[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

In bbPress1 config.php, can you put the following line near the top:

$bb->debug = 1;

Then go try to register a new user and see if the urls listed at the top of each page view are the same (if they are not, something is wrong).

I don’t think this will give us any useful information, actually, but it’s a place to start.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

User authentication should be fully pluggable. All authentication is done by functions in bb-includes/pluggable.php which can all be overridden by a plugin.

The only thing you have to worry about is giving the $bb_current_user a few properties (such as ID) since bbPress looks at those directly in many places (it should be better abstracted).

You’ll definitely want to write some custom authentication functions that work of your current database.

Grabbing user data from a custom database may a little more tricky as you imply since bbPress might not have all the hooks you’d need for convenient JOINs and things. (You might try and see how little you really need to do.)

At the moment, the best option (off the top of my head) is probably to write a custom database class (of which $bbdb is an instantiation), to modify bbPress’ queries on the fly.

That is not ideal, I understand.

We’re certainly interested in making things easier. I’d love to hear suggestions or ideas. You should sign up on our development email list! https://lists.bbpress.org/mailman/listinfo/bbdev

[h8dk97]

Is that possible to integrate bbPress with an existing website which is not running wp? I have a website which needs a forum, I wrote it in php and postgresql backend. Is there any way to integrate bbPress with it; user registration, login etc?

Thanks.

[worrypascanada]

Found the location to sticky posts, but how can I get the shaded green colored to color the sticky as shown on bbPress.org?

[davetropeano]

In the post on the WordPress dashboard annoucing bbPress, it said…

If we could re-write WP from scratch, it would be a lot like bbPress

What does this mean in general? What about the bbPress implementation architecture makes is ‘better’ than WordPress?

[Trent Adams]

That would be great! I was actually suprised that Akismet doesn’t stop the registrations as well as the comments considering the power that it has. I can’t seem to find any way to limit spam registrations on bbPress, but something may exist.

If we can stop the ‘bozo’ user from integrating over to the WordPress side, then would it be best to leave that ‘bozo’ user in bbPress? Would it be worth having something that would delete ‘bozo’ users automatically at some point?

What would you recommend I do about this?

Thank you kindly,

Trent Adams

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

When logged in as an admin, go to the topic in question, scroll down to the bottom and click “Stick topic”. At least, that’s where it is in the default theme.

[sidzzz]

hmm, I dint know spam bots were on to this already… i guess they can still have a profile on BBpress and have a link and promote their site? ( i am not sure how the profile thing works here so keep my comment at that:P )

But I can say one things its damn fast and keeps spam at bay! but hmm i wouldnt want a junk list of profiles or users adding up either..

jus my 2 cents..

[Trent Adams]

One more thing….where exactly (when integrated with wordpress) does it store the ‘bozo’ information on a user? I have went through all the tables in bbPress and WordPress and I can’t seem to find it. I thought maybe adding a filter in the plugin might work, but I don’t know how to call it since it isn’t a database call.

Trent

[ardentfrost]

I suggest bbpress There are javascript file uploaders that you can add if you need that right away. But like I said, the lack of that ability isn’t a show stopper for me.

[so1o]

Created a theme for my bbpress forum.. its a complementary to my wordpress theme.. am looking into using same files for the theme like the header footer and function file..

http://www.adityanaik.com/blog/forums/

[Null]

Ah ok well let’s theorise a bit now. Let’s say I have 100 subfolders with each a bbpress install, all using the same user db. This would work great but if bbpress has an update, I have to install that one 101 times (+1 = the main install). Kinda a lot of work so I wondered if the following is possible (with some hacking or plugin):

All users have their own id right? Well let’s say Jack is a member of forum 1 and he wants his own forum. Jacks id is 123456789 (just an excample). Is it possible to let the keymaster (and ONLY the keymaster) give Jack his own forum? The keymaster will go to Jacks profile and sees a new line in his profile called: Give this user his own forum. When checked, Jack will be admin ow his own forum (so an admin, and not a key master).

How does this work? Well when you type in: http://www.something.com/bbpress/index.php you get the standard index of the bbpress forum. If you type: http://www.something.com/bbpress/index.php?123456789 (Jacks ID), you will see the standard index of Jacks forum, which Jack controls as an admin. Posts made in this forum, are stored in the normal db, but with id: 123456789. This way we can filter all posts etc by this id for each forum. The main forum (forum 1) will ofcourse NOT show Jacks posts. The only modification to the db will be to add id to it, I think…. See this as an bbpress MU

This way I have just 1 install of bbpress needed and is easy to maintain, and I can still give others a forum too! Well in theory that is…

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

The cookie thing I described only means that they won’t have to type their password in twice. If the browse to forum 1 and login and then browse to forum 2, they won’t have to type in their password again.

bbPress does not track who is currently logged in (unless you have some plugin that does this), so I’m not sure how to respond.

[yottabite]

Is there anyway to post via a URL?

I.e.; http://forum.blandname.com/?new=1&topic=1&subject=test&post=”this is a test”

If this is not possible, is there a way to port the WordPress bookmarklet to bbPress?

[Trent Adams]

Mdawaffe,

I really love these 2 plugins! Thank you! Could I make a suggestion though? Would it be possible to add an option to have accounts that are created in bbPress and marked as ‘bozo’ not be added to WordPress. I am having trouble with ‘many’ and I mean ‘many’ spam bots registering in bbPress and then moved over to WordPress. I know they cannot really add comments because of Akismet, but I hate going in and seeing these users in WordPress.

If I leave the user as Bozo, is it worth deleting them or leaving them as bozo anyway? Should I move them to ‘blocked’ or delete them? It really makes it tough as I am not quite sure what to do!

