[neyoung]

Kahil, your method works well if your users use their login name as their display name. However if a user who’s login is user23 changes his display name to John Doe then your code looks for this image. /forum/avatars/John Doe.jpg instead of the correct avatar image which would be /forum/avatars/user23.jpg. I couldn’t figure out a clean way to fix this (I’m using wpmu, not wordpress). But here’s a dirty hack.

<?php

$comment_author_dn = get_comment_author();

$comment_author = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT <code>user_login</code> FROM <code>wp_users</code> WHERE <code>display_name</code> = '$comment_author_dn'");

echo '<img id="comment-avatar" height="50" width="50" src="/forums/avatars/' . (empty($comment_author->user_login) ? "default" : $comment_author->user_login) . '" alt="avatar" />';

?>

That code should find images for a user if they use a display name or not.

/shrug

I haven’t fully tested it, but it seems to work ok.

[_ck_]

Oh sorry for misleading. Nothing I do really helps the codebase other than to nag about bugs I don’t consider myself experienced enough in that regard.

But I do try to write my share of plugins and themes and I hope to help attract other coders for the actual codebase.

[chrishajer]

Sounds like permalinks are creating a problem. Turn them off in your config.php and see if you can view posts.

Make this line in your config.php look like this:

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

(maybe it says true or slugs now)

I don’t believe an .htaccess files comes with a default install. You would need to create one, so there won’t be one anywhere unless you created it, and it goes in the root folder of your forum. You can take care of that later, once you can at least see your posts.

[Jaithn]

hey folks,

i even found a new problem!

i can’t add links to my posting in my mainblog. i succesfully integrated wpmu with bbpress and now the links don’t work anymore.

when i add a link, the post only shows <a>words</a>.

did i allready tell you guys that i’m using wpmu?

any ideas?

thx,

jaithn

[Jaithn]

hey folks,

i even found a new problem!

i can’t add links to my posting in my mainblog. i succesfully integrated wpmu with bbpress and now the links don’t work anymore.

when i add a link, the post only shows <a>words</a>..

did i allready tell you guys that i’m using wpmu?

any ideas?

thx,

jaithn

[warmechoco]

this whas kinda my persuasion to choose for bbpress, so I could login from Iframes.. I knew nothing about forums (only phpBB: but this wasn’t easy to work with in iframes)… what a shame

[warmechoco]

hmmm but Iframes is so handy I also use it for my photo albums… Thanks btw!

[neyoung]

If you’d like emoticons to show up in your private messages here’s how. Open up bb-emoticons.php . After line 242 which contains

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

Add the following.

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

This will display the emoticons within your your private messages

[warmechoco]

good idea, but it didn’t work …

how else do you integrate a forum in a site?? very curiouse

[chrishajer]

Can you change the iframe source to a page name rather than relying on the index page of the directory called “forums”? So, instead of this:

<iframe src="forum"

Try this:

<iframe src="forum/index.php"

I have no idea if that will work. It’s an interesting way to get an integrated look. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.

[neyoung]

ok, I figured out that “Sticky” is not part of the topic title. But the poll and support forum plugins hook the topic_title function. To make the [Poll], [Resolved], [Unresolved] parts of the topic_title to show up as bold I modified one line in your plugin on line number 14 of bb_unread_topics.php . I changed

add_filter('topic_title', 'utplugin_show_unread');

to

add_filter('topic_title', 'utplugin_show_unread', 100);

By adding the 100 at the end of add_filter the utplugin_show_unread function will execute after the other functions that book topic_title. While there may be functions that use a number higher than 100, I doubt it, so you should be safe.

[neyoung]

I don’t know if this is a bug or if it is working as intended, but I figured I’d document it.

Explanation of bbpress registration/login

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When a user registers in bbpress the user_login field in the database is case sensitive. If you register with the name Tom, Tom is put in the database. When a user logs in however, it is not case sensitive. So Tom can log in as tom, TOM, tOM, ToM… you get the point. Now this doesn’t seem like it would pose any problems. But…

Explanation of WPMU registration/login

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WordPress MU and I’d guess WordPress do things differently. You may run into problems with an integrated site because of this ‘bug’. When a user registers through WPMU the user_login field in the database is converted to all lowercase. If you register with the name Joe, joe is put in the database. This is different from how bbpress does things. So if Bob registers through bbpress with a capital in his login the user_login is set to Bob, but in WPMU if Bob registers with a capital in his login the user_login is set to bob. Just like bbpress, WPMU’s login is not case sensitive. So Joe can login as joe, JOE, jOE, JoE.

The problem occurs if a user registers with a capital letter in bbpress and then tries to login through WPMU. WPMU converts the input in the login field to lower case BEFORE it queries the database. So WPMU checks for user_login with all lowercase letters, but there may be capitals, so the login can fail.

Here’s a step by step explanation

1) Fred registers in bbpress with the name Fred

2) user_login is set as Fred

3) Fred attempts to login to through WPMU using Fred (capitals)

4) WPMU converts Fred to fred BEFORE the database is queried.

5) According to WPMU fred (lowercase) does not exist.

6) Login fails

To fix this I set bbpress to match WPMU’s functionality. To do so I edited the bb_new_user function in the pluggable.php file. I simply added the following line before the database query.

