[fel64]

That’s the maxlength property of input fields.

You can still edit the HTML, though, and submit your crazy username. A serverside check is best.

[Null]

Yes just edit the textfield (where you have to enter your username) and just let it except like 5 characters or less…

[outchy]

is there a way to limit the maximum number of characters for a username?

[_ck_]

Yup this is another area where bbpress has to be fixed before it hits the mainstream (or before the mainstream will adopt it).

If you are using it with wordpress, for now you can route all the login/register links to wordpress which does a better job.

I discovered this by accident from the plugin that email favorites which I then had to hack directly to fix.

I’ll open a ticket in trac if there isn’t one already.

[sam_a]

I know the emails have to come from somewhere, but still… this was surprise.

Could there be a notice somewhere that the admin email is used to send every registration notification? Spambots are getting it too

I had expected that bbPress would use it only to send notifications to the admin.

[fel64]

Thanks for posting it here anyway bugs go on trac for fixing, and this particular one’s already been addressed. I can’t tell if it went into the latest version (.8.2.1) or not but it should be fixed in trunk.

[kehlers]

Oops, I forgot to do a “search” prior to posting this, and I see that it was already posted by someone else. Please disregard.

[kehlers]

I’m not sure if this is a bug, or just something I have wrong, but my husband noticed it right away. I missed it even though I’ve been working with bbPress for several weeks and have installed it on three different sites! LOL

Anyhow, it’s a relatively minor issue, but has anyone seen this?

When a user registers, the success message reads “Your registration as was successful…”. I thought it was a simple typo, but when I looked at the code it goes like this:

<?php printf(__('Your registration as <strong>%s</strong> was successful. Within a few minutes you should receive an email with your password.'), $user_login) ?>

BTW, I have the same result when I register on this support forum. I think the main issue is that the variable $user_login, created in register.php, is no longer available after bb_load_template( 'register-success.php' );.

Does anyone know if there is a variable containing this info? Since the user is not logged in at that time, I can’t use any of the current user info. As I said, this is quite minor – the success message would be almost as good without the user login ID in there.

[rfleigh]

hi guys, please help..

i have a regular php website to which many people are already registered. is it possible to integrate the BBPress login to be the same ? or does integration only work between BBPredd and WordPress?

i would like people to only log in once to my site and have access to the registered people content, as well as to the forums without loging in again.

thank you

[Thrift]

Thank you!

I’m still a little new at this so I appreciate the help with what was more then likely a very simple question. It worked after I modified it a little.

<?php if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>

show to those not logged in

<?php endif; ?>

[Ziyphr]

Not tried this but usually with functions you can put in an exclamation mark in to what you had for not logged in.

<?php if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) { ?>

show to those not logged in

<?php } ?>

Sorry if that’s obvious and you’ve already tried it.

[Thrift]

Ok, I so figured out the <?php if ( bb_is_user_logged_in() ) : ?> tags to display items to users that are logged in. Now how can it be used to hide things from people that are logged in?

There is a lack of documentation on functions it seems. That or I’m just not looking in the right places.

[Thrift]

I’d like to hide the login/pass fields after a user has logged in and there are some other things I would like to hide or be available only to registered users.

Can anyone help?

[_ck_]

Remember that many users will already have the “remember me” set for their cookie on wordpress and that doesn’t expire for a year. This means their bbpress login will mysteriously fail. They’ll either give up or re-register a new nickname.

You also need the space and period plugin fix for names. WordPress allows them, bbpress doesn’t by default. So anyone with a space or period in their nickname will fail logging into bbPress. Not knowing such things can drive you mad.

I also went a step further and routed all the login links on bbpress back to the wordpress login box since it has a few extra features. I use the redirect_to option to bring them back to bbpress.

ps. another good integration thread for a future integration sub-forum

[Inquirer]

In the bbPress config.php file is the following

You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

I registered with wordpress.com and received an Akismet key, which I have put in the bbPress config.php

I posted a question WordPress.com forum and discovered that there is a WordPress.org and a WordPress.com. I have WordPress.org blog software, which is able to be customized.

I then registered with WordPress.org forums.

Is bbPress related with WordPress.com or WordPress.org?

[_ck_]

I’ve yet to see forum software that makes it hard for members to use/post?

My problem is not really spam but a bunch of pre-teens running around and posting massive, rapid, rabid chats with each other like it’s a chat room. bbPress completely lacks any management tools to deal with that. If you ban them, they can re-register with a different nickname in less than 30 seconds. If you ban their ip, they just use a randomizing proxy.

On my wordpress side I have it completely programmed with stop-words, how fast each member can post and decent moderation tools. But the forum, which from the start needs those abilities the most, does not have them.

[_ck_]

Wait, there are numerous people installing bbpress as their only website program without having WP installed? Why? It’s such an early, early beta and has virtually no administration features. Any mature forum program can blow it away right now. Are they masacists or just running really tiny, micro forums?

Just out of curiosity, what are the largest known bbpress forums, other than the wordpress site and here? I suspect the forum I’ve integrated is probably in the top 10 since it has over 100 daily active users (with 800+ registered from the wordpress config).

[LMD]

@Beaver6813:

The error sounds like it’s trying to call the add_action() function when either the file containing the function (wp-functions.php) isn’t included for some reason, or the plugin is being called before it has been included.

I do not know why this might occur, although the fact you are using an integrated WordPress/bbPress combo might be a factor. We really need somebody who knows more about the internals of both system to help.

Anyway, by commenting out the add_action() function all you have done is prevent the plugin from automatically creating an identicon for newly registered users. So, it’s not such a biggie while trying to solve the problem.

