[chrishajer]

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) in /nfs/c03/h04/mnt/57391/domains/willclan4food.net/html/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php on line 123

I just got this same error on installation of Alpha 4 with WordPress 2.7 integration. I caused it by being logged out of WordPress when I clicked the link to my wp-admin/options.php that was displayed by bbPress (the one where bbPress tells you to look for the salts in the WP admin area.) In Sam’s screencast, he was logged in, so clicking the link just brought up the options page straight away.

Anyway, I was logged out of WordPress at that step, and when I clicked the link, I got the WordPress admin login, with a redirect URL that looked like this:

http://example.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fforums%2Fbb-admin%2Finstall.php%3Fstep%3D2

So, when I logged in, instead of redirecting me upon login to http://example.com/wp-admin/options.php, it redirected me to step 2 in the bbPress install. After that, I got the same exact error as you did. In fact, there were a couple more too.

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysqld.sock' (2) in /home/example/forums/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php on line 123



Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/example/forums/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php on line 377



Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/example/forums/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php:123) in /home/example/forums/bb-includes/functions.bb-core.php on line 842

I ended up reinstalling since I was not confident in the installation at that point and didn’t want to take any chances at something not being set properly.

[Ganzuelo]

I got alpha to work,. I then installed both bbpress plugins for wordpress. I went back to change user options in the bbpress admin panel and error messages came up.. goto http://willclan4food.net for details.. The error codes are popping up there

[Malice]

Yea I have a similar problem. A sticky in a subforum (not sticky to front) makes the topic disappear from the subforum. It does still show up in the latest discussion on the frontpage. Can’t sticky posts in individual subforums though.

Forum

I use several plugins, all activated:

BBcode Buttons Toolbar 0.0.8

BBcode Lite 1.0.3

BBPress Private Messaging 0.80

bbPress signatures 0.1.9

bbPress Smilies 0.0.5

bb Topic Views 1.6.3

Bozo Users 1.0

Google Analitycs 0.1

Human Test for bbPress 0.8.2

Instant Password 0.0.4

New User Notification Email 0.0.2

Post Count Plus – Dynamic.Titles & More! 1.1.6

Quote 0.2

Subscribe to Topic 0.0.1

Unread Posts 0.9.3

[Trent Adams]

Generally what I do is just edit your template to change the code on register.php to just have the registration page either redirect to your wordpress registration or have a link on it. If you use the default theme, just copy it into /my-templates/ and edit the register.php file of your theme. That seems to be the easiest as it then never shows the bbPress registration form.

[walkerevans]

I was just thinking the same thing. I’ve run a few tests and it doesn’t appear to search tags or headlines.

If anyone knows a fix it would be great to hear one!

[anotherdan]

Lighttpd “pro” – thanks but im not, hehe… Anyways it was me on irc the other day, I have bbPress running now, and have made a few changes to the the rewrite rules, I found exactly some errors regarding some urls needing more parameters…

This is how it looks now:

http://lab.anotherdan.com/conf/bbpress-rewrite.conf.txt

I havent been through it all but at least some it works (Note this also contains some of the custom rewriting im doing for this install)

[_ck_]

There’s no way your version works because the str_replace is executed immediately and the $2 isn’t available at that time. The regex would either have to use a callback or be expanded to catch words (or look on php.net for the /e modifer)

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

The destination URL would be http://wiki.mydomain.com/wiki/PAGE And it cleverly sees the spaces (like ‘Main Page’) and turns that into underscores (Main_Page).

