[Sam Bauers]

There is an LDAP plugin which would be a good jumping off point for Active Directory authentication.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/26

Theme compatibility between WordPress, bbPress and MediaWiki is a stretch. I have a project on the back-burner that might help with WordPress/bbPress theme integration, but MediaWiki is a big ask.

[Slamlander]

So, if I get this right;

1) Install WordPress (current version, 2.3.1)

2) Install and integrate BBpress (current version)

3) Install MediaWiki (current version, 1.10.x)

Making sure that they all use the same data container and not to let MediaWiki set any prefixes.

Okay, that should integrate the Auth stuff and some judicious use of DB triggers (using MySQL5) might actually take care of most of the fleas. However, to be real Enterprise 2.0 here, the themes have to integrate aas well. Also, has anyone got WordPress to authenticate against an Active Directory Domain, like they have for MediaWiki?.

[JeffVoegtlin]

After filling in step one of the installation I get this message:

Now we’re going to create the database tables and fill them with some default data.

bbPress database error: [A table must have at least 1 column]

CREATE TABLE wp_

Created table wp_

bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘;$bb->wp_homeusers (user_login, user_pass, user_email, us]

INSERT INTO wp_;$bb->wp_homeusers (user_login, user_pass, user_email, user_url, user_registered) VALUES (‘JeffV’, ‘145d638abb3245b4362f959f774bf1b2’, ‘jeff@jackhammr.org’, ”, ‘2007-11-13 06:30:26’)

bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ ”, , ”, ‘200]

INSERT INTO bb_topics (topic_title, topic_slug, topic_poster, topic_poster_name, topic_last_poster, topic_last_poster_name, topic_start_time, topic_time, forum_id) VALUES (‘Your first topic’, ‘your-first-topic’, , ”, , ”, ‘2007-11-13 06:30:26’, ‘2007-11-13 06:30:26’, 1)

bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘;$bb->wp_homeusers WHERE ID = 0’ at line 1]

SELECT * FROM wp_;$bb->wp_homeusers WHERE ID = 0

Finished!

I’m sorry I don’t understand what all that means. Can someone here help me? Thanks.

Jeff Voegtlin

[chrishajer]

You changed the installation from forums to bbpress, but you didn’t make the change in the config.php. So, your forum is at http://www.reviewsaurus.com/bbpress/, but the config has $bb->uri = 'http://www.reviewsaurus.com/forums/'; You need to change one or the other (either the folder name or the URI in the config) for it to work.

As proof, I can see http://www.reviewsaurus.com/bbpress/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css just fine.

[mayankg]

Hello,

I followed all the steps mentioned in the installation and bbpress got installed properly but it doesn’t display the forum properly.

you can see the forum login here : http://www.reviewsaurus.com/bbpress/

but you’ll see that it doesn’t look correct as no images no css is loaded.

It’s a fresh installation and i’ve not changed anything else. Can you please suggest me what could be the problem….I’m using the pretty permalinks feature….could that be a problem?

[chrishajer]

> I assumed that it would be seemlessly integrated with the

> style of my WP site.

It does not work that way. Integration is for logins and function only. To get the look and feel, you need to do some work on your bbPress CSS.

[fel64]

The reason the theme isn’t there is that you installed it to /bbpress/ when you told it it was installed in /forums/. Unless you want to mess with rewrite rules, move your bbpress install into a subdirectory called /forums/ and things should pop into place.

[pwagner3]

Chris,

Thanks for the reply. I went back to my wp-config file to compare the two. And here is my problem. wp-config is a nice orderly formatted file. everything is laid out nice and neatly and I can see what it is requesting from me.

the bb config.php file is one long run-on sentence. It was very difficult to understand what I needed to change, and what I did not need to change.

So I compared the 2 files, and got through the installation. But the forum has no stylesheet associated with it? Check it out at: http://condofyi.com/bbpress/

I assumed that it would be seemlessly integrated with the style of my WP site. Maybe I do not have the config.php setup correctly? And more importantly, the forum and topic links seem to be invalid.

Any further advice would be great. You have really got me going in the right direction now.

Let me know what you think.

[Burkie]

hi, I have bbpress and wordpress fully working together, the only issue is that when a user registers with bbpress and leaves a comment it appears as anonymous. I have tried adding post_author but no joy, any ideas?

[chrishajer]

Don’t be scared, full steam ahead. It will be fine. I agree bbPress as standalone forum software is better than a WordPress plugin. Worst case you learn alot as you go along.

[chrishajer]

WordPress uses wp-config.php and bbPress uses config.php (although I thought there was talk of prepending bb_ to some files, including that one.)

