[John James Jacoby]

We’re all experiencing the same issue.

Integration appears to be a little broken still.

If you need to use the WP functions in your bbPress, that will break it further by not allowing you to access your bbPress admin panel at all.

The problem looks like the bb_map_meta_cap filter is ignored when the WordPress functions are loaded in place of the bbPress ones.

Some users have been able to resolve this by using a .htaccess file to redirect to the bbPress login and register page whenever an attempt to register or login is made through WordPress. That is the best fix at the moment if you do not require access to the WP functions.

If you do require that access, then you will need to wait until a fix comes out for the issue I mentioned above. That’s where I am.

[mithrandir321]

Yes, I installed WP first, then BB and integrated from the beginning, so BB is using wp_users. In fact, there’s no bb_users table according to my phpMyAdmin. Somehow, it seems that BB cannot access that wp_users table for one reason or another. But what exactly it is, is a mystery to me

[mvds]

No issues so far, just wanted you to know that Runs fine on my (live) site!

[block]

Interesting. There any code from there you can release in the mean time? Pretty disappointed that bbPress has such poor search, but not surprising given how little information and documentation there is.

[John James Jacoby]

It seems like there are several issues here, and I’m not sure which is really the issue or which is a bug…

Firstly, when integrated, bbPress wants to use the WordPress classes and functions where possible. Namely, the problem with capabilities lies currently with the difference in the WP_User->has_cap function.

On the WordPress side of it, it is missing the global $wp_roles; and the corresponding check of those roles against the current capability to check.

$caps = call_user_func_array( array(&$wp_roles, 'map_meta_cap'), $args );

So I’m not sure if this is just a case of bbPress not keeping up with the WordPress user/role classes, or if this is WordPress not properly carrying over bbPress capabilities.

Ugh…

[peuter]

Thanks for trying to help on this Chris. Here is what my htaccess file looks like at the moment:

Options +MultiViews

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Keep in mind this is in my root directory. (so both WP and BBpress are both using it?)

Am I supposed to have a seperate htaccess file in the bbpress directory too?

I got access to the code you sent me. Do I delete the above code and replace it with this code you sent?

[mithrandir321]

It worked alright before I started moving around with the directories.

If you’re talking about the params from config.php they stay untouched as they were before so BBDB_NAME, BBDB_USER etc. are correct….

Dont’t know what a socket connection is or how it differs

[mithrandir321]

Yeah, found the bb_mail function and will use a couple spam protection functions from WP-Mail to hardcode it for my site but won’t be able to make a plugin out of it

[mithrandir321]

Oh, that’s a little too complex I don’t think I can get my head around this one lest it was stripped down to the core functionality. The best part of my PHP days is unfortunately numbered but I’ll try to look for something easier.

[_ck_]

See this part of the plugin, you need to change the bb_add_filter and bb_add_actionto justadd_filterandadd_action`

/******************************************************************************

* - Define for bbPress interface

*****************************************************************************/



$bbemoticons = & new bbEmoticons();



bb_add_filter('post_text', array(&$bbemoticons, 'convert_smilies'));

//bb_head is not called always. 

//bb_add_action('bb_head', array(&$bbemoticons, 'bb_grins_head'));

bb_add_action('bb_feed_head', array(&$bbemoticons, 'bb_grins_head'));

bb_add_action('bb_grins', array(&$bbemoticons, 'bb_grins'));

[_ck_]

See this part of the plugin, you need to change the bb_add_filter and bb_add_actionto justadd_filterandadd_action`

/******************************************************************************

* - Define for bbPress interface

*****************************************************************************/



$bbemoticons = & new bbEmoticons();



bb_add_filter('post_text', array(&$bbemoticons, 'convert_smilies'));

//bb_head is not called always. 

//bb_add_action('bb_head', array(&$bbemoticons, 'bb_grins_head'));

bb_add_action('bb_feed_head', array(&$bbemoticons, 'bb_grins_head'));

bb_add_action('bb_grins', array(&$bbemoticons, 'bb_grins'));

[mithrandir321]

I can see there’s no plugin like that yet, however can anybody just hint as to what backpress functions I can use in order to hardcode this myself? I’m learning the php + bbpress stuff quite fast so I’d give it a whirl with a little help.

Think it may come useful for others as well.

[chrissydunno]

where in the code do you add your redirect hook exactly?

