[Trent Adams]

What the integration in the bbPress config.php does is tell bbPress to use the WP users instead of installing its own users table in the database. No configuration has to go into WP unless later you want to have registrations of bbPress make users in WP (that is a WP plugin) but not needed for an integration installation.

Good luck and let us know how you are making out!

Trent

[talbina]

hello,

I would like to know if BBpress posts get indexed n google?

Thanks,

Talbina

[talbina]

Hello,

I am not a developer and i dont know anything. Just wondering which software to use.

Im wondering if the forum topics can be made to look like over here http://www.jobs.ac.uk/ the “Search jobs by subject area” section?

Also, are there really any limitations with what can be done with wordpress/BBpress ?

Thanks,

Talbina

[bernabauer]

Hi there people!

I just finished translating to Brazilian Portuguese. The file is available for download at my blog:

bbPress em português

I noticed that the default theme has some problems, so I corrected the problems on the theme and packed it for download. It’s the same URL for this download.

O arquivo para download do arquivo de linguagem para português do Brasil está disponível. Basta acessar a URL acima. Recomendo baixar o tema padrão que disponibilizei por que ele tem correções para alguns problemas de frase não contempladas no .po original.

cheers!

[Inquirer]

At the top of the config.php files of bbPress and WordPress these values will be the same.

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ”); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ”); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

Trent wrote:

[For bbPress and WP to be integrated you have to configure your config.php before install to have your WP specific data in it (there is a portion near bottom) and then install bbPress in the same MySQL database regardless of where the physical files actually reside (your case /blog/ and /forum/).}

// 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://mywebsite.com/blog/&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://mywebsite.com/blog/&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

---

I already have WordPress installed in my public_html directory in a folder named blog.

Above, I put in examples of how to fill-in ‘examples’

Apparently it would be wp_home = http://mywebsite.com/blog/

and wp_siteurl = http://mywebsite.com/blog/

Apparently, only the WordPress has to have the bottom portion filled-in?

If this is correct then I would have to fill-in bottom portion of the WordPress config.php and FTP it before I reinstalled bbPress.

[regardless of where the physical files actually reside]

I was thinking of the physical storage of the files.

[Does that make sense?]

I think so.

[Trent Adams]

You must have a MySQL database that WP is installed in. For bbPress and WP to be integrated you have to configure your config.php before install to have your WP specific data in it (there is a portion near bottom) and then install bbPress in the same MySQL database regardless of where the physical files actually reside (your case /blog/ and /forum/). Does that make sense?

Trent

[Inquirer]

I have read through phpAdmin Quick Install at

http://wiki.cihar.com/pma/Quick_Install

It reads Extract files

Untar or unzip the distribution (be sure to unzip the subdirectories):

tar -xzvf phpMyAdmin-2.*.*.*.tar.gz

in your web server’s document root.

When I login to my server using WinSCP to connect my server via SSH, there is a button with / to connect to the root directory. When I click the button it displays / <root>

The documentation recommends phpMyAdmin should be installed in the root directory (document root).

I already have WordPress installed in my public_html directory in a folder named blog, which isn’t a database nor is it my root directory (document root).

WordPress is up and running.

[Then just install your bbPRess in the same database as WP.]

Where on my web server is the database you are referring?

Are you referring to the database files portion of the bbPress and WordPress installation?

[You can have the forum installed wherever, I was talking about having bbPress and WP in the same database.]

I can have WordPress installed in my public_html directory in a folder named blog.

I can have bbPress installed in my public_html directory in a folder named forum.

I apologize for my confusion.

[Trent Adams]

Beautiful! That is great to know! Thanks for this!

Trent

[Trent Adams]

You can have the forum installed wherever, I was talking about having bbPress and WP in the same database.

Trent

[creatiu]

This plugin is not working property, actually is creating not valid URLS inside the sitemap like this:

<url>

<loc>/?</loc>

<lastmod>2007-07-14</lastmod>

<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>

<priority>0.014705882352941</priority>

</url>

This happens with the latest version of bbPress (0.8.2.1)

[Inquirer]

[If you plan on integrating WP and bbPress, it is best to have a running copy of WP up and going.]

