[thegunman]

Trent your theme doesn’t work plus your download link doesn’t work either I had to search elseware for the template. Where can I get a working version? your link should be http://onvertigo.com/downloads/bbpress-forum.zip

[Arlo]

My site has a similar integration. I tossed around the idea of doing a conditional header like you describe, but in the end it was just simpler to have a second header file specific for bbpress, which is basically a copy of the WP one with some of the required bbpress stuff thrown in.

[webscratches]

OK well I did a new install.

The link do work now but the other problem is that the last posts I made do not show up in the Latest Discussions section. There is a new tag ‘trying’ which does display along with the tag ‘BBPress’ but when clicking on it does not seems to find any posts.

http://forum.webscratches.com/

Oh and BTW, in the Dashboard, when going to Topics or Posts, nothing is listed there. I am correctly listed as a Moderator and I am not in the Bozos list

On a sidenote I had to set all files to 755 because I got a permission error (this is related to my hosting though I’m not sure it might have sth to do)

[fel64]

Damn right!

bbPress can’t toast your bagels, but a plugin for it sure could!

[cweb]

Thank you very much for the detailed response. I’m sure this will help out many folks who have this issue. Let me ponder a lazy man’s approach. That lazy man being me, since I already have said bye to phpbb and have bbpress up and running. Couldn’t I run mysqldump to extract the bb_users table, then go in and modify the first few user ID’s (across the data I know ) and then just import that table into wp_users?

Or since my WP install is still fresh with only a couple users, it might be easier to change their ID’s in the database, then import bb_users into wp_users?

[ardentfrost]

I think the point of bbpress is to allow ultimate customizability (same as wordpress). If you want all-in-one forums, then bbpress is certainly not for you because you’ll spend 3 years installing and writing plugins to get you to that point.

If you want a slim forum software that allows you to pick and choose what functions you want, then bbpress is really good. You don’t NEED to know php unless you want to add something specific for you.

And, of course, as bbpress grows so does its plugin list. Plugins is what makes bbpress particularly special because if, for instance, you don’t find private messages useful, then don’t install that plugin. The base software is just enough to have forums that are easily navigated and posted to. Everything else is up to you (and plugin creators)

[wittmania]

I had the same epiphany as you did when I learned that bbpress existed.

Here’s what I did:

1. I looked at the currently registered users in WP (I only had a few) and noted their numeric ID numbers. I then went over to my phpbb database to see which users they would conflict with (i.e. which ones had the same unique numeric ID number).

2. I used a phpbb mod which allowed me to go into these users’ profiles and change their ID (not their name) to a number that would not conflict with the WP users, or any other user in the DB.

At this time, phpbb.com is having trouble with their mod downloads, so I just uploaded the mod file to my own server. You can view the complete mod here:

http://www.wittmania.com/change-user-id-mod.txt

It takes about 10 minutes total to make all of the changes. Basically, what it does is add a field to the user’s profile when viewed by an administrator. In this field you can change their ID number to whatever you want it to be.

So, once the mod has been implemented, go through and change the ID number for whichever users conflict with your existing WP users.

3. Once you have gotten rid of all user ID conflicts, download Jaime GÓMEZ OBREGÓN’s incredible phpbb to bbpress importer, which can be found here:

http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/

You will need to edit the file so that it reflects your DB permissions for both the phpbb and the bbpress databases. Also, if you are running a WP integrated installation (as you obviously are), you will need to change the prefixes for a couple of tables further down in the code.

Change lines 172 and 173 from:

$bbpress_tables['users'] = DB_BBPRESS_TABLEPREFIX . 'users';

$bbpress_tables['usermeta'] = DB_BBPRESS_TABLEPREFIX . 'usermeta';

-to-

$bbpress_tables['users'] = 'wp_users';

$bbpress_tables['usermeta'] = 'wp_usermeta';

Note: be sure that you use the actual WP table prefix if it is something different than wp_. This change will make the importer put the users into your existing wp_ tables instead of in new bb_ tables, which would defeat the whole point of your import.

Once you have modified the file, upload it and navigate your browser to it. It should run automatically, importing all of your phpbb info into your bbpress installation.

4. At this point my memory gets a little fuzzy. In either WP or BBP (or both?), the imported users did not have a role assigned to them. Make sure you check to see what role they are assigned and that it is what you want it to be.

Of course, before you do anything you should backup your existing WP database, and probably your phpbb database as well just in case. Then, scrap the bbpress tables that you have in the current (broken) installation so the importer has a blank canvas to work with.

