[chrishajer]

I don’t believe the roles are stored in the database, I think they’re all stored and defined in bb-includes/capabilities.php. So, I don’t believe you can pull them from anywhere other than there. Maybe I missed it and they are defined in the database somewhere, but I don’t think so.

There is already a drop down of roles in the admin section, when you go to edit a user’s profile, you can mark them member, inactive, blocked, etc. Take a look at lines 1309 – 1317 in bb-includes/template-functions.php

<tr>

<th scope="row"><?php _e('User Type:'); ?></th>

<td><select name="role">

<?php foreach( $roles as $r => $n ) : ?>

<option value="<?php echo $r; ?>"<?php if ( array_key_exists($r, $user->capabilities) ) echo ' selected="selected"'; ?>><?php echo $n; ?></option>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</select>

</td>

</tr>

Will that do what you want?

[chrishajer]

I don’t think they handle plugins at trac. At least there is no component for “plugins.”

I see you already posted in the plugin forum:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/2?replies=13#post-2

You could try contacting the author of the plugin:

Michael D Adams

mda TA blog NOSPACE waffe TOD com (from his blog, and there’s also a wordpress email address for him as well if you look around…)

Are you thinking this should be handled in the template files, and thus should be submitted to trac, or should someone just update the plugin?

[chgogrrl99]

Everything is going well in terms of building forums for the different cities, but…

Now another issue has come to mind.

I’m not registering users on the main WP blog, so I didn’t integrate bbPress with WP. Maybe I should have.

I’d like to get the header and the navigation bar from the main WP site. And if that’s too much of a pain, I’d at least like to include in bbPress my logo and navigation back to WP. How do I do this?

[scottdavis]

Solution to the Display Name bug here

[Trent Adams]

It is for the benefit of others. OK with me

Trent

[refueled]

A little bit of self-promotion here…

(mods: delete if not allowed)

I just wrote an article on how to install bbPress locally.

You can read it here: http://www.refueled.net/install-bbpress-locally/

For those experts out there: if there are any errors within the article, I would appreciate if you could let me know.

Hope it’s useful.

[Sam Bauers]

Better to use the latest version from trunk than those diff files if possible.

[intellivision]

On front-page.php I’d like the “first poster” column to show the users’ display_name (bbPress is synced with WP).

I’ve tried this

<td class="num"><?php echo(get_author_name(topic_author())); ?></td>

which calls this

function get_author_name( $auth_id ) {

$authordata = get_userdata( $auth_id );

return $authordata->display_name;

}

but it still shows “user_login” which tend to have ugly underscores etc.

[diniscorreia]

Ah, great! I’ve been translating bbPress to portuguese to use on my WPMU+bbPress project and when I try to set the language I get the error as well….

Anyways, I guess I’ll have to try merging the two PO files.

@ganzua, I don’t think you really need to define BBLANGDIR – it works because you have already defined the .mo file in WP config file. You get the error *if* you try to define BBLANG. However, if you leave BBLANG as ”, you won’t get the error.

I actually haven’t tried yet, but I think it make sense.

[dss]

I’ve got Windows XP users saying they can’t post in my install of bbPress

they get this error:

Error 403

We're sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for /esprit/topic/102?replies=6#post-356 on this server.



You do not have permission to access this server.



Your technical support key is: 5246-fa61-dfd9-b1ad



You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.

The only way they are able to successfully post is to hit the ‘back button’ after the error and find they have indeed successfully posted.

I searched and didn’t find this error.

What could it be?

[hostpanic]

Okay, does anyone know where bbpress decides what the mod_rewrite linkks should be – I;ve tried editing .htaccess – but that just links back to site.com/forum/water-cooler

[Doobus]

Thanks a lot found the fix.

[chrishajer]

I think you were bitten by an error that has been fixed in the latest trac release, but still exists in the production release. Take a look through the threads tagged 745:

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/745

745 is the trac ticket where this was discussed. There are lots of workarounds listed in the forums and on trac.

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

Good luck.

[Doobus]

I’ve tried installing it on xampp and wamp and I get the same warnings. When I go ahead and install with the warnings I can’t log in. I don’t get why it is reading ODBC@localhost instead of the DB name I provided which is bbp1. I’m 99.9% sure I set up config correctly, but just in case I didn’t here it is:

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘bbp1’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘root’); // 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://localhost/bbpress’;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘bbpress’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘blah@blah.com;

---

The Warnings

---

Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Access denied for user ‘ODBC’@’localhost’ (using password: NO) in C:wampwwwbbpressbb-includesdb-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 C:wampwwwbbpressbb-includesdb-mysqli.php on line 80

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:wampwwwbbpressbb-includesdb-mysqli.php:80) in C:wampwwwbbpressbb-admininstall.php on line 10

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at C:wampwwwbbpressbb-includesdb-mysqli.php:80) in C:wampwwwbbpressbb-includesfunctions.php on line 1898

[livibetter]

Check this post: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/disable-posting-and-registration?replies=8

[Andreas Grzybowski]

ok – i’m the keymaster. the username is for example AndyBB.

if i put the var’s to the right thing:

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.XYZ.de’; //

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.XYZ.de’; //

i use the folowing plugin in wp:

bbPress Integration 0.74 -> Michael Adams.

