[Raize]

I’ve been looking for a solid forum software for quite some time now. vBulletin has a lot of features, but it’s too bloated…it’s “Web 1.0”

I explored Vanilla, EsoTalk, and now bbPress. I thought bbPress would be a good option, but it seems like the developer community has completely abandoned it over the past year. There are no themes, no plugins, and barely any updates to the core forum. As I kept looking for themes, I found this on bbShowcase:

The bbPress Showcase has been discontinued.

The removal of Sam Bauers and the halting of bbpress.org 2.0

was a clear and final sign that there is no interest in allowing

bbPress to become a mature, robust program and community.

By now bbPress 1.5 could have been in alpha but instead

bbPress development has been deliberately stagnated,

which should be a very alarming warning to everyone.

In addition, bbShowcase had only six donations in 2009,

which indicated to me there was no interest in my work.

My code will remain on bbpress.org as open source GPL

for those that wish to use it, however I caution you to

consider bbPress’s lack of leadership before continuing to use it.

Now I’m back at square one again. Not knowing which forum software to use.

[Matias Ventura]

Pretty much; something like this:

<a href="<?php forum_link( $topic->forum_id ); ?>"><?php forum_name( $topic->forum_id ); ?></a>

[Michael]

Greetings

I seem to be having many problems with my forum, most of them being mine.

So here goes the next one:

I am in the process of creating an additional item on the topic page that lets the member share the topic on Facebook, Twitter, and the like. I do not wan’t to use SocialIt as it puts it on every post, which starts to look messy. I have a neat forum.

So, I opened topic.php in my template’s directory and found the place where I need to add the code to achieve this.

At first, I added this, which worked: (bb_current_page_url is my own function)

<li><?php printf(__('Share this topic on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=%1$s">Facebook</a>'), bb_current_page_url() ?></li>

Then I wanted to add a title as per Facebook’s Sharer specifications. This means that I must add &t=<the-title>, where I put the cutom title in <the-title>.

So I did this:

<li><?php printf(__('Share this topic on <a target="_blank" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=%1$s&t=%2$s">Facebook</a>'), bb_current_page_url(), topic_title()) ?></li>

and it returned this:

DataSets and DataTableAdaptersShare this topic on Facebook

<string>Note: If you hover your mouse over “Facebook”, you’ll see that the URL has been cut off – which is why the title appears before the entire printf() function.

It should return this:

Share this topic on Facebook

I’m obviously doing something wrong with printf(), but I doubt it as it’s literally a copy-paste from the other printf()’s on that page.

I also want to stick to printf() as I will have multiple sites to link to, and I do not want to keep repeating things. I just want to refer to %1$s and %2$s for each entry.

Could anyone help me get out of this mess?

Michael

[Michael]

Greetings

I guess I could do the show off thing. Here’s mine: Dev:station

It has quite a lot of plugins installed – and everything works – though there may be a few bugs that I don’t know of.

Plugin List:

Admin Add User

Allow Images

Avatar Upload

BBCode Lite

BBCode Toolbar

bbPM

BBPress:SyntaxHiliter

bbPress Moderation Suite

bbPress Smilies

Bozo Users

Favicon

General Statistics (my own plugin)

Hot Tags Plus

Hot Topic

Human Test for bbPress

Indicate New Posts

Member List

bbPages

Post Count Plus

Project Honey Pot

Read-Only Forums

Related Topics

Reputation

Signatures

Simple Online List

Support Forum

Terms of Service

Topics per Page

Twitter

I know the address to this forum isn’t that great – I’ll be getting a .com domain for it some time next year (hopefully January).

Enjoy!

Michael

[Michael]

Hi Ben

I’m running quite a few:

Admin Add User

Allow Images

Avatar Upload

BBCode Lite

BBCode Toolbar

bbPM

BBPress:SyntaxHiliter

bbPress Moderation Suite (obviously )

bbPress Smilies

Bozo Users

Favicon

General Statistics (my own plugin, not the problem – have tested it extensively)

Hot Tags Plus

Hot Topic

Human Test for bbPress

Indicate New Posts

Member List

bbPages

Post Count Plus

Project Honey Pot

Read-Only Forums

Related Topics

Reputation

Signatures

Simple Online List

Support Forum

Terms of Service

Topics per Page

Twitter

Unread Posts (I should disable this one as I already have Indicate New Posts enabled)

I have gone through and disabled each one – this did not solve the problem.

