[biodrama]

I just upgraded BBPress to 0.8.2.1. Upgrade instructions say to keep the .htacess file. I looked in every folder of my BBPress install, but couldn’t find i, although I found config.php. Upgraded anyway, and it looked like it worked, but posts are not available. Error reads:

Not Found

The requested URL /bbpress/topic/13 was not found on this server.

Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) PHP/5.2.1 DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.0.59 OpenSSL/0.9.7l Server at localhost Port 8888

I am just fooling around running BBPress on MAMP locally, trying to learn a little bit about it, but I feel like an idiot since I can’t even find .htacess. How can I fix my installation?

[Jaithn]

hey folks,

i even found a new problem!

i can’t add links to my posting in my mainblog. i succesfully integrated wpmu with bbpress and now the links don’t work anymore.

when i add a link, the post only shows <a>words</a>.

did i allready tell you guys that i’m using wpmu?

any ideas?

thx,

jaithn

[Jaithn]

hey folks,

i even found a new problem!

i can’t add links to my posting in my mainblog. i succesfully integrated wpmu with bbpress and now the links don’t work anymore.

when i add a link, the post only shows <a>words</a>..

did i allready tell you guys that i’m using wpmu?

any ideas?

thx,

jaithn

[Jaithn]

actually, i don’t know where to look. i checked the feed-files both in bbpress and in wordpress. but i can’t find the error in their. also it startet after the integration..so it has to do something with it. any more ideas?

what about the 2. problem. i can’t download files. any more hints?

thx,

jaithn

[warmechoco]

this whas kinda my persuasion to choose for bbpress, so I could login from Iframes.. I knew nothing about forums (only phpBB: but this wasn’t easy to work with in iframes)… what a shame

[neyoung]

If you’d like emoticons to show up in your private messages here’s how. Open up bb-emoticons.php . After line 242 which contains

bb_add_filter('post_text', array(&$bbemoticons, 'convert_smilies'));

Add the following.

bb_add_filter('pm_text', array(&$bbemoticons, 'convert_smilies'));

This will display the emoticons within your your private messages

[spencerp]

FYI: Found this on a backup CD of mine:

http://spencerp.net/downloads/AuthPress.php.txt

Maybe someone can tweak it for PHP5? I dunno, I’m not a PHP Pro.

[chrishajer]

Oh boy – just search these forums for integration.

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/integration (threads tagged integration)

This was a good summary I thought:

http://www.adityanaik.com/integratepress-part-i/

Normally, people adjust the template of their forum to match their website. I haven’t seen one in an iframe yet, and don’t know enough about form submission (login form) and redirection and htaccess rewrite rules to know if it would work like that.

[warmechoco]

hi,

I use my bbpress forum inside an Iframe..

Before I didn’t have any problems logging in (IE6 & 7),

but just now I’m unable to login in the iframe… FF works just fine,

just IE6&7 are giving troubles… When I go to the real page logging in works just fine.. but that’s not the intention to work outside iframe..

someone having the same difficulties?

thx!

[neyoung]

I don’t know if this is a bug or if it is working as intended, but I figured I’d document it.

Explanation of bbpress registration/login

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When a user registers in bbpress the user_login field in the database is case sensitive. If you register with the name Tom, Tom is put in the database. When a user logs in however, it is not case sensitive. So Tom can log in as tom, TOM, tOM, ToM… you get the point. Now this doesn’t seem like it would pose any problems. But…

Explanation of WPMU registration/login

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WordPress MU and I’d guess WordPress do things differently. You may run into problems with an integrated site because of this ‘bug’. When a user registers through WPMU the user_login field in the database is converted to all lowercase. If you register with the name Joe, joe is put in the database. This is different from how bbpress does things. So if Bob registers through bbpress with a capital in his login the user_login is set to Bob, but in WPMU if Bob registers with a capital in his login the user_login is set to bob. Just like bbpress, WPMU’s login is not case sensitive. So Joe can login as joe, JOE, jOE, JoE.

The problem occurs if a user registers with a capital letter in bbpress and then tries to login through WPMU. WPMU converts the input in the login field to lower case BEFORE it queries the database. So WPMU checks for user_login with all lowercase letters, but there may be capitals, so the login can fail.

Here’s a step by step explanation

1) Fred registers in bbpress with the name Fred

2) user_login is set as Fred

3) Fred attempts to login to through WPMU using Fred (capitals)

4) WPMU converts Fred to fred BEFORE the database is queried.

5) According to WPMU fred (lowercase) does not exist.

6) Login fails

To fix this I set bbpress to match WPMU’s functionality. To do so I edited the bb_new_user function in the pluggable.php file. I simply added the following line before the database query.

$user_login = strtolower($user_login);

Now when a user registers through bbpress his user_login is set to all lowercase letters.

What I’d like to do is make a plugin that replaces the bb_new_user function with a new one that makes this change so I don’t have to edit a core file, but I’m not that savvy yet.

