[_ck_]

If we could take polls I would know if there is interest but simply out of the curiosity to learn more about the bbpress core I might give this a shot this weekend.

update: will have a prototype posted within a couple hours or so of this post

[_ck_]

See that’s the thing, you won’t be able to pre-guess everywhere it will show up. Any future plugins will not know to obey your time logic.

However most code should know to check for topic_status==0

If you set it higher and then set it back when the time is right, then you should be able to get around all functions. Just don’t use 1 or 2 as a marker.

Then every few minutes do a mysql check for any topics that have that unique number set in topic_status and if their time has past, set topic_status to zero.

That reminds me, bbpress will need a pseudo-cron that can be hooked with a real cron job if so desired.

[_ck_]

Finally a thread to use this page I was saving:

http://photomatt.net/2004/12/29/bbpress/

Matt doesn’t want bbpress to have features.

He actually recommends punbb if you want more features like file attachments.

[bbpress] is never going to have a tenth of the features of phpBB or vBulletin … bbPress is not going to have avatars, or put post counts next to your name

What he wants is pingbacks so a million spammers, er, I mean a million micro-forums, can add posts to your site without ever visiting it or following topics. He wants to de-centralize any sense of community.

(if you don’t get my humour, I disagree with his logic but don’t get me wrong I still respect him – bbpress is growing on me far more than punbb – also note that punbb is at least a year older than bbpress and has far more developers – bbpress has not even approached any kind of critical mass yet – punbb does not have built in private-messaging, polls and file attachments either)

ps. compare

[_ck_]

I don’t think your technique will work universally.

I bet your early posts still show up in search before they are “published”. Maybe even the rss feeds too.

By tinkering with the topic_status field it will make sure virtually all routines in bbpress will hide the post from visitors until set down to zero.

[_ck_]

>For a lark I pointed the plugin to the WordPress Plugin SVN. It got about 1/4 of the way through retrieving the list of plugins and died (script timeout).

With many people accessing it, yeah it will necessary to pre-compile a default list of a full revision weekly.

Or to be sneaky for now you can set a flag in options after each curl fetch and restart bbpress if you calculate approaching 30 seconds.

Both ways sound like headaches.

I wonder if the trac cache is faster/more efficent?

ie.

https://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/trunk/plugin-browser.php

vs.

https://plugins-dev.bbpress.org/browser/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/trunk/plugin-browser.php?format=raw

I wonder if trac can be tricked to pre-gzip it all to download beforehand as a bundled revision? It’s got to compress wonderfully as it’s entirely plain text and repeating php functions.

ps. be sure to take advantage of gzip support in curl / fsockopen – I have some code I wrote somewhere to do this if you need ideas

[garrik]

I started out just working on changing a color, but got carried away. I am still working on tweaks and css changes for the various forms, but I thought I would share it and see what you all thought. If anyone is interested in it I would be happy to post it for download.

The theme is based on kakumei, which is really easy to play around with (good stuff Bryan Veloso) and has css rounded corners on the header and footer. What else. Oh its blue and orange, but thats easy to change if you like other colors.

Links – http://www.realdisney.com/bbpress/

[_ck_]

In theory it should be possible to use the topic_status field to set a future topics flag ie. “4” and check the database everytime bbpress runs for that flag, then change it to 0 when the time has passed.

I don’t see this as a big need for forums (wordpress is another matter) but it’s a simple enough plugin so maybe I’ll try later this weekend.

[amazon3d]

http://www.php1.shawnmangeot.com/bbpressfcc/

That is the link.

[fel64]

This is the request forum but I think that feature suggestions on http://trac.bbpress.org are more likely to be seen, so I recommend making your pitch there.

[fel64]

I don’t know off the top of my head. What I’d do in this case, as for pretty much every question that’s asked, is open my copy of bbPress and look around in the files. So that sort of thing sounds like a template tag, so I’d look at bb-includes/template-functions.php, then search for “profile_link” or a couple other similar terms if I couldn’t find it.

This time I tested it and searching for “profile_link” will pretty quickly get you the function you want. But finding out what you need is something you can pretty easily do yourself most of the time.

(Not that there’s a problem with you asking anything, this is just teach-a-man-to-fish thinkin’.)

[amazon3d]

After a bunch of tweeking and what not (put wrong info in a few times)

I got the BBPress installed. But when I go to go see a forum or post it gives me an error.

I use 1&1 Internet to host my site (dont really recommend them)

I have minor PHP knowledge (but I am learning more every minute.)

It appears that it did not create the folders it needs to draw from. Forum, users, etc. So I’m not sure weather I have to manually create them or weather I have a bad batch of files or what not, been working on it all day trying to get that and a web calender working, finally got the calender working.

Any input would be much appreciated.

-Amazon3d

http://www.Shawnmangeot.com

[_ck_]

There are many other things you will need to do to get it working properly with wordpress.

1. cookies paths need to be fixed in both programs

2. the integration plugin should be installed

3. the allow spaces in usernames plugin should be installed

4. force all registrations/logins through wordpress from the several places they are buried on the forum (the WP interfaces are far more developed)

5. add the ” set default role when registering new user though forum” plugin tweak

There are probably a few others I’ve forgotten by now.

