[Trent Adams]

If you look at it, the bozo.php file hasn’t had any real “renovations” for quite some time. It is something that has to be addressed and I completely agree. Between the integration issues, akismet and bozo concerns, people might be a little put off.

What I don’t understand is how some people are getting real problems and others are not. I haven’t had any real problems, but I don’t run a large site. Has any of the big ones had any real problems?

Trent

[fel64]

Are you actually getting any spam? It would show up in the Akismet admin menu if you were. If not, you could disable it.

fix-bbpress does nothing if the version number is not 8.1.

[airdrawndagger]

You can also alternatively get rid of it all together just by taking this line out of bb-settings.php:



require( BBPATH . BBINC . 'bozo.php');

&&

require( BBPATH . BBINC . 'akismet.php');



YMMV.

Why would I need to take out the akismet.php as well?

[airdrawndagger]

They’re not marked as bozos.

Something else happened to a few posts now. The posts themselves don’t show up but the user shows up as “latest poster”. When I click on the latest poster link it goes to the last page of the topic but not the latest post as it’s not there.

I installed the fix-bbpress plugin but it still doesn’t work.

[ronjroy]

It would appear that since my last request to help recover database, I have had to uninstall everything, reinstall EasyPHP, reconfigure these files, create a new database and in the process I lost my original forum style sheet. Since that, I downloaded bbpress and now I can’t access any logins with the old user/password and the new passwords will not let me in on the localhost. I’m lost!!

Any suggestions…to starting out from this point?

[fel64]

Yup. bbpressroot/search.php. So for this forum, it’s https://bbpress.org/forums/search.php. Your search page may need a template change: https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/694#comment:1

[matt123]

Goto the link I mentioned copy and save as a php file.

anonymous.php.txt

Then read: Ticket-633.2.patch You have to follow the directions hacking up the core files.

If your not comfortable with bbpress probably should avoid this one cause you’ll be messing with the core files.

Anyone know of a sign-up validator for bbpress?

[rashantha]

is there any advanced search features in bbpress?

would like the ability to search by poster, subject etc.

[_ck_]

Don’t get too comfortable on your position in the list

As I get more time to code it and add more data, the positions keep slipping. Now almost 1500 sites with ~1100 or so listed.

[llabrealityblog]

I have no idea.

[imnakoya]

Warning: constant() [function.constant]: Couldn’t find constant BBDB_HOST in /home/africao2/public_html/forum/bbpress/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 54

Could someone help interpret this please?

I have installed bb on my wordpress site but it shows the above warning and no theme in visible. Thanks.

[chrishajer]

Hard to tell from that cut n paste since the formatting is all messed up. I don’t think it’s a syntax error anyway, it’s just a database connection issue. One of the connection details is not accurate.

Is the BBDB_USER quoted in the config.php file (it is not in the edited version here)?

[ronjroy]

Thanks Trent,

I’ve tried to use the old information and I have re-installed and deleted and reinstalled bbpress and still getting the same error. I’m stumped since I have very little knowledge about data base.

[Trent Adams]

Assuming the database before your “upgrade” still exists, putting in the correct information for that database connection in your config.php will get the old bbPress installation back. If you “deleted” the database, you will have to put the new database information back into your config.php and run the installation script again.

Hope that helps.

Trent

[ronjroy]

Thanks,

So do I then complete a new config.php and the data base will then be created, if so, how does this affect access to bbpress forum?

[ronjroy]

Hi,

I had to uninstall and re-install EasyPHP and now I am unable to connect to my forum through localhost as I get ‘cannot open DB. I have no understanding of configuring MYSQL and I am thinking that this might be the problem. Will I need to uninstall bbpress and re-install it and if so, will I use the same config.php? I tried this and it is not working. What to do?

[Heliotropen]

Well i just tried it out, and the plugin dont work with the newest mediawiki; i got: “Wiki has a problem

Sorry! This site is experiencing technical difficulties.

Try waiting a few minutes and reloading.

(Can’t contact the database server: Unknown error)”

[Heliotropen]

That is my logik too, but have you tried it? ; on the web-site they write:

“This extension is tested with Mediawiki 1.6.9 (the latest release for PHP4) and wordpress 2.1. It will not work (yet) for Mediawiki > 1.6.9 (because of PHP5) but the next version will be PHP5 ready.”

[Heliotropen]

I ended up making my own themes from scratch..

[fel64]

I don’t understand. PHP5 runs PHP4 code just fine; if it runs on 4, it will run on 5. (Other way around may be a problem, but that doesn’t seem to be it?) The plugin might not use features of 5, but it will run under 5.

[Heliotropen]

What a cool guide, – huge shoulder claps from me to you!

There is one HUGE problem though;

1.this plugin is no longer avaible?

https://codex.wordpress.org/User:RobLa/bbPress_Auth_for_MediaWiki

2. this IS, BUT, it is wrtiten that it dosn’t suport php5 (therefor any useable media wiki installations right now.)

http://hery.blaogy.org/2007/02/21/mediawiki-wordpress-integration/

Is there any plugin or way out there, to make the step nr. 4 in the guide possible. – The mix is not soo cool, with wordpress & bbpress intigration only.

In advance thnx.

/Helio

[llabrealityblog]

Here it is.

// ** MySQL settings **

//define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘xxxx’);

// The name of the databasedefine(‘BBDB_USER’, xxxx);

// Your MySQL usernamedefine(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxx’);

// …and passworddefine(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

// 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

// 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://llabrealityblog.x10hosting.com/wordpress/bbpress’;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘LLAB`s Reality Board’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘worldostuff@gmail.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.$bb->mod_rewrite = slugs;

// 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’, ‘English’);

// 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’ );

[chrishajer]

OK – everything appears to be in the correct location now. I think there is just a simple problem with the config.php database details now. Can you verify that these 4 are absolutely accurate in your config.php?

define('BBDB_NAME', 'xxxxxxxx');

define('BBDB_USER', 'xxxxxxxxx');

define('BBDB_PASSWORD', 'xxxxxxxx');

define('BBDB_HOST', 'xxxxxxxx');

The host might not be localhost. Mine is not. And you don’t have a syntax error in the file (like a missing or extra quote) but something like one of those values is inaccurate. Posting it here in edited form won’t help, you have to verify that the database name, user, password and host are all accurate. You’re the only one who can do that. Once you have that, we need to get back to the original problem.

[llabrealityblog]

Okay, I moved the config.php file, and the same error keeps coming up.

I’ve also deleted the forums folder and moved the bbPress folder to /wordpress.

[llabrealityblog]

No, it was in the control panel.