[mcaddengroup]

I installed bbpress and went to activate it and got the following message on the plug-in page…

// Bail here if no key is set

if (!bb_get_option( 'akismet_key' ))

return;

I’m assuming this has something to do with my API key? No Idea.

-D

[erick_king]

hello! o hola en español.

You can try with the version 1.0 alpha, it works fine!!

[erick_king]

Hola/hello!

If someone else have the same problem try to use the version 1.0 alpha version!

it works!

[erick_king]

Hola

I check the server it is using php 4.4.8 and mysql 5.0.45 and i dont have integrated anything…jaja

I tried to installed in a empty directory.

there is another version of bbpress?

[chrishajer]

It seems it should be pretty easy to modify the plugin. Just change the references to the table bb_online to the proper $bbdb->online and I think it should be fine. Or, for yourself, you could just hard-code the table prefix for your installation, but I would say that’s bad form and not portable.

[Null]

To make my description easier:

view.php gives: view-page

view.php?view=port gives: view-page too.

I want view.php?view=port to give: port-page

Thx

[wpitn2shape]

I get the same error with that code, too. Is it supposed to be that short? I’m a tad confused, sorry.

If you thought I said the whole file was blank, I did not mean that. The line is, and it’s after that code.

What’s different between the two codes?

Thanks for trying to help! Hope we can fix this.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Probably by changing this: 'show_author' => 1, Make the 1 a 0?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

A functions.php should be like this:

<?php



function bb_nonce_ays( $action ) {

$title = __( 'bbPress Failure Notice' );

$html .= "t<div id='message' class='updated fade'>nt<p>" . wp_specialchars( bb_explain_nonce( $action ) ) . "</p>nt<p>";

if ( wp_get_referer() )

$html .= "" . __( 'Please try again.' ) . "";

$html .= "</p>nt</div>n";

$html .= "</body>n</html>";

bb_die( $html, $title );

}



?>

[Avaz]

I’m displaying latest forum posts using RSS:

<?php require_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php');

wp_widget_rss_output('http://localhost/bbpress/rss.php', array('items' => 5, 'show_author' => 1, 'show_date' => 1));

?>

and the code above displays as follows:

admin on “Test topic” 13/03/2009 admin

Now, how can I exclude “admin on” part from the title?

[Ivaylo Draganov]

Hi

Well, it would be as simple as changing the existing CSS-rule. Just remove the #front-page parent declaration so that the rule applies to all pages containg the #hottags div

#hottags {

position: absolute;

top: 0;

left: 0;

width: 150px;

overflow: hidden;

}

[Shagalaga]

a democratic voting by users would be cool, since it’s web 2.0

[_ck_]

You would use either

forum_link($topic->forum_id);   // self echos

or

$link=forum_get_link($topic->forum_id);   // returns a string

what you probably want is:

<a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a>

[Null]

If you have a complete new php file that acts like a new page, you can add it’s location with the below code, BUT I want to rename a existing php file. The problem is that its a filtered page: view.php?view=port. The problem is that this is still seen as view.php. How do I change this so that view.php?view=port is seen as a total new page so that the code below works and the location is added?

function bbport_location() {

if (bb_find_filename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) == "view.php?view=port"):

return "port-page";

endif;

}



add_filter( 'get_bb_location', 'bbport_location' );



function is_bbport() {

if ( 'port-page' == get_bb_location() )

return true;

else

return false;

}

[_ck_]

We really should backport the fix that is in 1.0 to 0.9 for our international friends.

I can’t remember what the function was that had the problem but I believe it was

function htmlspecialchars_decode

there may be others.

Unfortunately those functions are not pluggable but you could try replacing them from 1.0 into 0.9 and use SVN to handle upgrades which might work around it.

Made a note on TRAC https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1059

[_ck_]

We really should backport the fix that is in 1.0 to 0.9 for our international friends.

I can’t remember what the function was that had the problem but I believe it was

function htmlspecialchars_decode

there may be others.

Unfortunately those functions are not pluggable but you could try replacing them from 1.0 into 0.9 and use SVN to handle upgrades which might work around it.

Made a note on TRAC https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1059

[chrishajer]

I think this is because the server is using PHP4 and you have an integrated installation.

