[_ck_]

Be sure to see my nifty update at the end of that thread.

I suspect 4.01 will be out shortly

I really like this plugin, gives bbpress a higher end forum feature.

[Trent Adams]

You mean having a template that is completely ‘auto’ driven so that it adjusts to each browser window width? I know that I constantly get users a little mad at me because I like ‘big resolution’ on my computers and my users are still at 800 X 600 screens so my sites have a tendency to have to be scrolled.

Not sure about the overflow as I don’t use the default theme myself. Anyone else?

Trent

[_ck_]

Any chance you’ll switch to the new wider template here?

Narrow templates require too much up/down action and look kinda 1990’s-ish – might be turning off some potential new <s>victims</s> users.

Also, did the overflow:auto get removed for posts? I am noticing this week that posts with wide code seem to be overflow:hidden and the text gets cut off. Didn’t do that before… used to get scroll arrows…

[fel64]

Can you please report this bug on trac? Thank you

[_ck_]

bbPress’s auto-close tags is broken by default – though the code and filter is in there, it’s not passed correctly:

add this to a plugin

function force_balance_tags($text) {return balanceTags($text, true);}

add_filter('pre_post', 'force_balance_tags');

or if you don’t know how, use my tweaks plugin:

http://ckon.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/bbpress-plugin-bb-tweaks/

[_ck_]

If anyone is interested I have a much higher speed routine that runs on mysql instead of the ip2c flatfile. For highly active forums the extra speed is a must. I benchmarked the firestats way against the mysql way and mysql is 4-5x faster in all cases because it caches.

(Omry is working on a memcached version of his 500k flatfile, so eventually it might beat mysql but not anytime soon – his cached java version is 100x faster than mysql but that doesn’t help us)

I don’t have it packaged as a plugin and would have to write the code to automate the database table creation for the data from webhostinfo.info but I’d be willing to sit down and do it if there is serious interest.

I just love putting little flags next to my forum posts to show off how international the forum is, but that’s just me.

ps. “country” is spelled wrong in this topic’s title

[citizenkeith]

Today, one of my users didn’t close his strong and em tags… which made the everything after his post bold and italic!

If you update the plugin, you might want to consider auto-closing all bbcode tags.

[Inquirer]

At the top of the config.php files of bbPress and WordPress these values will be the same.

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ”); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ”); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

Trent wrote:

[For bbPress and WP to be integrated you have to configure your config.php before install to have your WP specific data in it (there is a portion near bottom) and then install bbPress in the same MySQL database regardless of where the physical files actually reside (your case /blog/ and /forum/).}

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://mywebsite.com/blog/&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://mywebsite.com/blog/&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

---

I already have WordPress installed in my public_html directory in a folder named blog.

Above, I put in examples of how to fill-in ‘examples’

Apparently it would be wp_home = http://mywebsite.com/blog/

and wp_siteurl = http://mywebsite.com/blog/

Apparently, only the WordPress has to have the bottom portion filled-in?

If this is correct then I would have to fill-in bottom portion of the WordPress config.php and FTP it before I reinstalled bbPress.

[regardless of where the physical files actually reside]

I was thinking of the physical storage of the files.

[Does that make sense?]

I think so.

[creatiu]

This plugin is not working property, actually is creating not valid URLS inside the sitemap like this:

<url>

<loc>/?</loc>

<lastmod>2007-07-14</lastmod>

<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>

<priority>0.014705882352941</priority>

</url>

This happens with the latest version of bbPress (0.8.2.1)

[Inquirer]

[If you plan on integrating WP and bbPress, it is best to have a running copy of WP up and going.]

I already have WordPress up and running.

[Then just install your bbPRess in the same database as WP. WordPress will have the database prefix of wp_ and bbPress with bb_]

I have WordPress installed in my public_html directory in a directory named blog

Do you mean install bbPress in the blog directory?

In other words, don’t create a separate directory forum to install bbPress?

I think I want mywebsitedomainname/blog and mywebsitedomainname/forum to be separate urls

But to integrate WordPress with bbPRess do they have to have the same url?

