Thanks again chrishajer,
Yeah I’m running windows so I have no idea what the equivalent would be.
mdawaffe keeps talking about “line 80”, changing “line 80”. But I don’t know, line 80 of what? lol.
Man I had no idea that installing bbpress was going to be so difficult, installing wordpress itself was not bad at all.
I believe that it was a problem with the way my host (GoDaddy) deals with .htaccess files. I was also having major issues with the same as this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalinks-not-working?replies=29#post-5247
All-in-all, I would say stay away from GoDaddy if you are trying to do a integrated wordpress/bbpress site. I have moved the site to another host and all issues have been resolved.
Anyone ever come up with a solution from Vanilla to BBPress? I’m having daily requests to move from Vanilla and NO ONE has a converter.
You have to keep your custom templates up to date your self.
You might want to use the browser in the trac site to see which files have changed.
https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/bb-templates/kakumei
Okay, the 9rules notes is the coolest bbpress forum I’ve seen yet. It looks almost like a combination of a blog and a forum. Any tips on how to do something like that? The little preview is amazing and the number of responses looks great too.
I checked the svn repos. It seems you are using bbPress prior to 0.8.2, please upgrade first.
Looks like mdawaffe is working on a different solution as well (read to the bottom):
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/745
Did you already try applying that patch with the patch command on linux (there are probably equivalents on Windows and Mac, but I don’t know what they are)?
Maybe someone could port the “Live Comment Preview” plugin from wordpress to bbpress.
Too bad I don’t have the time at the moment 
Hello chrishajer, thanks for your reply.
I’m having a heck of a time trying to make sense of what I should do now lol. This is VERY confusing to me. I looked for a “db-mysqli.php” file in the bbpress files that I uploaded and did not see anything similar to that. And I don’t see that line 80 “mysql_get_server_info”, which it says should be changed to “mysqli_get_server_info” anywhere in the config.php file. I’m real lost here lol, so if anyone can just point in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.
With integration, it’s easiest to use the same database, then just change the table prefix (or leave it at the default for bbpress – there’s no conflict.) If you use the same database, then just use the database connection details from wp-config.php.
It seems you can’t even SHOW TABLES, not even talking about creating anything yet. The permissions required to SHOW TABLES are much less than those needed to create a table.
Something weird is going on and we’re going to smack our heads when we realize how simple it really was.
Hey Chris,
I had created a second bbpress database called bbpress2 to see if that was the problem, which it wasn’t. The error message is an older one. The one I’m getting now is in reference to bbpress, not bbpress2 like above. But everything else is the same:
bbPress database error: [Access denied for user 'disco'@'localhost' to database 'approachanxiety_com_bbpress']
SHOW TABLES;
bbPress database error: [Access denied for user 'disco'@'localhost' to database 'approachanxiety_com_bbpress']
CREATE TABLE bb_forums ( forum_id int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment, forum_name varchar(150) NOT NULL default '', forum_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', forum_desc text NOT NULL, forum_parent int(10) NOT NULL default '0', forum_order int(10) NOT NULL default '0', topics bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0', posts bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (forum_id) ) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8
bbPress database error: [Access denied for user 'disco'@'localhost' to database 'approachanxiety_com_bbpress']
CREATE TABLE bb_posts
Question: can I use the same database as my WordPress database?
I may call my hosting provider to see if there is something wrong with the way mysql databases are set up. Perhaps I can connect but can’t create tables?
Thanks for all your work on this!
Eric
I have no idea what the problem is, but this right here is a funny 404 page:
http://approachanxiety.com/404.htm
This database is listed in the first error:
approachanxiety_com_bbpress2
But you are connecting to approachanxiety_com_bbpress in the second example. Was that changed along the way?
And you said you’re integrating with WordPress, but are you using a different database (i.e. why approachanxiety_com_bbpress if it’s an existing WP database?)
Not sure what it is yet, but I am curious.
I remember when bbPress had AJAX posting:
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/718
Not post preview, but still, the AJAX was there at one point.
Thanks for the replies; I’ve upgraded the forum to the newest version 0.8.3, and then I’ve apply recounting. Now the problems I’ve stated in my first message are solved.
Thanks for the response.
Okay, I tried to patch all the files with the changes in that ticket and I seem to get the same error.
Here is my config.php:
<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('BBDB_NAME', 'approachanxiety_com_bbpress'); // The name of the database
define('BBDB_USER', 'disco'); // Your MySQL username
define('BBDB_PASSWORD', 'xxxx'); // ...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://approachanxiety.com/bbpress/';
// 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 = 'ericmonse@yahoo.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: '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 = ''; // WordPress table prefix. Example: 'wp_';
$bb->wp_home = ''; // WordPress - Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: 'http://example.com'
$bb->wp_siteurl = ''; // WordPress - Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: 'http://example.com'
/* Stop editing */
if ( !defined('BBPATH') )
define('BBPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );
require_once( BBPATH . 'bb-settings.php' );
?>
When I run the testdb.php I get
Connection Results
Connection: Successful!
Database Selection: Successful!
