[Abdessamad Idrissi]

ABOUT

A script to help you convert you phpbb3 (version 3.0.7) forum to bbpress (version:1.0.2) forum. This code is an update to the code made by wmnasef (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release).

GET IT @

http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/

BUGS CORRECTED

* works with bbpress 1.0.2

* corrects the single quote problem

* corrects the login problem

HOW TO INSTALL

1. make a backup from your online forum (if possible make an exact copy of your forum in your localhost server, this prevents any damage to the online forum).

2. install bbpress anywhere, just use the same database of phpbb3. this is important because the script assumes that all tables are in the same database.

3. download the script from here. extract it, and you’ll get 2 files.

4. copy the file phpbb3tobbpress.php to “phpbb3/” directory.

5. copy the file _phpbb3_pass.php to bbpress/my-plugins/ directory (if it doesn’t exist, create it!).

6. go to http://path-to-phpbb3/phpbb3tobbpress.php and start converting your board.

7. voila .. all your data is converted to bbpress tables, go to your bbpress installation and login. don’t forget to visit admin->manage->recount to make sure your converted board is updated.

As said before, it is advised to copy your phpbb3 forum to a localhost installation and make the conversion as stated in the steps above, this way if you have big forum with thousands of posts, it is easier and safer to run the conversion on localhost.

Hope this helps and thanx to the original poster.

Tested by http://numediastudio.com for http://forumcine.ma

[Abdessamad Idrissi]

I updated the current code and hosted it under google code at http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/

now it works with bbpress 1.0.2 and phpbb 3.0.7

have fun! and thanx original poster: wmnasef

[Ben L.]

bb_auth calls bb_validate_auth_cookie, which calls WP_Auth::validate_auth_cookie, which uses a variable defined in bb-settings.php. The cookies you can check for are auth and logged_in, with auth automatically switching to secure_auth if you’re on SSL.

[curtisdroppelman]

I started coding a plugin to do exactly what I asked before, I found this page very helpful. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo

I’ll post a link to the plugin when I’m finished.

-Curtis

http://twitter.com/curtis

[yangt299]

Hi,

I have bbpress deeply integrated with WordPress but I am unable to register. Here’s my website forum: http://itracki.com/forum

When I try to register, it says that “email is required” even though I have clearly inputted an email. Is anyone else having this problem? Help?

Thanks

[kevinjohngallagher]

(post too old as I pressed Edit – sorry)

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Edit: To answer John:

It wasn’t a dig at Sam mate. Not at all. I wasn’t a fan of Sam’s management style here, but felt he got dealt a difficult hand to play with the backPress 180 on him, and I’m a very big fan of his code in 1.0. The bbPulp site did become a pron site while an Automattic employee, and again, if there had been a post that it wasn’t going to be renewed so that anyone who wanted the data could copy it and start it again – bam, problem solved.

If it looked like, or was taken as a sly dig at Sam, i apologise entirely, it wasn’t meant that way.

Take Jane@wordpress’s post that started all of these questions. She’s giving people a heads up. She’s spreading information out to the community, so at least interested parties can answer general questions. Information then Action works best, the people at Automattic taught me that, because the do it so very well with WordPress

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@nehagoyal

and we are talking of bb_auth() here. Aren’t we?

[hpguru]

What point use today bbPress standalone, if bbPress plugin is made soon? I wait it, because i and my users need plugin forum to my WordPress. In my forum bbPress is very fast and good but i delete it some months ago because 200 members doesn’t post more than 1-10 messages per week…

Per day 50-100 unique and nothing from AdSense. My blog AdSense is 100 €/month and 1 000 unique per day. I think plugin is better for unique to forum and for good AdSense to forum.

[_KB_]

I saw that bbpress is now making a plugin instead of standalone install.

So What should I do? I’m on the final stage to launch my site where I’ve used almost 100 plus bbpress standalone installs.

So here are my question?

1. Will New plugin meet my site’s criteria?

2. Will bbpress.org will closed after plugin’s announcement?

3. Will bbPress Standalone shutdown after plugin’s availability?

4. Can We will easily able to switch from standalone to plugin without data losing?

5. is there a function to launch multiple boards like wpmu?

because I’m using multiple installs for my various boards.

6. will there need for integration specially ( cookies integration ) with this new plugin.

7. what about bbPress plugins? after bbpress plugin version will they all useless?

8. Or we will be able to use bbpress standalone plugins with bbpress plugin software?

9. Should I launch my site or still wait for plugin availability?

10. When this bbpress plugin version will be available for public?

Do you people have answers for these questions?

Do you people have any suggestions for my site?

Do you people have any ideas how can I achieve bbpress multiuser like WPMU functionality? after plugin’s availability??

I’m really afraid, I really don’t know what to do right now.

I’m working on my site from almost last 10 months. I don’t want to lose everything if this plugin will be launched, Is it possible? Because I was working with bbpress Standalone Version.

I hope you people will guide me Now what to do….

Thanks

Regards

KB

[kikko088]

i try to write anything on a new post but it remains

kikko088

[kevinjohngallagher]

woah woah woah (sweet child of mine)

There’s no doubt we’re doing exceptionally well in how far we’ve come with this, especially given that the Project Lead left 4 months ago, but we’re not anywhere near that stage.

1.0 had 10 alphas (though pre-Alpha6 was massively different to Alpha7-10).

It had no beta’s. It had 1 RC which was turned into an actual release 7 days later with minimal bug fixes, and we’ve been stuck with these bugs for a year because of it.

If you want to help, and it’s awesome you do, please download the latest nightly build from the Trunk and report bugs like mad.