Anyway, having it in a subdirectory as you do is perfect. If you cannot select the database, then something is wrong in your config.php. The connection details should be the exact same ones as in wp-config.php. Are they? The table prefix should be different in bbPress config.php and can be left as bb_. The table prefix in WordPress wp-config.php might be wp_.

Is there more to the error message? There has been some other trouble recently but it gives a different error message.

[pwagner3]

I don’t know if this is helpful, but I have installed bbPress in its own subdirectory /public_html/bbpress/ whereas all WP elements are installed in the /public_html/ directory.

I noticed that both WP and bbP had a config.php file, so I figured they could not coexsist in the same directory.

I hope this helps.

[pwagner3]

Hi guys. Trying to install bbPress along with my current WordPress 2.3 installation.

WordPress was a snap! I had that sucker done in about 5 minutes.

bbPress is a different animal. my install.php page says “Cannot select DB”.

Is there a comprehensive Install doc that I am missing? I feel as if I have a lot of questions about the info on the page http://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/

Any help would be appreciated.

[chgogrrl99]

Thanks for responding Chris,

I haven’t yet made up my mind which way to go. My gut tells me that bbPress is better long-term. I’m also guessing that if my forum gets popular, bbPress might be better – in other words I’m thinking that a plugin might do the trick if the forum is doesn’t see much action, but that I might need something more powerful if it gets busy.

I’m pretty sure I can get bbPress installed, I’m now most concerned with integration, pretty perma-links ect. Making new files, adding and deleting code scares me.

[tgallaud]

thank you very much guys. I really appreciate it — I have a lot of great recommendations to go on! (I haven’t had a lot of time to spend on wordpress or bbpress and I appreciate your help to make my customization time easier!)

[fel64]

You can always load bbpress and then check, by:

require_once( 'path/to/bb-load.php' );

Otherwise you could check if the cookie is set and has a password parameter. You won’t be able to check if it’s a correct password, of course.

[benbeltran]

Hello.

I’m trying to make a bar that stays constant in every part of my website and I want to include the login form/profile link in it, but I have to check if the user is logged in or somehow be able to use bbpress functions out of bbpress.

Any recommendations for this?

[tgallaud]

I’m really just thinking of an extremely simple one-thread message board (where the users don’t ever get a choice to pick a thread, instead they just post to an ongoing line of comments). I want exactly what this thread is doing without the rest of the functionality, like creating new threads etc. I can tweak this software to do this — I don’t mean to make this over complicated, but was just wondering if anyone had already created a tweak like this or could point me to some other software that could easily/quickly do this. A guestbook might solve this problem, but I’d rather tweak bbpress (if no one else has already) to do this because it’s such a great base to work from…

thanks a lot for any advice.

[tgallaud]

thanks for your quick reply.

using wordpress would work and that’s a good thought, but I would have to customize it quite a bit I think…?

I’m wondering if there’s an easy way to dumb down bbPress (or wordpress) so I can really just utilize its comments functionality — so I can have a page with a one thread based conversation and that’s it. (I’d like other users to be able to add their comments like they can on a wordpress blog entry…) Any recommendations on how to do this easily?

Is there other software that just focuses on this?

thanks very much.

[Sam Bauers]

I’m running a discussion on bbPress at WordCamp Melbourne this weekend and I’m looking for a good WordPress/bbPress integrated site (or two) to show as an example.

Preferably one run by someone here, with a reasonable amount of traffic, so I can prod them with questions about it.

Anyone?

[chrishajer]

Also, I didn’t realize there were forum plugins for WordPress until you posted this. From the looks of them, this one (of 4) appears to be most current and most actively maintained:

http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/simple-forum/

Never used it, but just learned about it after you asked the question.

[chrishajer]

Yes, use the same database (it’s easier later with integration) and you can even leave the default table prefix in the bbPress config.php. By default, WordPress uses a table prefix of wp_ and bbPress uses bb_, so there is no conflict, and even if bbPress goes horribly wrong, it won’t hurt WordPress at all.

Good luck. I’m in Chicago too if you need any help.

[chgogrrl99]

Ok, I see that I can use same database…thanks anyway

[chgogrrl99]

OK, thanks for responding guys.

I think I’m going to go for bbPress. If I can’t do it or it just becomes too much of a pain, I’ll try the plugin.

One question though…It is Ok to use the same database as my wordpress right? It makes sense to me to do so, just want to be sure.

Thanks

[tgallaud]

Hi — I’m looking for a very simple rendition of bbPress where I can just have one thread displayed on my main page and have users interact with just that one thread (and nothing else). Ideally, I’d like to utilize the comments part of the software only — where I can have a page where people can post comments only and post them indefinitely…

Can someone point me in a direction to configuring the system to do this? Is this easily possible?

thank you very much.