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Hi Geekaholic,
you moved the phpbb user to the bbPress user table (e.g. bb_users). The users are still there. After the user integration you must copy the users from bbPress user table to the WordPress user table – and also copy the user_meta information.
If you had some WordPress users before the transfer form phpbb to bbPress/WordPress – it is possible to merge the users by hand. I do this within the phpMyAdmin.
Markus
Hi,
I’m using phpbb3 right now but want to move to bbpress. So I installed bbpress on my server and was able to import all the posts and users from the phpbb3 to the new bbpress forum. Everything worked great. But now I would like to integreate the wordpress user database with the bbpress database. When I’m using this build in integration method, all the users I transfered from phpbb3 to bbpress disapear…
does anyone know how to fix that or is the bbpress user databye deleted by integreating it to wordpress?
Someone on here once described “(to front)” as being the same as “announcements” on phpBB/vb etc. Hope that helps a little.
I really am starting to think i might have done a mistake with going for BBpress…
questions I have about the whole thing:
– appart from using the same DB for user (wordpress+bbpress) is there a good reason for using BBpress?
(it seems very limited, i keep getting errors form the official site(usually not a good sign))
– can bbpress be inserted into my wordpress page? (i think i read it cannot but still can’t believe it)
(I would like to have that very limited forum(bbpress) inside my wordpress otherwise i’ll go with a full on phpbb, if it’s the same thing??!!)
well, doesn’t look good….
first post was a minute ago,
I tried to subscribe to my topic = topic not found (although it’s there) and no redirect to anything, just a nice “TOO BAD BUDDY” message
try to add to favorite = error …too bad buddy!
Is it even worth it trying to get to know bbpress or should i go back to proper forum system like phpbb?!?!
I mean that’s the BBPRES.org own forum…. what is it gonna be when i get these error on my own bbpress?!?!?!
well, doesn’t look good….
first post was a minute ago,
I tried to subscribe to my topic = topic not found (although it’s there) and no redirect to anything, just a nice “TOO BAD BUDDY” message
try to add to favorite = error …too bad buddy!
Is it even worth it trying to get to know bbpress or should i go back to proper forum system like phpbb?!?!
I mean that’s the BBPRES.org own forum…. what is it gonna be when i get these error on my own bbpress?!?!?!
Ok i just moved everything over using this but my users are missing, including both admins so we can’t login to bbpress, does anyone know how to fix this? If so please email me on how to fix this! The tables for users are there, but nothing to browse when i go to phpmyadmin
There is a phpBB importer available for versions before than 3.0 and I haven’t heard anything for 3.0
Ok, now i have externally installed bbpress, how would i convert my phpbb tables to bbpress ones? I don’t know if some of the ones i find, will work since i have the most recent version of phpbb which is 3.0.7 PL1 can someone tell me how i would convert the tables so i can use them in bbpress?
“i found the plugin, tho. thanks”
When I posted your response automagically appeared. Unfortunately bbPress hasn’t the revision functionality of phpBB.
you mean like an email for new posts in WP is a bad idea…? oh. wait…
This is the bbPress forum and not the WordPress one. Email notification on a blog can have a reason to exists (in the dashboard you have the list of recent comments) but on a forum is a really bad idea. On a tipical medium sized forum you have ~50-100 posts / day which will results in an equal number of emails.
@kevinjohngallagher
I missed read you post earlier. Yeah getting bbPress to display like phpBB would be an awesome starting ground for me. If you could find those files/links that would be much appreciated.
I think i can shed a little light on this, but apologies if i’m off a little.
1) you need to decide if you want to have parent/child relationships with categories or not. If you want categories, then all forums need to have a parent category. Its a world of hassle otherwise.
2) bbPress doesn’t actually handle in any way shape or form a parent / child relationship. Its key to remember this when processing the data, especially in the bb_forums() loop. Remember it’s just a plain list of names with no corrolation.
3) The “category” is not marked on the forum list or forum database table where you can query it easily as a 1 to 1 relationship. Instead, a hack of _CK_’s forum as a category plugin for bbPress 0.8/0.9 has been rolled into the core. Thats not a complaint against Sam, its the fact that it doesn’t solve the problem, it merely “fakes” a category to the end user.