Synchronizes registrations on your bbPress installation with your WordPress blog

in bb:

WordPress Integration 0.7 -> Tightly integrates user accounts between WordPress and bbPress

if i now login into wp, i can use my forum with the same username as i login and this user stands in wp userdatabase NOT in bbpress users.

if i log out, use AndyBB + password – can’t login !!!

if i delete the var’s in config.php, i can login! i see the little admin link.

so – i make a misstake. but i don’t know what it’s wrong.

[Trent Adams]

About time I chime in here. There is a plugin by Louisdale called Avatar Upload that allows users to upload their own avatar and save it on the server. I have been meaning to pick that plugin apart as to use the “uploading” code in another plugin.

I am sure that if you understand a bit of code you can pick out that portion of the plugin and use it with the current “allow images” plugin. I might have time later to look at it, but if someone wants a place to start, that might be it!

Trent

[tbronson]

You Guys can have such a limited sense of humor…

Sorry, I started a new topic for this, which I should’ve done from the beginning…

(fel64: I simply want to allow forum users to have the option of uploading images and then displaying those images in a post.)

[tbronson]

Seeking a simple solution that allows logged in users to upload and include images in their posts.

All I’ve come up with is the Allow Images plugin, which adds a button to the editing form that helps paste an IMG tag so you can link to an external image.

I was told in another thread that it’s far from trivial to create a file attachments plugin for bbPress: “A major problem right now is lack of per-post metadata. Even if that were present, this would not be a trivial task.” I’m not sure of the terminology here, but if “attachment” means embedding an image in a post, that’s what I want to do.

ImageShack was suggested, a web service that lets people upload images which they serve for free. You can embed their upload form in your site, upload, then grab the preformatted image URL and paste it into your bbPress post. This kinda works, but it’s distracting because you get an ImageShack mini-ad, and have to go to their site to copy the link (cool service, though)…

I thought of trying a simple uploader script that would upload files completely outside of bbPress and present the URL for cutting and pasting into the post. Kinda like the ImageShack procedure minus…ImageShack. Dunno, this is probably beyond me, though I may try with a canned script…

I’m using 2.3.1 integrated with 0.8.3 via bbSync and WordPress integration. It works great!

Any ideas?

(I noticed that Allow Images is the #1 most downloaded plugin, 7x more popular than #2, WordPress Integration, so I imagine the MASSES are craving simple image upload…

Thanks!

[viveksivaram]

I have this weird issue. I have enabled permalink in my config.php. Initially I had the .htaccess with option +multiview in the /bbpress folder. Then I read that it would be good to have just one .htaccess in the wordpress folder. I did this and also tried to have the other option as documented in the site (using a generated list as content for .htaccess).

Permalinks worked when I am not logged in. The moment I log in as admin, I see the address is of the form ?/topic=1 etc.

I try clearing cookies, tried to delete the whole forum but still am able to reproduce the issue.

What am I doing wrong?

[chrishajer]

Are you using any custom role plugins with WordPress or anything that changes the display name? I think those things mess with the integrated logins.

Your setup is fine. The URLs are supposed to be the same in config.php. And once you have it working you can log in in WordPress and still be logged in in bbPress. It’s just an issue of getting it right.

[chrishajer]

Check this thread, especially the post from sambauers.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/agregar-nueva-categoria-de-temas?replies=12

As far as multiple forums, one for each city, I think that would be possible and the user could stay logged in across forums assuming the cookies are correct.

[pwdrskier4]

I think what he might be looking to achieve is something like this setup where the forums are broken up:

http://floridastate.rivals.com/forum.asp

He is looking for groups of forums that have a heading such as “Chicago” where “Chicago” is not a forum but just a heading.

At least that is my guess. I would also like to be able to do this if anyone knows how with bbpress.

[joeby]

OK… Through some searching through the forums… I found this:

Usernames with spaces do not work

And it seems to work. Does not allow for special characters, for example, Dr. Nobody (the period doesn’t go through)…

One step closer, now… Thanks for all the help.

[tbronson]

I’m using K2 for bbPress. I’ve moved things around a bit, but I don’t think I deleted anything.

I just tried with Kakumei and it’s the same behavior.

I also tried it with different posts in different forums, and multiple stuck posts. It’s consistent: stick to front and the topic remains counted in the counts column, but does not display in the individual forum topic list.