[John James Jacoby]

You know, at the risk of sounding like a snot, I’ve actually had a similar thought. The only thing stopping me from saying the same thing is that I have no idea what else it is that Sam does.

[John James Jacoby]

@ganzua: I predict that you are integrated with WordPress, and that your jQuery isn’t being loaded correctly.

I will prove this theory by asking for you to add a topic to your favorites on your forum, and report back and let me know if it works.

[Daniel Juhl]

You main site only has PR2, which is low/very low for the main page, therefore you can’t expect much pagerank to go further down on you forum. You “earn” pagerank, it’s not just a gift from Google

[slambert1971]

So am I to assume there is no way to add pages to bbPress? Oly the default pages can be used? Darn, might have to look for something else.

[slambert1971]

I am working on a project where I will use bbPress in a large corporate environment and styling it very differently then a standard forum. Sorry, I can’t show it to you because it is part of our Intranet. I have the front end layed out almost exactly as I want it and presented the prototype to our CIO. He likes the front end, but did not like the back end (admin) area.

The problem is that he manage forums page is not very intuitive to the non-technical person. Because we will have non-technical people managing the forums, I need to change how the manage forums page looks, without editing core code if possible. I will also be adding links in the front end to those people who have access to manage a given forum to edit the forum details.

This leads to the second part. Each forum is supposed to have a short intro, long intro and an associated photo. Are there any plugins that add fields and/or photos to a forum, or will I need to write that? I have searched here but haven’t found any yet. The less code I have to right the better, just need to know where to start this process.

Thanks.

[wiseacre]

Are you working for Automattic, Sam? Is it your job bbpress developing? I’m asking because of

1. http://bbpress.org/blog/2008/01/the-future-for-bbpress/
2. There are 18 open bugs – http://trac.bbpress.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=!1.5&type=defect&order=priority
3. 5 days there are NOT any code uploads – http://trac.bbpress.org

[ganzua]

a nice substitute for some weighty bbPress documentation in the meantime

Actually some of us are looking forward the next chapter This one should go to the “documentation” section as an entry or something like this.

[wwc]

Thanks, hoppie, everything works now! I found some code in bbPress that looks like it’s meant to warn users when the PHP MySQL libraries are missing, but I wasn’t getting the warning message. I’ll look into filing a bug report about this.

[_ck_]

Sorry I missed the earlier questions.

And to post code, make sure you put it between backticks `

[copperblade]

lingmiester, I looked through the code and I didn’t see anything that sends email to anyone. I did see a “joke” about sending the emails to spammers though.

Is there any update on this, or newer script for importing phpbb2 ?

[tomwi]

figured this out!

but can’t get the damn code to post right. if anyone is interested let me know how to post a code snipplet without the forum eating it… it outputs like this:

*post title*

Posted by: *user* in *forum*.

[John James Jacoby]

This is how phpBB already works.

I think its a good idea though.

[frooyo]

I believe I have a simple but highly effective fix.

Since the vast majority of forum traffic is for non-logged in users AND, since the only time a forum page changes is if a POST is made … why not implement a very basic disk caching system that caches the content for the FrontPage and Topic page for non-logged in users.

Here is the pseudo code:

// Front page

---

if (not logged in)

…….. serve disk cache

…………….if (disk cache not present)

……………………generate page and save to disk

else (logged in user)

……..generate page (PHP)

// Topic page

---

if (not logged in)

……..serve disk cache

……..if (disk cache not present)

…………….generate page and save to disk

else (logged in user)

……..generate page (PHP)

// post a comment function

---

delete Topic cache for non-logged in users

delete Front page cache for non-logged in users

The benefit being, now for any non-logged in user – the Front page and individual Topic pages will be cached once some submits a new comment.

And if you are logged in, non of this effects you.

Thoughts?

[fwilson789]

Come on, there has to be a way to do this!

It worked fine for me with the current stable release, but the login was broken, so I installed the unstable. The login started working, but wp_head() stopped.

bb-config.php:

include('../wp-config.php');



/**

* The base configurations of bbPress.

*

* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,

* Secret Keys and bbPress Language. You can get the MySQL settings from your

* web host.

*

* This file is used by the installer during installation.

*

* @package bbPress

*/



// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //

/** The name of the database for bbPress */

define('BBDB_NAME', 'bbpress');

bb-templateskakumeifront-page.php:

<?php get_header(); ?>

... page ...

<?php get_footer(); ?>

[frooyo]

@sambauers & @andersson

I believe I have a simple but highly effective fix.

Since the vast majority of forum traffic is for non-logged in user AND, since the only time a forum page changes is if a POST is made … why not implement a very basic disk caching system that does the following pseudo code:

// Front page

---

if (not logged in)

…….. serve disk cache

…………….if (disk cache not present)

……………………generate page and save to disk

else

……..generate page (PHP)

// Topic page

---

if (not logged in)

……..serve disk cache

……..if (disk cache not present)

…………….generate page and save to disk

else

……..generate page (PHP)

// post a comment function

---

delete Topic cache for non-logged in users

delete Front page cache for non-logged in users

The benefit being, now for any non-logged in user – the Front page and individual Topic pages will be cached once some submits a new comment.

And if you are logged in, non of this effects you.

[tomwi]

right now I am using:

echo "<li><a>topic_id."'>".$result->topic_title."</a>Posted by: <a>topic_poster."'>".$result->topic_poster_name."</a> in </li>";

[chrishajer]

Are the functions capitalized in the same manner? Windows doesn’t seem to care about capitalization, but Linux does. I’ve had that trouble with WordPress plugins before, where it seems the plugin was developed on Windows and the function was called

function DoThis() {, so calling dothis() stops working on Linux where it was fine on Windows.

Could that be a possibility?

