Ron,
Having the sidebar on the side of bbPress I guess is something I have never tried to do. I guess there is no reason why it wouldn’t work. With the integration plugin, all registrations of bbPress become WP registrations so I don’t think it matters if they register in bbPress or WP as they all become WP users (and obviously bbPress users as well).
I have the login box in WP in the sidebar, so whatever page I am on when I login at, it stays on that page. That is the only way around it regardless of WP version. If you integrate the sidebar into bbPress theme, I would imagine the same would happen on that side as well.
Sorry, what other questions did you have as I am posting pretty quickly here….lol
Trent
Once again, I think this is done by default. WP has its theme and content. bbPress has its theme and content.
As usual..more details.
I am really trying to use elements from wp on the bb side, such as sidebar…so I’m calling
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
on pages like this one:
http://babyquestions101.com/forum/
However, I have so many questions as to how to handle the login box in sidebar…Should it:
– Go to BBPress login/register page always (wp or bb)
– Go to WP login/register page always
– Go to respective login/register pages depending on which side the click originated?
Then, depending on that configuration, redirect questions ensue.
I know this is probably a matter of preference, but I’m indifferent, and wondering what will overall be the best solution for the user. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
– Login Redirects to last visited page
It seems to me that if you are integrated, both bbPress and WP use the wp_users table in the database so wherever you login will be redirected to the last visited page (as both programs do this now). It is easy to have th login in the header.php of your template in bbPress and just adding the login box to WP in sidebar also has login on every page.
I have already made a tweak to the redirect in wp-admin to go back to the homepage in wp. I did this because it was redirecting to the profile.php page when a user logged in, instead of to the last page they were visiting. Is that the default behavior, or did I miss something? I am on wp v.2.0.5, so maybe something has changed in version 2.1 which changes this behavior?
Ron
Hey Trent, please try to keep in mind some phpBB implementations are actually in php-nuke, which is slightly diff… I would love to convert my last few nuke sites over to something else, but the hold up has always been the forums… a conversion to bbpress might solve that…
thanks…
It’s better than Christmas…
But really, I have to say that even though I am much more familiar with phpbb, and even though it has a (currently) larger, more active community, and even though there are many more features, I chose to stick with bbpress to integrate with wordpress.
First of all, the integration process, though buggy now, will no doubt only get simpler and cleaner. I also expect to soon see the types of features that I need, and a shortage of the code that I can do without.
In fact, my decision may even have been in part due to the “code is poetry” which is written at the bottom of each page, but more importantly in the code. I’m excited to see the developments, and would even like to get to the point where I can lend a hand to the community like others are.
Magically fixed by the power of 0.8!
What did you do to get the extra grey box above the username and profile information in the past 2 minutes? I haven’t looked to close, but need to do that on the bbPress forums theme release. (Maybe email the one you are using instead) 
Trent
– Login Redirects to last visited page
It seems to me that if you are integrated, both bbPress and WP use the wp_users table in the database so wherever you login will be redirected to the last visited page (as both programs do this now). It is easy to have th login in the header.php of your template in bbPress and just adding the login box to WP in sidebar also has login on every page.
– Display selective content based on which side the user’s on (bb vs wp)
Once again, I think this is done by default. WP has its theme and content. bbPress has its theme and content.
– I seem to be having some issues with relative paths? (Actually, I think I may have just figured this out, and I may just be dumb)
Relative paths are easy to figure out, we can go into this more if you didn’t get it.
– Some other thing I’ll ask about in 7 minutes or less, I’m sure…
Shoot. That is what we are here for.
Trent
Thanks again. Hey, since I have you here, maybe I can ask you a quick one…I’m looking for a way to display content solely based on whether it’s a wordpress page or a bbpress page. For instance, I would like to have the login controls for the wordpress site be in the sidebar when wp is loaded, and the bbpress controls there when bb is loaded.