There should be no real alpha/beta/rc packages until we’ve squashed all the existing tickets (possible exception to backPress reliant ones).

The moer bugs we find now (in the nightly builds) the more confident we’ll all be in the Alphas that we put out there

And Gautam, excellent work once again.

[noepiyu]

i upgraded my bbPress to latest version 1.0. But i have a warning message:

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Warning: file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/bb-config-path.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/htdocs/) in /www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/htdocs/bb-load.php on line 141 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/htdocs/bb-load.php:141) in /www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/htdocs/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-auth.php on line 273 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/htdocs/bb-load.php:141) in /www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/htdocs/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-auth.php on line 273 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/htdocs/bb-load.php:141) in /www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/htdocs/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-auth.php on line 273 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/htdocs/bb-load.php:141) in /www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/htdocs/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-auth.php on line 273 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/htdocs/bb-load.php:141) in /www/***.org/d/e/n/denemefrm/htdocs/bb-includes/functions.bb-pluggable.php on line 232

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How can i solve this problem???

[_KB_]

I love this forum software, that’s why I’m here to discuss it, to participate in community, learn more about it. Hope it will be a nice experience

Regards,

KB

[kikko088]

ooooops, i add all excuse me but i’m not expert… now i remove the red code and add green code but the slah remain

[kevinjohngallagher]

It’s for adding padding.

Specifically for faking a heirarchal tree view in a parent/child relationship.

bb_forum_pad( '<div class="nest">', 1 );

it eventually calls:

$bb_forums_loop->pad( $pad, $offset );

Just to be clear, I am just copy and pasting the information found in teh first link in google for typing in “bb_forum_pad”. This information is also in the actual source code, if you search for “bb_forum_pad”.

[zaerl]

Open phpmyadmin. Run this SQL query: http://pastebin.com/9VhTGNt9 If you use a table prefix different from bb_ you need to change the query.

Keep in mind that this code is without warranty.

[_ck_]

Trading insults is not very mature, therefore I think it’s time to close this topic.

pagal, you just have to be flexible, you can’t always get what you want for free, so you either have to adjust and find another way to do it or hire a coder to make what you want.

The fields in the user profile are unfortunately handled in a very inconsistent way, it doesn’t even use the same code on the registration page vs. the profile edit page vs the profile display page which is a symptom of the adhoc nature of how bbpress was built. But I don’t think even wordpress has that ability built in yet.

[Rootside]

You’re wanting to compare an unsupported, unintentional, unadvisable, found-by-mistake hack (that doesn’t always work) against a theoretical piece of software. It’s a no-brainer which will compare favourably.

Yeah well, exactly.

The comparison you propose might be fair when it comes to judging pure performance, but a “normal” integration doesn’t give you what you and your users should expect:

Common elements like a header, a navigation and other functions should be available and work the same across the whole site without you having to mimic them for a forum section, changes you might make to those elements shouldn’t have to be made twice, and if you get a single admin panel at the backend on top of all that, then that theoretical piece of software becomes extremely desirable.

Proper integration, if I may call it that, is an absolute requirement in my opinion, because a forum is always just one component of a larger website in what I do, and I’d be surprised if that didn’t apply to many people here. It then becomes a different problem, of course: is the loss of performance on my forum pages acceptable, does it scale (does it blend , what kind of hosting would I need to run things smoothly etc.? That’s kind of what I’m trying to feel out, and I just have the feeling that a plugin wouldn’t do such a bad job, all things considered.

Fully agree with your point that Matt is the one who would have to get things moving after basically announcing that this is going to happen.

[rohan_shenoy]

Thanks Kevin.

Right now, there is no bb_capabilities meta_key for every user. Therefore, I must create it using PHP/SQL code it seems!

[Gautam Gupta]

Here’s the SQL:

UPDATE bb_usermeta SET meta_value = 'a:1:{s:6:"member";b:1;}' WHERE meta_value = 'a:1:{s:8:"inactive";b:1;}'

Change bb_ if you have any other table prefix. Also change " to the correct one.

[zaerl]

No please pagan. Don’t choose another forum software. I am here for you and you know what? I will work for you for free. I will spend hours in a plugin that will be useful only for you. Normally I get 20€/h when I write code but you are special.

Don’t hurt my feelings. Don’t say that I’m not able to do anything (for free).

[WimTibackx]

I might not have been very clear on that. Foremost I want to fork WordPress and turn it into a fast, modern and elegant cms. At the same time I want to fork WordPress and bbPress to run as plugins on that cms. I just used the backpress name in my post to avoid using WordPress two times.

I’m personally not that interested in a standalone forum, but in a forum that integrates on my normal website easily and a normal website that is modern, fast and easily extendible. The current WP codebase might have the fast-part but it isn’t modern and it isn’t easily extendible (ok, it’s better then phpBB for example but more object oriented code wouldn’t do bad at all).

[rohan_shenoy]

Hi guys,

I just successfully converted my forum from MyBB to bbPress.

However, I realized that most of the members are now Inactive! Can someone tell me an easy way to set their roles to Member. I know that I can personally edit their profiles and update their roles, but I can’t do it over 2000 times

Thanks.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

but there is nothing in the function definition for an argument 'logged-in'

how did you get that?

[_ck_]

I’ve decided this is not something I want to get into. Way too much work for one specific solution and multi-input fields like birthday are going to be very complicated.

The sites you see this on already have full-time programmers while you don’t know how to code at all so you are going to constantly rely on begging for free help from others.

Since you are using WordPress integrated I recommend you just use an existing plugin for it to do this instead.