4) bbPress doesn’t consider a category to be in a Parent/Child relationship, it considers a category to be one that topics cant be written to AND that has a child forum. So if down the line you make a forum read only for some reason – bbPress will think its a category.
Here is a long (sorry) post I wrote about it in September 2008:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/parent-childrelationship-in-forum-loop
And in the end I made this as an example:
http://kevinjohngallagher.com/___alpha/bbpress_as_phpbb/
Basically, I had to do a major rewrite of the bb_forums() loop.
There’s a more fundamental issue here.
Basically, you should ensure that every forum has a parent category. It solves so many issues when building themes and dealing with the loop. I covered this in my “bbPress as phpBB” theme back in 2008. I’ll hunt out the links for you. It was simple, but a bit of a pain.
fix post position
function fix_post_position() {
global $bbdb;
$get_topics = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->topics ORDER BY topic_start_time ASC");
foreach( $get_topics as $get_topic ) {
$get_posttopic = $get_topic->topic_id;
$postorder = 1;
$get_posts = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->posts WHERE topic_id = '$get_posttopic' AND post_position = '1' ORDER BY post_time ASC");
foreach( $get_posts as $get_post ) {
echo "UPDATE bb_posts SET post_position = ";
echo $postorder++;
echo " WHERE topic_id = ";
echo $get_post->topic_id;
echo " AND post_id = ";
echo $get_post->post_id;
echo " ;";
echo '<br/>';
}
} }
echo fix_post_position in your template file and copy the sql query to your database
Fix Topic Slug phpBB Convert bbPress
add this to function.php in your template file
function fix_topicslug() {
global $bbdb;
$get_topics = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $bbdb->topics WHERE topic_slug='' ");
foreach( $get_topics as $get_topic ) {
$slug_fix = bb_slug_sanitize( wp_specialchars_decode($get_topic->topic_title));
$topic_id = $get_topic->topic_id;
$bbdb->query("UPDATE $bbdb->topics SET topic_slug= '$slug_fix' WHERE topic_id = '$topic_id' ;");
}
}
and echo fix_topicslug in header. cek your database, and dont forget to remove the above code if you already finish.
my problem now the post_position is broken after convert to bbpress (all post is position 1) any fix ?
bbPress _must_ not become a WordPress plugin. First of all because a BBS isn’t always associated with a blog and in my case this never happens. bbPress gain the attentions of a lot of people tired of bloatware engine like phpBB or slow engine like vBullettin. I switched to bbPress on all my sites for these reason.
Seconded a lot of people (as far as I know) chose bbPress because they can access to a WordPress style plugin system. If you have ever written a plugin for WordPress you can edit a bbPress one easily in order to accommodate your needs. But if bbPress will be a plugin of WordPress you will download a plugin… of a plugin? This is kind of confusing IMHO. Obviously I’m not talking about PHP programmers or in general skilled people but of regular users.
Third I think that the bbPress project deserve its own space. It is a too well done piece of code and for being a mere WordPress plugin.
sorry to raise an old topic from the dead, but I think I have found a significant problem with the current version…
If you try to post an empty reply in a topic, you are met with a message saying ‘You need to actually submit some content!’ and bbpress won’t let you reply.
However, if you edit a post, and delete all the information from inside, you can resubmit the post as a completely empty reply, because the filter for new replies does not work for edits.
And because there is no delete post function for normal users, some of my users have been doing this to remove their posts.
This means there are blank replies in some topics, which have to be manually found and removed by moderators!
I suggest there are two possible solutions
1) Allow users to delete their own posts, but within a certain time limit, I don’t want users deleting posts they made 2 months ago!
and/or
2) Have the empty-post filter work for post-edits as well as for brand new posts.
How can I make the edit-post function call the same minimum-character filter as the new post function??
Is it possible to mod the above post-delete plugin to include a time-limit on deleting posts (as found in phpbb)?
Well I can see there’s no shortage of advice and help wanted by folks at the sharp end. All good stuff.