I imagine it wouldn’t matter which way the user logged in, but there are a few things I would like which I haven’t been able to achieve due to the way I have to put absolute path for redirects, etc. Here are the features I need, maybe you can suggest a more elegant solution for them?:
– Login Redirects to last visited page
– Display selective content based on which side the user’s on (bb vs wp)
– I seem to be having some issues with relative paths? (Actually, I think I may have just figured this out, and I may just be dumb)
– Some other thing I’ll ask about in 7 minutes or less, I’m sure…
I’m a beginner, but not a newb. (anymore). I feel I am getting a pretty good grasp, but I still get confused now and again. Thanks for any feedback you can give.
Looks like the table is there and you’re running into the WPMU bug that I believe Trent and/or spencer talk about in this thread.
Actually, spencer posted a fix for it here :
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/401/page/2?replies=66#post-2733
Sorry about the bug. I highly suggest upgrading to .80 as soon as that version of bbpress is released. It addresses that issue.
Every one here knows about bbPress’ annoying “-1 years” time bug. I’m sorry to say that, because of some server reconfigurations, that bug has struck here at bbPress.org (oh the irony!).
I am very pleased to say that this should no longer be an issue in the upcoming bbPress 0.8.
Thanks guys – I’ve installed .73 and we appear to be closer. It now at least renders the page but still doesn’t create the database table and hence gives the follwoing error…
bbPress database error: [Table ‘db189779439.p2tbb_privatemessages’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM p2tbb_privatemessages WHERE id_receiver = 1 ORDER BY created_on DESC
bbPress database error: [Table ‘db189779439.p2tbb_privatemessages’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM p2tbb_privatemessages WHERE id_sender = 1 ORDER BY created_on DESC
Can I just manually add the table to the database? I have bbpress integrated with Word Press if that makes any difference. Your help is much appreciated.
Brad and I will work on a write up for converting to bbPress from other programs. Sad part is, everything seeems to convert over to phpBB, so most of the writeup will be converters to phpBB and then the 2 phpBB => bbPress converters we have here
Trent
PS. Or you can install the trac version of bbpress… or just wait for when .80 comes out (I wouldn’t suggest this since it was supposed to come out 2 days ago and, well… here we are)
Sorry man, I updated the plugin 2 days ago to be compatible with the new .80 release of bbpress. You’ll have to get the most recent .73 version. If you can’t figure out how to get it from /plugins, you can go to http://faq.rayd.org/bbpress_private_message/
In the post above, from this post in that topic down to be exact. Then use the phpbb => bbPress converter in these forums.
Trent
Solution From Trent!
Here is something for drupal to phpbb and then you can use the converter back to bbPress maybe…..?
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=489446&sid=412af8780d34d31955c08dc174f28a75
has anybody tried a converter for Drupal Forums to bbPress?
You will have to create .htaccess file in the installation folder and add
Options +MultiViews
in it. refer to https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks
for details
cheers!
oh please feel free to.. try checking in the code. if you do not have access, may be you can add a patch file and i’ll check it in for you.
Ok i hope that last part:
“Sending all your database e-mails to all major world-wide spam sending mafias…”
Is a joke? I am moving from phpbb because of spam and this does not sit too lightly on me…ok i need to take a chill pill.
Ok back to the task as hand. It totally does not work for me i get no databases installed? When i run it, I get all the exporting scripts, then point 8. about the mafia. And then I get a row of numbers “39816”
I’m using 0.75. Is there a version conflict?
Thanks.
Hi Everyone.
I’m trying to install this on my forum but getting the following message when I try and run the /pm.php file:
bbPress database error: [Table ‘db189779439.p2tbb_privatemessages’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM p2tbb_privatemessages WHERE id_receiver = 1 ORDER BY created_on DESC
bbPress database error: [Table ‘db189779439.p2tbb_privatemessages’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM p2tbb_privatemessages WHERE id_sender = 1 ORDER BY created_on DESC
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: bb_load_template() in /homepages/34/d139864185/htdocs/pig2twig.lineindustries.net/forums/pm.php on line 19
I’m sure all files are in the correct locations. Is this due to the WP integration issue discussed above? Does anyone know how to fix? I’m guessing I could create the tables manually but suspect I’ll still get the Fatal Error to the undefined function.
Thanks for any help. Tim
