[chrishajer]

http://blueplato.com/forums/bbpress is not accessible (gives a 404). I was going to look at the theme you are using because that is not the default for the bb_tag_heat_map: <?php bb_tag_heat_map(9 38 ‘pt’ 80); ?>

This is the default from https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/bb-templates/kakumei/front-page.php#L7

<?php bb_tag_heat_map(); ?>

So, what do the numbers mean? Looking at that function in bb-includes/teamplate-functions.php around line 1574, here’s what the defaults are, and mean:

$defaults = array( 'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'limit' => 45, 'format' => 'flat' );

Looks like you define the smallest size, largest size, the unit of measure, the max size and then a format (not sure what that last one does.)

So, my guess is you would change those. At the very least you need to put comments between the arguments in the function call in your front-page.php: your example shows none. And you might want to add that last argument – not sure what happens when it’s missing.

[inimicus]

Hi!

I am trying out BB for the first time, but upon running install.php I get this:

hide_errors(); $installed = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->forums LIMIT 1"); if ( $installed ) : if ( !$new_keymaster = bb_get_option( 'new_keymaster' ) ) die(sprintf(__('

Already Installed



You appear to have already installed bbPress. Perhaps you meant to upgrade instead?



To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.

') . '', bb_get_option( 'uri' ) . 'bb-admin/upgrade.php')); $meta_key = $bb_table_prefix . 'capabilities'; $keymaster = false; if ( $keymasters = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->usermeta WHERE meta_key = '$meta_key' AND meta_value LIKE '%keymaster%'") ) { foreach ( $keymasters as $potential ) { $pot_array = unserialize($potential->meta_value); if ( is_array($pot_array) && array_key_exists('keymaster', $pot_array) && true === $pot_array['keymaster'] ) die(__('

Already Installed



You appear to have already installed bbPress. Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade scripts instead? To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.

') . ''); } } $user = new BB_User( $new_keymaster ); if ( $user->data ) : $user->set_role( 'keymaster' ); ?>



data->user_login); ?>



show_errors(); switch ($step): case 0: ?>



hide_errors(); if ( $users = $bbdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $bbdb->users LIMIT 1") ) { $meta_key = $bb_table_prefix . 'capabilities'; if ( $keymasters = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->usermeta WHERE meta_key = '$meta_key' AND meta_value LIKE '%keymaster%'") ) { foreach ( $keymasters as $potential ) { $pot_array = unserialize($potential->meta_value); if ( array_key_exists('keymaster', $pot_array) && true === $pot_array['keymaster'] ) { $keymaster = (int) $potential->user_id; break; } } if ( $keymaster ) $keymaster = $bbdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->users WHERE ID = '$keymaster'"); } } $bbdb->show_errors(); } ?>



everything (database information, email address, etc.) entered correctly in config.php before running this script.'); ?>

add('domain', __('Your $bb->domain setting must not end in a backslash "/".') ); $domain = parse_url($bbd); if ( !$domain ) $errors->add('domain', __('Your $bb->domain setting cannot be parsed.') ); // Not very helpful, but should essentially never happen. if ( !$domain['scheme'] ) $errors->add('domain', __('Your $bb->domain setting must start with http://.') ); if ( $domain['path'] && '/' != $domain['path'] ) $errors->add('domain', __('Your $bb->domain setting must only include the http:// and the domain name; it may not include any directories or path information.') ); if ( '/' != $bbp{0} ) $errors->add('path', __('Your $bb->path setting must start with a backslash "/".') ); if ( '/' != substr($bbp, -1) ) $errors->add('path', __('Your $bb->path setting must end with a backslash "/".') ); // We don't really do anything with $bb->wp_site_url. if ( $wph = bb_get_option( 'wp_home' ) ) { if ( '/' == $wph{strlen($wph) - 1} ) $errors->add('wp_home', __('Your $bb->wp_home setting must not end in a backslash "/".') ); $home = parse_url($wph); if ( !$home ) $errors->add('wp_home', __('Your $bb->wp_home setting cannot be parsed.') ); if ( !$home['scheme'] ) $errors->add('wp_home', __('Your $bb->wp_home setting must start with http://.') ); if ( preg_match('|(.*.)?([^.]+.[^.]+)|', $domain['host'], $d2 ) && preg_match('|(.*.)?([^.]+.[^.]+)|', $home['host'], $h2 )) if ( $d2[2] != $h2[2] ) $errors->add('cookie', __('Your $bb->domain and $bb->wp_home settings do not have the same domain.

You cannot share login cookies between the two.