While this really isn’t a bbpress bug it would be nice if bbpress and WPMU did things the the same so that integration was easier.

[fel64]

_ck_, are you saying that you will also contribute to the bb codebase or are you just talking about something unrelated?

> The rush job on the WP 2.3 release is suspect.

Maybe something for the WP forums.

I think there might be reduced bb activity for a while as mdawaffe will be working on backPress if I understood that right. The work will also be useful to bb, but bb is not the sole aim of the project.

[Edit] Thanks for taking care of that duplicate for me, Trent.

[kehlers]

I have a site in which I’m using bbPress for user login/registration, but I also have Gallery2 installed for photo gallery. Gallery is configured in “embedded” mode, so that bbPress login is used – i.e. a unified login.

When I try to type quotes in a text field in the embedded Gallery, I get escaped quotes (i.e. ” turns into /”). This doesn’t happen in bbPress, but it also doesn’t happen in the NON-embedded Gallery. So, it has to be something to do with the interaction of the two applications.

The thing is, I am out of ideas. bbPress turns off magic quotes w/in the code, and so does Gallery2, plus it’s off in my php.ini. Is there some code within bb-load.php or other included files which parse all text fields? Any thoughts?

[Nola1974]

That’s pretty amazing. I absolutely love the concept too. GREAT site.

[talgalili]

Hi _ck_, thanks for giving your frames of time.

BTW: to what problems/limitation of WP, are you referring to ? (I am curious to know)

[_ck_]

I’ll be getting back to bbPress, devoting much more time to my bbPress showcase/plugins/themes in October and hopefully that will help in it’s own little way to promote bbPress adoption (and therefore my original scheme of attracting more coders to it).

The rush job on the WP 2.3 release is suspect. I personally felt it was way too soon and could have benefited from much more. I recently installed 2.3 for a new site and kept asking myself why are there the same problems/limitation I encountered with my first 2.0 setup? I notice 2.3 just happens to coincide with the release of the new “WordPress for Dummies” book and I believe the author is a close friend of Matt’s? Hmm. But oh well, enough ranting about WP and back to nagging about bbPress

[Sam Bauers]

> Support Forums 1.2

That’s a really old version of Support Forums, not sure if it has anything to do with your problem, but it is really old.

[mikecicc]

yes i believe so, but its strange that everything works fine, when i remove the bbpress integration…i can run wordpress with all my plugins (inlcuding next gen gallery) flawlessy, my visual editor displays fine, and i get no browser errors, but when i integrate bbpress it sparks all types of errors with my plugins, im giving up this afternoon, ive spent the last 3 days doing nothing but trying to correct this…i do appreciate your help tho..thanks

[chrishajer]

Ah, so it’s a plugin issue also, with WordPress, for nextGen Gallery. Interesting…

This seems related as well:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/104960 (page 3)

Seems like it’s more of an issue with the WP plugin than with bbPress integration? Or maybe when both plugins are activated?

[xkid83]

bbpress forum support chinese word?

[mikecicc]

ok so according to my error console in firefox…

Error: realTinyMCE is not defined

Source File: http://www.figmentrolling.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_gzip.php?ver=20070326

Line: 43

thats the problem…any ideas on how to manually define realTineMce? or whats causing it not to be defined after integrating bbpress..?

[karaboga]

Thank you, I’ve understood the un-integrating issue.

For the counting problems; these are the plugins we’re using:

Allow Images 0.7.1

Avatar .73a

Memberlist .80

Censor 0.1

Comment Quicktags for bbPress 1.1

Front Page Topics 0.8

Post Notification 1.3

Online List 1.4

Support Forums 1.2

User Timezones 0.2

[spencerp]

Dang it’s been forever since I’ve been here. I’ll have to find that on a CD backup and then send you the files Trent. Sorry folks for being AWOL. Just had alot going on.

[apple2gamesguy]

Hi All:

I just launched http://forums.apple2games.com/ using BBPress. Apple 2 Games Forum is a site dedicated to retro gaming on the Apple 2 systems.

I’m super happy with bbPress… very clean code, super easy to “hack” and the price is right! Can’t say that about other bloated systems

[mikecicc]

if ( !defined(‘BBDB_NAME’) )

require_once(ABSPATH.’/../forums/bb-load.php’);

thats the line that i got in wp-config

the admin write page references the TineMce for the editor i believe, does your install feature this directory? (tinymce)

its something strange..i need to locate the exact script that displays the icons and see what variables live there…i havnt done this yet, do you think it is possibly a cookie issue?

i dont quite understand how integrating bbpress from a completely seperate directory can even impact the admin write page…and im surprised noone else has had this issue..

maybe it has something to do with my webhost maybe? i hear see people have alot of issues with godaddy’s php hosting..

thanks for the help

[chanzero]

Ok, I fixed my lack of admin access by going into wp_usermeta and deleting the “bb_capabilities” key for my wp user ID, then re-installing. All seems healthy now! Thanks everyone