Any help would be great. Thanks

[Elias]

Since bbPress 1.0.x you have to use my-languages, the path bb-includes/languages is correct for older bbPress versions.

[Michael]

Hi

You need to open the PHP file and edit the settings in there.

[Michael]

Thanks – works like a charm: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation

Is there maybe a way to get the link to that forum?

Would it maybe be forum_link( $topic->forum_id )? ^^,

[Matias Ventura]

Try the following:

<?php forum_name( $topic->forum_id ); ?>

[Michael]

Unfortunately, this plugin was meant to have support for Permalinks – hence the unused Page slug in the bbPages settings – but that never came about.

I recently had this problem too – so I manually edited my .htaccess file in the bbPress root.

So, I turned my Rules page from this:

http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/bb-page.php?page_id=1

to

http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/rules/

You need to open your .htaccess file in the bbPress root and add the following for each page, replacing <your-page> with the url you would like:

RewriteRule ^<your-page>/?$ /bb-page.php?page_id=1 [L]

[Michael]

You obviously don’t know what BBCode is at all – so let me explain.

BBCode is an alternative to HTML for people to use in their posts. For example, if they wanted to have bold text, they would put this in their post:

Text

You can download BBCode lite for bbPress here: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-lite/

You then need to save the'bbcode-lite.php file in your my-plugins directory. If you do not have one, you will need to create it. Then go to your admin panel, Plugins, and install BBCode Lite.

Then, in your posts, you will need to enter a URL like this:

http://www.example.com

or, with a title

My Example Site

Hope this solves your problem.

[nivosh]

what’s bbcode lite, and how can it be used to fix the problem?

thanks

[Michael]

Greetings all

I hope someone can help me here.

I have a strange feeling there is a function for this, but I can’t find it. I’d like to add a column into my Latest Discussions on the front page that shows the forum that the topic resides in. I’d like to do this so that users don’t have to explicitly state it in the title itself. I have a large structure for my new forum, and I’d like it to provide as many neatened features as possible.

Kind Regards

Michael

[Michael]

Hi there.

Have you installed BBCode lite? you can solve that issue by adding BBCode to your forum

Michael

[bb-lover]

Dear Developers,

I’ve recently use bbpages plugin.. its working fine..but i want one more thing in this plugin … here is url like my site

http://www.example.com/bb-page.php?page_id=3

i want to change it to

http://www.example.com/my-own-keyword.html

can any coder tell me how it possible?

i’ll be great thankful to you

here is plugins files

---

1. bb-page.php for root

<?php

require_once(‘./bb-load.php’);

$page_id = 0;

bb_repermalink();

if ( !$page )

bb_die(__(‘Page not found.’));

do_action( ‘bb-page.php’, $page_id );

bb_load_template( ‘page.php’, array(‘bb_db_override’, ‘page_id’) );

?>

---

2. page.php for template

<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( isset_id() ) : ?><?php if ( page_exist() ) : // Do not delete this ?>

<div class=”top_box”>

<h2><?php echo get_page_title(); ?></h2>

<div class=”bbcrumb”>“><?php bb_option(‘name’); ?> » <?php echo get_page_title(); ?></div>

</div>

<div class=”post-content”>

<?php echo get_page_content(); ?>

</div>

<?php else: // If there is no page with id=X in database ?>

<div class=”notice_box”><div class=”notice_content”>404 – I’m sorry, but this page does not exist.</div></div>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php else: // If page ID is not specified or it equals 0 ?>

<div class=”notice_box”><div class=”notice_content”>Page is not specified.</div></div>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php bb_get_footer(); ?>

---

3. bb-pages.php for plugin

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: bbPages

Plugin URI: http://astateofmind.eu/freebies/bbpages/

Description: Allows you to create static pages within your bbPress forum.