Remove the $bb->wp_home setting from your config.php file.') ); if ( !strstr($bbp, $home['path'] . '/') ) $notices->add('cookie', __("Your bbPress URL ({$bbd}$bbp) is not a subdirectory of your WordPress URL ($bb->wp_home).

Sharing login cookies is possible but is more complicated. See the documentation about integrating bbPress and WordPress.

In the meantime, remove the $bb->wp_home setting from your config.php file, or you may not be able to log in.") ); } if ( $cd = bb_get_option( 'cookiedomain' ) ) { if ( '.' == $cd{0} ) $cd = substr($cd, 1); if ( !strstr($bbd, $cd) ) $errors->add('cookie', __('Your $bb->cookiedomain is not in the same domain as your $bb->domain. You will not be able to log in.') ); } $cp = bb_get_option( 'cookiepath' ); if ( $cp != preg_replace('|https?/[^/]+|i', '', bb_get_option( 'wp_home' ) . '/') && !strstr($bbp, $cp) ) $notices->add('cookie', __('Your bbPress URL $bb->path is outside of your $bb->cookiepath. You may not be able to log in.') ); if ( $ecodes = $errors->get_error_codes() ) { echo "



* n"; if ( in_array('domain', $ecodes) ) foreach ( $errors->get_error_messages( 'domain' ) as $message ) echo "t$message

* n"; if ( in_array('path', $ecodes) ) foreach ( $errors->get_error_messages( 'path' ) as $message ) echo "t$message

* n"; if ( in_array('wp_home', $ecodes) ) foreach ( $errors->get_error_messages( 'wp_home' ) as $message ) echo "t$message

* n"; if ( array('cookie') == $ecodes ) { // Only show cookie errors if nothing else is wrong foreach ( $errors->get_error_messages( 'cookie' ) as $message ) echo "t$message

n"; echo "



n"; break; } echo "n"; echo "

It continues from there…

The problem is, I have never installed BBPress. I went to MySQL after I got the error the first time, made a database for BB called “bbpress” but still get the error (even though the database is new, fresh and entirely empty). What’s up?

[Daniel Juhl]

Why does bbPress go to a standard bbPress error-page, if the users doesn’t write anything in his post?

Wouldn’t it be smarter to show a page from the template, so that you can modify it as you want to?

[andersson]

when re-arranging one of my sites a bit the other day I took the opportunity to change my bbpress-theme to mimic the new phpBB3.0-style.

any feedback is welcome. you find my bbpress installation here:

http://www.purposegames.com/forums

[lookfab]

Well, problem solved. The WordPress FAQ suggests resetting your MySQL password manually if you have problems connecting to the db. I did so using the MySQL client and now both WP and bbpress seem to be working fine.

Thanks for the input.

[jolaedana]

I’ve been working with chrishajer from the forums here on this one, and thanks to his help the problem was discovered and solved.

Somehow, the “parent” value of each forum was set to 1 instead of 0, but because there was no parent with an id of 1, they weren’t showing up. We went in via PHPmyAdmin, and changed that parent value in the tables from 1 to 0, and they showed up just fine. I never had these under a parent forum.

Guessing this may have been caused somehow during the database changes during the update? Unsure, but many thanks to Chris for his great help.

[lookfab]

Yes, the wordpress user exists. The passwords are the same.

The really strange thing now is that WP has stopped working (it did before I started tinkering with bbpress). I get “Error establishing a database connection” when I try to view the blog.

Even weirder, it seems that IIS “forgot” that index.php was a valid default page. I had to go back in and change this setting.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

How are you calling bbPress from WordPress?

There seems to be something wrong with your webserver. Requests to a real pdf file should not be executing any PHP at all.

[jolaedana]

I didn’t have any parent children forums- stayed away from that and kept it all top level.

I basically just modified the basic theme that comes with the forums- the only thing I changed was the CSS, so the index.php file should be the same, aside from the few things I added in to call the “who’s online” list and the like.

<?php

require(‘./bb-load.php’);

$bb_db_override = false;

do_action( ‘bb_index.php_pre_db’, ” );

if ( isset($_GET) && ‘1’ == $_GET ) :

$forums = false;

elseif ( !$bb_db_override ) :

$forums = get_forums(); // Comment to hide forums

$topics = get_latest_topics();

$super_stickies = get_sticky_topics();

endif;

do_action( ‘bb_index.php’, ” );

bb_load_template( ‘front-page.php’, array(‘bb_db_override’, ‘super_stickies’) );

?>

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

On second thought, I’m not sure how much that will help. Prior to upgrading, did you have hierarchical forums (parents and children)?

