[mrc2407]

Ipstenu: I still have the same problem. I’ve checked if KEY strings matched, and they do.

WP KEY:

define('AUTH_KEY', 'this is my key');

bbPress KEY:

define('BB_AUTH_KEY', 'this is my key');

I’ve tried th change “BB_AUTH_KEY” (bbPress KEY) to “AUTH_KEY”, but it still doesn’t work…

[_ck_]

Looks like the forum ate your code but to display the forum name when you only have the id, you can use the built in bbpress functions

echo get_forum_name($result->forum_id);

or

echo "Posted by $result->topic_poster_name in ".get_forum_name($result->forum_id);

or

echo "Posted by <a href='".bb_get_profile_link($result->topic_poster)."'>$result->topic_poster_name</a>

in <a href='".get_forum_link($result->forum_id);."'>".get_forum_name($result->forum_id)."</a>";

[tomwi]

also, I got this far… just not sure how to get the forum name, since only the forum ID is listed in this table… not sure how I pull the otehr table and combine the two.

echo "

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

";

[martenk]

As for linking to the forum from the blog like as if it was a page it’s just a matter of installing this plugin: http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/page-links-to/

Works great.

[slambert1971]

I have bbPress 0.9.0.4 up and running and have heavily modified a theme to change the front page, and forum pages. Here is my hierarchy:

Front Page – displays only the top level forums (Parent), but also display sub forums descriptions (Group), then the sub forums of each group (Child) are listed and linked. Looks really cool and is exactly what we need for a project I am working on. I have modified the forum.php to check what type of forum it is (Parent, Group, Child) and load the correct file.

Now, I would like to have a “Hot Topics” page where any item set as “sticky to the top” will list just like they would normally list on the standard home page. Is there a way to set bbpress to load a non-standard file, so like /bbpress/hot-topics.php, which is actually the original forum.php

Hope that hasn’t confused anyone. I have looked around at all the bbPress code to find a hook, action or filter for this, but can’t seem to find it. Thanks.

[Ben L.]

Delete the plugin, just put <input name="remember" type="hidden" id="quick_remember" value="1" /> in your login-form.php file.

[joshposh]

Hm, I don’t know if I have PHP error logs somewhere to be honest, I’m not that good with that stuff, sorry xD

I just looked into the cPanel of my Server and it has a few logs but nothing related to PHP.

Ah, well, it’s not that important anyways since everything is actually working as far as I can tell, I just thought I could ask if it’s a bug or feature

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

This isn’t a plugin, it’s a ‘hack’ but I can’t think of where else to put this.

I have blog posts (duh) and I have forum topics that, sometimes, relate. I wanted to have a way to relate the blog posts to say ‘Comment here’ and ‘Forum chat here.’

The solution is stupid easy. I made a custom field in my blog (forum_topic) and then added this to the link with my comments link:

<?php $forum= get_post_meta($post->ID, 'forum_topic', true); if ($forum) : ?><a href="<?php echo $forum; ?>">Forum Topic</a>

And now if there’s a related forum topic, I make the custom field, add the link in that field for the post, and it shows up. No topic? No link!

Now if I can do that in reverse, that would be cool… related blog posts to this forum topic.

[virginiagirl]

You’re right – I think when I hid the top header it also removed the Login/Logout buttons. Do you know what code in the PHP file controls these buttons? I know I didn’t delete any of the PHP code, I just applied display:none to the CSS file.

[Tom Lynch]

I have recently migrated my entire phpBB over to bbPress and now want to move the bbPress users into wordpress mu so I can use wordpress integration the problem was that there is no easy way to migrate and check the users aren’t doubling up…

I wrote a simple php script to do just that and it allowed me to list out the users where manual attention is required, it can be run just from the command line like this…. ‘php -f file.php’ and will move the users over perfectly (at least for me)…

Note there has been no testing of this code it worked for me and may cause you issues, back up your database first!

Comments on the code appreciated for future improvement.