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/mbcs

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abbpress.org%2Fforums%2F+MBCS

[erick_king]

Hi,

I tried to instal it but in the first step appears this

Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in /hermes/bosweb/web077/b771/ipw.erickcacao/forum/bb-includes/wp-functions.php on line 113

Sould I configure wp-functions.php?

[john32]

As it turns out even if the blog URL for WP is the same as the site URL (WP doesn’t even list the blog URL in the database even though it shows up under WP Admin Options) you need to include it in the bbPress Integration settings. Doing set reset my cookie path from /forums/ to:

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ”);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

As it turns out, coding logic told me, that the plugin didn’t include the cookie domain sicne it was null.

So in fact, they are exactly the same.

That and I fixed it for full integration. But that’s another thread!

[kevinjohngallagher]

Thanks for the input _ck_, as always

I’m not often trying to replace an entire function from template-functions.php, i just want to overwrite one function once. But i get now that it has to be in pluggable.php, which is cool.

I suppose my issue here is this: why are many functions that output hardcoded HTML hardcoded into templates-functions.php in the core and not in pluggable.php so that theme / plugin developers can’t overwrite them?

In my opinion (and it’s just my opinion) there are far too few hooks in BBpress and some of them are in the ‘wrong’ or difficult place for theme development or front-end plugin development. This may seem daft to alot of people and long time BBpress contributors, but with the likes of _ck_ writing so many great back end plugins, most of mine focus on making BBpress work in a slightly more modern way (ajax, nestings, wysiwyg, etc); and i keep hitting these ‘walls’ of where BBpress has hardcoded something.

Basically I struggle to see why BBpress doesn’t have a functions.php file in the theme directory. As it stands we’ve got to create a theme the way we want it, then integrate it into the WordPress theme, then remove the conflicts for the WP and BBpress theme as the standard BBpress theme came with a different div structure to the standard WP one (madness), then add the hooks for all the stuff thats not got a hook, then move hooks for the one in a ridiculous place, then write a plugin to load up all the functions that your theme will use as standard (cos god forbid we’d have a functions.php like wordpress).

It makes developing a theme that does anything more than background colour of posts and what happens around/outside the forum a real nightmare. And what’s worse, it means that any theme to stray away from the ‘default’ kakumei theme, needs to have a plugin installed as well.

While this may seem like no big deal to people (and it’s not a huge deal), given that we use a different structure for our folders to WP (again – crazily stoopid given the market BBpress’s aimed at even at this stage), we’re reliant on the user to install and activate everything properly.

example:

Instructions with a theme if we had a functions.php and WP structure:

• Copy theme folder to your theme directory.
• Load up admin section, and select the new theme.

Instructions with a theme as is:

• Create a my-themes folder in your BBpress directory
• Copy the theme folder into that directory
• Create a my-plugins folder in the your BBpress directory
• Copy the plugin folder into that directory
• load up admin section, and select new theme
• activate new plugin to make theme reliant functions work

Now, obviously there is nothing too taxing on the second version, but it’s long been my experience that the less steps users have to undertake the less errors are made. Especially, and this is the bit I don’t get, when WordPress does things in a really simple manner (and has done so for ages).

I appreciate that forums of the nature we create are never going to be the most exciting or ground breaking in the world, but for those who think i’m wrong about more modern / different theme’s being available for bbpress let me ask this:

1. If you look at the Top 20 forums in _ck_’s list (http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100), can you tell it’s a BBpress forum before seeing the “powered by BBpress” at the bottom? If you’re bored do the same for the rest of the top100 and see how many you need to check are running BBpress.
2. By comparison, when you go to a non-BBpress forum on the internet, can you automatically tell what forum software it is every time?
3. But i bet you can tell it’s NOT BBpress straight away. Why do you think that is?

