I installed bbPress version 0.8.2.1 on Windows XP Pro SP2 with Apache 2.2.4 and PHP 5.2.3. I installed a few plugins, and everything worked fine. However, when I tried to register a new user for testing, I couldn’t receive the e-mail with the password.
I checked the error log and found this:
[Sat Aug 18 21:18:09 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: mail() [<a href='function.mail'>function.mail</a>]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in 
\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\forums\bb-includes\registration-functions.php on line 105, referer: http://127.0.0.1/forums/register.php
Most things on Apache and PHP are set to default, so I’m not sure if I skipped any processes. I’ve been having trouble with SMTP for a long time now.
That php _e(‘Freshness’) just echoes the table header. A couple lines beneath that you will find the call to the function that provides the time elapsed (i.e. the Freshness):
<?php topic_time(); ?>
Instead of that topic_time, you could just insert the code like _ck_ has shown, modified a little bit, so instead of this in your template files:
<?php topic_time(); ?>
use this:
<?php echo date("date format here", strtotime($topic->topic_time)); ?>
where date format here is some combination of characters from here: http://www.php.net/date
For example:
<?php echo date("D M j Y G:i:s", strtotime($topic->topic_time)); ?>
prints like Sun Aug 19 2007 1:53:54 right now, but it would be based on the topic time of the post in your case.
You would need to look at these files, at least, in your template directory:
./favorites.php
./forum.php
./front-page.php
./tag-single.php
./view.php
It’s safe to modify your own template files. You’re not modifying the core bbPress files. But maybe this would be better as a plugin, I’m not sure.
Good luck.
Yeah, all other forums do a “diff” patch approach to creating mods, which is the main thing that drove me to use bbPress in the first place… the plugin architecture is so much simpler.
I really like the idea of making “pluggable” actions the way bbPress does, but I’m not entirely fond of the filters. In most cases I don’t use the filters in my theme, but change the theme to directly output the data.
I already sent a copy to you of the file and I have corrected it of the unloading page.
I’ve discovered another interesting approach that SMF takes – their “plugins” are actually true mods where it’s a sort of “diff” file that patches the sources. Keeps it running very fast no matter how make addons you use. To a certain degree it keeps working between minor version changes (ie. 1.1.1-1.1.3) but major changes will break many of them. Still, it’s an interesting approach and very different to bbPress.
They also do virtually everything in memory as arrays (roles, etc) where bbPress runs through a big bunch of code to return a value ie. bb_current_user_can(“administrate”).
I know wordpress.org’s forum has distributed backup servers but it operates as a single server correct? I’m wondering just how far bbpress can scale on a single server. Once you offload mysql & email functions, that’s about as far as you can go easily on a single server.
Actually I have both of those sites already in the list 
I was going to try to get the list out this weekend but sadly I will not have as much time as I hoped to work on it. But it’s coming along.
I’ll say this much about bbPress sites compared to most other forum software – very few of them look alike.
The theme is Blix, and I’ve modified the hell out of it. The headers from the WordPress theme are loaded into bbpress. It’d take some work I’m not willing to put in to make this a bbpress theme
Hi chris,
after your answer i changed the quote a few times and to avoid any problems with french character i changed it this way
$bb->name = ‘Le forum des subventions aux entreprises’;
But I still get a blank page…..
Does anybody have a clue?
airdrawnd where can we download that theme? I want to make it bbMenu compatible
There already is a trac for this made. Since mdwaffe made a ajax posting plugin for bbPress and he also builds this forum, I think there is a big change we’ll get it back.
With any luck, perhaps in the next release
Hi i found that the bbpress had ajax utility for posting rea but it removed i don;t know the reasons!
but i think everyone will be agree with me it would be nice if there is ajax plugin for bbpress post area
fastY easy and user friendly feature i hav no technichal knowledge so who like to start it…
i will test it and get feed back
_ck_ ?
I finally found one weakness in SMF (took awhile!)
No tags/category support and no hacks/mods in sight to add the ability.. Of course few other forums have such an ability. I’ve been setting up a new SMF forum for a client just to learn it and they gave me a list of sub-forums they wanted – I was like this would have been perfect for bbpress, instead of sub-forums which are unnecessary in their case and will confusing visitors.