[izzypop]

Got it working, Stupid GoDaddy latency.

Cheers

[Sam Bauers]

> it works, yay!

Great!

> idea: “power user toggle” that will turn the revision number into a hotlink to the svn directory

Good idea, I’ll ad it to my “to do” list.

> maybe show the filesize since curl/fopen has to pull the entire file down anyway so it knows the size

It only completely pulls down the .php files from the trunk of each plugin to interrogate then and create the list, so I could only accurately report on the size of those. Otherwise I would have to traverse through all the subdirectories and add up the totals. Which would be a bit onerous.

> a tally at the bottom of how many plugins shown would be interesting to see too

A bit superfluous, but I’ll add it.

> will it paginate if one day there are over a hundred plugins?

That wouldn’t be too hard. But there aren’t that many plugins right now.

For a lark I pointed the plugin to the WordPress Plugin SVN. It got about 1/4 of the way through retrieving the list of plugins and died (script timeout). Ultimately if this plugin is going to remain in use I’ll have to either compile the plugin list on a server somewhere and serve it as a single file to all plugins, or build a “specs” file format for plugins to use if they want to be in the browser. But that is what the WordPress plugin I mentioned earlier is attempting to do, so I’m more likely to assist in porting that plugin over to bbPress than extending this one to do it.

[_ck_]

Keep in mind that bbpress already tracks all topics started and all recent replies by each user in their profile.

Subscribing to individual threads is something probably better suited to the notification plugin. Serialized meta data would have to be added to each topic with each user subscribed and then removed when unsubscribed. I guess I can look into it eventually if no-one else creates such a feature.

[mazdakam]

i translate some plugins and have mo files but i don’t know how to define them to work?!

i translate 22 bbpress plugins

should i insert them in to the include/language folder?

with which name or i must create one file and merge whole of them to he one file

[jackhsieh]

Here below is the workable method for the purpose of trying bbpress. To hide the mail() function code and then add a echo() to show the password on-screen. Like below…

(registration-functions.php)

echo (‘Your Password:’ . “$pass”);

/*

mail( bb_get_user_email( $user->ID ), bb_get_option(‘name’) . ‘: ‘ . __(‘Password’),

sprintf( $message, “$user->user_login”, “$pass”, bb_get_option(‘uri’) ),

‘From: ‘ . bb_get_option(‘admin_email’)

*/

[_ck_]

Okee, will try and report back in a minute.

Thanks as always!

*** cries tears of joy ****

it works, yay!

(note I had to manually delete the two options already inserted into bbpress to get it to load the entire plugin list)

Wow, very nice work…

idea: “power user toggle” that will turn the revision number into a hotlink to the svn directory so I can directly preview the source and maybe show the filesize since curl/fopen has to pull the entire file down anyway so it knows the size

a tally at the bottom of how many plugins shown would be interesting to see too… will it paginate if one day there are over a hundred plugins?

[Sam Bauers]

> so i have my bbpress full translating where can i upload it?

You should post it on your own site and add a comment with the location in the blog here.

I’ve also added a link to your translation file at http://www.bbpulp.org

[Sam Bauers]

Gah! In 0.1.9 I changed all the version numbers but didn’t actually change the code!

0.1.10 is now committed, and *it* will fix your problem.

[Sam Bauers]

@_ck_

Do you have version 0.1.9?

That error was in 0.1.8 and fixed in 0.1.9

[mazdakam]

I noticed the “support forum” plugin was outputting english strings in your forum. I have just updated the plugin to use gettext on all the strings that weren’t using it. So if you want full translation it is now available (you will need to modify your language files to add the strings).

yes you are right. i was busy for configuring the plugins now i am free for translating plugins languages

so i have my bbpress full translating where can i upload it?

i eamil it to the mailing list but i got no reply

[mazdakam]

Will it have bbPress support as well

not yet for bbpress we use bbpress for support wp persian.

but i am thinking to lunch support forum for bbpress i need to consult with my friends in wp persian team

[mazdakam]

Please stop pasting huge chunks of code on the forums. Use something like http://pastebin.ca/.

ok i will do

listen i want to tell you somthing important i downloaded bbEmoticons-0.72 and unpacked it and then send it to my plugin then i go to my admin and try to active it but it show fattal error my bbpress is .8.2.1

so i tried to download 6th and every time it didnt active!

now i come and copy the code form here and open new file in php and save it then try to upload it and active it

it get active and work! what is wrong?

do you test bbEmoticons-0.72 from the original download address i think there is somthing wrong in the original file

please try it once for me

[izzypop]

I have a WP install with BBPress installed on the same database in a subdirectory of WP. Install went well, looked in the database and my new forum topic was written in the database but all links on the BBPress forum lead to “No input file specified”. I’m suspecting that it has something to do with the config file. Let me know if you see something wrong 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://theasianman.com/wordpress/bbpress’;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘The Asian Man Forum’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

// 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 = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://theasianman.com/wordpress’; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com’

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://theasianman.com/wordpress’; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com’

I’ve turned permalinks off because it seems people are having trouble with them in conjunction with GoDaddy (my clients host : ( ).

I’ve created a .htaccess file with:

Options +MultiViews

Not sure what’s up. The default forum content is not even showing up.

Cheer all and thanks in advance