You will also need to install the bbpress integration plugin in WP, which can be found here:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/#post-34

This plugin will assign the default WP new subscriber role to users who register through bbpress. However, on my blog/forum I changed things around a bit so registrations for both WP and BBP are handled through the WP registration screen. I don’t know why, but I’m just more comfortable with it that way.

I’m sure as time goes by more plugins from both sides will be developed which will allow for even tighter integration between WP and BBP.

Good luck!

[ardentfrost]

One of the co-creators of my forum worked on it for a while (putting the emoticons in an AJAX window) but wasn’t successful as yet. Perhaps one day I can look at it if someone else doesn’t beat me to it.

[bedbugger]

I really like bbpress and I hope people will develop it further. Most of all, I’d love to be able to use the same sidebar I have in my blog, or (even better) a new sidebar with widgets (which is what makes the WP blog so do-able for me). I am probably not the typical bbpress user, in that I don’t have much experience with editing themes and such.

[citizenkeith]

but I presume it still requires some knowledge.

That’s why I posted here!

[cweb]

I saw the post at http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/323?replies=11#post-1569

It seemed to get derailed into some other topic though. Here’s the scenario:

– WordPress has been up and running with a few users (not many)

– admin gets bright idea to convert phpbb to bbpress and integrate everything

– bbpress conversion from phpbb goes okay, all 300+ users can login fine.

– admin wants to merge these users with the WordPress wp_users table, so they can add comments to WP, subscribe, etc.

The bbpress sync plugin at http://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/ works the exact opposite, it merges WP users into bbpress!

This leaves those of us who took the plunge into converting from a phpbb type platform… stranded! It’s probably just a few SQL queries away from working, right?

[fel64]

Unfortunately you’ll need someone with some Javascript mojo to do that. It’s been done often enough before, but I presume it still requires some knowledge.

[fel64]

Thanks for coming back and telling me

[cweb]

Ok this worked for me, here’s how I actually reset the auto_increment counter.

NOTE: If you’ve already integrated WP and bbpress and/or if you’ve already had a bunch of new users register, this wont be so easy for you. If however, you’ve performed a fresh installation and conversion then this will be simple.

1. make sure one of my existing users in the normal ID range is a Key_Master (this is very important). For me, I made one of my users with ID =5 the Key Master.

2. login with the new Key Master, and delete all the users who are registered with a number => 999999999. For me this wasn’t a problem because “admin” was the only user, I haven’t had any new user registrations. If you do have new users in the 1000000000 range you’ll need to reset their ID’s (I’m not a MySQL guy so I dunno how)

3. Once all users in the ugly high number range are deleted, you can run the command to reset the counter on your *_users table, for me it was:

ALTER TABLE bb_users AUTO_INCREMENT = 400

I just added a few new users and they indeed started at ID 400.

BTW, here’s the code in the phpbbtobbpress.php converter that sets this very high ID:

//Let's clean up the trash.

//Your admin user will be given the biggest possible ID (I tried the biggest BIGINT but it didn't work inside bbPress)

//If you have more than 999999999 users on your forum, you may have problems... 

@mysql_query ("UPDATE " . $bbpress_tables['users'] . " SET ID=999999999 WHERE ID=1");

@mysql_query ("UPDATE " . $bbpress_tables['usermeta'] . " SET user_id=999999999 WHERE user_id=1");

@mysql_query("TRUNCATE TABLE " . $bbpress_tables['forums']);

[citizenkeith]

I’d love to have the emoticons available from a pop-up menu, that way you only load them when needed.

Camino hates all the emoticons on my screen at once.

[cweb]

I’ll confirm that I have this problem as well, from a phpbb to bbpress conversion. I actually tried to reset the auto_increment like chrishajer said:

ALTER TABLE bb_users AUTO_INCREMENT = 400

Since my original ID’s stopped at around 350.

It didn’t work though, still incrementing in the billions. MySQL documentation says:

“You cannot reset the counter to a value less than or equal to any that have already been used.”

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/alter-table.html

So to me that reads I need to delete the admin user 999999999 first, am I correct?

[Sam Bauers]

Please be more specific, what does or doesn’t work? Do the restricted domains show up in the registration form? What version of bbPress are you using. What other plugins. Etc, etc.

[Vili]

Brilliant! I didn’t know that global variables like this exist in PHP (I’m a hobbyist). Thanks a bunch!