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Strange indeed. Can you open up your theme’s index.php and paste the code that displays the forum table? (If you need help finding that code, just let me know).

[jolaedana]

I’m getting the vibe this is a mystery. I haven’t been able to find anything similar so far, and looking through the source hasn’t helped out at all either.

[Jaithn]

And this line to use the user table from wpmu.



define('CUSTOM_USER_TABLE', 'wp_users');



And IIRC, that's already in the config file, just commented out.

i don’t have these lines in my bbpress config file…do i need them?

jaithn

[chrishajer]

Is there anything logged by MySQL? Does the wordpress user actually exist, and is the password in both wp-config.php and (bbpress) config.php the same?

Sorta stumped …

[_ck_]

New (permanent) home for the showcase:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

In other news I’ll be returning to work on the showcase later this week/month and finally updating the list as well as releasing some more plugins/themes.

[_ck_]

New (permanent) home for the list and the showcase:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100

In other news I’ll be returning to work on the showcase later this week/month and finally updating the list as well as releasing some more plugins/themes.

[_ck_]

See #3 in my post here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-intregation-between-wordpress-038-bbpress-not-work?replies=7#post-10428

[lookfab]

Thanks Chris.

> can you try connecting to that database

Yes, I did this with the MySQL cmd line client and I can connect fine. The bbpress settings are really simple:

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘wordpress’);

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘XXXXXXXX’);

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”);

And for WP:

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘wordpress’);

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘XXXXXXXX’);

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

Here is the info from the MySQL database after connecting as the ‘wordpress’ user:

mysql> show databases;

+

---

+

| Database |

+

---

+

| information_schema |

| wordpress |

+

---

+

3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Is there any way to get more detailed diagnostic info from the install process?

[chrishajer]

If it cannot connect to the database, but the database server is working with WordPress, then I suspect something is wrong in the config.php for bbPress. Since we can’t help you with that on your local machine, can you try connecting to that database using the connection details you entered in config.php, with some other tool (phpMyAdmin or whatever comes with a MySQL install)?

[chrishajer]

If you would like to watch the whole forum, there are lots of RSS feeds set up by default in bbPress (tags, new posts, topics, etc), and you could just have those feeds emailed to you by something like Feedblitz http://www.feedblitz.com

You’re also looking for a way to post to the forum via email though, and I don’t know of a way to do that. I know you can post to a blog via email, but I have not seen anything like that for bbPress (or any other forum actually.)

[lookfab]

I have a WP 2.3 blog and a bbpress 0.83 install 0n a LAMP server and everything seems fine.

I’m now creating a staging server on a Vista PC. I have WP 2.3 installed fine. When I install bbpress (i.e. browse to bb-admin/install.php) I get the dreaded “Cannot select DB” message.

I have tried both…

1. creating a new db for bbpress

2. using the existing WP db and username

I’m using mySQL 5.0.37 and PHP 4.

There are other topics that talk about this error, but they don’t seem to be relevant to my case. Please point me in the right direction if I have missed something in the forums.

[jolaedana]

Hello all,

Very odd issue!

I seem to be missing some forums:

http://forums.audreysargent.com/

There should be three additional forums, “The Cafe”, “The Design Divan” and “Written Role Play”.

They’re still there, is the odd thing. You just can’t see them in the forum listing on the index page, and they’re not showing up in my admin control panel either.

To prove it, here are links to each of the forums:

http://forums.audreysargent.com/forum/written-role-play

http://forums.audreysargent.com/forum/the-cafe

http://forums.audreysargent.com/forum/the-design-divan

In addition, this problem seems to happen with or without plugins- so it doesn’t seem to be a plugin issue. Though I could be wrong.

I’m not seeing any PHP errors, so I’m not sure how to diagnose the issue. It’s obvious all the content is still there, and even still accessible.

I upgraded the forum BEFORE I upgraded WordPress. Also, it is a fully integrated installation, they share the same database.

Any thoughts? Big thanks in advance to anyone willing to help me troubleshoot.

[chrishajer]

Stefan, take a look at this trac ticket:

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

mdawaffe is actively working on it.

[besonen]

has anyone expressed a desire to have bbpress integrate/interoperate with mailing lists?

[stefanjohansson]

Just noticed, while installing and integrating WP and BBP.

In WP users can register with a username including a space, such as

“Mr Pace”

In BBP this user would not be able to log in, since usernames with spaces does not work. “Mr Pace” is correctly noticed in the admin control panel but when trying to long theres an error message saying that “MrPace” (without the space between Mr and Pace) is not a registr user.