[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

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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.

[Trent Adams]

Don’t forget _ck_ to add these plugins to the repository!

https://bbpress.org/plugins/add/

Trent

[_ck_]

Just tested a youtube embed copied right from their site and it works tested in IE and Firefox.

I don’t use the default bbpress template however, I wonder if that is affecting it somehow.

Are you using the updated v0.02 that I posted, not v0.01 ?

If it still doesn’t work, can you view source on the outputed page and copy just the part with that one post with full html here (between code tags obviously) so I can see what it is doing?

[theblueone]

Can anyone tell me how to begin to address this problem? After installing on web server getting this error:

bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax near ‘FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status = 0 AND topic_sticky <> 2 ORDER BY topic_time’ at line 1]

SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS * FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status = 0 AND topic_sticky <> 2 ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT 30

I don’t even know where to begin to fix this. I’ve run bbpress on local environment and other hosts flawlessly, but on this company I’m getting these errors. I’m a SQL novice so if anyone can babystep this for me I’d appreciate it.

Thanks

[_ck_]

Been meaning to do this for awhile, didn’t realise how easy it was. This makes bbPress behave more like WordPress in that admin (keymasters/administrators) can post any content regardless of tag restrictions for the rest of members. This includes images, javascript, objects like flash video player, etc.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Admin Post Anything

Plugin URI:

Description: allows keymaster/administrators to post any content regardless of tag restrictions

Author: _ck_

Author URI: http://CKon.wordpress.com

Version: 0.02

*/



function bb_admin_post_anything($text) {

if (bb_current_user_can('administrate') ) {

remove_filter( 'pre_post', 'encode_bad' );

remove_filter( 'pre_post', 'bb_encode_bad' );

remove_filter('pre_post', 'bb_filter_kses', 50);

$text=addslashes($text);

$text=bb_autop($text);

}

return $text;

}

add_filter('pre_post', 'bb_admin_post_anything',9);

?>

[_ck_]

Okay I finally sat down and wrote it myself.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-plugin-admin-post-anything?replies=1#post-8848

Didn’t realise how easy it would be or I would have done it sooner.

[Nola1974]

What were you trying to do.. allowed all blogs to have a bbpress? I have bbpress playing very nicely with WPMU at blognola.org (and If I wasn’t so broke It’d even be online right now.)