‘<?php

echo “n”;

echo “+

---

+n”;

echo “| bbPress to WordPress User Migration |n”;

echo “+

---

+n”;

echo “| Created by: |n”;

echo “| Tom Lynch |n”;

echo “+

---

+n”;

echo “n”;

echo “Messages:n”;

echo “n”;

echo “Username Messagen”;

echo ”

---

---

n”;

function printSpaces($username) {

$spaces = 25 – strlen($username);

echo $username;

for ($i = 0; $i < $spaces+1; $i++) {

echo ” “;

}

}

// Enter your database host, username and password here…

mysql_connect(‘localhost’, ‘username’, ‘password’);

// Enter your database name here (both tables must be in same database – sorry)

mysql_select_db(‘database’);

$migrated = 0;

$errors = 0;

$query = mysql_query(“SELECT user_login, user_pass, user_nicename, user_email, user_url, user_registered, user_status, display_name FROM bb_users WHERE user_pass LIKE ‘$P$B%’;”);

while ($data = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) {

$query2 = mysql_query(“SELECT user_login, user_email FROM wp_users WHERE user_login = ‘”.$data.”‘ || user_email = ‘”.$data.”‘;”);

if (mysql_num_rows($query2) > 0) {

$data2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($query2);

if ($data == $data2 && $data == $data2) {

// Suppressing already migrated users error

//echo printSpaces($data) . ” has already been migrated by the looks of it!n”;

} else if ($data == $data2) {

echo printSpaces($data) . ” could not be migrated, that user name is already taken! (“.$data.”)n”;

$errors++;

} else if ($data == $data2) {

echo printSpaces($data) . ” could not be migrated, that email address is already taken! (“.$data.”)n”;

$errors++;

}

} else {

mysql_query(“INSERT INTO wp_users (user_login, user_pass, user_nicename, user_email, user_url, user_registered, user_status, display_name) VALUES (‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘, ‘” . $data . “‘);”);

// Suppressing user migrated message

//echo $data . ” was migratedn”;

$migrated++;

}

}

$alreadyDone = ((mysql_num_rows($query) – $errors) – $migrated);

echo “n”;

echo “Stats:n”;

echo “n”;

echo “Users Migrated: ” . $migrated . “n”;

echo “Already Migrated: ” . $alreadyDone . “n”;

echo “Not Migrated: ” . $errors . “n”;

echo “=======================================n”;

echo “Total: ” . mysql_num_rows($query) . “n”;

echo “n”;

?>’

[Andrew]

Additional info:

Following the error, the page displays fine with the exception of user roles and the link to the user profile. All are listed as invalid, with the exception of the user that is logged in.

The malformed SQL request is listing the user ID’s in the thread. The ID’s are in order of post appearance. Once an anonymous post is in the sequence it fails to insert the userID.

Another example is below:

SELECT user_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_usermeta WHERE user_id IN (17,23,1,18,) /* WP_Users::append_meta */

The fifth post in the topic is an anonymous poster with no corresponding wp_user or wp_usermeta information but it appears a null is inserted in the request rather than the legacy user ID.

If I look into the database and examine topics and posts made by anonymous users the legacy user ID’s are there. bb_posts has the old user IDs for the posts made by deleted users . Somehow, this data isn’t making it into the request.

[_ck_]

You can disable all javascripts and things fallback to non-js mode (usually, except in 1.0 I think they broke some things, again)

comment out this line like so in your header.php

<?php // bb_enqueue_script('topic'); ?>

Everything is being eventually moved to jquery like wordpress.

[Billy Wilcosky]

I don’t want bbpress to get more famous honestly. I like the fact that this is a forum software that not a lot of people use, it makes my forum seem unique. But, oh well.

[pixelfreak]

One of bbPress’s focus is to be fast, but like a lot of framework, it seems to ignore the basics rules of good client-side performance. For instance, if you are logged-in and if you are on topic’s page, there are 7 external JS requests, all of them placed in the head. Page rendering is blocked until those JS files are fully loaded. Ideally, we should minimize the number of requests (concatenating all the JS files into 1) and put them at the bottom of the page before body.

bbPress is also using two JS frameworks that has overlapping functionalities (Prototype and jQuery), ideally we should choose one and stick with it (preferably jQuery, imho). There are also some code that duplicate functionality that already exists in the JS framework, for instance: add-load-event.js.

