[lira]

Erm… hey guys, could you tell me what I’ve done wrong?

I’ve just installed “bbPress Post”, and WordPress is telling me there’s no table called “wp_bbpress_post_options” (which is true). I reckon I should solve this problem before hacking wp’s comments.php template… but how?

ps.: Oh, and you guys are doing a great job here, congratulations

[Nola1974]

bah with your PCBoard..

wwiv sysop here for 7 years until 2000. been thinking about putting up another.

a theme like this would be so freakin’ cool. if someone can get the commands working, I’d be happy to theme it to look like whatever board package. I’m better with html than i am with php.

[Null]

YEah some dude fixed it, but never mailed me the solution

[fel64]

I did Should every affected topic be tagged modlook or is it better to tag just one?

[Nola1974]

Anyone see the CLI theme for WordPress?

testing here: http://fearandloathingbbs.com/wordpress/

My dream would be a theme like this for bbpress that would turn it into an old school BBS a la WWIV, VBBS or teleguard. I’ve been trying, but I suck.

No really. how cool could that be?

[fel64]

Okay, I promise in future I’ll be all mature and responsible and test these things first. Sorry for the inconvenience. This works on my forum now; just copy and paste this into a new plugin file. Then put <?php aposttime(); ?> for default time output, or <?php aposttime( 'DATE FORMAT' ); ?> for your own time formatting.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Accurate Post Time

Plugin URI:

Description: Outputs an accurate post time in, optionally, your choice of formatting. Use <?php aposttime( 'DATE FORMAT' ); ?> in your template, <a href="http://uk3.php.net/date">date formatted according to PHP standards.</a>

Author: fel64

Version: Phi

Author URI: http://www.loinhead.net/

*/



function aposttime ( $dtformat = "jS F 'y" ) {

global $bb_post;

$aposttime = date( $dtformat, strtotime( $bb_post->post_time ) );

echo $aposttime;

}

?>

[gh3]

i have just released the 0.12 version.

in this new version i added the merge topic feature

you can download it on bbpress svn or my site.

hope it could be useful

ps. sooner i’m planning to add split topic feature, but ‘ll have to work on it…

[bruz]

Hi there,

nowadays everybody is using twitter for everything – so why don’t use it for something useful?

I think it would be nice to announce a new topic to a specific twitter-account so that people will know when to visit the forums.

[gh3]

i had a look at code trying to do something in this way, but i wasn’t able to find the right function to hook… i can find the pre_post_form and post_form, this one allows me to work only after the post form so i think that in this very moment there is no way to do it, or better there is no way using a plugin…

[fel64]

I really do This Patrick Ehrlund? He’s great – even if he does have a flash website

I’d argue that the coolness of appearance is worth it, since the login form’s not exactly rocket science. I think it’s still pretty distinguishable anyway. Mockups:

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5090/ochreblackuf9.jpg

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5758/ochrewhiteyh4.jpg

That’s just suggestions if you’re interested, no need to give it further thought

Test account to see the problem with the HTML, didn’t realise Chris had already fixed it. My bad.

[csl749]

Aha – thanks very much chrishajer! I’ve just noticed that there’s a surplus /div in footer.php. I’ve removed it and all is now well, as far as I can tell. Though it’s strange how it only affected that one page (?!). Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Thanks fel64 – glad you like the design of the site! The header pic was designed by a friend of mine, Patrick Ehrlund. I’m torn about the login background – it does look much better without the white background, but also more difficult to read. I might play with some font colours to get something that displays nicely over the header pic colours.

A test account? What do you mean? I’ll help if I can.

[csl749]

Hmm. I tried the path (it’s thrown up in the error anyway so I assume it’s the correct path!) but it’s still not working, providing me with an error.

Everything works anyway, as I built the forum theme up around the main site, but it’d be nice to know that I could call BB and WP functions if I wanted, without worrying. Oh well…

Thanks very much for the kind help though Fel64!

[Duchemin]

Users on my forum posted 1 or 5 messages, they don’t need registration. But in bbpress database there is no field of Name (post linked with user by poster_id). How to make ‘Anonymous post’?

[fel64]

It’s a really nice site and I love the header. The login form would fit in more if you remove the background: #FFFFFF property in the CSS.

Could you make a test account please, so we can see the HTML?

[fel64]

Yes. Put the Secondary in Main, get rid of its margin, add the CSS float property to both Secondary and Discussion – one float: right, one float: left. That will make it work.

[fel64]

I see. Sorry, I thought that was just an example for the format.

How’s this instead?

<?php global $post;

$lalaposttime = date( 'D M Y', strtotime( $post->post_time ) );

echo $lalaposttime; ?>

[fel64]

<?php tag_heat_map(); ?> will do that.

[abc12345]

What is the code used to make the list of tags with their fonts different sizes?

[fel64]

What does it show? Something completely crazy or something slightly wrong?

You can set your timezone in config.php, just change $bb->gmt_offset to whatever you want.