But it strikes me that one thing that is missing, so far, is the ability to simply import databases from other forums like PHPBB etc. Haven’t done exhaustive research but that’s my impression.
The one plugin that *I* would want is the plugin that installs BBPress in the first place. And by the way, it should install it right into my existing WP theme.
What I am ultimately trying to do is allow the users to get back to the home page of the website from this home page of the forum. You’re right! I didn’t think that it should be in the phpBB folder. This is my first website and I guess it shows. When I tried once before to just add link path back to http://oakleafmeadowshoa.net/default.html it gave an error page stating that this url page was not found.
I don’t want the default.html in the forum folder but just need a proper path back to the home page of my website.
The home page link should not be to http://oakleafmeadowshoa.net/phpBB/default.html
but should link to http://oakleafmeadowshoa.net/ right? What do you mean by “Home”? Home of the website? What URL?
If you really want to link Home to http://oakleafmeadowshoa.net/phpBB/default.html then you will need to adjust the path to your CSS and images. I can’t figure out why you want that default.html in the forum folder though. Please explain further what you’re trying to do.
For everyone having trouble with special characters in forum names and descriptions,
FIND (on or around lines 193 and 194 of the original script)
$forum_name = $row;
$forum_desc = $row;
CHANGE TO (adding the addslashes() function)
$forum_name = addslashes($row);
$forum_desc = addslashes($row);
And that should resolve most of the complaints I’ve seen here about the conversion failing.
Notice my “kakumei black” theme:
http://heroesonly.com/heroes/bbpress/
Hi, I have finally converted over from phpBB2. I wanted to do this for a long time, and had done some trial runs in the past, but only now have I committed myself to bbPress. I think it’s for the better. phpBB3 still uses the brain-dead “mod” system of editing the code instead of using a plugin API. (Yes I did write phpBB mods.)
Now I’m hearing all this talk about bbPress going away, etc. etc. I think it’s ridiculous that people are getting worried about this. bbPress is awesome.
I don’t know how to tag this post… any suggestions?
I uploaded it from my hosting company. I got it to work but because it is in this header the path shows my link to exist in phpBB. Because of that, the website home page is rendered that it does not exist. Can I just upload the header.php into hosting and not have to put it back where I got it.
http://www.oakleafmeadowshoa.net/phpbb/
Don’t let the folder I put it in be misleading. I had created a folder for phpBB and then decided to go with bbPress because it was so much simplier. My website is for our homeowner’s association and I don’t expect much traffic so the bbPress was a better choice for me.
I have Windows and can copy and edit it in Notepad but then how do I get it uploaded back to the header.php? Sorry, I’m fairly new to this…. I mean I know how to upload it but will the changes take affect right then or do I need to do something in my file manager?
Hi all,
I am in the process of developing a new site (which is currently in beta and not meant for the public yet…) but I have a few concerns…
Website: http://www.diyextra.com
1) Have I chosen the right forum for the project, I keep hearing bbpress is dead or it will not be developed as much when/if it becomes a plugin… Should I be using a larger scale forum package like vbulletin or phpbb ? … My thoughts on the subject originally was to go bbpress as it may tie in well with the CMS side of the site which is controlled by wordpress, I did look in to buddypress but the whole group forum thing is off putting and the fact it is not SEO friendly and the slugs (urls) are way to long… Anyone have any comments or thoughts on this would be great….
2) Plugins – Ok so I understand the forum is very basic in its core state and you add plugins to achieve options you require, but quite a number of plugins I have tried to use seem not to work, Also I have a concern that there will be a limited number of plugins developed for bbpress when/if it becomes a plugin.
3) Here is a bug I have found – maybe its just on my forum… The freshness (time/date) is incorrect a lot of the test posts I have posted on the forum are from weeks and months ago, but yet they are show up as 3 weeks… yes I have heavily modified the templet files but only the html and header/footer locations… any ideas ?
4) RSS – Also I am getting RSS error – “This page contains the following errors: error on line 10 at column 33: Entity ‘raquo’ not defined
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.” Anyone else have this problem or any suggestions…
Many Thanks Guys,
Chris