Author: F.Thion

Author URI: http://astateofmind.eu

Version: 0.0.2

license: GPL

donate: http://astateofmind.eu/about/support/

*/

function get_page_id() {

if ( isset ( $_GET ) ) :

$page_id = $_GET;

return $page_id;

endif;

}

function isset_id() {

if ( $_GET > 0 ) :

return true;

else:

return false;

endif;

}

function page_exist() {

global $bbdb, $bb;

$id = get_page_id();

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT page_id FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$id.””);

if ( $query == true ) :

return true;

else:

return false;

endif;

}

function get_page_title() {

global $bbdb, $bb, $page_id;

$id = get_page_id();

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT page_title FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$id.””);

foreach ($query as $rk) {

return $rk->page_title;

}

}

function get_page_slug() {

global $bbdb, $bb, $page_id, $page;

$id = get_page_id();

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT page_slug FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$id.””);

foreach ($query as $rk) {

return $rk->page_slug;

}

}

function get_page_content() {

global $bbdb, $bb, $page_id;

$id = get_page_id();

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT page_content FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$id.””);

foreach ($query as $rk) {

return $rk->page_content;

}

}

function list_pages() {

global $bbdb, $bb;

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $table_name ORDER BY page_order ASC”);

$status = array(

0 => ‘Draft’,

1 => ‘Published’

);

foreach ($query as $rk) {

echo ‘

<tr>

<td>’.$rk->page_id.'</td>

<td>’.$rk->page_title.'</td>

<td>’.$rk->page_date.'</td>

<td>’.$status[$rk->page_status].'</td>

<td>page_id.'”>Edit | page_id.'”>Delete | page_id.'”>View</td>

</tr>

‘;

}

}

function pages_panel() {

$action = $_REQUEST;

switch($action)

{

default:

?>

<h2>Manage Static Pages <small>(Create new page)</small></h2>

<table class=”widefat”>

<thead>

<tr>

<th style=’width:5%;’>ID</th>

<th style=’width:45%;’>Title</th>

<th style=’width:20%;’>Creation Date</th>

<th style=’width:10%;’>Status</th>

<th style=’width:20%;’>Actions</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tbody>

<?php echo list_pages(); ?>

</tbody>

</table>

<h3>Please support the developer</h3>

<img src=”http://astateofmind.eu/uploads/donation.gif&#8221; style=”margin-right:10px” border=”0″ align=”left” />

Do you like this plugin? Do you find it useful? If so, please donate few dollars so I could keep develop this plugin and others further and further. Even the smallest help is greatly appreciated for a student in Poland .

<form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr&#8221; method=”post”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_donations”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”business” value=”wojciech.usarzewicz@gmail.com”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”item_name” value=”bbPages Donation”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”item_number” value=”bbPages Donation”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”no_shipping” value=”0″>

<input type=”hidden” name=”no_note” value=”1″>

<input type=”hidden” name=”currency_code” value=”USD” />

Type donation amount: $ <input type=”text” name=”amount” value=”1″ />

<input type=”hidden” name=”tax” value=”0″>

<input type=”hidden” name=”lc” value=”US”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”bn” value=”PP-DonationsBF”>

<input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”Donate with PayPal!” alt=”PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online!”>

<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypal.com/pl_PL/i/scr/pixel.gif&#8221; width=”1″ height=”1″>

</form>

<p>Want to know what I’m developing right now? Follow me on Twitter, ignore 90% of stuff and learn a lot you will . And thank you for using my plugin!</p>

<?php

break;

case “add”:

global $bbdb, $bb;

if (isset($_POST))

{

$page_title = $_POST;

$page_slug = bb_sanitize_with_dashes( “$page_title”, “” );

$page_content = $_POST;

$page_order = $_POST;

$page_status = $_POST;

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = “INSERT INTO ” . $table_name .

” (page_id, page_date, page_content, page_title, page_status, page_slug, page_order) ” .

