tip on updating bbPress themes, sambauers. I’ll check out the link now. I’m still new to bbPress skinning but hopefully it’ll be pretty straight forward.

Steve

[Sam Bauers]

If you use the latest trunk from the subversion repository then this setting is made in the database rather than the config file.

Scroll to the bottom of this page and use the “Zip Archive” link.

Although a little new, trunk should be stable enough to use right now (rev.1010).

Better still, install trunk using subversion and then updating is much simpler.

[starnet]

So far, I experimented and if you comment out [$bb->wp_home] on config.php, it works. Enter the value of $bb->wp_table_prefix and $bb->wp_siteurl, and user table is being shared by bbPress and WP. Like here, I could have a WP user on WordPress.com and my user name will be valid for bbPress.org.

@intellivisio, I don’t know about the cookie part. I still have to investigate. My main intent was to be able to have the user input info only once so that they could be authenticated on both bbpress site and WP site.

@sambauers, bbPress did complain on install about cookies, but after I commented out $bb->wp_home, it continued with the install. I created a user once on one domain and it shared the user on both domains.

[citizenkeith]

I just reinstalled bbPress and did NOT utilize WP integration. I also tried using the forum support plugin, as recommended by fel64.

Now I’m getting this error:

Unknown column ‘topic_resolved’ in ‘field list’

[citizenkeith]

I just tried this using phpBB 2.012 and bbPress 0.8.3.

This is the error I get:

Table ‘khanlon_db3.henskebb_users’ doesn’t exist

And that makes sense, since I already set up bbPress to integrate with WordPress. Since bbPress is using the wp_users table, the script doesn’t know where to put the phpbb users.

As it stands now, bbPress shows all the topic counts for each forum, but when you click on the forum, none of the threads are listed.

I tried exporting all the users using phpMyAdmin and importing into the WP table, but the threads are still missing.

[scienceprodigy]

Vili. I have Dan’s avatar thing working on my wordpress blog, and I have installed bbpress and have been having the hardest time getting the integration to work. I am not very familiar with php, so if you could tell me what I am doing wrong, I would be grateful.

I have bbpress installed in a subfolder one level up from my wordpress install in a folder called ‘forums’. I read all the comments here, and have looked at the Function integration part of the “Integration with WordPress” post per your suggestion. I added the code:

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

to the bbpress config.php file, and it throws an error when I load bbpress. I have tried using ‘wp-blog-header.php’ and ‘/wp-blog-header.php’ and ‘/’ and even ‘ ‘ as the path to the file, and nothing works, it throws an error every time. I even tried a backslash! lol

[Nghia]

okie my email is : toon @ w3sh . com

(without space of course)

[Sam Bauers]

This information will only affect those following the bleeding edge of bbPress and WordPress development.

bbPress now has implemented in it’s trunk both the new “phpass” hashing for passwords and the new “authcookie” cookie methods which are slated for release in WordPress 2.5

This means that if you are integrating WordPress and bbPress then you can now test out the latest versions of each.

If you have any feedback or problems with integration then post here or on the bbDev mailing list.

[citizenkeith]

“I ported GamerZ’s useronline plugin for wordpress to bbpress awhile back. Been meaning to clean it up and release it one day.”

Any news on this one?

[citizenkeith]

I have tried baptiste’s changes, but I’m still getting backslashes when quoting text (using the Quote plugin).

I am integrating with WordPress, but I don’t use a WordPress Integration plugin, as referred to by RCanine. I’m using the bbPress Integration plugin.

[intellivision]

Second level domains must be the same, as sam said. (First level being .com, .net, .org etc). It’s for security… imagine the havoc if you had to buy every extension for your domain so that others couldn’t, and read your users’ cookie info.

[fel64]

Post your email here, the topic will get locked and anyone interested will be able to get in touch (by forum policy).

I will for sure; I won’t have time until Sunday, but I’ve got experience doing this.

[Nghia]

Hello,

I’m sorry if this is not the right place to post. I have a blog running latest WP version and i would like to do some work integration/customisation with BBPress. I’m looking for an experienced bbpress developer that can help on this project on an ongoing basis. If you are interested, please contact me.

[chrishajer]

One other thing some servers do is complain if PHP file permissions are set to 777 or something similarly open with access to everyone. I think the PHP files for bbPress just need to be 644, and I think 755 will work as well, but if they are more than that (read/write/execute access to owner, group and everyone) maybe your server is complaining about that?

[dmr123]

I just installed bbpress. At first, I was able to log in, but if I tried to view my profile or the 1st post, I went to an error page. After trying to turn pretty permalinks off by making changes referred to in the documentation, then I only received a 500 Internal Server Error with an additional “404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request” no matter what page I tried to view.

After this, I deleted all the tables in the MySql database and deleted then reuploaded all the files to start again. But still receive the Internal Server Error when I go to http://oneworldmeditations.org/forums/bb-admin/install.php or http://oneworldmeditations.org/forums/ which was the location of the bbpress blog.

Can someone advise?

[billsaysthis]

I’m new to bbPress though a longtime WP’er and would like to use bbPress for a new project. However one requirement that I cannot seem to nail down is whether or not we can have some forums in which only, say, moderators can post (while all logged in users can reply to those posts and anyone can read posts and replies).

I searched here and in Google and have not found a definitive answer, at least not one which seems to work. However, this is a dealbreaker for us so thanks in advance if one of the more experienced forum members can give me an answer. Please note that doing this via a plugin is fine.

Thanks!

[Sam Bauers]

You can’t share cookies across domains that are as different as that

The domains need to have some common part like:

blog.example.com

forum.example.com

[starnet]

Is it possible to have wordpress installed on a ‘mydomain.com’ and have bbpress on another domain (mydomain.net). It seems to me that bbpress config.php has variables for wp_home, wp_siteurl, wp_prefix that could possibly be on different domain.

Has anyone tried this?

(Thanks in advance)

[intellivision]

require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’); …With that I get no admin pages*.

require_once(‘../../wp-blog-header.php’); …With that I get no non-admin pages**.

WP 2.3.2, bbPress 0.8.3.1, both are very fresh, no hacks etc.

WP is at http://dencx/wp, bbPress is at http://dencx/wp/forum/. I’m developing locally, as you can see by the url’s.

$bb->uri = ‘http://dencx/wp/forum/&#8217;;

* = Warning: require_once(../wp-blog-header.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/matth/Sites/dencx/wp/forum/config.php on line 2

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:’) in /Users/matth/Sites/dencx/wp/forum/config.php on line 2

** = Warning: require_once(../../wp-blog-header.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/matth/Sites/dencx/wp/forum/config.php on line 2

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../../wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:’) in /Users/matth/Sites/dencx/wp/forum/config.php on line 2

[cart3r]

Hello all,

I recently dove into the exciting world of BBPress, and in the midst of working out a custom theme (tweaking structure as well), I was wondering if the following things were even possible to do, or are they more suited to be plugin requests?

– attach forum name to latest topics of main page. ie I want to have a topic display like this:

“Plugins | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet”

(where “Plugins” is the forum name and “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet” is the topic, obviously.

– Within each topic, separate the original post from the comments. I guess this is similar to how a blog entry is; with the entry featured at the top, and the comments displayed below and less prominently. It seems like the way BBPress is coded they can only be stacked on top of each other and have a similar design treatment?

– Tweak post count so that if no has yet replied to a post it is “0” instead of “1”

Hopefully these are just things that are right under my nose that I haven’t been able to figure out, but let’s see…

Thanks!