There is still a set of problems with this. The value of $this->$dbhname isn’t checked before it’s used in mysql_get_server_info() on line 75 in db-mysqli.php. If the connection fails, the error won’t be echoed to the user because the use of @ on the mysql_connect() call and then the script just continues, assuming the connection went fine, which in my case, it din’t. Also, the call should be to mysql<b>i</b>_connect() and not mysql_connect(), as far as I can understand.
The patch doesn’t fix these problems and they need to be fixed for bbPress to work on my host. I’d write these comments on the associated ticket, but there doesn’t seem to be any way to register or comment anonymously there.
I have the same problem and overwriting db-mysqli.php with db.php didn’t help. Just for completeness, here’s the error messages I encounter:
Warning: mysql_get_server_info() [function.mysql-get-server-info]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in /home/<snip>/bbpress/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 73
I suspect bbPress of having hard coded a connection to localhost and thus configuring define('BBDB_HOST', '...') to be something else than localhost doesn’t really matter. I don’t have MySQL and Apache installed on the same physical server, so I have to access MySQL through a hostname and thus localhost won’t work.
This morning when I logged in, I noticed a big chunk of the posts on my forum were gone. I still have posts from the beginning and some recent ones, but a large batch of posts from the middle was lost 
Any ideas on why or how I could get them back ?
You really, really, really need to upgrade your WordPress:
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 1.5.1.2" />
Until then, I think it would be silly to try and fix any errors in your install.
Current WordPress version is 2.3.1: 1.5.1.2 was released 2.5 years ago and has security issues as well as limited functionality.
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/serious-security-vulnerabilities-of-wordpress-1512-and-below/
Here is a temporary solution:
rss.php: http://llbb.pastebin.com/f5c1a8a37
rss2.php of template: http://llbb.pastebin.com/f24cd6fd3
If you need the last post content of each topic, please find a recent topic Excerpt and combine this with it.
Edit: Oops… just find out you are also the starter of that topic.
It’s working for me. I clicked on some forum names and was brought to a page that listed that forum name. There were no topics though so it said “you must be logged in to post.” So, I created an account and I can look around and everything looks normal.
If any link that had ‘forum’ in it redirected to the main blog, my guess is you had a permalink issue. I would set your mod_rewrite line to false for the time being (which you may have done already to get it working, since it seems to be fine right now.)
$bb->mod_rewrite = false;
Why is your bbPress calling a WordPress function?
wp-includes/functions.php
Is there more to your setup than it appears?
Actually, I just went to your forum and it is working?
After all my slicing and dicing with bbPress, I’m finally coming close to completing everything, except one thing. This RSS thing is really killing me 
. I’m wracking my brain trying to explain this the best way possible.
So here I go. Each forum has a feed, how do I only show the topics in the feed? As it stands right now, the feed is showing the replies as well, I just want topics to show.
Sorry for sounding redundant, but I’m desperate >_< to complete. Thanks in advance.
The workaround won’t work for plugins.
@sambauers: I think there is no complete working solution if you don’t touch the core files.
First, load_default_textdomain and load_plugin_textdomain are WordPress version, they only look language files in WordPress directories. So, in bbPress, all text won’t be translated since language file are not loaded because WordPress load_*_textdomain won’t find language files in bbPress’ directories.
Second, WordPress and bbPress both use default as textdomain when calling __() or _e() without assigning textdomain, that means we can only use either WordPress’ or bbPress’ language files at the same time, not both.
(edit: plugin’s problem can be solved by add a bb_load_plugin_textdomain, but bbPress’s part. If we don’t want to use something like bb__(), bb_e(), maybe we can try to merge bbPress translations into WordPress’ in runtime? or search bbPress’ first, then WordPress’ if can’t find)
Sorry, didn’t read bbPress source carefully. Replace first if clause with
if ( defined('BBLANG') && '' != constant('BBLANG') ) {
if ( function_exists('load_default_textdomain') ) {
global $l10n;
$locale = BBLANG;
$mofile = BBPATH . BBINC . 'languages/' . "$locale.mo";
if ( is_readable($mofile) ) {
$input = new CachedFileReader($mofile);
$l10n['default'] = new gettext_reader($input);
}
}
else {
include_once(BBPATH . BBINC . 'streams.php');
include_once(BBPATH . BBINC . 'gettext.php');
}
}
PS. That “..” is how you put variable to be parsed in string in PHP ( Variable parsing )
tried out your workaround, does not seem to work (doesn’t load language file).
also, shouldn’t it be $mofile = BBLANGDIR . $locale . ".mo";?
but even with that fixed, it doesn’t work.
but still, thanks a lot!!
Seems you will use a lot of stuff from WordPress. If your WordPress template is already written in German, then you should have no problems. If not or some functions use gettext functions, then you will see many text in original language.
This is a quick workaround:
if ( defined('BBLANG') && '' != constant('BBLANG') ) {
if ( function_exists('load_default_textdomain') ) :
global $l10n;
$locale = BBLANG;
$mofile = BBLANGDIR . "$locale.mo";
load_textdomain('default', $mofile);
else:
include_once(BBPATH . BBINC . 'streams.php');
include_once(BBPATH . BBINC . 'gettext.php');
endif;
}
if ( !( defined('DB_NAME') || defined('WP_BB') && WP_BB ) ) { // Don't include these when WP is running.
require( BBPATH . BBINC . 'kses.php');
if ( !function_exists('load_default_textdomain') )
require( BBPATH . BBINC . 'l10n.php');
}
It should drops WordPress’ language file, and replaces with bbPress’. That means translations need to be done in WordPress won’t be translated since this code drops language file. This wont happen when you read your blog. However, I don’t have any language files, so this is coded by guessing.
