[dupola]

I use BBPress 0.8.3 here:http://bbpress.org.ru

but I can’t see my custom themes even the default theme in the panel.I can only see”Dashboard Users Content “when I login to panel…

Why?

Update:My forum has upgraded to 0.8.3 from 0.8.2,I find there add two options about Mysql Datebase in the config.php of the new version(0.8.3) .It set the Datebase CHARSET and COLLATE to utf8.

Then I created a new Mysql datebase and set the config.php correctly,but when I install it,it said:

“Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/.lewis/okokb/bbpress/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80”

then I check the line 80 of the file,db-mysqli.php,it looks seem that the version of my Mysql Datebase must be 4.1.0?

isn’t it? but my Mysql datebase are all above 4.1.0.

But I saw that,when I signup with a new Datebase,I can see my custom themes in the panel.

Now I want to know,if BB require only 4.1.0(the version of the mysql datebase)….

I’m very sorry about that my English is not good,I hope you can understand what I mean….

Thanks all.

dupola

[talbina]

Thanks a lot guys. I really appreciate it.

What are you guys waiting for? Get cracking. (joking). How much do you guys think this would cost me? I know, it’s something you cant predict right now. I dont know any development/design, so i cant predict anything at all. Maybe 1000, 2000, 3000? More than 3000?

But seriously, why doesnt Matt introduce an open source social networking software?

Im not actually asking so i can get my hands on it. Its an analyst’s perspective.

Im also very interested in finding out why WordPress has been so successful, and why other blog softwares might not have been as succesful. I believe it has to do a lot with the “corporate image” of wordpress/automattic and the love they have for their community.

[fel64]

You may want to think quite carefully about doing this, as it’s not the simplest of tasks. The key issue is that bbpress does not have the data you want at the time you want it.

Basically bb only looks into the bb_topics table to see what the latest topics are. That tells it what the last post id was, what the last poster’s name was and all that, but it doesn’t tell it what the content of the last post was. To do that, you need to grab the ids of every last post being displayed, then write a database query to get the data from bb_posts. That can (*can*) be done in a single query though I think, much as bb grabs all the topics at once, so it’s not too bad. Then you have the data and can play with it however you want.

So it takes some neat hooking and querying.

[Trent Adams]

#1) This is simple enough as MU is built for that.

#2) If you are talking about each member having their own bbPress forum as well in #2, I would suggest that would be a massive problem. If you just mean having them using a single forum, I think this can be done.

#3) Avatars can be down with many plugins you can find in these forums or over at https://bbpress.org/plugins/ . Combining with MU might be a little difficult or require a plugin. I would suggest looking around to see if anyone on MU has come up with a solution already. That or use Gravatar

#4) Combination of plugins and RSS feed grabbers could do that without very much hassle. What is written already might be sufficient from the plugins area, but a couple different database requests would make new plugins for this quickly I am sure.

#5) You didn’t have one

#6) People out there have successfully integrated bbPress and WordPressMU logins, but you might need to search a bit over at http://mu.wordpress.com/forums/ as well for the answer It also depends on your answer to #2 though…..

#7) You already know the answer and Null helped with the others.

Trent

[assalychris]

hello there!

I was wondering, how can you disable registration in bbpress; I have added the Admin add user plug-in. and want to restrict registration so it is done manually. I already checked http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-there-an-approve-registration-plugin?replies=14 (Trent’s reply on shutting it off) BUT would removing register.php file disallow me (as admin) registering users?

thanks!

[Null]

[7] Private messaging. This can be done with bbpress.

Yes, there is a plugin for this

[8] Groups. Can this be done?

Not yet (put it on trac as request). There is a way with an plugin I believe. Make a new group (e.g. like moderators) and put your people in it.

[9] AND THE BIGGEST OF ALL – Can “friends” be made for a member, where you click his/her profile and friends are listed?

I was working on a plugin that does this, but I got stuck with it, so it’s back on the selve for now.

Can’t help you with the other questions

Null

[talbina]

Come on in guys .

[refueled]

Thanks anasohbet!

I have just found out that there was an issue with my download manager preventing anyone using internet explorer to download any of my files. This is now fixed. So if you have tried previously to download Misty Morning, please try again. The download link will work now.

[Trent Adams]

The forum theme I put up was also with permission of Matt himself before I even put it up for download

Trent

[Sam Bauers]

I believe the theme for this forum is available for download somewhere, it might even be Trent’s theme?

The GPL doesn’t work that way. The idea of “linking” is very compiler specific terminology, it doesn’t really apply to php scripts calling other php scripts.

Changing GPL code is OK and you can’t be forced to redistribute it (hand over source), but if you do, the source must be made available and the licensing must remain the same GPL license.

