[_ck_]

I’ve never participated in the WP one but if it’s straightforward enough and has no liability I’ll volunteer to do basic bbPress installs.

I’ve been thinking of looking at the fantastico script for wordpress and hacking it to do bbpress and sending to them to include. That would radically increase the number of installs. Maybe even try to make a regular cpanel script too like the phpbb install (cpaddon).

[Sam Bauers]

@j8h9

I’ve got 3 fixes for you to choose from:

1. Make the above changes

2. Upgrade the version of PHP you are using

3. Download the current trunk (rev 1071) here

Or go back to phpbb, your choice.

: )

[j8h9]

First install failed due to this error. Why can’t they put the fix in the version I’m downloading. Geez. Back to phpbb.

[tamebay]

We are also looking for a solution to this.

[citizenkeith]

I removed “topic_resolved” from the script. A fresh install later, and I get this error: “Column count doesn’t match value count at row 1”

[citizenkeith]

I just reinstalled bbPress and did NOT utilize WP integration. I also tried using the forum support plugin, as recommended by fel64.

Now I’m getting this error:

Unknown column ‘topic_resolved’ in ‘field list’

[citizenkeith]

I just tried this using phpBB 2.012 and bbPress 0.8.3.

This is the error I get:

Table ‘khanlon_db3.henskebb_users’ doesn’t exist

And that makes sense, since I already set up bbPress to integrate with WordPress. Since bbPress is using the wp_users table, the script doesn’t know where to put the phpbb users.

As it stands now, bbPress shows all the topic counts for each forum, but when you click on the forum, none of the threads are listed.

I tried exporting all the users using phpMyAdmin and importing into the WP table, but the threads are still missing.

[eSports]

I’d imagine not anytime soon. PHPBB3 is totally bloated… I can think of easier ways though…

[tvon]

i’d love to use bbpress! Any idea when a phpbb3 converter is being made?

[tvon]

any progress on importing phpbb3??

[tvon]

i too am interested in this possiblity

[chrishajer]

I think the most likely route is to find something that will convert SMF to phpBB format, then import that to bbPress. I think the most work has been done there, on a phpBB importer. If you search this forum for phpBB or SMF you will see some previous discussion. Here’s one thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-smf-to-bbpress?replies=20#post-4541

[chrishajer]

There is absolutely a solution for it: fel64 explained it above. bbPress is not a forum plugin for WordPress, it’s standalone forum software. It’s configurable enough that you can use the same login and password from WordPress, you can create a link to it from you WordPress installation, and you can style it to look just like a WordPress page. You can even use bbPress functions in WordPress, and vice versa. The thing is, you have to do some work. But at least it’s possible to make it look like your WordPress site. Try that with phpBB or some other forum software.

If you look around these forums you will see many examples of installations where the bbPress installation is formatted to look exactly like the WordPress blog.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/strut-your-bbpress

https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/pimp-your-press

[intellivision]

I know, I know. I’ve been running my forum since 2002, and these people are very connected to their names. Blame phpBB for allowing this stuff. Thanks for your idea… I’ll rock it today.

Just to be clear, does your solution allow new funny char usernames, or show existing? Because I need the latter. I don’t need/want new FCUs.

[intellivision]

I’ve tried editing usernames in the db to no avail.

How can I have users like $tevie show the “$” on their posts in topic.php — just show the whole name. Out of the box, bbPress simply ignores the funny chars, so we see “tevie” as the post’s author.

ASCII equivalents too, like the copyright symbol (damn phpBB loose username validation).

I’m willing and able to edit the few usernames in the db by hand. I have a few of these funny char names from my port from phpBB.

[Cal]

Yeah, it worked out fine.

If I remember correctly, I just integrated WP and BB first (minus the cookie settings). Then I installed Amember and installed the WP plugin. All 3 were installed in the same database. For BB cookies I think I just set them the same as _cK_ said in a different post here. For WP cookies, I believe that is in the Amember Plugin Readme file.

It wasn’t too tough. If you need to know anything else let me know and I can take a look. I’ve decided to go with PHPBB instead of BBpress but I still have it all installed at the moment. There’s nothing wrong with BBpress just want more group and permission control.

Hope that helps.

[andersson]

Thanks. Glad you liked it and thanks for the suggestion. I’ll see if I can find a better solution for that.

About the visitor stats:

The visitor stats is based on the session() and I make use of the global bb_current_user to figure out whether the session belongs to a member or not. Sessions that come from a visitor associated with a valid bb_current_user is put in the “members” columns, visitors without a valid bb_current_user is just a visitor.

For speed I cache the retrieval on a minute by minute basis, while still recording the sessions in the background, so that at traffic peaks, I still don’t get that much pounding on the Db.

[intellivision]

Looks nice. Very clean, I’m a fan.

I’d do some work with the Last Poster column. The header is left-aligned, but the content (user nicks) are centered.

How do you calculate visitors in “Now online: xx visitors, xx members”?

[andersson]

when re-arranging one of my sites a bit the other day I took the opportunity to change my bbpress-theme to mimic the new phpBB3.0-style.

any feedback is welcome. you find my bbpress installation here:

http://www.purposegames.com/forums

[vanoosterhout]

Should I give up on this? I *may* be willing to *help* fund a conversion solution if anyone is interested in taking on this project.

I also wonder if anyone has done an analysis of the differences to know what specific loss of functionality I will have if I convert from PHPBB to BBRess.

Thanks

[flippy]

I agree with u. I also need a converter for my phpbb forum. There is one for phpbb2, but it’s not working with bbpress 0.8.2.1 I mean https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb?replies=26.

[vanoosterhout]

We are excited about the possibility of converting from PHPBB3 to BBPress. However all the discussions about conversion seem to surround previous versions of PHPBB. Am I missing an appropriate thread? Does anyone have any suggestions?

Does anyone know if somebody may be working on this?

Thanks

[warmechoco]

this whas kinda my persuasion to choose for bbpress, so I could login from Iframes.. I knew nothing about forums (only phpBB: but this wasn’t easy to work with in iframes)… what a shame

[chrishajer]

Yes, it’s been done:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/a-phpbb-to-bbpress-database-converter?replies=33

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/the-result-of-phpbb2bbpress?replies=1

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/importing-from-phpbb?replies=26

These are old posts, but yes, it can be done. You might need to make some modifications to the linked scripts to make them work with your version of phpBB and bbPress.

But, it can be done, yes.

[samhughey]

I have a phpBB forum. Can bbPress import those forums?

Thanks,

Sam Hughey