[pixelplain]

Wanted to share our new forums using bbPress:

http://www.touchtip.com/forums/ – The site is about all things iPhone and iPod touch and a forum was a natural addition to our WordPress-based site.

bbPress was a pleasure to work with and configure. I have had a long, love-hate history with bb software (worked at ezboard during their glory days) and I think bbPress is where it’s at. Love the low bloat factor, simplicity and the focus on content. Nice to see the bbs advance in this way.

Thanks for bbPress and keep up the good work!

JR

[chrishajer]

These instructions are for WordPress but the procedure is the same:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress

I think you take that pot file I linked to and use a tool like poedit to translate all the phrases that are in that pot file.

Then, according to the config.php:

// 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', '');

 

So, according to that, use poedit to generate the mo file (maybe it’s ar.mo for arabic?) and drop the ar.mo file you just created into the bb-includes/languages folder. Now change the BBLANG line to read:

define('BBLANG', 'ar');

I THINK.

I am guessing on the ar as the proper language according to this page I found:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry

I am totally guessing at all of this, but I think that’s pretty close to what you need to do. When you’re done translating, please post back and share your work. Thanks.

[العاب]

sorry , is this a Language file ?

where i can see it in bbpress files ?

thank you sri .

[chrishajer]

Will this help?

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/pot/tags/0.8.3/bbpress.pot

[العاب]

Hi,

I Need to translation BBpress To Arabic Language and cast it free to all .

is thare a Language file in BBpress ? where ?

[scoooooop]

Hey folks

I’ve been trying to install bbpress and after six full attempts (including fresh db’s) I’ve given up. Every time I install it goes into a loop where I login and it takes me right back to the login page. There is no dashboard in site.

I haven’t used any customizations and I don’t have wp running on the same db or site. I just install as described with the config.php filled in up to the email.

There doesn’t seem to be any documentation that covers this, and I’ve installed WordPress many times (on other sites) with no problems. I’m using GoDaddy and I’ve tried 4.1 and 5.0 and I’ve tried deleting cookies and downloading both the zip and the tar.gz versions of 0.8.3 in case there was a problem with your file but I always end up with the same result.

I expect I’ll be moving on to a different forum package but you may want to cover this in your instructions, could there be a issue with GoDaddy or with permissions?

[pwdrskier4]

SUCCESS!!!

It was the changes to bb-settings.php that did it, the 757 patch: https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/757

Thanks for all the help chrishajer and livibetter. I could still be staring at my password wondering why it won’t work.

So now I have reinstalled again (to get rid of any bad changes I made while trying to figure this out) and we are good to go.

And yes, this was a “all of the sudden” problem, don’t know how, don’t know why. I have some other similar sites running the same code/settings and they still work fine without the patch even though they too have the host: ‘localhost:/tmp/mysql5.sock’

Also, yes, I am on 0.8.3 and was before the issue – if you were still curious.

[livibetter]

Are you using 0.8.3?

Try to patch with https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/757

or

modify https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php#L56

to be

$this->$dbhname = @mysqli_connect( $server->host, $server->user, $server->pass, null, null, $server->port );

[chrishajer]

Did you change that from how it was working before, or did you recently upgrade to 0.83? I ask because 0.83 made the switch to db-mysqli.php and as far as I know db-mysqli.php does not accept the port parameter (the part after the localhost:)

So, was it working before and it stopped all of the sudden or did you upgrade something that might have broken it.

If you upgraded to 0.83, I think this ticket might be of interest to you:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/745

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-on-localhost?replies=4#post-12105

[pwdrskier4]

I am tried resetting my mysql password.

I have tried creating another mysql user.

I have blown up my bbpress install and started over (I only had a couple topics going).

I don’t know what else to try.

[chrishajer]

I wouldn’t blow away your bbPress install completely. It’s a simple error that will have a simple solution. It just cannot connect to the database for some reason…

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cannot-select-db-3?replies=6#post-11248

[pwdrskier4]

Okay now the latest discussions do not show up on frontpage because I have attempted to completely reinstall bbpress but it still gets the same error.

[livibetter]

bbPulp

The best way to work with bbPress is reading the source, currently. Unfortunately, not everyone can code.

Btw, your Programming page of blog has an error.

[ralev-dot-com]

I’m using this method here: http://desbar.eu/

check the ABOUT page, for example

it works for me.