I already have WordPress up and running.

[Then just install your bbPRess in the same database as WP. WordPress will have the database prefix of wp_ and bbPress with bb_]

I have WordPress installed in my public_html directory in a directory named blog

Do you mean install bbPress in the blog directory?

In other words, don’t create a separate directory forum to install bbPress?

I think I want mywebsitedomainname/blog and mywebsitedomainname/forum to be separate urls

But to integrate WordPress with bbPRess do they have to have the same url?

Thanks

---

On a separate note

I should be able to use WinSCP to login to my server via SSH, then access my database with a MySQL login, then drop the bb_ tables from the failed bbPress install.

I imagine this could be done through the WinSCP Console

I realize the phpAdmin is a more user friendly interface than the WinSCP Console.

I sent an e-mail to my web hosting support, but they haven’t responded.

[annathea]

I took Bruno Torres’ converter script as a foundation, and re-wrote it to work with the Punbb database architecture. Also, added in a tiny bit of string clean up, since Punbb allows foreign characters in the username field, and BBPress does not.

Here’s the code to look at:

http://utopian.net/code/punbb-importer.phps

And in a handy .zip for download:

http://utopian.net/code/punbb-importer.zip

A few important notes, since this is NOT at all pretty –

1) It uses a lot of memory, so make sure PHP has access to at least 16mb in php.ini. If I had more than 20 minutes to devote to this, I’d look into that and try to improve it, but hey.

2) If you’re importing a lot of data, you may need to split up the resultant sql file into smaller files less than 2mb in size. Add this to the list of things I would automate if I needed to use this script more than once.

3) I am using BBPress integrated with WPMU and included lines for importing into the WordPress user tables. After I noted and fixed the problem converting Punbb’s lax, apostrophe-laden usernames to nice and sanitary WP-friendly ones, the script ran like a charm. Seriously, if I’d known it would be this easy I would have done this six months ago.

4) The forum-parent to forum relationship imported correctly into the database, but displayed a little funny, so I manually re-ordered the forum items in the database and massaged the template a little bit to recognize forum parents a little bit differently, more PunBB style.

5) A clean WPMU and BBPress install is ideal, but I already had ten existing WP users, half of whom had a user account in the PunBB data I was merging. For such a small data set, it was very easy to manually correct this by deleting the PunBB users and making sure that the imported topics and posts for those users pointed to their current id.

Hopefully this will be a good start for those of us looking to move existing PunBB forums to BBPress & WordPress. Good luck, and let me know if you use it!

[Sam Bauers]

You aren’t seeing things.

This is fixed in the current revision in subversion.

Ticket was here.

[fel64]

Are you using .8.2.1?

get_user_profile_link() doesn’t actually have any required arguments in the newest version (https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/tags/0.8.2.1/bb-includes/template-functions.php, line 1070). I can’t understand why you’d have a problem like that.

I don’t think it needs to be used in the loop. It does if you’re not going to provide arguments, but this is an error generated by PHP not bb. Any variables passed to it that would have been set in the loop but aren’t set outside it would simply be passed along, without an error, albeit unset.

[Trent Adams]

You will be able to find a link to the plugin off this page:

http://www.silpstream.com/blog/

It is really easy to install. Just read the readme.txt that is included for directions. If you plan on integrating WP and bbPress, it is best to have a running copy of WP up and going. Then just install your bbPRess in the same database as WP. WordPress will have the database prefix of wp_ and bbPress with bb_

If you have WP running, just install bbPress in the same database.

Trent

[Inquirer]

Hi Trent:

[You don’t have WP installed somewhere do you?]

Actually, I installed WordPress blog 2.2 first. It installed on the first try.

I have WordPress 2.2 installed in my public_html directory.

I haven’t customized or begun blogging with WordPress blog 2.2 yet.

I decided to use bbPress for my forum Discussion software, but the install failed.

I want to set it up and implement it first.