“VALUES (0, NOW(), ‘”.$page_content.”‘, ‘”.$page_title.”‘, ‘”.$page_status.”‘, ‘”.$page_slug.”‘, ‘”.$page_order.”‘)”;

$bbdb->query($query);

?><div class=”updated”><p>Page has been saved.</p></div> <?php

}

?>

<h2>Add new page</h2>

<form class=”settings” method=”post”>

<fieldset>

<div>

<label for=”page_title”>

Page title </label>

<div>

<input name=”page_title” id=”page_title” type=”text” class=”text long” />

<p>Page slug will be created automatically (don’t worry, it’s not useful for anything yet).</p>

</div>

</div>

<div>

<label for=”page_order”>

Page order </label>

<div>

<input name=”page_order” id=”page_order” type=”text” class=”text long” />

</div>

</div>

<div>

<label for=”page_content”>

Page content </label>

<div>

<textarea name=”page_content” id=”page_content” rows=”20″ cols=”80″ ></textarea>

</div>

</div>

<input type=”hidden” name=”page_status” value=”1″ />

<input type=”hidden” name=”page_id” value=”<?php echo $_GET; ?>” />

</fieldset>

<input type=”submit” class=”submit” name=”add_page” value=”<?php _e(‘Add page’, ‘add_page’) ?>” />

</form>

<?php

break;

case “edit”:

global $bbdb, $bb;

if (isset($_POST)) {

$page_id = $_POST;

$page_title = $_POST;

$page_content = $_POST;

$page_order = $_POST;

$page_status = $_POST;

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = “UPDATE “.$table_name.” SET page_content='”.$page_content.”‘, page_title='”.$page_title.”‘, page_status='”.$page_status.”‘, page_order='”.$page_order.”‘ WHERE page_id='”.$page_id.”‘”;

$bbdb->query($query);

?> <div class=”updated”><p>Page updated…</p></div> <?php

}

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$_GET.””);

foreach ($query as $rk) {

$id = $rk->page_id;

$title = $rk->page_title;

$content = $rk->page_content;

$order = $rk->page_order;

$status = $rk->page_status;

}

?>

<h2>Edit page</h2>

<form class=”settings” method=”post”>

<fieldset>

<div>

<label for=”page_title”>

Page title </label>

<div>

<input name=”page_title” id=”page_title” type=”text” class=”text long” value=”<?php echo “$title”; ?>” />

<p>Page slug will be created automatically (don’t worry, it’s not useful for anything yet).</p>

</div>

</div>

<div>

<label for=”page_order”>

Page order </label>

<div>

<input name=”page_order” id=”page_order” type=”text” class=”text long” value=”<?php echo “$order”; ?>” size=”10″ />

</div>

</div>

<div>

<label for=”page_content”>

Page content </label>

<div>

<textarea name=”page_content” id=”page_content” rows=”20″ cols=”80″ ><?php echo “$content”; ?></textarea>

</div>

</div>

<input type=”hidden” name=”page_status” value=”1″ />

<input type=”hidden” name=”page_id” value=”<?php echo $_GET; ?>” />

</fieldset>

<input type=”submit” class=”submit” name=”save_page” value=”<?php _e(‘Save page’, ‘save_page’) ?>” />

</form>

<?php

break;

case “delete”:

global $bbdb, $bb;

$id = $_GET;

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“DELETE FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$_GET.””);

$bbdb->query($query);

?> <div class=”updated”><p>Page deleted…</p></div> <?php

break;

}

}

function pages_admin_menu() {

bb_admin_add_menu(__(‘Manage Pages’), ‘administrate’, ‘pages_panel’);

}

function bbpages_install() {

global $bbdb;

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$bbdb->query(“CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $table_name (

page_id mediumint(9) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

page_date datetime,

page_content text,

page_title varchar(255),

page_status int(1),

page_slug varchar(255),

page_order int(11),

PRIMARY KEY (page_id)

)”);

}

bb_register_activation_hook( __FILE__, ‘bbpages_install’);

add_action( ‘bb_admin_menu_generator’, ‘pages_admin_menu’ );

?>

---

Note: I want to mention here that the author of this plugin is no more active. He make this plugin but something is wrong with this pluing. he tell us wrong path for plugins files. But I’ve little bit knowledge of php that’s why i correct its path now the path of the plugins files which I’ve mentioned above is totally correct and working fine.

Now I really need to your help. If someone will not guide me then I’ll leave this software “bbpress” and I’ll move to vBulletin or phpbb after disheart….

