[Trent Adams]

Sorry about that folks! It is back online obviously!

[airdrawndagger]

At my site http://www.doublepeace.se , when you log in, I’d like to have the users forum avatar displayed in the header. I tried just pasting <?php post_avatar(); ?> up there, and that didn’t work

[chrishajer]

To get Akismet working, you need an Akismet key. You need to register at http://wordpress.com/signup/ – you can check the radio button that says “Just a username, please.” and once you have an account, your Akismet key is in their somewhere (been a while since I had to look for it – but I think it’s “My Account > Edit Profile” and they “wordpress.com” key is there.) Once you have the key, you put it in your config.php like this:

$bb->akismet_key = ''; // Example: '0123456789ab

Just put your key in between those quotes, and you’re done.

[neyoung]

I have both the My Views and Support Forums plugins installed. They work well together except for 1 thing. Both plugins add a new filter to bb_views.

If both plugins are running the new views from My Views are the only ones to show up. The Support Forums views are not listed. After poking through the code I was able to fix it by making sure that the Support Forums bb_views filter was added AFTER the My Views bb_views filter. To do so edit support-forum.php .

Replace line 432

---

add_filter('bb_views', array(&$this, 'addViews'));

---

With

---

add_filter('bb_views', array(&$this, 'addViews'), 200);

---

You should now be able to see the views from both plugins.

I’m no expert, but it seems like when My Views is adding my_views_init to the bb_views filter its overwriting whatever Support Forums has already added to the filter. Just a guess. I’m sure ck, so1o, mdawaffe, or SamBauers will know exactly what is going on.

Enjoy!

[andorko]

bbPress is installed in /forums and WPMU is installed in /blogs .

The cookie and database integration works fine.

I am able to access bbPress functions from within WPMU by adding this to the end of /blogs/wp-config.php

// Include bbPress functions in WPMU

define('WP_BB', true); // Avoid duplicate function declarations

require_once( ABSPATH . '../forums/bb-load.php');

I’m trying to add WPMU functions to bbPress. I’ve tried adding this to the beginning of /forums/config.php . I’ve also tried putting this in the beginning of the file.

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/../blogs/wp-blog-header.php')

When I go to /forums/ I’m redirected to the WPMU sign up page (/blogs/wp-signup.php?new=%2F).

I’ve also created a simple file ( /test.php ) and tried to integrate it with wpmu. It it also redirected to the WPMU sign up page.

Test Start

<?php

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/blogs/wp-blog-header.php');

?>

Test End

Do I need to create a WPMU rewrite rule in the wp_1_options rewrite rulerecord? There shouldn’t be any need for an .htaccess rewrite rule since /forums and /blogs are not in subfolders of either.

Any ideas how to make this work?

[henrybb]

Hey neyoung! Cool to know you use the plugin

I don’t use stickies or those poll or bugtracking plugins so I didn’t know. Thanks for the info, I’ll include your stuff in the next release.

[chrishajer]

You have tried to include this javascript:

http://www.popcultureshock.com/forum/my-plugins/js_quicktags.js

But that file cannot be found. So, where is that js_quicktags.js file?

Looks like you added the proper code to your template. Did you activate the plugin in your admin panel? Or is it in a different location?

[Detective]

I use this plugin ported from a Vanilla Extension:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Video Tags

Plugin URI: http://lussumo.com/addons/index.php?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=33

Description: Ported from SirNot's HtmlFormatter for Vanilla

Author URI:

Version: 0.1

*/



//allow youtube and google videos to be posted, tags are:

//<video type="google">docid</video> (google video) -or-

//<video type="youtube">video id</video> (youtube) -or-



function video_embed($texto){

$sReturn = preg_replace_callback(

'/<video(?>s+)type=(["'

])((?>w+))1(?>s*)>([A-Za-z-_d]+?)</video>/is’,

‘VideoLink’,

$texto

);

return $sReturn;

}

function VideoLink($Matches)

{

$Type = strtolower(trim($Matches[2]));

$ID = $Matches[3];

switch($Type)

{

case ‘google’ : return (‘<embed style=”width: 400px; height: 326px;” id=”VideoPlayback” ‘.

‘type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=&#8217;.$ID.'”></embed>’);

case ‘youtube’ : return (‘<object width=”425″ height=”350″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/&#8217;.$ID.'”></param>’.

‘<embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/&#8217;.$ID.'” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”350″></embed>’.

‘</object>’);

default : return $Matches[0];

}

}

function allow_video_tags( $tags ) {

$tags = array(‘type’ => array(‘maxlen’ => 10));

return $tags;

}

add_filter( ‘bb_allowed_tags’, ‘allow_video_tags’ );

add_filter( ‘post_text’, ‘video_embed’ );

?>

`

It allows you to embed video only from YT or Google Video.

[oledole]

Thanks. I’ll just sit back and relax then

[chanzero]

I second nolageek’s request

[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

---

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

---

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