[_ck_]

There is no bb_do_action, only do_action.

bb_do_action has been removed.

Are you talking about the plugin created in this thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/emoticons-for-bbpress

Why not post your question there, where it will actually be relevant?

[_ck_]

bbPress Plugin Index, A – M

– A –

• Accurate Post Time
• Add Titles to Replies
• Admin add user
• Admin Can Post Anything
• Admin Drop Menus
• Admin Instant Menus
• Ajaxed Quote
• All Settings
• Allow Images
• Approve User Registration
• Automated Forum Moderation
• Avatar
• Avatar Upload

– B –

• BB Anonymous Posting
• bb Gzip
• BB Moderation Hold
• BB Scrippets
• bb SVN Tracker
• bb Topic Views
• bb-avatars
• bb-emoticons
• bb-Lightbox2
• bb-myAvatars
• bb-NoSpamUser
• bb-Scripture-Links
• bb-twitter
• BBcode Buttons
• BBcode Lite for bbPress
• bbFlickr 0.1
• bbPages
• bbPress Attachments
• bbPress Benchmark
• Bbpress Latest Discussion
• bbPress Polls
• bbPress Signatures
• bbPress Sitemap Generator
• bbPress Smilies
• bbPress Theme Switcher
• bbPress Username Extended
• bbPress-Mobile
• BBPress:Live Comment
• BBPress:Syntax Hiliter
• bbRatings
• bbRusToLat
• bbSocialize
• bbSync
• bbVideo

– C –

• Censor
• Comment Quicktags for bbPress

– D –

• Disable Display Name

– E –

• Edit History
• Enhanced Registration
• Enhanced Tag Heat Map

– F –

• Fix Admin Access
• Fix bbPress
• Force Login
• Forum is category
• Forum Last Poster
• Forum Redirector
• Forum Restriction
• Forums Moderators
• Front Page Topics

– G –

• Gaming Codes
• Google Analitycs
• graphic-display-ranks
• Gravatar

– H –

• Hidden Forums
• HTTP authentication for bbPress
• Human Test for bbPress

– I –

• Ignore Member
• Indicate New Posts
• Instant Password

– L –

• LDAP authentication for bbPress
• Limist Latest Discussion

– M –

• Mass Edit – Moderate Posts
• MD5 insecurity for bbPress
• MediaWiki wikitext Filter
• Memberlist
• Mini Stats
• Mini Track
• Mouldy old cookies for bbPress
• My Views

[_ck_]

Change the bbpress tables prefixs to bb_ via phpmyadmin and then fix the prefix setting in bb-config.php

[travelsuperlink]

I tried to understand the new database structure by checking the upgrade-schema.php. I found one thing could cause problem:

$bb_queries = “CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $bbdb->users (

ID bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,

user_login varchar(60) NOT NULL default ”,

user_pass varchar(64) NOT NULL default ”,

user_nicename varchar(50) NOT NULL default ”,

user_email varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”,

user_url varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”,

user_registered datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

user_status int(11) NOT NULL default 0,

display_name varchar(250) NOT NULL default ”,

PRIMARY KEY (ID),

UNIQUE KEY user_login (user_login),

UNIQUE KEY user_nicename (user_nicename)

);”;

my old database table bb_users the user_nicename does not have unique key on it, but now upgrade try to setup as unique key. will it be the reason for the upgrade timeout?

Unfortunately for my cpanel host I could not access the mysql log, but please help me solve this. any inputs are welcome.

thanks.

[travelsuperlink]

I follow the steps. After extract the new bbpress files and rename the config.php (v0. to bb-config.php, I could see all my previous posts.

However, when I login to the Admin, it displays:

It looks like your database is out-of-date.

You can update it here.

After click the Upgrade Database button, after a few seconds, the http://www.travelsuperlink.com/forum/bb-admin/upgrade.php page just display a blank webpage (timeout?)

I am stuck here, please help.

[_ck_]

Since bbPress-Live also does a list of forums, here’s how to do that too:

<h2>Forum List</h2>

<ul>

<?php

global $wpdb;

$query="SELECT * FROM bb_forums WHERE topics!=0 ORDER BY forum_order ASC LIMIT 10";

$results=$wpdb->get_results($query);

foreach ($results as $result) {

echo "<li><a href='/forums/forum.php?id=".$result->forum_id."'>".$result->forum_name."</a></li>";

}

?>

</ul>

of course this example doesn’t take into account nested forums and will just display them flat.

