[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Just one database is enough provided that the two bbPress installs have different values for their $bb_table_prefix settings in their config.php files.

Like

bb_ for one and

bb2_ or bb_cool_ (or whatever) for the other.

[peiqinglong]

Thank you! I’ll post the instructions when I get a chance.

[kannued]

I’m trying to validate the code. One problem that I cannot fix for XHTML 1.1 in topic.php is this line:

<ol id=”thread” start=”<?php echo $list_start; ?>”>

How would I change it so it will validate? Validation says the following:

there is no attribute “start” .

<ol id=”thread” start=”1″>

You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the “Strict” document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the “Transitional” document type to get the “target” attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as “marginheight” (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute.

[ear1grey]

Thud, thud, thud <- that’s my head on the wall

It’s happened again! Another forum user has added their problem onto a thread which is tackling a different issue entirely.

Joe Public just doesn’t seem to dig that it’s OK to start a new topic.

Having looked a bit at the DB structure I think splitting a thread should be fairly easy, any thoughts or hints, please shout – I’m going to look at a plugin when I have time, but time is short currently.

If someone else has some spare cycles I’ll willingly test it, even if it’s really rough

[Atsutane]

Well u can try this. Donno if it gonna work or not .. right now 12:54am so i dont have the time to test it Try at ur own risk. Got problem dont blame me . Well if this was wrong feel free to fix it.

function get_post_author_avatar() {

global $bbdb;

$id = get_post_author_id();

$user = bb_get_user( $id );

$usermail = $user->user_email;

$default = “http://www.somewhere.com/homestar.jpg&#8221;; // Put your default avatar link

$size = 40;

$grav_url = “http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=&#8221;.md5($email).”&default=”.urlencode($default).”&size=”.$size;

echo “<img src=”$grav_url” alt=”Gravatar” />”;

}

[AphelionZ]

That’s pretty cool, but the plugin is only available for WordPress. That means you’d have to call the wordpress tag within bbPress, and I dont load wordpress with my forum (way too complicated for what i need)

However, somebody could take the wordpress code and customize it for bbPress

[Nola1974]

There definitely needs to be more template tag functions for things like this for those of us who don’t dream in PHP.

[ear1grey]

The topic-tags.php template is being explicitly included through the topic_tags() method of template-functions(), so replacing it in my-templates has no effect.

This makes me wonder if, generally, a bb_include and bb_require method could be used for all includes which would check the template system before resorting to a default folder.

this could possibly replace the oft repeated:

if (file_exists( BBPATH . 'my-templates/whatever.php' ))

require( BBPATH . 'my-templates/whatever.php' );

else require( BBPATH . 'bb-templates/whatever.php' );

I thought it worth mentioning because theme developers might find it useful from the outset.

[peiqinglong]

doubter:

Are you trying to incorporate the look of your main site into bbpress or functions of WP into bbpress? If you are looking to make bbpress look a part of your site, I highly recommend that you remove all the WP code from config.php. Then make a my-templates directory inside bbpress directory, make a copy of the contents of bb-templates and drop it in there. Then modify the files to match your existing site. See an example here: http://www.abunchofcars.com/forum/

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

doubter,

$bb->wp_home = 'http://www.captainsdead.com';

That line in the code you pasted is missing a single quote at the end (before the semi colon).

Hope that works

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

jessind,

I tried your site in firefox and http://jessanastasia.com/forums/topic/1 gave a 404 not found reply (which was then caught by your WordPress for some reason and I ended up at your blog).

Which method did you use to set up permalinks? MultiViews or the rewrite stuff? Did you put the .htaccess file in the forums directory?

[marky]

There’s a phpBB importer script available in this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/3

But it doesn’t convert BBCode yet. I think that feature is in the works, though.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

mokona,

The error is actually caused by the line above that on. Delete the line that says:

define(WPp_BB', true);

[mokona]

Hi, I think I’ve got the same problem.

I’m trying to install bbPress into a subdirectory of wordPress and I want it to have the same template of my main site.