Enter Your MySQL Information
MySQL Hostname localhost
MySQL Username disco
MySQL Password xxxx
MySQL Database approachanxiety_com_bbpress
Here is the text php file that connects to the database and works:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>MySQL Test Script</title>
<style>
body { font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; }
td { font-size: 10pt; }
th { font-size: 8pt; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if ( isset ( $_POST['submit'] ) ) {
?>
<table border="1" summary="" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
<tr>
<th bgcolor="#F2F2F2" colspan="2"><center><b>Connection Results</b></center></td>
</tr>
<?
if (!$link = @mysql_connect($_POST['mysql_hostname'], $_POST['mysql_username'], $_POST['mysql_password'])) {
?>
<tr>
<td>Connection:</td>
<td bgcolor="red"><font color="white"><?php echo mysql_error(); ?></font></td>
</tr>
<?
} else {
?>
<tr>
<td>Connection:</td>
<td bgcolor="green"><font color="white">Successful!</font></td>
</tr>
<?
}
if (!$dblink = @mysql_select_db($_POST['mysql_database'], $link)) {
?>
<tr>
<td>Database Selection:</td>
<td bgcolor="red"><font color="white"><?php echo mysql_error(); ?></font></td>
</tr>
<?
} else {
?>
<tr>
<td>Database Selection:</td>
<td bgcolor="green"><font color="white">Successful!</font></td>
</tr>
<?
}
@mysql_close($link);
?>
</table>
<?
}
?>
<form method="post">
<table border="1" summary="" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;">
<tr>
<th bgcolor="#F2F2F2" colspan="2"><center><b>Enter Your MySQL Information</b></center></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL Hostname</td>
<td><input type="text" name="mysql_hostname" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST['mysql_hostname']; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL Username</td>
<td><input type="text" name="mysql_username" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST['mysql_username']; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL Password</td>
<td><input type="text" name="mysql_password" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST['mysql_password']; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>MySQL Database</td>
<td><input type="text" name="mysql_database" size="40" value="<?php echo $_POST['mysql_database']; ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><center><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"> <input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset"></center></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>
I think if you post the config.php and the test script with connection details, someone will be able to help. Seems like a simple connection issue, assuming you followed the instructions in the other post you found.
Rather than replacing db-mysqli.php with db.php, did you try to apply the patch attached to this ticket?
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/745
Also, using a test script, I entered the same database information that’s in my bbpress config.php file and I can successfully connect to my database. The user, Disco, is the default user and is database administrator so there’s no reason why I should get access denied.
I am installing bbPress to integrate with an existing WordPress. After the second step of install I get this error:
Second Step
Now we’re going to create the database tables and fill them with some
default data.
bbPress database error: [Access denied for user 'disco'@'localhost' to
database 'approachanxiety_com_bbpress2']
SHOW TABLES;
bbPress database error: [Access denied for user 'disco'@'localhost' to
database 'approachanxiety_com_bbpress2']
CREATE TABLE bb_forums....
It seems to be similar to this post,
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/step-two-database-error?replies=4
And this one,
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/db-access-problem-in-the-first-installation-step?replies=19
I tried to resolve it by replacing db-mysqli.php with db.php in the bb-includes folder and that didn’t work.
The username and password are correct. They are the same as for my original wordpress blog. And the database is correct as well. When I change it to something else I can’t even get to the second step.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Here is an example for deactivation hook
//bb_register_deactivation_hook(__FILE__, 'GADeactivate'); // Bug in bbPress 0.8.3, do same thing using next line
add_action('bb_deactivate_plugin_' . bb_plugin_basename(__FILE__), 'GADeactivate');
just remove “de” from above, that should work. For example,
bb_register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'hook_fct');
However, I haven’t used activation hook, therefore I don’t know is there a problem with it.
Strange. Doesn’t your profile page in this official forum show your profile information?
https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/Lookfab
Are you using a theme other than Kakumei on your forum?
This is not a plugin just a quick hack to Aditya Naik ’s popular private forums plugin.
If, like me, you need to add some private forums in your BBPress setup but you don’t want to make those users moderators or administrators then here is how to add a custom role
http://www.onetouchinnovation.com/scripting/extending-bbpress-private-forums
Hi all.
After a long delay I continue work on my bbPress post plugin. Now is a 5 version of plugin is available. It works with WP 2.3 and up (for older version you can download older plugin), supporting tags, manual link function calling, connecting to other DB (if bbPress installed on other db).
You can download plugin here.
Nice, akhater. Just for simplicity and maintainability, you don’t actually have to copy and paste the member capabilities, you can simply duplicate them through code. (For example)
hey fel et al.,
found another issue which i just spent way too much time trying to figure out.. why is it that anywhere bb_get_option is called, it returns nothing? somehow the bb_get_option function doesn’t have access to the $bb object. I placed the following 2 lines of code in my bbpress functions.php, at the top of the bb_get_option function (after the line that reads global $bb;:
print_r($bb);
echo " $option ";
and i got:
akismet_key mod_rewrite use_cache active_plugins usercookie usercookie page_topics
— notice, the requested option names are being echoed, but there’s no output from print_r($bb). why isn’t $bb set in the bb_get_option function?
this issue is causing bbrepliestext() to output:
Warning: Division by zero in /httpdocs/discuss/bb-includes/functions.php on line 1465
if the “Do you want me to load bbPress whenever to make things like links nicer?” option is checked in Options > bbSync. To be specific, the error comes from line 500 in bbsync.php
