[Thord D. Hedengren]

For some reason UTF8 worked before, but the db was latin1. Does bbPress create the tables in latin1?

Anyway, changing to the right latin1 table in config.php did the trick. Weird that I didn’t have the issue before the upgrade though.

Thanks!

[newyearwill]

I’d like to start off by saying what a fantastic piece of software bbpress is – I love the similarities with WordPress: clean HTML & CSS code. In my opinion it’s like a breath of fresh air compared to other forum software because you can easily customise it to fit your site. I just hope the clever designers and developers continue their excellent work with future releases.

…anyway enough of my rambling, here is my forum (still needs a few finishing touches):

http://forum.reclaimyourskin.co.uk

[Olaf Lederer]

Hi,

do you checked the setting in the config.php file?

it must be something like:

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = 'http://www.domain.com/forums/';

maybe you can post some URL?

[swollenpickles]

I’ve just installed bbpress for the first time and that part seems to have worked. Now I’m trying to log in for the first time and after entering my correct username and password (I’ve triple checked everything) and am sent to my blogs 404.php page. It’s like it’s redirecting or something. I’m stuck. Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?

[trex33]

Thank you both for the insights. Yeah, that PunBB 1.3 has been in the works for some time. Interesting take on the pitfalls of email notification. Never thought of it that way. That Joel Spolsky article had some great points in it.

Definitely leaning towards bbPress at this point…

[intellivision]

Having user names being the same on two domains (very possible) is different than having two domains share a cookie (impossible due to the security implications I mentioned above).

[daga]

I installed version 0.8.3.1 succsessfully. Then I changed the config-file as written, before installing a .mo-file in /bb-includes/languages. The .mo file is based on the 0.8.3 bbpress.pot file. I´m pretty sure this is done correctly. But nothing happens. Same old english language everywhere. Any suggestions how to make the localization work – anybody ?

[fel64]

It depends where your bb-load.php file is (in relation to your wordpress wp-config.php). You may find it easier to give an absolute path rather than a relative path. http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/absopath.htm

[fel64]

What’s the fatal error?

[Erica Kapoor]

I added

“require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);”

in bbPress’ config.php

And I’m getting Fatal Error

Help me

[Erica Kapoor]

Thanks, Should “path/to/bb-load.php” this be like this?

“forums/bb-load.php”

I’m getting errors…

Would you explain little bit easier?

[fel64]

You need to include bbPress. To do this, make sure that your bbPress supports being integrated thoroughly with WordPress (not just users, also functions), then open your wordpress config file and at the bottom put require_once('path/to/bb-load.php'); That’ll let you use the bb functions too.

[Olaf Lederer]

Just published my second bbpress plugin:

http://www.finalwebsites.com/bbpress/auto-add-member-favorites.php

Use this plugin for your bbpress forum to let members add their favorites while writing a post for an existing thread or while creating a new topic.

any suggestion / comment is welcome…

[Erica Kapoor]

I’m making website using wordpress and bbPress intergrated together. I want to put a login form in wordpress header using <?php login_form(); ?>. What should I do?

[rslater]

version 0.8.3.1 – bbpress and WordPress (Version 2.3.2).. Nt Box

Clarification Below.

do you now of any bugs in the synchronizing of wp an bbp. I am testing these sytems and having issues with email registrations. I get an email notification in wp letting me know there is a new registrant but no registration password and link come through. When you register in bpress nothing happens other then saying password was sent.

Even more odd is the fact that email notification for favorites in bbpress works just fine. I have no idea what the issue is. can anyone help me.. At this point I would donate to your cause if you can get this to work/synchronize.

sit is located at homesandagents dot com

[chrishajer]

Sam, there are no trac tickets that I know of, just forum reports. I’ve already provided links to those. I hesitate to create a trac ticket myself since I have not experienced it first hand. I suspect the developers haven’t either, which is why it appears to still be happening.

Maybe instead of trying to recreate the problem, someone can look at lines 168 – 172 in bb-settings.php and see if the warning thrown on line 169 has a good reason. It certainly seems to be related to a missing my_plugins or bb-plugins folder, and no underscore plugins. I thought there was a difference between PHP4 and PHP5 at some point, but maybe that’s a red herring.

Also, since it’s just a warning, maybe it’s not really a hard error, just a warning, but the server is configured to show warnings, thus the warning comes first and then you get the “cannot modify header information” because the warning came first. Maybe the server needs to be configured to show warnings for this to happen? Is there an .htaccess directive to force PHP to show warnings, or maybe another way to test this?

(BTW, I just checked out 0.8.3.1 and configured my server to use PHP4 and I do not have this error. In the stock install, there is no my-plugins or bb-plugins folder. So, maybe it is throwing a warning but my server is not configured to show them?)

[tommy2toes]

I had some luck using wordpress Theme Functions.

For example my BBPress pulls the top header image, navigation and footer from wordpress. It does not pull between the <head> </head> tags. But this allows me to control the nav and header in one place as well as footer, so that everything gets updated.

If you have your bbpress install setup to use wordpress functions it’s pretty easy to do.

As for CSS, I hate the way other people code css so I always end up ripping it all out and starting from scratch.

Check out this page:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

[chrishajer]

What version of WordPress are you using and what version of bbPress?

[rslater]

do you now of any bugs in the synchronizing of wp an bbp. I am testing these sytems and having issues with email registrations. I get an email notification in wp letting me know there is a new registrant but no registration password and link come through. When you register in bpress nothing happens other then saying password was sent.

Even more odd is the fact that email notification for favorites in bbpress works just fine. I have no idea what the issue is. can anyone help me.. At this point I would donate to your cause if you can get this to work/synchronize.

sit is located at homesandagents dot com

[Erica Kapoor]

I have a bbpress forum. I want to post a sticky as an admin.

Would you help me?

[chrishajer]

What version are you using? In the trunk, line 169 of bb-settings.php does not have a foreach statement, so maybe you’re using something other than the trunk release?

That error is related to not having a my-plugins folder and I think possibly not having any plugins in that folder that start with an underscore.

This was talked about a couple times:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/warning-invalid-argument-supplied-for-foreach-in-bb-settingsphp-on-line-173

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-problem-cannot-modify-header-information

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/php-error-site-mangement-plugins-page

I thought the latest 0.8.3.1 release took care of that, but maybe it doesn’t.

If it were me, I would try creating a my-plugins directory, and then making sure there were some plugins in that folder.

[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”