[chrishajer]

If the browser can’t handle the feed, just use one of the feed readers from the dmoz list.

[chrishajer]

I guess trying to view the RSS feed without a feed reader is kind of like trying to view a HTML page with notepad. You see something other than what’s intended because your client doesn’t support the content coming your way.

[howtogeek]

I’m sure the problem is that McKrazie is still on IE6, which displays RSS feeds as xml documents, since there’s no reader built in.

Sadly many companies have not upgraded yet.

[chrishajer]

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/WWW/Feed_Readers/

[chrishajer]

Yes, you need a feed reader. IE7 has one built in, Firefox does too, and you can add RSS feeds to a Google personalized homepage (which is what I took a screenshot of.)

Autodiscovery works fine for your site. Here’s your latest posts feed: http://www.hooligans-gaming.net/forums/rss.php

Google Reader is a feed reader as well. Try viewing your feed there.

http://www.google.com/reader/view/

Really, I can’t find any place it’s NOT working:

Google Reader

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/Hooligans-Google-Reader.png

Firefox 2

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/Hooligans-Firefox.png

IE7

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/Hooligans-IE7.png

[chrishajer]

Oddly, all the stuff over there is using the same CSS, which is a little weird. I think I would prefer to have .threadauthor .name, .threadauthor .post_count_plus, .threadauthor .status, .threadauthor .membersince, but that is not there now. If it were, it would be easy to add to style.css and style each item individually. But it’s not.

So, I just added this to .threadauthor in style.css:

font: 13px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

So now that block looks like this:

.threadauthor {

margin-left: -110px;

overflow: hidden;

position: absolute;

width: 95px;

font: 13px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

}

That worked for me. There are probably better ways to do it, by adding the proper classes to the template file or whatever generates that HTML, but barring that, this one line addition worked fine for me. If 13px is too small still, make it a larger number. You might also need to adjust the width after that.

[Craig]

Internet Explorer at my work

So, you can’t just view the rss.php page that is linked in the profiles? You need an external feeder to read it?

[chrishajer]

Works fine for me with Firefox and my Google homepage. See this after I added your feed:

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/iGoogle.png

No problem at all. Where are you trying to view this feed?

[Craig]

Alright, I will fully admit I am a complete newbie to RSS feeds and while I’m trying to learn more… I have a weird error I think.

When you have an active RSS feed on my forums it just shows a page with a white background and expandable/collasping script.

Forums: http://forums.hooligans-gaming.net

Help a brother out!

[janellers]

just don’t belive in my last post please help me!

[horrorshow]

Hi beaulebens,

I like your site!

Which version of wpmu and bbpress are you running? Which plugins are you using for the integration. (I had to modify some cookie setting code in bbpress to get the single signon working properly: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookies-subtle-bug-single-sign-on-bbpress-and-wordpress)

BBsync doesn’t work with WPMU, btw.

What other things have you customized? Thanks for sharing!

[horrorshow]

I fixed the problem by making changes to the bb_cookie() and bb_logout() since wpmu and bbpress set cookies differently: (the expire times are different). If anyone wants to me to post the code, please let me know.

Also, I added the “cookiedomain” to the config.php

Here’s the full list relevant to the integration.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->cookiedomain = '.achillesblog.com';

$bb->path='/forum/';

[itissue]

That looks like it should work. I have this in my-views.php though

$my_views_prefered_order=array(

"latest-discussions","no-replies","untagged","my-topics","my-posts","most-views","most-posts","least-views","least-posts",

"installed-plugins","available-plugins","installed-themes","available-themes","statistics"

);

The problem is, every time I put /view/latest-discussions/ or /view/latest-discussions/page/2 , it redirects me to the index page.

[howtogeek]

You have to make sure that it’s listed in the my-views.php plugin file in this line:

$my_views['prefered_order']=array(      // force views to list in the order that you desire

"latest-discussions","no-replies","untagged","my-topics","my-posts","most-views","most-posts","least-views","least-p

osts",

Usually the link is something like /forum/view/latest-discussions, for instance mine is here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/view/latest-discussions

If you wanted to link directly to the second page, it would be something like this:

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/view/latest-discussions/page/2

[horrorshow]

_ck_, I cleared all the cookies for this domain when doing the test. I also closed all open pages, and started fresh.

The three cookies that I see generated when doing this test on both BBPress and WPMU are:

wordpressuser

wordpresspass

wordpress_test_cookie

I’ll look at the code for logging out of wpmu, and also see if anything gets changed in the database. I’ll then compare that to how BBPress logs out and see if it makes any changes in the database too.

Thanks for the link, but he basically added:

‘

$bb->usercookie = ‘wordpressuser’;

$bb->passcookie = ‘wordpresspass’;

‘

And I’ve already done that.

[kernpunt]

Hopefully you folks can help me. I have a few questions about integration and bbPress. What I have right now is a custom built populated member database with passwords, usernames, emails, etc.

What I would like to do is get bbPress to “hook” into this database instead of having to have two member/user tables to keep synchronized. Is there a certain way you’d go about doing this, that perhaps isn’t too messy? Or will it require rewriting a lot of code?

I’ve found a lot of WordPress integration help here, but really not much on integrating with other types of websites (aside from template editing). So any help would be great, even if you just give me a little push in the right direction. Thanks.

