[sidzzz]

I take my above comment back this isnt in an open discussion forum. Next time i will try to be more constructive

[sidzzz]

what are alt tags?? and btw the theme looks really good

[ear1grey]

Nice. That feels very 1984 disco, yet somehow soothing all at once.

May I suggest some alt tags for images, and perhaps use the title attribute for including the forum descriptions.

update: Ah, so that’s your theme… Karma fruit is nice too

[ardentfrost]

I suggest bbpress There are javascript file uploaders that you can add if you need that right away. But like I said, the lack of that ability isn’t a show stopper for me.

[steven19]

Wtf! Looks really Great

[sidzzz]

hmm yeah i left out phpbb… too huge and spammy… i am going with vanilla

if any suggestions let me know

[fee4ka]

No, I don’t have any plugins.

And there’s no user “mdawaffe” in database

[Null]

Ah ok well let’s theorise a bit now. Let’s say I have 100 subfolders with each a bbpress install, all using the same user db. This would work great but if bbpress has an update, I have to install that one 101 times (+1 = the main install). Kinda a lot of work so I wondered if the following is possible (with some hacking or plugin):

All users have their own id right? Well let’s say Jack is a member of forum 1 and he wants his own forum. Jacks id is 123456789 (just an excample). Is it possible to let the keymaster (and ONLY the keymaster) give Jack his own forum? The keymaster will go to Jacks profile and sees a new line in his profile called: Give this user his own forum. When checked, Jack will be admin ow his own forum (so an admin, and not a key master).

How does this work? Well when you type in: http://www.something.com/bbpress/index.php you get the standard index of the bbpress forum. If you type: http://www.something.com/bbpress/index.php?123456789 (Jacks ID), you will see the standard index of Jacks forum, which Jack controls as an admin. Posts made in this forum, are stored in the normal db, but with id: 123456789. This way we can filter all posts etc by this id for each forum. The main forum (forum 1) will ofcourse NOT show Jacks posts. The only modification to the db will be to add id to it, I think…. See this as an bbpress MU

This way I have just 1 install of bbpress needed and is easy to maintain, and I can still give others a forum too! Well in theory that is…

[john_roberts]

We’re considering BBPress for user forums on our website. However, our website already has user registration (account system), and we will not have a separate registration for our forums.

Therefore, a key question is how easy it will be to integrate BBPress into an existing user registration/authentication system. A colleague looked through the BBPress code, and came up with mostly good news (see bottom).

The bad news, though, made me come here to see what the plans are for abstracting the user registration system in future versions. I imagine that our situation is quite common: no one wants multiple registration schemes on a single site (it’s bad enough how many we all have around the web!).

Note: we’ve been very satisfied with WordPress on many fronts, although not for user contributions, so no WordPress integration questions at all. And, yes, we looked at http://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

BAD NEWS, SPECIFICS:

The SQL queries that interact with the users table are interspersed across a dozen files or so. While this makes integration slightly more difficult, the real issue is that future updates to bbpress might become difficult if not impossible to merge. Given how forum packages are magnets for security

vulnerabilities, this might become a critical issue.

—

I don’t want to argue about security vulnerabilities; that’s not the issue. The point is: at what point will BBPress change how user information is distributed around the application and/or abstracted?

I checked Trac to see if the Timeline or Roadmap had any hints, but didn’t see anything.

Is this situation seen as a problem? Anyone else sharing the pain? Any insight?

GOOD NEWS, SPECIFICS: (accounts = our site registration system)

* The bbPress user table consists of 9 columns, 5 of which overlap with our generic user table, requiring only a ‘glue’ table to provide the extra columns

* There are no SQL JOIN’s with the user table (that I could find), making integration easier.

* Integration with accounts is possible and would take only a few hours.

* Customizing the look and feel would be no more difficult than it was to customizing WordPress.

* Disabling registrations is easy to do, which would force users to register via accounts.

John Roberts

OpenDNS

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

If you have things set up right, it should ask you to put in the user name of your WordPress account rather than asking for all that other stuff.

What does your $bb->wp_table_prefix setting look like?

It should look like

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_'; (or whatever the actual prefx is).

The “Forum Name” can be anything you want. For example, one of the forum names on this site is “Installation”.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Let’s say your first bbPress has a table prefix (set in config.php) “bb_”.

Install your second bbPress into another directory. In it’s config.php file, make sure and set it’s table prefix to “bb2_”.

Directly under the table prefix line, add the following line:

define('CUSTOM_USER_TABLE', 'bb_users');

That tells the bb2_ bbPress to look for users in the bb_ bbPress’ user table.

Now a new user has accounts in both bbPress installs, but the two installs do not share login cookies; the user has to log in separately to each install. To make it so that when a user is logged in to one forum, that user is also logged into the other, you will probably have to add the following line to both config.php files:

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

An admin in one bbPress will not be an admin the other bbPress.