Thanks

---

On a separate note

I should be able to use WinSCP to login to my server via SSH, then access my database with a MySQL login, then drop the bb_ tables from the failed bbPress install.

I imagine this could be done through the WinSCP Console

I realize the phpAdmin is a more user friendly interface than the WinSCP Console.

I sent an e-mail to my web hosting support, but they haven’t responded.

[annathea]

I took Bruno Torres’ converter script as a foundation, and re-wrote it to work with the Punbb database architecture. Also, added in a tiny bit of string clean up, since Punbb allows foreign characters in the username field, and BBPress does not.

Here’s the code to look at:

http://utopian.net/code/punbb-importer.phps

And in a handy .zip for download:

http://utopian.net/code/punbb-importer.zip

A few important notes, since this is NOT at all pretty –

1) It uses a lot of memory, so make sure PHP has access to at least 16mb in php.ini. If I had more than 20 minutes to devote to this, I’d look into that and try to improve it, but hey.

2) If you’re importing a lot of data, you may need to split up the resultant sql file into smaller files less than 2mb in size. Add this to the list of things I would automate if I needed to use this script more than once.

3) I am using BBPress integrated with WPMU and included lines for importing into the WordPress user tables. After I noted and fixed the problem converting Punbb’s lax, apostrophe-laden usernames to nice and sanitary WP-friendly ones, the script ran like a charm. Seriously, if I’d known it would be this easy I would have done this six months ago.

4) The forum-parent to forum relationship imported correctly into the database, but displayed a little funny, so I manually re-ordered the forum items in the database and massaged the template a little bit to recognize forum parents a little bit differently, more PunBB style.

5) A clean WPMU and BBPress install is ideal, but I already had ten existing WP users, half of whom had a user account in the PunBB data I was merging. For such a small data set, it was very easy to manually correct this by deleting the PunBB users and making sure that the imported topics and posts for those users pointed to their current id.

Hopefully this will be a good start for those of us looking to move existing PunBB forums to BBPress & WordPress. Good luck, and let me know if you use it!

[_ck_]

Offhand I’d guess that the last poster function is meant to be “in the loop” for a per topic basis. Because you are trying to use it for an entire sub-forum, it’s missing a topic id reference. You’d have to calculate the last topic that the last poster posted in.

Posting the code to that part of the template would help (at least for me)

[papadoc]

Hi, all…

I’ve looked around and haven’t been able to find a solution to my problem…

My forum, elephantwords.co.uk/forum, has a “last poster” bit at the bottom of each page, that, on thread and forum pages, shows the last poster to have posted… I’ve used the Get_User_Profile_Link to make the name of the poster link to the last poster’s profile.

The thing is, it doesn’t work. Go to the site to see what I mean, but when you mouseover the link, a message across the bottom of the browser says “Missing Argument 1 for Get_User_Profile_Link”

I don’t know any php, and I’ll admit to having nabbed most of the code from other templates. However, I’m convinced that this worked when I first put it in, and I’ve no idea how to fix it now. The Latest Discussions bit, which is next to it in the bottom page navigation, works fine.

Does anyone have a clue what’s up here? My flabber is totally gasted…

[thierryyyyyyy]

I have the same error on LOCALHOST, and also with windows. (my forum hosted on web works )

(thierry is the name of my computer, and is synonyme of “localhost”)

link I click on to activate my template is such : (there are 2 “”)

http://thierry/forum/bb-admin/themes.php?theme=D%3A%5C%5CMes+Documents%5C%5Csites_web%5C%5C2diabolos.com%5C%5Cforum%2Fmy-templates%2F2diabolos%2F&_wpnonce=0ecdd913e2

I tried the “patch_to_url_2” in vain.

a “brillant” idea made me change the themes.php :

if ( !in_array($activetheme, $themes) ) {

$activetheme = BBPATH . 'my-templates/2diabolos/'; // THIS LINE WAS 'bb-templates/kakumei/' ...

bb_update_option( 'bb_active_theme', $activetheme );

remove_action( 'bb_admin_notices', $theme_notice );

bb_admin_notice( __('Theme not found.  Default theme applied.'), 'error' );

}

works well (hopefully)

(after reflection, I think the following line don’t help)

I tried to debug a little bit. I put in themes.php

print_r($themes);

echo "<br>";

echo "the theme you want to activate : " . $_GET['activated'] ;

the result for the first line is good, the “$_GET ” is empty.