Btw, I had to change the declaration from

global $forumpage = true;

to

global $forumpage;

$forumpage = true;

It gave me an error otherwise.

[fel64]

I have no idea how the bb environment can be detected, but I think I know why your $forumpage hack didn’t work; the WP headers are in different files and such.

When setting $forumpage, try something like this:

global $forumpage = true;

When checking if $forumpage is true, do it something like this:

global $forumpage;

if( $forumpage = true )

{

...

}

If you tell PHP that you want the global variable $forumpage it should work.

Not too confident about this, but that should tell PHP to make them global (ie. available everywhere). Otherwise you’ll probably be calling different variables called $forumpage.

[Vili]

I’m not sure if I should ask this here or over at WordPress.org, but perhaps this is more of a bbPress question in the end.

I have the latest bbPress and WordPress installations, and both are running fine. The user databases are integrated, and I have also managed to get bbPress to use my WordPress theme after some poking around.

What I actually did with the theme integration was that I made bbPress to call the WordPress header and footer files instead of the bbPress ones, having in turn modified the WordPress files in a way that everything except for the page-specific content is in those two files. This way, the forum shows up where the WordPress content (posts, pages, etc.) would otherwise go. Life is good.

My problem now is that I would like WordPress to recognize bbPress when it is serving a bbPress page. In other words, I would like to have something like an “if” condition for example in my WordPress header that checks whether the page currently being shown is a bbPress page. If I could do that, then I could do something like “if bbPress then echo bbPress headers, else echo WordPress headers”.

The most basic solution that I could come up with was the following: before having a bbPress page call the WordPress header, introduce a variable like “$forumpage” and set it to “true”. Then simply include a check in the WordPress header that checks whether $forumpage is “true”. For some reason, however, this doesn’t work as the variable seems to get erased.

I also tried something like using the condition if($forums) in the WordPress header, which I saw was in bbPress, but that gave no results, either.

There probably is a(n easy) solution to all this, so I would really appreciate it if someone could point me to the right direction. I’ve spent most of the evening working on this, and have tried just about everything that I can think of and have read about on these forums and over at WordPress.org, but alas without the desired results.

Thanks for reading!

[henry014]

This is a sample in my webhost.

http://www.wiiholic.com/bbpress/tags.php?tag=%e6%b8%ac%e8%a9%a6

[henry014]

In bbPress vers. 0.8, the Chinese tag name’s problem fixed. When I add a Chinese tag name, the tags was added success!

But when I click the Chinese tag link, there will be a error message in Firefox “Redirect method is not correct” (this is transfer from Chinese… so I’m not sure it’s correct text, but it’s the same meaning.)

Looks like it has some error so that make a unlimited loop…

[fel64]

I’d have to read the forums, once again, to figure out what you mean.

Or you could just ask us here. A large part of these forums is just for help making it work. You’d be happier with bbPress in the long run.

The markup thing for example is quite simple; I struggled with it initially but a random guess worked out, and the quicktags certainly help. Any text between two backticks (on a European/English keyboard, the button just above tab) will be rendered as code. The ‘markup’ thing refers to HTML, so to make that work you do this:

<em> makes your text italic </em>

<br />
like so will create a single new line.

<ul> or <ol> will create a ‘list’ structure. Simply put <li> and </li> around each seperate list element. End the list by putting </ul> or </ol>.

To create links, you do this: <a href="www.example.com/linklocation">link text</a>.

[wmarcy]

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘wetworx_wp’); // 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

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// If your bbPress URL is http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ , the examples would be correct.

// Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL.

// Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here.

$bb->domain = ‘http://www.wetworx.com’; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com’

// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. ‘/’ is fine if the site is in root.

$bb->path = ‘/forums/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘WetWorx Forums’;

// This must be set before running the install script.

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

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

// 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 = -5;

// 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’, ”);

// 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 the rest as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ”; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com’

$bb->wp_siteurl = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com’

[wmarcy]

I have previous successful installs of bbPress under my belt, and honestly, there isn;t much to it. Problem is, after uploading all the files into their “forums” subdir, running through the install script (And entering all the info), I go follow the link to the forums to login and the forums refuses to log me in, (Copy and paste on the password from the intro email).

The first post is in the forums, the keymaster is set in the metadata table, but having done this 6 times now I can’t figure out what the problem is.

Tried registering another user, and the same thing happens to that login.

Any Ideas?

bbPress 0.8.1 on a linux server.