(ie. “photos” sub-forum which really, could be photos in any other forum, just tagged to show a topic has a photo)
That doesn’t seem too difficult to believe, I ran bbpress through phped profiler and it looks like the templating makes it slightly slower than if you directly outputted the code like most other forums do.
Which does make sense… what I’ve been considering is making a theme that doesn’t use all the filters but directly outputs the data.
That theme author should seriously consider moderating his forum… there’s nothing but spam on it.
I am going to guess that the single quote in this string is causing you trouble:
$bb->name = 'Le forum des subventions à la création et au développement d'entreprise';
I bet it would work like this, although I don’t know how it will display (escape the single quote/apostrophe):
$bb->name = 'Le forum des subventions à la création et au développement d'entreprise';
I would also bet this would work (double quote the string, no escape):
$bb->name = "Le forum des subventions à la création et au développement d'entreprise";
Good luck
I built a SMF forum on a litespeed server yesterday and I sometimes get 0.023 page render times – it’s some crazy stuff. I didn’t even think numbers that low were possible.
SMF seems heavy in some areas but it’s completely geared for quick output. I think it’s only weakness is that it will always look a certain blocky style – but it gets the job done for any big forum requirements. Lots of mods and themes available too. And you can set it up in under 30 minutes, under 10 minutes if you’ve done it before. I’d like to see bbpress grow up to be something like that.
At some point I want to port this style to bbpress:
http://www.harzem.com/themes/preview/index.php?theme=6
Pretty sure it can be done (that’s the theme author’s site)
more details:
same server
same domain name just a folder named forum
same sql database
integration plugin under wordpress installed
but only a blank page launching the installation!
does anybody have a clue where it could come from?
Cheers
I’d be happy for _ck_ to put some energy into bbpulp
I’ve been meaning to get back in there and do some stuff myself but haven’t had the time.
I have made a couple of nice additions to the support forum plugin over the last 48 hours.
* Ability to add views for each support status.
* Option to allow topic creators to set the support status
* Option to allow topic creators to change the support status
I also changed which capability is being applied to who can and can’t change the support status.
To allow the topic poster to change the status on a topic, you now need to enable that in the admin area.
Should be available from the “extend” area now:
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/16
http://www.bbpulp.org
We don’t get much feedback from the builders and our community isn’t big enough yet to get the attention for stuff like WP has. So some dude made this wiki.
But I agree, we need way more documentation (starting on new added things in bbPress and how they work) and also a place to download language files…
But we have spoken about these things many times, hence we’ve made bbpulp.org…
Any chance of getting a wiki integrated here?
It would go rather far in getting user-generated documentation going, especially pages like “WordPress Integration” which needs a bunch of updates to make it easier for new users trying out bbPress.
No “fastload” is not very useful for servers with a proper opcode cache and responsive disk system (and files are fetched and rendered on the same node). On my VPS it actually adds a few ms on average.
The load on dreamhost has been over 20 for most of today so it’s not surprising anyone will find the bbpress+smf test sites slow.
I’m probably going to switch the showcase back to nearlyfreespeech shortly which is still on the slower side and uses only http 1.0 as it’s forces though a squid proxy.
Unless someone can find a $20 or less per year host that has a better setup as my budget is maxed out. Can’t even afford to replace my mouse that’s acting up right now.
I usually set the status to “Blocked” in bbPress whenever one of the group blog authors leaves or retires, so as to block the author of my WordPress blog from accessing the bbPress too.
But today I retired an author and changed the status to Blocked in bbPress but find that the author can still log in…
I simply want the author blocked and not deleted, as the authors’ posts will still be active on the WordPress blog.
I may be mistaken but I thought Blocked had worked for me in the past. Could a new version of “Role Manager” plugin in my wordpress be messing this up…
or is there anyway to make “Blocked” work again? would appreciate any help on this.
Simple forum for discussing some of my mac software.
http://lorenb.com/bb/
Just put it up, so not exactly a whole lot of content yet . bbPress rocks.