I realize this might be easier said than done, but I would like to know if this is at least being considered in the roadmap. If not, is there any suggestion before I hack the core? (I don’t think a plugin can do this?)

Thanks,

William

[chrishajer]

WordPress functionality means being able to use WordPress functions, in bbPress. There are WordPress functions called get_header():, get_footer();, get_sidebar(); that exist in WordPress. Some people would like to use call these functions in their bbPress templates so they can get the exact same footer, header and sidebar in their forum as they have in the WordPress site. To do that, you need to do “full integration” which is what _ck_ is recommending against.

To just put a list of images with links in your sidebar, you need only modify your template files. You need to create space in the template where you want the sidebar (maybe forum.php in your template folder) by creating an additional div, maybe call it #rightsidebar. Now, you need to edit your style.css to make the other divs smaller (less wide, and then make the rightsidebar wider to fill the space you created. If they theme you’re using doesn’t have enough space for all that, you might need to increase the width of the whole layout.

I think the first step is to make the space on the page where you want it, get that working. Then, get the list of images and links in there. That’s how I would go about it. It doesn’t sound like you need access to specific WordPress functions.

[Andrew]

I am upgrading an old .83 bbpress installation to Alpha 1.0r6.

I have about 6k posts in the .83 database.

After upgrading the database I’ve noticed the following problems. Several of the posts in the database were made by users no longer in the database. If a topic containing posts by these now ‘anonymous’ users is displayed, I get the following error at the top of the screen.

DB Error in wp_users::append_meta: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '32) /* WP_Users::append_meta */' at line 1



SELECT user_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_usermeta WHERE user_id IN (1,,32) /* WP_Users::append_meta */

If I delete the anonymous posts in the thread, the problem goes away. Using PHPAdmin I checked the user ID’s assigned to the posts and there are no users with those user ID’s in wp_users. (I have an integrated installation).

I thought the problem was a result of an upgrade, so I created a new user, made some posts, and then deleted that user. The problem still exists. I have not tried this on a clean install and it would be useful if someone could try that.

I am running the default Kak. Blue theme.

I believe I tracked the problem request to a backpress file.

bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-users.php:

if ( $metas = $this->db->get_results("SELECT $meta_field, meta_key, meta_value FROM {$this->db->$meta_table} WHERE $meta_field IN ($ids) /* WP_Users::append_meta */") ) {

I am not a SQL sleuth but I believe the $ids field is being populated with nulls associated with deleted users.

[ganzua]

The problem with adding a filter is that you lose the function for counting the total amount of posts.

How can you convert nolageek code into a new function “topic_replies”? ;

<?php

function bb_decrement( $value ) {

return $value-1;

}

add_filter( 'get_topic_posts', 'bb_decrement', 1);

?>

<?php

function bb_decrement_topic( $value ) {

global $forum;

return $value;

}

function bb_decrement_forum( $value ) {

global $forum;

return $value-get_forum_topics();

}

add_filter( 'get_topic_posts', 'bb_decrement_topic', 1);

add_filter( 'get_forum_posts', 'bb_decrement_forum', 1);

?>

[chrishajer]

Looks like the function bb_tag_heat_map takes some parameters. In your tags.php template file, you will find something like this:

<?php bb_tag_heat_map( 9, 38, 'pt', 80 ); ?>

That calls this function:

function bb_tag_heat_map( $args = '' ) {

$defaults = array( 'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'limit' => 45, 'format' => 'flat' );

So, the smallest is 9pt, largest is 38pt, UOM is pt (points) and the limit, at least in my template, is to return 80 tags. That much you can control from just calling the function with different parameters. As far as most recent tags, I am uncertain how to do that, but it sounds like it would be a good plugin (not sure if this does what you want: I don’t think so):

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/enhanced-tag-heat-map/

The information is stored in the database when something is tagged, so I’m pretty sure you could grab the latest N tags by date, DESC and display them as Recent Tags.

