[healthstatus]

We are setting up bbpress to work with WP and a Perl program we developed in house. We have most of it working, except the forum always returns No Entries found and their isn’t a link to add a post, edit a post or anything, and in WP you can’t make comments. (other than that it is perfect). We would also like to make an attempt to login from either bbpress or WP get routed over to our system login page which uses our Perl program. please contact me at gwhite [at] healthstatus . com

[chrishajer]

One thing I always thought was interesting was that mail appears to be sent from bbpress@yourdomain.com, whether or not that is a valid email. So, if you responded to your password email or something, it would be sent to that bbpress@ address, which might be invalid, so it would bounce.

I wonder if bbpress@yourdomain.com has to be set up as a valid email account on the server, so if the SMTP server says “let me make sure this is one of my users before I sent out email for him” it will work. Since you wouldn’t normally have a bbpress@yourdomain.com address already set up, maybe some MTAs don’t like it and give up on the mail altogether.

Why wouldn’t the email just be sent from the admin email address since we’re asked to enter it in config.php anyway?

Any thoughts?

[chrishajer]

The $bb->name setting in config.php is the name for the whole site and the name you see in Admin > Content > Forum is the name of the categories or sub-forums (however you want to think about it – see the bottom of http://bbPress.org/forums/ for “Installation”, “Troubleshooting”, “Themes”, etc – that is what you’re changing in Admin > Content > Forums). Changing it there does indeed change the display (look at the bottom of the front page to see the name you are changing in the admin panel: it’s under “Forums”). If it’s not working like that in your installation, there’s another problem I’m not familiar with.

Anyway, being able to change the site name in the admin panel might be a good suggestion. You can make feature requests at http://trac.bbpress.org .

[citizenkeith]

I couldn’t find anything here on the bbPress site… I would like for email addresses that appear in posts to be transposed to something like “user [at] domain [dot] com”.

Is there a plugin, or an easy way to do this?

[charliestout]

File uploads and attachments: like many others, I am highly interested in such a plugin. While I agree with the intent of the developers to keep bbPress light and awesome (which it is,) it certainly seems a shame to have to abandon bbPress because it does not provide for file uploads.

It’s my understanding that each post is given a unique identifier, visible as a URL parameter: id=38 for post 38, id=39 for post 39, etc.

Functionally, it seems a matter of creating an /uploads folder, and using a PHP upload/file management script to create a folder with the same name of the post ID in the /uploads folder.

I think one could add some PHP code in the topic page loop to parse the /uploads folder for folders whose names match the numbers of the post id’s displayed on that page, if-then display links to any files contained within those folders, if-not, then don’t.

Do I have the technical know-how to pull this off? Of course not. I barely got the forums installed and avatar plugin running on my server. But others lurking here with any PHP ninja skills might be able to.

Of course, there might be horrendous security risks that I’m not thinking of with this method. And the PHP code that scans the uploads folder for foldernames that match post id’s might ridiculously slow down the forums, as it constantly scans the filesystem instead of performing a quick database lookup.

But it might be a good start. Between all of us here in these forums, I am confident that we’ll eventually stumble across this much-needed functionality. Necessity is a mother…

[Sam Bauers]

@j8h9

I’ve got 3 fixes for you to choose from:

1. Make the above changes

2. Upgrade the version of PHP you are using

3. Download the current trunk (rev 1071) here

Or go back to phpbb, your choice.

: )

[Sam Bauers]

Looks like it may be rejecting the mail due to the “From” email address being invalid. Try this code in a plugin and make sure your admin_email option is a valid email address:

<?php

if ( !function_exists( 'bb_mail' ) ) :

function bb_mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers = '' ) {

if (!is_array($headers)) {

$headers = trim($headers);

$headers = preg_split('@r(?:n{0,1})|n@', $headers);

}



if (!count($headers) || !count(preg_grep('/^from:s/im', $headers))) {

if (!$from = bb_get_option('admin_email'))

if ($uri_parsed = parse_url(bb_get_option('uri')))

if ($uri_parsed['host'])

$from = 'bbpress@' . trim(preg_replace('/^www./i', '', $uri_parsed['host']));



if ($from)

$headers[] = 'From: "' . bb_get_option('name') . '" <' . $from . '>';

}

$headers = trim(join("rn", $headers));



return @mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);

}

endif;

?>

[rslater]

Sam.. Can you take a look at this thread and see if there is anything you know of to fix this issue. Chrishajer has been helping me thus far and been a tremendous help. We just cannot figure out this email issue.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-registration?replies=17

[Göran]

I did not get them working together and using bbSync. I have looked at the examples mentioned in other threads but I have not found any webbsite where the posts in the blog have generated a new comment in the forum. Are there any such examples? It seems to me that all of them have links back and forth but where is bbSync used? And using another language than English seems to have given problems to many more than me.

I really liked the idea of generating forum posts from a blog which would give a more equal discussion than comments to a blog. But where can I find a working example in a non-English language?

[chrishajer]

As an experiment, I created 1000 users automatically with long text for the username, website, interests, email, etc. I also inserted meta info for them (so, 1000 new user rows, 4000 new meta rows.) I checked the size of the Data_length and Index_length in MySQL.