So I’m waiting for positive answers from developers… Thanks … And Love you all

[Naujokas]

I am integradet users from WordPress.

[MSR6]

I am using avatar upload. It is working fine, but I have a couple questions. I have the avatar working on posts, but cannot find the correct file or location to for the avatar on the profile page.

My site is: http://www.msrplastics.com/bbpress

I am using the iNove theme/template, which has the avatar image in the right sidebar on the profile page. Help, I’m driving myself crazy looking through random php folders for any sign of an avatar reference!

Also, the avatar I chose for myself has an oblong shape and did not get resized correctly. Any fix or is it necessary to upload more “square” shaped pictures. Look at only post for reference.

And when I put the code in the bb-post.php, I replaced the call for an avatar code that was already there. Is this right or should I have just added it before or after?

Thanks for any help,

Mike

MSRplastics.com

[imgiseverything]

Another way to remove the (frankly awful) table tags is to make use of PHP’s output buffering.

function cleanForm($buffer){

// do a str_replace on $buffer to remove the table tag and replace with <div>s, or whatever you fancy and return it

$buffer = str_replace('replace me', 'with me', $buffer);

return $buffer;

}

ob_start(“cleanForm”);

bb_profile_data_form();

ob_end_flush();

[buddha-trance]

@ jackey – The patch will haunt you back the day you upgrade WP, because you have to remember to apply the change again on the new, overwritten, wp-settings.php file…

If the fix to comment out that line provides a solution, I don’t know why that function is in the core in the first place. There must be a good reason, I am not a programmer…

[jackey]

O.K. that works equally well, and less intrusive… Thanks.

I stopped programming about 30 years ago, but is this kind of patching common practice?

I suspect that this patch will haunt back on me one day.

Don’t misunderstand… I’m happy with the fix, but isn’t there something wrong in the core?

And functions with “magic” in their name give me the creeps.

Thanks again!

[buddha-trance]

Well, there is a way I just tested, by modifying core code (which I really don’t like doing).

If pointing out where the change occurs could help someone to come up with a way to change it via a plugin, here it is…

functions.bb-capabilities.php

line 166

$roles->add_role( 'member', __('Member'), array(

change to

$roles->add_role( 'member', __('Info'), array(

same goes for the other roles in the same file (Moderator, etc.)

Hope this helps.

[buddha-trance]

@jackey – You could also try what is suggested in one of the links I posted above, to see if it works for you:

“To get round this, go to around line 388 in “wp-settings.php” file and hash out $_POST = add_magic_quotes($_POST); and hey presto!”

In this current version, I have it on line 590. To comment out:

//$_POST = add_magic_quotes($_POST );

[bingsterloot]

Hi there

This might not be to any importance of you, but your forum has massive css problems on a Mac platform, so it messes up badly (

[jackey]

O.K. Andrew fixed things for the iBlogProForum, but the backslashed where still popping up in the backend. Andrew then suggested to change the PHP setting magic_quotes_gpc to on . And this worked for most of the backend. (Strangly enough for all plugins, but not the “signature” plugin, this one went from \\’ to just one ‘.)

However I stumbled over a warning of PHP.net.

“/This feature has been /DEPRECATED/ as of PHP 5.3.0 and /REMOVED/ as of PHP 6.0.0. Relying on this feature is highly discouraged./”

So I’m afraid this is a temporary fix.

For now I’m content. And running a fully integrated forum at: http://golfclub-stippelberg.nl/forums/

Thanks!

[Michael]

Hi all

I installed bbPress Moderation Suite two weeks ago. It was working perfectly for a good amount of time, until 3 days ago, when I appointed a new moderator for my forum.

It seems that the Moderation Suite is only allowing key-masters to access the moderation control panel. I have a funny feeling that this my have something to do with one of my other plugins. The minute the new mod was appointed, he went straight in to have a browse around my modified admin panel. He told me at that point that he had access to the Mod Suite – but now it seems he doesn’t.

I have created a test user and changed the levels between Moderator and Administrator – nothing worked. It’s only letting Keymasters in.

Any ideas?

Kind Regards

Michael