[chrishajer]

I just added the tag “futurama” to the following 4 topics:

http://geek.thinkunique.org/bb/topic/womanizer-cover-by-the-all-american-rejects

http://geek.thinkunique.org/bb/topic/cowboy-mouth

http://geek.thinkunique.org/bb/topic/new-releases-on-dvd-and-blu-ray-december-30-2008

http://geek.thinkunique.org/bb/topic/amazon-quick-linker

I took a look at the hottags div before and after. There were lots of changes, due to the increase in the use of the futurama tag, but here is the futurama tag information:

Before:

<a href='http://geek.thinkunique.org/bb/tags/futurama' title='1 topics' rel='tag' style='font-size: 8pt;'>Futurama</a>

After:

<a href='http://geek.thinkunique.org/bb/tags/futurama' title='5 topics' rel='tag' style='font-size: 14.2222222222pt;'>Futurama</a>

So, the hot tags are updating. What makes you think they’re not?

[chrishajer]

I knew this was going to be a good discussion

[karlheinz]

The Problem ist the IE 6. The Menu is outside the Window. In Opera and Firefox it is ok.

[yokima]

Hello,

I would like to have bbPress in two languages, using the same forum DB. So when viewing in language 1, the forum’s interface would be in language 1 with all the postings listed, and in language 2, the interface would be in language 2 with the same postings listed.

I plan on achieving this with bbPress theme switcher ( http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-theme-switcher/ ) and the link to switch between the themes/languages would be /bbpress/?bbtheme=lang1 and /bbpress/?bbtheme=lang2

I would also like to set up a php page at the root of the web domain to auto-detect and forward to the appropriate mediawiki language page based on

1) user’s browser language preferences if this is a first time visit

2) last connection’s languages preferences, which would be saved in the form of bbPress’s theme preference cookie.

with a file structure of

/blog

/blog/bbpress

/blog/wiki

/langdetect.php

My code so far is:

?php

/* langdetect.php */

$defaultlang = ‘en’

$lang = $defaultlang;

/* bbPress theme cookie detection */

if cookie exists {

(read cookie and set $lang to either en or ko.. bla bla)

}

/* WordPress and/or MediaWiki last visit language detection */

elseif previous visit info exists {

(i’ll figure this out later)

}

/* detect in-browser lang pref … modified from http://kaldung.com/en/php_detectbrowserlanguage.html */

else {

$langlist = explode(‘,’, $_SERVER);

foreach($langlist as $curLang) {

$curLang = explode(‘;’, $curLang);

/* use regular expression for language detection */

if (preg_match(‘/(ko|en)-?.*/’, $curLang[0], $reg)) {

$lang = $reg[1];

break;

}

}

}

/* redirect */

if ( $lang==’ko’ ) { header( ‘Location: http://ENGLISHPAGE&#8217; ) ; }

else { header( ‘Location: http://ENGLISHPAGE&#8217; ) ; }

?>

How can I read the bbPress cookie that contains the Theme Switcher theme preference?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

chris, add that code to your functions.php in your theme folder. No plugins needed.

[ganzua]

You can create a function to remove wanna and add something new. This is an example that Ipstenu provided in another thread;

// This sets closed lable to read as 'read only' instead of 'closed'

remove_filter('bb_topic_labels', 'bb_closed_label');

function my_closed_label( $label ) {

global $topic;

if ( '0' === $topic->topic_open )

return sprintf(__('[Read Only] %s'), $label);

return $label;

}

add_filter('bb_topic_labels', 'my_closed_label');

1 You find the function where “wanna” is.

2 Next, you copy/paste the function between remove/add filter lines of the code above.

3 Modify the copy-pasted function; change “wanna” for “want to”

4 Then, rename that function with a new name, ie “no_wanna”

5 Change accordingly the remove/add lines

6 Finally, place the whole code in a plugin or a functions.php in the template folder.

Another option is probably using a language file but I don’t know if you can set an english-english file.

[chrishajer]

There are a couple place where bbPress uses the word “wanna” as in “are you sure you wanna do that”. I’d like to change that to something more professional, like “want to” but I don’t want to change the core. How can I accomplish that with a plugin?

Using bbPress Alpha trunk (but this “wanna” wording has existed for a long time, maybe back to 0.73). The word wanna can be found in these files:

./bb-includes/js/topic.js

./bb-includes/functions.bb-script-loader.php

./bb-includes/functions.bb-script-loader.php

./bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php

./bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php

Thank you.