Thanks,

Trent

[worrypascanada]

Hello,

How to create a sticky post on my bbpress

http://www.patrimoineacadien.com/babillard ?

Thanks for your reply.

[john_roberts]

We’re considering BBPress for user forums on our website. However, our website already has user registration (account system), and we will not have a separate registration for our forums.

Therefore, a key question is how easy it will be to integrate BBPress into an existing user registration/authentication system. A colleague looked through the BBPress code, and came up with mostly good news (see bottom).

The bad news, though, made me come here to see what the plans are for abstracting the user registration system in future versions. I imagine that our situation is quite common: no one wants multiple registration schemes on a single site (it’s bad enough how many we all have around the web!).

Note: we’ve been very satisfied with WordPress on many fronts, although not for user contributions, so no WordPress integration questions at all. And, yes, we looked at http://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

BAD NEWS, SPECIFICS:

The SQL queries that interact with the users table are interspersed across a dozen files or so. While this makes integration slightly more difficult, the real issue is that future updates to bbpress might become difficult if not impossible to merge. Given how forum packages are magnets for security

vulnerabilities, this might become a critical issue.

—

I don’t want to argue about security vulnerabilities; that’s not the issue. The point is: at what point will BBPress change how user information is distributed around the application and/or abstracted?

I checked Trac to see if the Timeline or Roadmap had any hints, but didn’t see anything.

Is this situation seen as a problem? Anyone else sharing the pain? Any insight?

GOOD NEWS, SPECIFICS: (accounts = our site registration system)

* The bbPress user table consists of 9 columns, 5 of which overlap with our generic user table, requiring only a ‘glue’ table to provide the extra columns

* There are no SQL JOIN’s with the user table (that I could find), making integration easier.

* Integration with accounts is possible and would take only a few hours.

* Customizing the look and feel would be no more difficult than it was to customizing WordPress.

* Disabling registrations is easy to do, which would force users to register via accounts.

John Roberts

OpenDNS

[worrypascanada]

Resolve and close post.

I just did a fresh bbPress installation. I now have full access to bbPress Admin area by keeping my WordPress username and password. My WordPress authors are now listed under bbPress Admin.

Wonderful! I’m a happy bbPress camper.

Thanks to everyone.

[worrypascanada]

I have resolved my bbPress/WordPress user name and password issue! I was using the WP prefix found in «The name of the database» to configure «WordPress table prefix» in the bbPress config.php. While researching phpMyAdmin, I realize that _usermeta and _users were in double; one pair with _wp and one pair with prefix xxxxxxxx_.

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

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

I’m learning by trial and error and mostly by your patience and support.

I’ve tested fully WordPress and bbPress integration; bbpress-integration.php is normal and working as expected.

While login as bbPress Admin, there’s no Admin panel available within bbPress, I assume that this is normal for reason all Admin work is done within WordPress. Am I right?

[Null]

Ah oke nice, perhaps it can be changed in the next release so that a banned user is only banned on the forum banned from? I mean an admin is also admin on 1 forum…

And registrating on forum 2 will go alright? No conflicts? The new user will be added in bb_users and not in b2_users?

Going to play around with this, thanks for the info!

Null

ow one more question:

To make it so that when a user is logged in to one forum, that user is also logged into the other, you will probably have to add the following line to both config.php files:

Does this mean that when I look who is online at forum 1, I also see user X (who is online at forum 2) as online at forum 1? Don’t want that…

[worrypascanada]

Thanks for ready my posts mdawaffe,

«… bbpress-integration.php should add a “bbPress” tab in your WordPress admin under the Plugins tab… »

It’s there as describe.

«… Go to the bbPress tab. Did you fill in your bbPress table prefix?.. »

Under my WordPress MySQL tables, I find the WordPress and bbPress databases.

The way this all should work is:

«… A new user registers on bbPress. The first time that new user browses to WordPress, he or she is added to the member list (prior to then, that new user is listed under “No Role for this Blog”)… »

Understand.

«… The same should hold if you swap “bbPress” and “WordPress” in the above paragraph… »

Ok.

«… What are your $bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl settings in bbPress’ config.php?… »

It’s configured with http://patrimoineacadien.com for both; it’s taken from WordPress – Options->General:..

Thanks for your patience and support.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Let’s say your first bbPress has a table prefix (set in config.php) “bb_”.

Install your second bbPress into another directory. In it’s config.php file, make sure and set it’s table prefix to “bb2_”.

Directly under the table prefix line, add the following line:

define('CUSTOM_USER_TABLE', 'bb_users');

That tells the bb2_ bbPress to look for users in the bb_ bbPress’ user table.

Now a new user has accounts in both bbPress installs, but the two installs do not share login cookies; the user has to log in separately to each install. To make it so that when a user is logged in to one forum, that user is also logged into the other, you will probably have to add the following line to both config.php files:

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

An admin in one bbPress will not be an admin the other bbPress.

Blocking a user will block them everywhere. Instead of blocking a user, you could make their User Type “Inactive” in one of your bbPress installs by editing their profile. Then they won’t be able to do anything but look around on the one bbPress install, but can still be full members on the other.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

bbpress-integration.php should add a “bbPress” tab in your WordPress admin under the Plugins tab.

Go to the bbPress tab. Did you fill in your bbPress table prefix?

The way this all should work is:

A new user registers on bbPress. The first time that new user browses to WordPress, he or she is added to the member list (prior to then, that new user is listed under “No Role for this Blog”).

The same should hold if you swap “bbPress” and “WordPress” in the above paragraph.

What are your $bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl settings in bbPress’ config.php?

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

ColdCN,

what version of bbPress are you using?

[gsnixon]

Don’t hold your breath. bbPress is very young.