Blocking a user will block them everywhere. Instead of blocking a user, you could make their User Type “Inactive” in one of your bbPress installs by editing their profile. Then they won’t be able to do anything but look around on the one bbPress install, but can still be full members on the other.

[steven19]

Cool THX, maybe its a feature in the next Version

[ardentfrost]

Yeah, for that you’ll either have to wait for support or a plugin to be written. Gotta give it time. It’s something I was going to try to tackle soon, but I wouldn’t hold your breathe on my account

I still have my phpbb forums up and they get slammed all the time with spammer comments. If you’re going to use something else while you wait for a plugin to be written, I’d probably try something else if I were you.

[ardentfrost]

I think that would be a pretty easy plugin to make, although it would take an addition to the database and since I started writing plugins 2 days ago (been playing with the code for 4 days now), I haven’t decided (or discovered) the best way to go about that yet.

It’s a good idea and I’d start writing it myself, but I have like 5 others I’m going to make first. Sorry, maybe someone else will tackle it If not, I’ll probably have a solution in a few weeks.

[ardentfrost]

Open your config.php in the bbpress root directory and change the offset. You don’t even have to reinstall anything, that’s just where the forums go to get that value. Changing that value and reuploading that file will fix the problem (same thing happened to me )

[mjfiszman]

Thanks for the help

ergate: I’m doing it manually right now. Assuming I carry on like that, is there a way to include the # posts functionality?

ear1grey: Your plugin looks to be the sort of thing I’m after, but I’m a bit confused about how it works.

First, I believe I’ve added that meta fields as instructed, but nothing seems to be showing in the post.

Also, it’s not clear from the example post on your site if it’s possible to direct users to a particular, pre-existing forum topic.

Thanks for any more help!

[michan]

Ahh, you’re right! I overrode the keymaster setting with the code mentioned in this other topic and everything’s fine now. Thank you very much for your help!

[ardentfrost]

I’m sure that’s plugin-able… I’ve been thinking about it myself

It seems to me that anything that I want in bbpress I can just add in myself. The code isn’t too terribly hard to follow (you HAVE to make it searchable though, or you’ll pull all your hair out in less than 2 hours) and even if the hooks you want aren’t there yet, you can just adjust the core files and at least it’ll work for you (I know, I know, that’s bad )

[ardentfrost]

I’m about to post it actually

However, let me warn you ahead of time, it does require a single change to a core file.

[ear1grey]

The symlink would mean old URI’s would still work, but any new URI’s generated (on every new page) would point to the preferred address.

I think it’s maybe also worth adding this to robots.txt a:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /your-old-folder

So that any robots that discover one of the older URLs don’t go indexing what they might consider as duplicate pages.

Longer term you could also add a 301 redirect to htaccess to ensure any links to the old content have rank properly attributed to the new location… but this is probably getting waaay too complex if it’s a new installation.

Another alternative, of course, is to just rename the folder and change your config.php – it’s more maverick than the symlink approach, but if your forum is new and has no fully qualified self referencing links contained within, then it’s not much of a wrench to just move the whole kaboodle.

[ardentfrost]

It’s a simple one.

It returns the post count of the user.

You can see it in action at http://www.rayd.org/forums2/ (you have to look at an actual topic)

You can download it from http://faq.rayd.org/bbpress_postcount/ (link is instructions how to use it, link at bottom instructions)

Is this something I can submit to bbpress? Or is me mentioning it here the equivalent of submitting it?

[ear1grey]

I think the easiest (& most stable) solution is to use a symlink such as ln -s /path/to/bbpress newname in the folder where you want the new forum to appear (probably at the top level of your server).

Then, once that’s running, open your config.php and change $bb->path = '/newname/';

I think that’s all, and you have the advantage of being able to get the symlink working before asking bbpress to use the new path when creating links.

Anyone see any gotchas with that?

[thomasklaiber]

“PS: it just tells who was online over the past 5 minutes. This is not true, it only shows te persons currently online, which is good!”

– If the user clicks on Logout, otherwise he will disappear after 5 minutes.

“Would be nice to add total guests too”

– Good idea … i’ll give it a try

“Great plugin, if you made this one AJAXED it would be even greater!”

– Thought about it, but this would be easer to realize with next version of bbpress (current version only loads bb_head() when topic is displayed)

Thx for your critique.

[thomasklaiber]

In your config file it should look like this, does it?

// If your bbPress URL is http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ , the examples would be correct.

// Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL.

// Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here.

$bb->domain = 'http://patrimoineacadien.com'; // Example: 'http://bbpress.example.com'

// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. '/' is fine if the site is in root.

$bb->path = '/bbpress/'; // Example: '/forums/'

[thomasklaiber]

Hi.

I really missed an onlinelist in bbpress, so i made a simple one myself. Dont expect anything special, it just tells who was online over the past 5 minutes.

Download it here.

See a demo here. (Login use: Test / test)

To Display the online list simply add show_online_users(); wherever you want it in your template.

Additional Features:

– Last online time on profile page: profile_last_online();

– Current online users as number: total_online_users();