I’ve looked this topic and I’ve uninstalled bbPress and made some changes to my config.php, that now looks like:

<?php

require_once('/home/wererabbit/demon.wererabbit.net/wp-blog-header.php');

define('WP_BB', true);

define('BBDB_NAME', '*****');

define('BBDB_USER', '*****');

define('BBDB_PASSWORD', '******');

define('BBDB_HOST', 'mysql.wererabbit.net');

$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_';

$bb->domain = 'http://demon.wererabbit.net/';

$bb->path = '/forum/';

$bb->name = 'Forum';

$bb->admin_email = 'lum@wererabbit.net';

$bb->mod_rewrite = true;

$bb->page_topics = 30;

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

$bb->gmt_offset = 0;

$bb->akismet_key = false;

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://demon.wererabbit.net';

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://demon.wererabbit.net';

define(WPp_BB', true);

define('BBPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );

require_once( BBPATH . 'bb-settings.php' );

?>

Now when I try to install I get a parse error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/.nevermore/wererabbit/demon.wererabbit.net/forum/config.php on line 57

line 57 is:

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

I think there’s something missing but I do not catch it.

[ear1grey]

I hadn’t spotted that bit, I was pointing towards midwife’s description; honest!

[tekhawk]

quick note

i had to add this line to my header.php file

<script type="text/javascript" src="'. bb_get_option('uri') .

'my-plugins/bb-emoticons.php?bb_grins_output=javascript"></script>

add that to the steps to get this to work if you are having troubles with clicking on the icons not working

Hope that this feature gets added to the package soon

[tekhawk]

anyone got some good css for code block areas right now all mine is, is a dashed border id like something like you see on most programming help forums

code {

display: block;

width: 400px;

border: 1px dashed lime;

background: #FFFFFF;

}

[AphelionZ]

Er… thanks haha.

The first thing I read at that topic is “a bozo could be a person that doesnt search the forums before posting”

but I did! I swear I did!

Thanks

[cvanp]

Nope, my layout is as follows:

http://localhost/wordpress

http://localhost/wordpress2

http://localhost/bbpress

All three share the same database, with the prefixes wp1_, wp2_, and bb_. I have the second WordPress (wp2_) hacked up a bit so it uses wp1_users and wp1_usermeta, enabling me to have a Gawker Media style Blog Network (multiple blogs, single logins). I was hoping to share that wp1_ table with bbPress, and it appears to have done so, just didn’t let me log in.

Also, I don’t get an error message, I just get directed back to the homepage as if I had done nothing.

[stigi]

i just started a german one:

find it at http://stigi.seidbereit.de/bbpress_de_DE.po

its far from finished. i just started at the beginning. and when i was bored i started again at the end and hoped i would meet up in the middle.

but there are still like 800 lines not translated. but contribute!

[ear1grey]

There isn’t currently a filter on the title, so there’s no quick answer that I can see, however:

You could copy bb-templatesheader.php to my-templatesheader.php (if you don’t have a copy of it already), then change its call to bb_title(); to another function, which you could write in a plugin, stealing code from the bb_get_title() function in template-functions.php.

Something like: my-title-plugin.php

<?php

// edit this so it returns whatever you want

function my_title() {

global $topic, $forum, $static_title, $tag, $user;

$title = '';

if ( is_topic() )

$title = get_topic_title(). ' &laquo; ';

if ( is_forum() )

$title = get_forum_name() . ' &laquo; ';

if ( is_tag() )

$title = wp_specialchars( get_tag_name() ). ' &laquo; Tags &laquo; ';

if ( is_bb_profile() )

$title = get_user_name( $user->ID ) . ' &laquo; ';

if ( !empty($static_title) )

$title = $static_title . ' &laquo; ';

$title .= bb_get_option('name');

return $title;

}

?>

[Nola1974]

Perfection… now, what would the forum name be?

using this…

<td><img src="/my-templates/images/topic.gif" /> <a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a>by <?php topic_author(); ?> in [forum name] </td>

to give me this…

[ ] I guess I’ll be the first.

by admin in

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Yes, and you’re right

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

whitelion, If you’re logged in, but can’t admin, it may be that there are no users with admin capabilities. This can happen if you install bbPress and then later intograte it with WordPress.

To fix this, try setting $bb->new_keymaster = true; in bbPress config.php and then re-running /bb-admin/install.php.

You should be able to type in your username if there are not any keymasters already. Delete that new line in config.php once you’re done.

[AphelionZ]

sorry to be posting a bug so soon, but ive been using the Allow Images plugin and everything seems to be in order, but then suddenly it started rejecting img tags and now i cant seem to get it back… if i do a full on <img src="whatever"> it just returns this: <img>

Anyone have any ideas why this might be happening?