[livibetter]

I think all bbPress themes are protected by GPL since they must call bbPress functions.

By GPL, you can modify, redistribute, or even almost change nothing to re-release as long as you don’t claim yourself is the only one copyright holder if you are not. Just don’t replace “Copyright YEAR HOLDERS”, but append new one with your name. Moreover, If someone asks for the source, you have no reasons to refuse the request.

PS. I am not sure I am totally correct.

[talbina]

Hello,

Lets say you were making a bbpress, or another site, like a job board or a social networking site.

If would it be ok if i used the same header/menu, and background?

Thanks.

[talbina]

Hello people,

It’s been a while since i posted here.

I just had this great idea, and im over excited at the moment.

A Social Network using bbpress/wordpress mu.

THE BIG Q – Can it be done?

Im not a developer or designer or anything. But look here.

What do i mean by a social network? It would be more of a “professional” one. You can view examples here http://www.cafemom.com/ and http://www.gooruze.com/.

The 2 biggest sections are forums and blogs. Each member would have a blog, and there would be a forum for everyone.

So here:

[1] Each person has a blog. This is using wordpress mu.

[2] Forums. This is using bbpress.

[3] Profile picture is your avatar. But can i have some of the avatars of the members on the front page like this http://microblogr.com/ and http://www.gooruze.com/ ?

[4] A recent activity section, where it shows all the recent activities of all the members, ie; blog posts, forum posts, and comments on blogs. Can this be done?

[6] The biggest question is this – Can the same login be used for all this? Is this what you call wordpress integration with bbpress?

[7] Private messaging. This can be done with bbpress.

[8] Groups. Can this be done?

[9] AND THE BIGGEST OF ALL – Can “friends” be made for a member, where you click his/her profile and friends are listed?

Would you think this would be overtly expensive? How much do you think it can be done for, with a nice clean simple design like this http://dfckr.com/?

***OR***

Or, shall forget about all this and get a free social network like this http://www.adgabber.com/ from http://www.ning.com ?

It just seems too bulky, and i won’t be able to customize it(i mean me pay someone do it). Only the theme would be customizable.

Thanks a lot everyone.

[anasohbet]

thanks mdawaffe…

[anasohbet]

Thanks refueled! Perfect bbPres theme

[Sam Bauers]

user_nicename isn’t what you are after. You want the display_name column. user_nicename in WordPress is a URL safe version of the username. Future versions of bbPress will utilise this field for that purpose too.

[hishamabu]

This has now been fixed. Again, thank you livibetter.

[hishamabu]

Thank you so much for your response livibetter, but I’m not getting this at all. I’m not a programmer/coder by any stretch of the imagination. My abilities go no further than copy & pasting code.

With regards to Unix sockets, I’m on a Dreamhost hosting package if that helps at all.

Can you please tell me how the trac thing work?

Thank you again.

[livibetter]

You need this https://trac.bbpress.org/attachment/ticket/745/745c.diff

and don’t use unix socket.

If you have to use unix socket, read https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cannot-select-db-error?replies=11#post-12434

[hishamabu]

Hello,

I am trying to install bbPress onto the same Database I have installed WordPress. But I keep getting an error (see below).

As far as I’m aware I have filled in the appropriate config.php information. With the same information that I’ve got on the WordPress wd_config.php.

But still no luck. Both WordPress and bbPress have been downloaded from the official websites merely a few days back.

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) in /home/.stinkybutt/vault21/ibnmuslim.com/abdi/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: A link to the server could not be established in /home/.stinkybutt/vault21/ibnmuslim.com/abdi/forums/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

I really do appreciate any and all help with regards to this matter.

Kindest regards

Hisham

[refueled]

Thanks Trent! I have more bbPress themes on the way!

[Trent Adams]

That is a beauty! I really like that one and might have to come up with a use for it

Trent

[Trent Adams]

bbPress and WP are easily integrated so that bbPress uses the wp_users table in the database, so what you are trying to accomplish is very easy to do. As for embedding gallery into WP, from personal experience it works fine and permalinks are configurable. I would check https://wordpress.org/support/ for more data on that though, but integrating the 3 should be pretty easy and straight forward! Integration is covered in the “FAQ” link of this forum!

Trent

[refueled]

I have just released my latest bbPress theme: Misty Morning.

Demo

Download

I also have a matching WordPress theme:

Demo

Download

Let me know what you think!

[toxicshocktv]

I actually already tried that. Here’s my config as of now:

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘toxicsho_bbpress’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘toxicsho_****’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_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://www.toxicshock.tv/board/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Toxic Shock TV Forum’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘toxicshocktv@gmail.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘false’;

// 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 = 0;

// 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: ’64f1b30caafe’

// 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 = ”; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ”; // 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’ );

?>