[martenk]

Started running bbpress 1.0-Alpha6 recently on a productionsite… Probably a bad idea but everything seems to work… A few plugins that don’t work but other than that it’s all good!

[joshposh]

I found out that the CSS class for the definition of the pagination was missing in the CSS file of the theme. I’ve added it but can’t figure out how to change the space between the page numbers. I tried padding, margin and letter-spacing and they all worked for the text (“next” & “previous”) but not for the page numbers

EDIT: OK, works now but looks still stupid *sigh*

http://f.imagehost.org/0960/p1.png

[joshposh]

I can’t add links in posts properly

When I try to add a link I do it like that:

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/">My Site</a>

but the link generated by bbPress in the post isnt linking to

http://www.mysite.com/

but to

http://www.mysite.com/“

[walkerevans]

The forum isn’t “inside” the blog. The templates are all just set up to look the same across the site.

[deadlyhifi]

I would like to modify the bb_list_tags to show who the author of that tag was (to moderators)

So I created a functions.php in my theme and have copied function bb_list_tags from functions.bb-templates.php file. And done the following (note the changes to the function have not yet been made)

<?php

// to override bb_list_tags to show tag author



remove_filter('bb_list_tags', 'bb_list_tag');



function bb_list_tag( $args = null ) {

$defaults = array(

'tags' => false,

'format' => 'list',

'topic' => 0,

'list_id' => 'tags-list'

);



$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );

extract( $args, EXTR_SKIP );



if ( !$topic = get_topic( get_topic_id( $topic ) ) )

return false;



if ( !is_array($tags) )

$tags = bb_get_topic_tags( $topic->topic_id );



if ( !$tags )

return false;



$list_id = attribute_escape( $list_id );



$r = '';

switch ( strtolower($format) ) :

case 'table' :

break;

case 'list' :

default :

$args['format'] = 'list';

$r .= "<ul id='$list_id' class='tags-list list:tag'>n";

foreach ( $tags as $tag )

$r .= _bb_list_tag_item( $tag, $args );

$r .= "</ul>";

endswitch;

echo $r;

}



add_filter('bb_list_tags', 'bb_list_tag');



?>

Is this the correct way to change a core function? Changing anything within it doesn’t appear to override the original function.

[chrishajer]

I am going to take a SWAG:

SimplePie supports RFC 822, RFC 2822, RFC 3339, and ISO 8601 datestamps. My guess is Magpie does as well. I would start by trying a RFC 2822 timestamp.

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:09:12 -0500

[joshposh]

[Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, I couldn’t find a better one]

I know it a lot to ask but could someone help me with a short piece of code please? I never worked with PHP and would like to insert a bit of HTML into a piece pf PHP. I would really appreciate any help.

The Problem:

I have some not so web savvy users at my board and I’d like to make the pagination of threads better to see for them.

At the moment it’s kinda tiny and has no spaces between the page numbers for some strange reason.

(Screenshot of how it looks at my board: http://f.imagehost.org/0070/toosmall.png)

I guess I found the place to change it in the post-template.php

$output = '';

if ( $multipage ) {

if ( 'number' == $next_or_number ) {

$output .= $before;

for ( $i = 1; $i < ($numpages+1); $i = $i + 1 ) {

$j = str_replace('%',"$i",$pagelink);

$output .= ' ';

if ( ($i != $page) || ((!$more) && ($page==1)) ) {

if ( 1 == $i ) {

$output .= '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">';

} else {

if ( '' == get_option('permalink_structure') || in_array($post->post_status, array('draft', 'pending')) )

$output .= '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '&amp;page=' . $i . '">';

else

$output .= '<a href="' . trailingslashit(get_permalink()) . user_trailingslashit($i, 'single_paged') . '">';

}



}

$output .= $link_before;

$output .= $j;

$output .= $link_after;

if ( ($i != $page) || ((!$more) && ($page==1)) )

$output .= '</a>';

}

$output .= $after;

} else {

if ( $more ) {

$output .= $before;

$i = $page - 1;

if ( $i && $more ) {

if ( 1 == $i ) {

$output .= '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . $link_before. $previouspagelink . $link_after . '</a>';

} else {

if ( '' == get_option('permalink_structure') || in_array($post->post_status, array('draft', 'pending')) )

$output .= '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '&amp;page=' . $i . '">' . $link_before. $previouspagelink . $link_after . '</a>';

else

$output .= '<a href="' . trailingslashit(get_permalink()) . user_trailingslashit($i, 'single_paged') . '">' . $link_before. $previouspagelink . $link_after . '</a>';

}

}

$i = $page + 1;

if ( $i <= $numpages && $more ) {

if ( 1 == $i ) {

$output .= '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . $link_before. $nextpagelink . $link_after . '</a>';

} else {

if ( '' == get_option('permalink_structure') || in_array($post->post_status, array('draft', 'pending')) )

$output .= '<a href="' . get_permalink() . '&amp;page=' . $i . '">' . $link_before. $nextpagelink . $link_after . '</a>';

else

$output .= '<a href="' . trailingslashit(get_permalink()) . user_trailingslashit($i, 'single_paged') . '">' . $link_before. $nextpagelink . $link_after . '</a>';

}

}

$output .= $after;

}

}

}



if ( $echo )

echo $output;



return $output;

}

And I would like to change the visual output to this

<p><strong>  Next Page ></strong></p>

for “Next”

and

<p><strong><  Previous Page  </strong></p>

for “Previous”

Thanks for your time

[and please excuse my poor English xD]

[bean_zj]

After a successful installation, the main page shows as follow:

” You must specify a table prefix in your bb-config.php file. “

I AM sure my config.php has defined table prefix as follow:

” $bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; “

after I add the code, my main page shows as follow:

” $bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’;You must specify a table prefix in your bb-config.php file. “

What is going wrong?