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Wiki Link

*/

add_action('post_text','wiki_link',200);

function wiki_link($text) {

$url="http://example.com/path_to_wiki/";

$wiki= str_replace(" ", "_", "$ 2");

$text=preg_replace("/([[(.+?)]])/si","<a class='wiki_link' href='$url$wiki'>$ 2</a>",$text);

return $text;

}

?>

It does eat that $2 doesn’t it…

[_ck_]

Untested. Actually the forum is deleting some of the code so use it from here:

http://pastebin.com/f54a958de

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Wiki Link

*/

add_action('post_text','wiki_link',200);

function wiki_link($text) {

$url="http://example.com/path_to_wiki?terms=";

$text=preg_replace("/([[(.+?)]])/si","<a class='wiki_link' href='$url$2'>$2</a>",$text);

return $text;

}

?>

the above is missing two $2, should look like

<a class='wiki_link' href='$url$2'>$2</a>

[_ck_]

It’s probably a 5 line plugin to do that.

Give me an example of what the destination URL looks like.

[walkerevans]

Commented out the following code in template-functions.php got it to work again… testing to see if this is going to cause any security problems.

//if ( ‘user_email’ == $key && $bb_current_id != $user->ID )

// continue;

[Malice]

great work guys! Can’t believe this exists just 2 years. Excellent software!

Thanks for all the plugins as well

[sbouazza]

Replace :

$uri = preg_replace('!?page=[0-9]+!', '%_%', $uri );

By :

$uri = preg_replace('!?page=[0-9]+!', '%_%', $uri );

That’s all .

[chrishajer]

I was able to get the forum ID on a topic page by using this (and nothing else) in header.php:

<?php echo (get_forum_id()); ?>

Works on forum pages too.

[salemw]

yes, i did went to that topic earlier, I searched the whole forum but I just don’t get how i should use it I tried : global $topic_id, $forum_id; include(‘../nav/’.$forum_id.’.php’);

it works fine but only on forum pages. not on topics. The same with an earlier post asking for different stylesheets:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php if ($forum_id == 1) bb_stylesheet_uri(); elseif ($forum_id == 2) echo '/my-templates/kakumei-blue/style.css'; ?>" type="text/css" />

It”s ok on forum but not on topics.

So in my header if I do the routine:

global $topic; echo “$topic->topic_title”; I get the topic title ok but nothing with

global $bb_post; echo “$bb_post->forum_id”;

[feastoffools]

Hi there everyone, right now we’re trying to restructure our wordpress blog and bbpress forums to allow blog entries to appear in the forums via Bbsync.

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/

Because of this need to have our blog entries appear in the forums, we’re restructuring our forums to tie into the blog entries.

Check it out here: http://www.feastoffools.net/community

Wondering if there is a way for parent forums to show all the entries in their subforums instead of showing entries specifically intended for the top parent category. Am I making sense?

Or is there a way to lock out people from making an entry on a top level forum (allow only subforum

Is there a way to have the top level forums count the entries in the subforums? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

<hr>

Right now this is the structure we’re looking at:

Feast of Fools

– Podcast (Gay Fun Show) PODCAST

– Video (Our original videos) VIDEO

– Photos (Our original Photos) PHOTOS

– Mini Bites (Audio clips and songs from the podcast) MINI BITES

– One on One (Video Blogs) VIDEO BLOGS

Topics

– About Us (Press, Appearances, Announcements)

– Animals (Our furry and not so furry friends)

– News & Rumors (What’s the Buzz)

– Trends & Tech (How we are changing, technology & the environment)

– Culture & Style (Media, Ideas, Recipies, Looks & Things that are hot)

– Gender & Sexuality (Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Trans, Male, Female, Bi, Trans & Everything Else)

– Health & Wellness (AIDS/HIV, Fitness, STDs, Diet, Nutrition, Mental Health)

– People (Celebrities, Guests, Hotties & You)

– Politics & Activism (Creating Change and the people and ideas behind it)

– Travel & Tourism (where to go, what to see)

Fans & Friends

– Ask for Advice (questions)

– Promote Your Work (links and samples of: Photos, Video, Blog, Podcasts, Designs)

– Your Thoughts (statements)

Support

– Site News (Changes, Upgrades & News About the Site)

– Listening to Shows

– How to Post (Tips and tricks on posting in the forums)

– New Listeners

– Questions

Feedback

– Bugs (Report problems for the site)

– Show Ideas

– Favorite Moment (Time and Episode in a podcast you found fabulous)

---

[salemw]

Hello,

I recently transfered my forum from phpbb3 to bbpress and i really enjoy it

there is only one thing I cannot reproduce with bbpress. I used to have a different style for each category or forums and an image include on top of each. I can do it with forum_id but the variable do not follow in topics

ex:

if ($forum_id == 1) echo 'blabla';

How could I keep it in topics ?