(infact the first one i’d to scroll to the bottom to check it was made my bbpress and it was – a number have switched away form bbpress – was http://soccerlens.com/forum/ which is using one of my template hacks from last year. the other worth mentioning is http://www.dragonballalcine.com/foro/ which is lovely and innovative – so that’s 2 out of the top100)

[Billy S]

Hey all. After much help from reading these forums and tinkering endlessly, I have gotten cross site logins working between WP2.6 and bbpress 0.9 . I don’t know if you’d call it ‘integration’, but it allows a user to log in once and gain access to all appropriate site resources. Although probably not the best solution, what I did is create my own cookie login, which is caught before wordpress or bbpress load, and creates a new user object which is universal to WP and BBPress (and any other webapps you use). It does take a little…alteration…of core WP and BBPress files. I strongly encourage you to make backups before doing this, and proceed at your own risk. It worked for me, but I cannot guarantee that it will fork for you. Also, it took a bit of hacking before I came up with this solution, so it may contain minor errors or accidental omissions as I am having to backtrack to recall what exactly I did.

okay, here goes…

First, we have to configure bbpress to use the wp_users table. That is done in the admin area of bbpress (settings->wordpress integration). Check ‘Show Advanced Database Settings’ and enter your database information for the wordpress install. Also, enter the wordpress database secret code near the top of the settings page.

Next, I created a file in the document root called ‘cookie_login.php’:

<?php

if($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] == '/cookie_login.php'){die('Cannot access directly');}



//Initial Setup of Variables

$SECRET_KEY = 'SECRET_KEY_DEFINED_IN_BBPRESS_AND_WP';//use a real secret key

$site_user = false;



//Do the DB thing

$the_db= mysql_connect('SERVER','USER','PASS');

mysql_select_db('DATABASE',$the_db);



//Start Session!

session_set_cookie_params(1800,'/','.SITE.com'); //30 minute session

session_start();

if (isset($_COOKIE['site_cookie'])){ //cookie has been set, proceed to get user info!

$tmp = explode(':',$_COOKIE['site_cookie']); //this will make sense later

$tmpusr = $tmp[0];

$wpid = $tmp[1];

$tmphash = $tmp[2];

$hashShouldBe = md5($tmpusr . $SECRET_KEY . $wpid); //what the hash should be - prevent tampering!

if ($tmphash == $hashShouldBe){

if (isset($_SESSION['user'])){

$site_user = $_SESSION['user'];

}else{

$qry = "SELECT * from wp_users WHERE ID = ".mysql_real_escape_string($wpid,$the_db) . " LIMIT 1";

$result = mysql_query($qry,$the_db);

$site_user = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

$qry = "SELECT meta_key, meta_value from wp_usermeta where user_id = ".mysql_real_escape_string($wpid,$the_db);//get additional data, just for fun

$resulta = mysql_query($qry,$the_db);

$temp_arr = array();

while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($resulta)){

$tmp_value = unserialize($row['meta_value']) ? unserialize($row['meta_value']) : $row['meta_value'];//if it a serialized array, unserialize it.  otherwise, dont.

$temp_arr[$row['meta_key']] = $tmp_value;

}

$site_user = $temp_arr + $site_user;

$_SESSION['user'] = (object)$site_user;//Object just out of preference, but doesn't have to be

}



}else{//tsk tsk, bad hash

$_SESSION['user'] = array();

setcookie('site_cookie',$_COOKIE['site_cookie'],time()-9600,'/','.SITE.com');

setcookie('PHPSESSID',$_COOKIE['PHPSESSID'],time()-9600,'/','.SITE.com');

setcookie(session_name(), session_id(), time()-9600, '/');//may be unnecessary...not sure...but can't hurt! (famous last words)

session_destroy();

}

}

if (!isset($_COOKIE['site_cookie']) && isset($_SESSION['user'])){//attempt to gain access?