[Jaithn]

Hey guys,

wordpress already has an attchment uploader, doesn’t it? is there a chance to build a plug-in for bbpress using that code?

grz,

jaithn

[citizenkeith]

Well, I don’t know the first thing about writing plugins, so if somebody can help out, I’d appreciate it.

[fel64]

Not a clue. Maybe that host’s MySQL version doesn’t support SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS on *? Or something. Your best bet is to report this problem on trac as the bug it is.

[fel64]

You need to write a plugin that will be called on a hook in the profile, where it adds to the associative array $profile_info_keys an entry with key ‘bb_title’ – I think. To see how to do that, look at some other plugin that adds fields to the profile info thingy.

[_ck_]

Apparently WordPress allows dots (periods) in usernames as well?! (it did at some point, not sure if it still does but I have users with nicknames like that)

So I had to modify this plugin with a dot

return preg_replace('/[^ ta-z0-9_.-]/i', '', str_replace("%20"," ",$raw));

apparently php is very sensitive as to what order the pattern is in, that dot has to be right there in the sequence or it throws a shedload of errors.

[_ck_]

Fourth time is the charm? Ugh. Sorry!

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Admin Can Post Anything

Plugin URI:

Description: allows keymaster/administrators to post any content regardless of tag restrictions

Author: _ck_

Author URI: http://CKon.wordpress.com

Version: 0.04

*/



function bb_admin_post_anything($text) {

if (bb_current_user_can('administrate') ) {

remove_filter('pre_post', 'encode_bad' );

remove_filter('pre_post', 'bb_encode_bad' );

remove_filter('pre_post', 'bb_filter_kses', 50);

remove_filter('pre_post', 'addslashes', 55);

remove_filter('pre_post', 'bb_autop', 60);

$text=bb_autop(addslashes($text));  // I don't completely understand why this is necessary here but it is



// the following two lines are untested code to allow compatibility with the allow images plugin

// it's safe to remove it's filters because this only happens if admin are trying to post

remove_filter( 'pre_post', 'allow_images_encode_bad', 9 );

remove_filter( 'pre_post', 'allow_images', 52 );

}

return $text;

}

add_filter('pre_post', 'bb_admin_post_anything',;

?>

[_ck_]

I’ve been studying to see if there’s anyway via plugins instead of hacking the code for both WP and BB to consolidate the common javascript routines they both use.

Not only do they load half a dozen scripts at certain times, one of them, prototype.js is 50k in size. But they seem to be common for both.

All we would need is choose a common script path.

I guess it’s possible to

remove_action(‘bb_head’, ‘bb_print_scripts’);

and then plugin your own.

But what kills me is bbPress doesn’t need ANY of those scripts except for thinks like deleting posts to forward correctly and the ajax actions.

I really dislike ajax, especially when it’s used where it’s not needed.

[Trent Adams]

If you email me the code, I can change your first post as we go.

trent dot adams at gmail dot com

Trent

[_ck_]

Okay by adding these to the remove_filters list, you can also run allow images:

remove_filter( 'pre_post', 'allow_images_encode_bad', 9 );

remove_filter( 'pre_post', 'allow_images', 52 );

It may also be necessary to increase my filter priority to 8, ie.

add_filter('pre_post', 'bb_admin_post_anything',;

Since I can’t edit my first post I will try to add it to the repository with the changes?

[_ck_]

I will look at the code for allow images but I suspect it’s because they must run one of the three bad filters after my filter runs.

I think I tried adding to the repository and nothing happened but I’ll try again.

[Trent Adams]

I tested it on my onvertigo.com site which is not using the default template either. It doesn’t work for me with any themes!

http://onvertigo.com/topic/media-types-played-in-this-forum?replies=12#post-38

Strange…..using:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2G_AHHxSctE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2G_AHHxSctE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

Trent