This is not a solution, just a temporary fix. I will file a ticket.
Reproduced.
I didn’t use any language files. But after I put a language code in bb-config.php (for r988) and wp-config.php, I got a blank page.
Don’t know if I can fix this.
Then, you should trace in bbPress’ code to find out where causes an exit.
BTW, you can also test error_log(get_option('blogname')); to make sure WordPress loaded database correctly.
PS. debugging with no debugger is a crazy thing. You have to guess by experiences for best shot.
I don’t have any clues to solve you problem.
If I were you, I will
1. put error_log('WordPress loaded'); after that request_once to make sure wp has been loaded.
2. check error log for WordPress loaded, if I get that, that means the problem should be on bbPress, or on WordPress.
3. keep using error_log, find out where causes a program end.
This is my no-debugger-debugging method.
Well, I didn’t mean that kind of error message. If your hosting provider gives you cpanel, there should be a “Error Logs”
And put that line top of original config.php is correct, but to bottom isn’t.
Maybe you can try to use relative path? (I don’t think this will help…)
What are the versions of WordPress and bbPress which you are using?
Still need the error log.
It will support a host name, but are you trying to use a port or a socket? I use MySQL servers on different hosts all the time, but they are always on the default port of 3306.
Can you post the BBDB_HOST line from your config.php?
Also, you didn’t post the actual warnings: what were those?
fel64 is right. So I made a change.
<?php
// from wp_trim_excerpt() in WordPress 2.3.1 formatting.php, just removed few lines
function make_excerpt($text) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed
$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
$text = strip_tags($text);
$excerpt_length = 55;
$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, '[...]');
$text = implode(' ', $words);
}
return $text;
}
if ( $topics ) :
$last_post_ids = array();
foreach ( $topics as $topic )
$last_post_ids[] = $topic->topic_last_post_id;
global $bbdb;
$post_ids = $bbdb->get_col( "SELECT post_id, post_text FROM $bbdb->posts WHERE post_id IN (" . implode(',', $last_post_ids) . ")");
$post_texts = $bbdb->get_col( null, 1 );
$post_excerpts = array();
foreach($post_ids as $idx => $post_id)
$post_excerpts[$post_id] = make_excerpt( $post_texts[$idx] );
endif;
?>
<?php if ( $topics ) : foreach ( $topics as $topic ) : ?>
<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>
<td><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> <a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a>
<?php echo $post_excerpts[$topic->topic_last_post_id]; ?>
</td>
<td class="num"><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>
<td class="num"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>
<td class="num"><small><?php topic_time(); ?></small></td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?>
On my test forum, 15 posts, without excerpts takes .119 sec, with excerpts takes .127 sec. Previous code takes .140 sec.
Replace the similar part with it in front-page.php (Kakumei):
<?php if ( $topics ) : foreach ( $topics as $topic ) : ?>
<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>
<td><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> <a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a>
<?php
// from wp_trim_excerpt() in WordPress 2.3.1 formatting.php, just removed few lines
function make_excerpt($text) { // Fakes an excerpt if needed
$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
$text = strip_tags($text);
$excerpt_length = 55;
$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
array_pop($words);
array_push($words, '[...]');
$text = implode(' ', $words);
}
return $text;
}
echo make_excerpt( get_post_text( $topic->topic_last_post_id ) );
?>
</td>
<td class="num"><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>
<td class="num"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>
<td class="num"><small><?php topic_time(); ?></small></td>
</tr>
<?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?>
It generates an excerpt of latest reply of topic.
I’m going to try a fresh reinstall and see if I can get it working, otherwise I’m off to Vbulletin.
Logins and such are best used with default everything until you know they work. Try the default template again and report back any specific things you have going on there. As well, once you start fiddling with integrating with WP in the config.php it will use the WordPress members. Another thing if you don’t have Akismet setup would be to put:
$bb->akismet_key = false;
Trent
#1) This is simple enough as MU is built for that.
#2) If you are talking about each member having their own bbPress forum as well in #2, I would suggest that would be a massive problem. If you just mean having them using a single forum, I think this can be done.
#3) Avatars can be down with many plugins you can find in these forums or over at https://bbpress.org/plugins/ . Combining with MU might be a little difficult or require a plugin. I would suggest looking around to see if anyone on MU has come up with a solution already. That or use Gravatar 
#4) Combination of plugins and RSS feed grabbers could do that without very much hassle. What is written already might be sufficient from the plugins area, but a couple different database requests would make new plugins for this quickly I am sure.
#5) You didn’t have one
#6) People out there have successfully integrated bbPress and WordPressMU logins, but you might need to search a bit over at http://mu.wordpress.com/forums/ as well for the answer It also depends on your answer to #2 though…..
#7) You already know the answer and Null helped with the others.
Trent
I’m mediocre at best when it comes to php, so I’m a bit confused as to what to call, all I really know are the functions for WordPress, any code suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
