[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?

[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?