Keep in mind there are a lot of ways to make a static page.

1. The most simple is to create some about.php file.

It should looks like livibetter says:

<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

The static content here.

<?php bb_get_footer(); ?>

2. put this about.php in the root directory ( e.g. – the URL should be something like youbbPressSite.com/about.php )

3. Then call this URL from somewhere ( e.g. – put a link in the Header.php )

that’s it.

PS: I’ve just been curious about the method above (livibetter version) – that’s why I used it looks smoother at first site.

[alexhertz]

Captcha won’t help. All spam software is trained for captchas. If all bbpress forum would use the same captcha, spammers will quickly adapt. Email verification is also useless: every decent spam package allows for confirmation of mail links.

Try more of Turing test. One option is a two-level confirmation: a mail link AND after it is clicked – a captcha. Something new that spam software doesn’t expect.

Or send an email with password and OPT-OUT (rather than confirmation) link. Automated software will click the link, and opt out of the forum.

Or send email verification with text to be typed into url window rather than a link.

Or, send confirmation email which must be confirmed by reply-to rather then clicking a link. Still better, reply-to and type something in the subject line.

[chrishajer]

Sounds like a server problem, not a bbPress problem. It’s not like bbPress sits there and waits 14 hours before sending the email. It has to be something with the SMTP server or mail queue.

[livibetter]

No ideas. But it has something to do with bb_index.php_pre_db ( https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/index.php ) or bb_forum.php_pre_db actions. So I just left it unchanged.

[AndrewMac]

@livibetter thanks for the feedback, I really do look forward to using your pluggin. Apparently my bbpress install is sending the password, but it is doing so 14 or so hours after registration.

[AndrewMac]

@Trent http://www.uniteformike.com – Also, there’s been a new development. Apparently, BBpress is sending e-mails out, but after 14 hours… So yes it can send e-mails, but isn’t for some bizarre reason.

[livibetter]

This is quite old (check this diff)

<?php echo date(__('F j, Y, h:i A'), bb_get_post_time()); ?>

replace it with

<?php bb_post_time( __('F j, Y, h:i A') ); ?>

You are using 0.8.3, right? You should use an updated theme.

[electroniques]

Hey.

I checked the Database time and it is correct.

So it must be some theme/bbpress related error.

Here’s my search.php:

<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

<h3 class=”bbcrumb”>“><?php option(‘name’); ?> » <?php _e(‘Search’)?></h3>

<?php search_form( $q ); ?>

<?php if ( !empty ( $q ) ) : ?>

<h2><?php _e(‘Search for’)?> “<?php echo wp_specialchars($q); ?>”</h2>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( $users ) : ?>

<h2><?php _e(‘Users’)?></h2>

<?php foreach ( $users as $user ) : ?>
• ID); ?>”><?php echo get_user_name( $user->ID ); ?>

<?php endforeach; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( $titles ) : ?>

<h2><?php _e(‘Thread title matches’)?></h2>

<?php

foreach ( $titles as $topic ) :

$count = $topic->topic_posts;

?>

1. <h4>“><?php topic_title(); ?></h4>

   <small><?php printf(__(‘ %1$d replies — Last reply: %2$s’), $count, get_topic_date(__(‘F j, Y’), $topic->topic_id) ) ?> </small>

<?php endforeach; ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( $recent ) : ?>

<h2><?php _e(‘Recent Posts’)?></h2>

<ol class=”results”>

<?php foreach ( $recent as $bb_post ) : ?>

[chrishajer]

I reported a similar problem for the bbPress plugin forum about 6 weeks ago, but there is no action on the ticket.

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/753

My guess is the template is calling the wrong time/timestamp function since it doesn’t happen with the stock kakumei theme.

[chrishajer]

AndrewMac, did you try the test in this post:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/registration-email-not-being-sent-new-issue?replies=15#post-6931

That will confirm if you can send mail from your server. It’s odd that WordPress works but bbPress does not. Is it possible the $bb->admin_email needs to be a real email address for the mails to be sent by your host? Is that a real email account?

Also, are there any mail logs or error logs? Maybe that would provide a clue.

[AndrewMac]

The irony is that I’m using WP on same site (integrated with BBpress) and the WP side of it works fine. At any rate, thanks for the feedback!