Thank you

[sbouazza]

The typical forum layout comes from catering to new visitors that want descriptions of each category, and from repeat visitors wanting to check if there are updates to that category without having to click into that category.

Of course, my goal is to break that “tradition” and create something newer and, as you said, wik-ish .

Tags also are really great for moderating topics, you can immediately find duplicate topics and close them .

The forum will be managed BY the community, so using tags for navigation and giving the users the right to create them freely will not be a problem ( tags spam ? the spammer will get a kick in the ass ), and the moderation team will do its best to prevent tags abuse.

If tags could visually signify if there are new posts for the visitor inside of them, maybe with emphasis or italics or reordering them to the front of the cloud, that would be a neat idea.

Good idea, noted .

Well, thank you all for your responses, I’ll try to finish the template then I’ll invite users to test it and give me their feedbacks .

I didn’t see someone else using tag navigation on his forum, so maybe I will be the first to use it ( or to loose )

[dirge2000]

Well what do you know – it *was* in the bb-config.php file. I *knew* it wasn’t anything I’d done to the templates, ’cause I’d checked them a thousand times, plus it showed up even when I reverted to the original templates.

Thanks for your help!

[chrishajer]

Ignoring the debate over whether it’s a feature or a bug, good or bad, you could just remove the capability from the member role. It’s coded in bb-includes/functions.bb-capabilities.php line 170, “edit_tags”. You could delete that line and members would not be able to edit tags any longer. I’m not sure if that means they can’t add tags to their own post or not though.

Also, instead of modifying a core file like that, you could probably use a plugin to remove that capability from the member role. Or you could create a whole new role that does not have that capability. I think there was a plugin related to custom roles:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/disable-posting-and-registration#post-11696

[chrishajer]

That’s not really that weird or random. I suspect it’s in one of the template files that was edited. Since it doesn’t occur anywhere other than the front page (that I could see anyway) it’s probably in the front-page.php template file. Just search that file, or all template files for the string “ousep”. It should be pretty apparent.

It could also be in the bb-config.php but I doubt it since that would probably throw a syntax error.

Could be from “houseplant” or “mousepad” I suppose

[dirge2000]

Dunno what’s going on, but I’ve just installed bbpress at http://www.corvidaid.org/forum/ and for some reason extra characters are being added into the page just at the start. View the source code and you see “ousep” just being spat out at random. I have no idea where it’s coming from or what to do about it. Help!

[Fernando Tellado]

I’m finishing my new forum (latest was made with SMF). I’m using bbPress 1.0 alpha 4 with the default theme (in blue and customized) and several plugins (a lot):

– Akismet

– Attachments

– Favourites notification

– Registration notification

– Temporal Ban

– bbcode buttons

– smileys buttons

– Related topics

– Signatures

– bbcode lite

– bbvideo

– post count plus

– support forum

– mass edit

– hidden forums

– active users

– bbpress karma

– terms of service

– human test

– report post

I’ve made the translation of bbPress 1.0 to spanish ( http://ayudawordpress.com/bbpress-espanol-alpha-104/ ) and the forum URL is …

htp://foro.ayudawordpress.com

[myu]

It would work fine.

I hacked mine so users would tick on tags that are pre-defined, using only one forum. I thought it would be more suited for the target users who might not be familiar with the whole concept of “tags”, and I think it is working as expected.

The way I could think of in how to enter tags in the first place is pretty silly but ah well…

You’d be letting users enter the tags themselves, so it’ll be logically nicer.

[1496013]

sbouazza, send a screenshot of your forum

I think is a best idea.