[horrorshow]

Hi,

I don’t mean to post twice, but I realized that I replied this to a thread that had already been resolved.. so I am posting a new topic.

I am trying to integrate bbpress(0.8.3.1) with wordpress mu (1.3.3), and I am having some issues with cookies for login/logout.

I’ve tried setting this: (“MD5hash” replaced with my MD5)

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser_MD5hash';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass_MD5hash';

However, that didn’t seem to allow single sign-on login(meaning, if I am log into wp, go to bbpress and find myself already logged and vice versa)

Watching the cookies during the login/out process on WP MU, I found that the cookie names that WP MU uses are: “wordpresspass” and “wordpressuser”

So in config.php for bbpress, I used:

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

This works somewhat, let me explain:

This scenario works:

Log into WPMU, refresh bbpress page, I find myself already logged into bbpress.

Log out of WPMU, refresh bbpress page, I find myself logged out of bbpress.

Log into BBpress, refresh WPMU, I find myself logged into WPMU

This doesn’t work:

Log into BBpress, refresh WPMU (I find myself logged into WPMU) AND THEN when I try to log out from WPMU, I can’t log out.

I refresh BBpress page, and I am not logged out either.

If I log out from BBpress at this point, then I am logged out of WPMU as well.

I have a feeling it might be something with WPMU, but I thought I’d post here first since this is where I found all the information about the integration. Thanks for your help. I am appending my config.php relevant to the integration part.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

thanks for your help.

[chrishajer]

No need – just glad it’s working. We’ll call it virtual coffee money

[horrorshow]

Hi,

I am trying to integrate bbpress(0.8.3.1) with wordpress mu (1.3.3), and I am having some issues with cookies for login/logout.

I’ve tried setting this: (“MD5hash” replaced with my MD5)

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser_MD5hash';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass_MD5hash';

However, that didn’t seem to synchronize login(meaning, if I am log into wp, go to bbpress and find myself already logged and vice versa)

Watching the cookies during the login/out process on WP MU, I found that the cookie names that WP MU uses are: “wordpresspass” and “wordpressuser”

So in config.php for bbpress, I used:

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

This works somewhat, let me explain:

This scenario works:

Log into WPMU, refresh bbpress page, I find myself already logged into bbpress.

Log out of WPMU, refresh bbpress page, I find myself logged out of bbpress.

Log into BBpress, refresh WPMU, I find myself logged into WPMU

This doesn’t work:

Log into BBpress, refresh WPMU (I find myself logged into WPMU) AND THEN when I try to log out from WPMU, I can’t log out.

I refresh BBpress page, and I am not logged out either.

If I log out from BBpress at this point, then I am logged out of WPMU as well.

I have a feeling it might be something with WPMU, but I thought I’d post here first since this is where I found all the information about the integration. Thanks for your help. I am appending my config.php relevant to the integration part.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

thanks for your help.

[chrishajer]

Now it’s up to two coffees

[chrishajer]

You have the wrong URI in your config.php. You have this (I think):

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = 'http://ironboundforum.com/forums/';

and it should be

$bb->uri = 'http://ironboundforum.com/';

bbPress doesn’t care if it’s in a folder or not, just like it doesn’t know that it’s in your webroot of /kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs/ironbound/, so that ‘forums’ portion does not need to be in the config.php for your URI.

See this after I applied the proper stylesheet:

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/Ironbound.png

[Trent Adams]

I am not sure _ck_ but Sambauers wrote the plugin to take the password hash back to the old method. I am testing it with 2.3.3 and WPMU tomorrow and will let you know if it works or not

Trent

[chrishajer]

You can make that change in your 1&1 control panel. Administration > Domains > click the domain name, click the Destination [Edit] button, then select the /forums/ directory from the “Existing directory” select box. That directs all traffic destined for mysite.com to whatever website you have installed in the forums directory (which is bbPress in this case.)

That works fine if you want your bbPress installation to be the whole website mysite.com and everything is in the ‘forums’ directory. It’s the most direct way to do it, since you have the option to do it this way. It basically hides the fact that things are in a ‘forums’ directory, just like all the rest of the web server path is hidden. My full path is something like /kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs, and then each website has a subfolder there.

/kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs/chrishajer/

/kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs/forums/

/kunden/homepages/46/d93680635/htdocs/somesite/forums/

Your subfolder will be called “forums”, but people visiting your site will never know.

Coffee – black

[chrishajer]

Sounds like it wasn’t working at some point, and that information is cached. CTRL-SHIFT-R in Firefox will do a hard refresh. The source to the stylesheet is fine in both IE and Firefox, so it it probably something in your browser.

Here’s the path to the stylesheet from the HTML source:

http://thelifelesstraveled.com/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

[chrishajer]

Wait, what’s this:

Warning: version_compare() has been disabled for security reasons in d:hostingarock1rockline_forumbbpressbb-includesdb-base.php on line 479

Cannot select DB.

You didn’t post the first part of that message which I received when trying to access your forum.

Do you know what version MySQL is installed? You could probably work around that. The fact that you still have a “Cannot select DB” error after the warning means there is probably still a problem with your four connection details.