$user_login = strtolower($user_login);

Now when a user registers through bbpress his user_login is set to all lowercase letters.

What I’d like to do is make a plugin that replaces the bb_new_user function with a new one that makes this change so I don’t have to edit a core file, but I’m not that savvy yet.

While this really isn’t a bbpress bug it would be nice if bbpress and WPMU did things the the same so that integration was easier.

[fel64]

_ck_, are you saying that you will also contribute to the bb codebase or are you just talking about something unrelated?

> The rush job on the WP 2.3 release is suspect.

Maybe something for the WP forums.

I think there might be reduced bb activity for a while as mdawaffe will be working on backPress if I understood that right. The work will also be useful to bb, but bb is not the sole aim of the project.

[Edit] Thanks for taking care of that duplicate for me, Trent.

[kehlers]

I have a site in which I’m using bbPress for user login/registration, but I also have Gallery2 installed for photo gallery. Gallery is configured in “embedded” mode, so that bbPress login is used – i.e. a unified login.

When I try to type quotes in a text field in the embedded Gallery, I get escaped quotes (i.e. ” turns into /”). This doesn’t happen in bbPress, but it also doesn’t happen in the NON-embedded Gallery. So, it has to be something to do with the interaction of the two applications.

The thing is, I am out of ideas. bbPress turns off magic quotes w/in the code, and so does Gallery2, plus it’s off in my php.ini. Is there some code within bb-load.php or other included files which parse all text fields? Any thoughts?

[warmechoco]

In order to get the forum running, I removed the forums where testing posts have been in. Now I have put new forums in the admin section.. But there are none of them showing!!

Not a single forum help me

[_ck_]

I’ll be getting back to bbPress, devoting much more time to my bbPress showcase/plugins/themes in October and hopefully that will help in it’s own little way to promote bbPress adoption (and therefore my original scheme of attracting more coders to it).

The rush job on the WP 2.3 release is suspect. I personally felt it was way too soon and could have benefited from much more. I recently installed 2.3 for a new site and kept asking myself why are there the same problems/limitation I encountered with my first 2.0 setup? I notice 2.3 just happens to coincide with the release of the new “WordPress for Dummies” book and I believe the author is a close friend of Matt’s? Hmm. But oh well, enough ranting about WP and back to nagging about bbPress

[matt123]

Thanks for the code! Tried it out and it works. Right now akismet is catching a large percentage of the spam. If that changes I’m going to implement your solution!

[mikecicc]

if u take a look at that bug tracking page

https://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3882

you will see the exact problem i am having..has something to do with the “realpath” function of PHP … the way this guy explained the bug is my problem 100%…i replaced my tiny_mce_gzip.php file with the revised one from that site, still no luck…this is very frustrating..

i have an error console running on my firefox, and i get this error every time i render the admin write page in WP

Error: tinyMCE is not defined

Source File: http://www.figmentrolling.com/wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php?ver=20070225

Line: 36

which is this line of code….

tinyMCE.loadPlugin(“NextGEN”, “http://www.figmentrolling.com/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/js/”);

which kind of makes since because that specific plugin (nextGen gallery) actually adds its own little button to the visual editor in order to add photos from your gallery to your posts….

[outchy]

I can’t figure out how to hack this Does anyone feel like helping me?

[chrishajer]

Did you take a look in the source of the rendered page for writing a new post, to see if the block of code with images from tinymce is actually there? Since this is an admin panel issue, it will be hard to help since no one can see what you’re seeing.

I don’t use the visual rich editor in my WP install, so I’m not sure what I would see that could help you. I do have a tinymce directory in my install: ./wp-includes/js/tinymce

[apple2gamesguy]

Hi All:

I just launched http://forums.apple2games.com/ using BBPress. Apple 2 Games Forum is a site dedicated to retro gaming on the Apple 2 systems.

I’m super happy with bbPress… very clean code, super easy to “hack” and the price is right! Can’t say that about other bloated systems

[chrishajer]

Thanks Allen && Allen (please mark as [resolved])

[chrishajer]

What line from your wp-config.php? I don’t think I’ve ever added a line there, but my install is getting a little old. What line of code are you referring to?

Can you check the source of the WP admin write page, to see if the icons SHOULD be there on display, or if anything else looks weird, maybe the path to the javascript?

[mikecicc]

OK so i successfully completed a BBpress / WPress integration…logins are all synced and i can successfulled login to bb or wp…thats all straightened out and everything appears to be working great..

one bug im noticing now is in WP, in my Visual Editor [write post], all the icons that were once there (Bold, Italic, Font, Font Size, Add Link, Add pic…etc.) that hole graphical bar dissappears…

i’ve narrowed it down to some kind of caching problem…because i deactivated the integration pluggin in wordpress.. removed the line of code in my wp-config.php…cleared my cache and the visual editor re-appears

now when i went back in to re-activate the bbpress integration plugin and got the bbpress back up, and go to check out my visual editor in WP, its there ! great!!! but just to be sure it wont go away, i clear my cache, refresh the page, and its gone again….any ideas?!!!?!

THANKS FOR ANY HELP MY NINJAS

[chrishajer]

Can you add this line to your config.php right after the 4 MySQL setting lines:

$bb->debug = 1;

That should provide some useful information. Not sure if it will help here though.