$_SESSION['user'] = array();

setcookie('site_cookie',$_COOKIE['site_cookie'],time()-9600,'/','.SITE.com');

setcookie('PHPSESSID',$_COOKIE['PHPSESSID'],time()-9600,'/','.SITE.com');

setcookie(session_name(), session_id(), time()-9600, '/');//may be unnecessary...not sure...but can't hurt! (famous last words)

session_destroy();

}

session_write_close();

unset($SECRET_KEY,$hashShouldBe,$tmp,$wpid,$tmphash,$tmpusr,$result,$_SESSION['user'],$resulta,$temp_arr);//burn the evidence!

include ('site_functions.php'); //optional, can hook another file with functions (universal to all sites) to deal with this new user object

?>

After I finished the cookie_login.php, I rolled up my sleeves and dove into the WordPress and BBPress core to allow my login to occur.

in the /wp-config.php file, define the cookie domain:

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.SITE.com');

Also, that secret key you used earlier in cookie_login…define it here as well

define('SECRET_KEY', 'Same Key from Earlier. IMPORTANT to make sure it's identical');

Next, I hooked in my cookie_login file to wordpress and bbpress by adding an include to the top of BOTH bb-config.php AND wp-config.php

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/cookie_login.php';

To set up the ‘site_cookie’ properly, open up /wp-includes/user.php and find wp_signon function (was the first one for me). At the bottom of the function, after

if ( is_wp_error($user) )

return $user;

Add the following:

$hashValue = $credentials['user_login'] . SECRET_KEY . $user->data->ID;

$crossCookieValue = $credentials['user_login'] . ':' . $user->data->ID . ':' . md5($hashValue);



setcookie('site_cookie',$crossCookieValue,0,'/','.SITE.com');

wp_set_auth_cookie($user->ID, $credentials['remember'], $secure_cookie);

do_action('wp_login', $credentials['user_login']);//this may have already been there, don't remember

Remember how I mentioned the site_functions.php which can be included at the bottom of cookie_login.php? That is a perfect place to put the next function, for bbpress login, but it can just as well go inside cookie_login.php itself. The function overwrites the bbpress native wp_validate_auth_cookie function, found in /bb-includes/pluggable.php, with one of our own, which is as follows:

function wp_validate_auth_cookie($cookie = '') {

global $site_user;

if (!isset($site_user->ID)){

return false;

}else{

return $site_user->ID;

}

}

This is used internally by bbpress to allow the login to proceed.

Next, open /wp-login.php and find the case: logout section, and add the following right after it:

setcookie('site_cookie',$_COOKIE['site_cookie'],time()-9600,'/','.SITE.com');

setcookie('PHPSESSID',$_COOKIE['PHPSESSID'],time()-9600,'/','.SITE.com');'



Finally, and this may be only applicable for subdomain usage, open /wp-includes/pluggable.php and find the function wp_safe_redirect. Add subdomains you want redirects to in the $allowed_hosts array, for example:

$allowed_hosts[]=”bbpress.SITE.com”;

$allowed_hosts[]=”test_wordpres.SITE.com”;`

etc…

That’s all (I think) that I had to do. This is probably not ideal, as there are now two copies of a user when hey login, one defined in our new system and one in the wordpress/bbpress systems; however I found this necessary to have happen since I didn’t want to go through all the core code and edit out mention of $user.

Let me know if this works for you, I hope it was coherant enough. I may have accidentally omitted sections since, as I said before, this is the result of a few weeks of on-and-off tweaks and changes. I can always dig into code and find things I missed if I know what problems are occurring. Also, if anyone is interested, I altered a private messenging system I found which was a little outdated (http://www.pixel2life.com/publish/tutorials/608/simple_private_messaging_system/) to work with this model as well. Users can PM one another from within the wordpress dashboard, and message indicators are noted in the header throughout their visit (in wordpress, bbpress, and other subsites).

[jdhartley]

Oh thats awesome.

Thanks a lot.

[kirabug]

So wait, does this mean BBpress is dropping support for PHP-4? Because WordPress is working just fine…. I’m also downgrading. Would have loved to see some kind of warning/note on the download file page that requirements have changed (if they have).

[Null]

Hi,

The front-page has some div styling for the hottags div. This div is only used on the front-page so they set up the template that this styling only is used on the front-page:

#front-page #hottags {

position: absolute;

top: 0;

left: 0;

width: 150px;

overflow: hidden;

}

Now I want to use the hottag div on another page, but the styling is messed up then. This can be fixed to adept the stylesheet and add an extra (copied) div style. My question is if it is also possible to not add a new copied div style but use the front-page one. And if this is possible, how to do that?

Thanks

[Null]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, I’ll try your suggested “untested theoretical plugin”. But what does the 999 stand for? Just learning