[There is a plugin that adds the newest phpMyAdmin as an admin page for WP. Lifesaver for me since I don’t like logging into my host admin and then phpMyAdmin and then working. I just login to WP and do what I want.]

What is the plugin?

Where is the plugin download?

Is it tricky installing the phpMyAdmin plugin?

If I go this route do I have to or should I integrate WordPress 2.2 with bbPress?

Thanks.

[Inquirer]

I am new to this forum.

I had a corrupted bbPress forum install.

I have to drop the bb_ tables and do a reinstall.

Hopefully, it is ok if I post this.

My web hosting servers are Unix.

The servers have php v 4.4.0 installed

phpMyAdmin isn’t installed

Apparently, I have to download phpMyAdmin 2.10.2.tar.tz

It is unclear from my web hosting service support if I should

place phpMyAdmin 2.10.2.tar.tz in the public_html directory.

Should I create a directory phpAdmin?

I am running Windows 2000 Professional on my computer.

Then I should download and use PuTTY: A Free Telnet/SSH Client to telnet to my server.

Then use a command to unbundle the phpMyAdmin 2.10.2.tar.gz file

Then access my php database

issue the command show tables

then the command drop bb_ tables which are the bbPress tables

then try a reinstall of bbPress forum software

[Jaithn]

Hey guys,

wordpress already has an attchment uploader, doesn’t it? is there a chance to build a plug-in for bbpress using that code?

grz,

jaithn

[fel64]

This isn’t about the files. This is about the databases.

You need to use phpMyAdmin or another tool to get rid of the old tables. If you do not know how to access your databases in this way, contact your host.

The “already installed” message occurs after bbPress checks your databases for an entry in, I can’t remember, bb_forums or bb_topics. While there is data in those tables, you cannot install again. That’s why you need to get rid of them. You also need to get rid of the other bb_ tables because it will try to create new ones with the same name.

[Inquirer]

Someone else had a similar problem.

I have deleted the old bbpress on my server bcuz it wouldnt work and i cleared out all my database and uploaded the new version of bbpress. now after i install and try to do anything all it says is “Already Installed. Try Upgrading.” nothing works at all.

Hope someone can help me. thanks!

Brandon

Posted 3 weeks ago #

[Inquirer]

I did an install.

The link to my site wasn’t correct.

The next portion of the install didn’t look like

The Ultimate bbpress Guide

There wasn’t a clean Adminstrator login and the web page was barren with links.

How do I clean out my orginal terrible install, then install again?

I decided to delete all the files from my server.

I edited the config.php again.

I FTPed the directory again.

I entered http://www.mysite.com/forum/bb-admin/install.php in my browser

I received a message that I had already installed do you mean upgrade?

[fel64]

Not a clue. Maybe that host’s MySQL version doesn’t support SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS on *? Or something. Your best bet is to report this problem on trac as the bug it is.

[_ck_]

I have posted several changes and fixes, over here since there seems to be two threads on this plugin (and apparently bbpress won’t be able to merge topics anytime soon)

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/46/page/2?replies=34#post-352

#4 is a doozy. You might want to make that a priority in the next version. Filenames *must* be unique for every uploaded change to ensure proper caching and then image updates in the browser when the image changes.

[oledole]

If anyone is having problems with RSS feeds in firefox and other browsers, like e.g. like below:

XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity

Location: http://mysite/rss.php?profile=1

Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″?><!– generator=”bbPress” –>

It might have to do with the plugin MoveIT. Disable it and your back in business. See this post for more info:

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/48?replies=3

[_ck_]

I’ve been studying to see if there’s anyway via plugins instead of hacking the code for both WP and BB to consolidate the common javascript routines they both use.

Not only do they load half a dozen scripts at certain times, one of them, prototype.js is 50k in size. But they seem to be common for both.

All we would need is choose a common script path.

I guess it’s possible to

remove_action(‘bb_head’, ‘bb_print_scripts’);

and then plugin your own.

But what kills me is bbPress doesn’t need ANY of those scripts except for thinks like deleting posts to forward correctly and the ajax actions.

I really dislike ajax, especially when it’s used where it’s not needed.