With 5 users, I had this:

bbpress_users Data_length: 524 bytes

bbpress_users Index_length: 3072 bytes

bbpress_usermeta Data_length: 708 bytes

bbpress_usermeta Index_length: 5120 bytes

With 1005 users, I had this:

bbpress_users Data_length: 384,524 bytes

bbpress_users Index_length: 142,336 bytes

bbpress_usermeta Data_length: 280,708 bytes

bbpress_usermeta Index_length: 146,432 bytes

So, 1000 additional fake user registrations used about 1MB of disk space. In reality, the data I used for the fake registrations is far longer than any spam registration I’ve ever gotten. In fact, the average row length for bbpress_users went from 107 bytes to 382 bytes since the fake data I used was so ridiculously long. The bbpress_usermeta didn’t go up as much: from an average row length of 52 bytes to 69 bytes.

Bottom line: 1000 spam registrations, if they actually did occur, would not hurt anything at all. To prevent those registrations in the first place though, I would use Akismet and the “enhanced registration” plugin. Then you don’t need to worry about the registrations at all.

[starnet]

Thanks chrishajer and Trent. That was what I was leaning towards doing. I thought maybe there’s a way to incorporate bbPress’s loop inside WP’s.

Now back to the drawing board creating the site’s common theme for bbP and WP.

[vedmak]

This is great excerpt , but i have 2 problems:

1. excerpt don’t work with Sticky Topic
2. how to make plugin from this code?

Thanks anyway livibetter.

[fel64]

You need to have wordpress and bbpress more fully integrated, that is, require wordpress before bbpress is run in bb’s config.php file. I think all that is in that link, under the last section.

[tomimaila]

I made a post on this subject to another thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/file-attachments?replies=24#post-13317

[tomimaila]

I made a post on this subject to another thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/file-attachments?replies=24#post-13317

[rslater]

that looked extremely promising. Unfortunately still did not send. Do you think this is a serverside permission issue? I cannot believe as previously stated everything else works except bbpress registration emails and lost passwords.

[Göran]

I inserted your code:

Code:

include_once(BBPATH . BBINC . ‘streams.php’);
include_once(BBPATH . BBINC . ‘gettext.php’);

in ‘bb-settings.php’ but it did not quite work. My blog http://www.goranlin.se/blogg/wordpress/ is slower and website adm disappeared. And my forum http://www.goranlin.se/blogg/wordpress/bbpress/

still do not show the posts from the blog which was planned. I use bbSync to try to get that, but no success so far.

[Olaf Lederer]

Because we are talking about spam and bbpress, at the moment I don’t have problems with spam (I guess the spammers didn’t about my forum)

how is the spam protection works it the same way as in WP? In WP akismet is filtering more than 99% of the spam.

Here in bbpress it’s different: a well written spam post is not “under moderation”

[Trent Adams]

I have found that as long as you change your Site Admin => Options and tell WPMU not to use the blog name of your forum in the signup process, you can use the normal bbPress .htaccess method. It works fine for me on http://onvertigo.com anyways.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

If you search in https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ there is actually a plugin to do this for wordpress if I am not mistaken as well, but I use the way that chrishajer suggests myself as RSS feeds are easy to change and doesn’t require bbPress be in the same database

Trent

[Göran]

I seems to have the same problem. I get

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class streamreader in /mnt/home/_g/goranlin/www.goranlin.se/blogg/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/streams.php on line 26

I want both wp and bbpress to be translate so maybe I can put your code into ‘bb-settings.php’. Would that work?

[Göran]

Thanks for help. I am moving forward. I deleted both WP and bbPress and started again and made progress. The blog and the forum are integrated but I cannot get bbSync to work. Both work by temselves and I can log in with same id and password but cannot get posts into forum.

Installation:

Blog at http://www.goranlin.se/blogg/wordpress/

Forum at http://www.goranlin.se/blogg/wordpress/bbpress/

WordPress 2.3.2 installed 22 january 2008

theme WordPress Default 1.6 changed colors in head with panel

bbPress 0.8.3.1 installed 22 january 2008

sv_SE.mo for WP installed 22 january 2008

sv_SE.mo for bbPress installed 22 january 2008

bbSync version 0.94 installed 22 january 2008

bbSync gave message “It needs your config!“

I did that! succesfully I thought.

But when trying to write new post in blog:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class streamreader in /mnt/home/_g/goranlin/www.goranlin.se/blogg/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/streams.php on line 26

but going back to blog the new post is there but still not in Forum

line 24-26 in streams.php is:

// Simple class to wrap file streams, string streams, etc.

// seek is essential, and it should be byte stream

class StreamReader {

// should return a string [FIXME: perhaps return array of bytes?]

function read($bytes) {

return false;

I have no clue how to do anything about this! All help is welcome!

[Olaf Lederer]

I have more than 1000 registrations now, I’m not sure what happens if some but will start to register fake accounts. If this becomes a problem you need to something else.

bbpress works with akismet and this works fine on wordpress

[Olaf Lederer]

on the plugin site here

https://bbpress.org/plugins/

[Richard Brown]

Hi All

Could someone please tell me how well BBPress works in fending of spam registrations please? Is it a case of using every means possible or is there a flawless way of doing it?

I am also wondering is there a user limit for BBPress. i.e. How many users would it support please? 100,000 – 1,000,000 or more?

I have a client that has been told that she will get a 1,000 spam registrations a day and that open source software cannot support more than a few thousand users. I want to direct her to this post. So hopefully we can encourage her.

Many thanks

Rich