[_ck_]

And you can just keep making it fancier and fancier.

Let’s say you want to also show how many posts each topic has.

echo "<li><a href='/forums/topic.php?id=".$result->topic_id."'>".$result->topic_title."</a> (".$result->topic_posts." posts)</li>";

or how old the last reply is

echo "<li><a href='/forums/topic.php?id=".$result->topic_id."'>".$result->topic_title."</a> (".human_time_diff(strtotime($result->topic_time." GMT"))." ago)</li>";

[_ck_]

Let’s put that all together – this should work right inside any wordpress template:

<h2>Latest Forum Discussions</h2>

<ul>

<?php

global $wpdb;

$query="SELECT * FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status=0 ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT 10";

$results=$wpdb->get_results($query);

foreach ($results as $result) {

echo "<li><a href='/forums/topic.php?id=".$result->topic_id."'>".$result->topic_title."</a></li>";

}

?>

</ul>

[_ck_]

So we have the $results, how do we make a pretty list of them, say inside of our sidebar?

We have to loop through them and print them out. This is where that list of fields inside of bb_topics comes in handy.

Here’s just a list of titles to start with:

foreach ($results as $result) {

echo "<li>".$result->topic_title."</li>";

}

Of course that’s not very useful, because they aren’t clickable. To make them clickable will take a little bit more work:

foreach ($results as $result) {

echo "<li><a href='/forums/topic.php?id=".$result->topic_id."'>".$result->topic_title."</a></li>";

}

That example uses quite a few shortcuts to get the job done, it hardcoded the path to your forums (change /forums/ if needed) and even if your bbPress uses pretty permalinks, it simply uses the topic id number to get there – bbPress will redirect back to permalinks. If you absolutely know you have permalinks and want to use them, you could have done something like this instead:

<a href='/forums/topic/".$result->topic_slug."'>"

[_ck_]

Now we need to put together a correct mysql query.

Let’s try something simple.

SELECT * FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status=0 ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT 10

SELECT means “grab the following”

the asterisk means “all the fields in the table”

FROM bb_topics is kinda obvious, it’s the table we want

topic_status=0 means it’s topics not deleted

ORDER BY topic_time DESC means put the newest topics on top

LIMIT 10 means we want only the first 10

Let’s say we also wanted to exclude topics that were closed, since people can’t reply, we don’t want to tease them. In that case you would change the

WHERE topic_status=0

to

WHERE topic_status=0 AND topic_open=1

or let’s say you only wanted “stickies”

WHERE topic_status=0 AND topic_sticky!=0

Okay now to use that in WordPress we do the following:

global $wpdb;

$query="SELECT * FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status=0 ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT 10";

$results=$wpdb->get_results($query);

If all goes well, WordPress will then execute the query and then fill $results with the answers.

Now comes the output part.

[_ck_]

Both bbPress and WordPress have a very simple way of fetching data.

WordPress uses $wpdb

bbPress uses $bbdb

(the db part means database, very simple)

Then there’s the good old “get_results”. They both use that.

bbpress:

$results=$bbdb->get_results("mysql query goes here");

wordpress:

$results=$wpdb->get_results("mysql query goes here");

Many times you can use the same query in either bbpress or wordpress by just changing $bbdb to $wpdb or visa-versa.

Then you have to figure out what you are asking for.

Let’s use the really simple bbPress Topics table as an example. Unless you’ve customized your install, the Topics table is probably called bb_topics

Here are all the fields available inside of bb_topics.

topic_id

topic_title

topic_slug

topic_poster

topic_poster_name

topic_last_poster

topic_last_poster_name

topic_start_time

topic_time

forum_id

topic_status

topic_open

topic_last_post_id

topic_sticky

topic_posts

tag_count

[_ck_]

I’m not sure if this has been addressed elsewhere already or a plugin already exists but for novices that have even just a beginner’s knowledge of how php+mysql works I want to show you how easy it is to show bbPress info inside of WordPress and vise-versa.

You should NOT be using overly complex plugins like bbPress-Live or parsing RSS feeds if you have WordPress and bbPress sharing the same database but different tables. Instead, it’s a piece-of-cake to grab info from each other directly and display it. You don’t even need a plugin, you can code it right into your templates (as long as you know they will remain working together).

So I’ll give some examples here and then if anyone has questions feel free to ask.