[fel64]

Ack, I’m sorry but the stupid easy mistake is mine. This will only work for blog posts which have a corresponding topic in bbPress, so for any blog posts you made before installing the bbPress Post plugin it won’t work. Should’ve thought about that before copying you the code.

function forumreplylink() {

//must be called from within the loop yadda yadda

global $post;

$rl = get_option( 'wpbb_path' ) . '/topic.php?id=';

$tid = felblogtotopicid( $post->ID );

if( $tid ) {

echo '<a href="' . $rl . $tid . '">Reply!</a>' . "n";

} else {

comments_number('No Comments','1 comment','% comments');

}

}

Replace the old forumreplylink() with this and it will either show the reply link or a link to the comments. If you only want it to show the reply link but no link to comments, just take that comments line out.

[Griffology]

OK here’s my file

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: HFFIB

Plugin URI:

Description: Helper function for integrating bbPress into your theme.

Version: 0

Author: fel64

Author URI: http://www.loinhead.net/

*/



function felblogtotopicid( $felpostID ) {

global $table_prefix, $wpdb;

$posts_table = $table_prefix . "bbpress_post_posts";

$topic_id = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT topic_id FROM '$posts_table' WHERE 'post_id' = $felpostID LIMIT 1;");

return $topic_id;

}



function forumreplylink() {

//must be called from within the loop yadda yadda

global $post;

if( $post ) {

$rl = get_option( 'wpbb_path' ) . '/topic.php?id=';

$tid = felblogtotopicid( $post->ID );

echo '<a href="' . $rl . $tid . '">Reply!</a>' . "n";

} else {

echo 'ouch!';

}

}

?>

I am running a custom theme, but it’s called in the spot as the original wordpress comments were and those worked fine. Here’s how I’m calling the function:

<div class="details">

<a>"><?php comments_number('No Comments','1 comment','% comments'); ?></a>

<span class="tool">Category: <?php the_category(', '); ?></span>

<span class="tool"><?php akst_share_link(); ?></span>

<span class="tool"><?php forumreplylink(); ?></span>

</div>

Still getting the error, and no ‘ouch’ anywhere… I do have bbpress_post plugin running, is it supposed to or does this replace it? I’m thinking it has to be running, I’m just trying to elimate a stupid easy mistake I’ve made.

[fel64]

That’s strange, it works for me. At a guess the root of it is that $post doesn’t exist, or that $post->ID is nonexistant.

Can you replace function forumreplylink() { ... } with:

function forumreplylink() {

//must be called from within the loop yadda yadda

global $post;

if( $post ) {

$rl = get_option( 'wpbb_path' ) . '/topic.php?id=';

$tid = felblogtotopicid( $post->ID );

echo '<a href="' . $rl . $tid . '">Reply!</a>' . "n";

} else {

echo 'ouch!';

}

}

If it outputs ouch we’ll know that a missing global $post is indeed the problem. You are using it inside The Loop, aren’t you?

[Griffology]

Thanks for the help, but my error is now:

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘LIMIT 1’ at line 1]

SELECT topic_id FROM wp_bbpress_post_posts WHERE post_id = LIMIT 1;

after the error it adds the reply function but with an empty id: IE: “http://www.website.com/topic.php?id= “

[fel64]

That’s very simple; go to wp-admin > Options > Discussion and set it so comments are off. You can also modify your template by deleting all the code for comments.

To get the ‘discuss in forums’ link, simply open your template file, and replace the <?php comments_popup_link('&nbsp;make a comment', '1 comment', '% comments','','comments off'); ?> or similar with this:

<?php forumreplylink(); ?>

That’ll give you what you want. Note that you’ll need to put felblogtotopicid() into a WP plugin, like so:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: HFFIB

Plugin URI:

Description: Helper function for integrating bbPress into your theme.

Version: 0

Author: fel64

Author URI: http://www.loinhead.net/

*/



function felblogtotopicid( $felpostID ) {

global $table_prefix, $wpdb;

$posts_table = $table_prefix . "bbpress_post_posts";

$topic_id = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT topic_id FROM <code>$posts_table</code> WHERE <code>post_id</code> = $felpostID LIMIT 1;");

return $topic_id;

}



function forumreplylink() {

//must be called from within the loop yadda yadda

global $post;

$rl = get_option( 'wpbb_path' ) . '/topic.php?id=';

$tid = felblogtotopicid( $post->ID );

echo '<a href="' . $rl . $tid . '">Reply!</a>' . "n";

}

?>

If you do that, you have to take it out of the hack should you implement it.

[Griffology]

Thanks fel64. I’m looking to do away with the wordpress comments completely, just shut them off. However the bbpress post plugin posts the “discus in forms(0)” link at the end of the post. I have a bar at the bottom of each post and would like to format it in there. I’ve opened bbpress_post.php and saw the output of the post gets thrown into 1 variable. I would like to call a function in my wordpress php files, for example index.php, that calls the function from bbpress_post.php to display the “discuss in form” link.

Hope that makes sense, but after read the thread you linked I don’t think it’s quite what i’m looking for. I’ll read it again thought as I’m tired.

Thanks again.