@_ck_

Feel free to hack the script however you see fit — I realise I have been rather too strict with the filenames, especially as it is really only a first-stage precaution (the file gets renamed n the server anyway). Also, I believe some browsers add the whole path to the uploaded filename (something I neglected to address).

A solution I am adding to the next version will be to extract the actual filename from the path before checking.

$img_name = basename($img['name']);

Then, the number of necessary characters to allow is greatly reduced. I just prefer to approach it from the other end, block everything except what I explicitly allow. But as I said, feel free to hack it to suit your needs.

I was completely unaware that you could enter a URL into a file input (“browse”) field? You indicate that it forces Windows to download the file, but I am wondering whether it is a browser specific feature and whether it is supposed to work like that? I would not rely on it.

The mime-type comes from the uploaded file in $_FILES which, you are right should not be trusted. I’m experimenting with checking whether the uploaded file is areally an image doing something like imagecreatefromjpeg() – obviously using the appropriate function for the reported file extension (so if it’s all wrong/missing/forged an error will result). Alternatively, a simple solution might be to use getimagesize() (just the one function for all types), which I already use later in the code.

[_ck_]

I’ve just discovered that any member who registers through BBpress instead of WordPress never gets a Role set (ie. Subscriber) so while they can use the forum, they can do anything on the WordPress part, even though they are logged in.

[saucemaster]

I have had wordpress 2.2.1 up and running for a while. I just tried to install bbpress, using the table prefixes ‘wp_’, since I think that is necessary to have any authors registered on my wp site to be able to get on to bbpress, and vice versa. My bb’s config.php has the same database info as my wp’s config.

When I ran the install.php file for bb, I recieved some errors:

Second Step

Now we’re going to create the database tables and fill them with some default data.

bbPress database error: [Incorrect table definition; there can be only one auto column and it must be defined as a key]

ALTER TABLE wp_posts ADD COLUMN post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment

bbPress database error: [Key column ‘post_id’ doesn’t exist in table]

ALTER TABLE wp_posts ADD PRIMARY KEY (post_id)

bbPress database error: [Multiple primary key defined]

ALTER TABLE wp_tags ADD PRIMARY KEY (tag_id)

1. Created table wp_forums

2. Created table wp_topics

3. Created table wp_topicmeta

4. Created table wp_tagged

5. Changed default value of wp_posts.post_status from publish to 0

6. Added column wp_posts.post_id

7. Added column wp_posts.forum_id

8. Added column wp_posts.topic_id

9. Added column wp_posts.poster_id

10. Added column wp_posts.post_text

11. Added column wp_posts.post_time

12. Added column wp_posts.poster_ip

13. Added index wp_posts FULLTEXT KEY post_text (post_text)

14. Changed type of wp_tags.tag_ID from int(11) to bigint(20) unsigned

15. Changed type of wp_tags.tag from varchar(255) to varchar(200)

16. Added column wp_tags.raw_tag

17. Added index wp_tags KEY name (tag)

bbPress database error: [Unknown column ‘post_id’ in ‘field list’]

SELECT post_id, poster_id FROM wp_posts WHERE topic_id = 1 AND post_status = 0 ORDER BY post_time

bbPress database error: [Unknown column ‘post_id’ in ‘where clause’]

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_id = 114

Finished!

---

Now you can log in with the username “admin” and password “*Your WordPress password*”.

However, when I try to log in to my wordpress admin area as the ‘admin’ now, I receive the error:

“You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

I am able to log into bb, but there are multiple errors on each page; this is repeated many times on the page:

“bbPress database error: [Unknown column ‘post_id’ in ‘where clause’]

SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE post_id = 0

Anonymous.”

I would just remove the bbpress completely, just to get wordpress login working again, but bb seems to have altered my wp user data?

thanks

[joladana]

Yes, he only registered once. If logging in to one should log you into both, then things definitely aren’t working the way they’re supposed to.

The way things are set up is the following:

WordPress is installed in my root HTTP directory.

BBPress is installed in a subdirectory called “forums”.

You can see everything in action here (put on your sunglasses, it’s bright.):

forums at http://forums.audreysargent.com

Need more info?

Thanks for the help.

[fel64]

He should stay logged in for a week if he’s logged in at all. Tempted to put it down to a problem on his end but that’s hasty.

Logging into bb should log you into wp and vice-versa automatically, all by itself. If not, you have a cookie problem; tell us the folder structure of your install and it can be fixed.

If you see his user in wp after he registers in bb, he must be able to log in with the same password. It reads the same entry in the database. You should never have to change their password in wp; any change to his password should be identical in bb anyway. He did register only once, right? Just once, not for both wp and bb?

[joladana]

I have a question-

One of my members wants to make sure he stays logged in. I had an SMF forum which allowed you to choose “stay logged in for a week” or “forever”. He would like something similar, and claims he has to log in every time he comes back to the forum.

I know I don’t have that issue, but I’m also the keyholder- is it supposed to be automatic that someone stays logged in?

If not, is there a plugin, or a hack, that could make this possible?

Thanks.

EDIT: To elaborate on this, I have integrated this with wordpress, and I’m beginning to wonder if I have an integration problem:

He registered through BBpress, and the account was created in my WP-admin, no problem. I asked him to try logging in to the WP control panel, to see if checking “remember me” on that login was what did it. He couldn’t log in with his BBpress password, not even the random one that was sent to him.

I had to go in and manually set the password for him. Is that how it’s supposed to work? Am I going to have to do this for each user created? (I can’t believe that, so there must be another issue.)

Sorry to bring up two problems in the same thread, if it’s better I can start a new one for the integration issue.

Thanks in advance.

[Trent Adams]

Ignore it forever because mdawaffe will never get around to deleting it

Trent

[gspark]

very cool ) now how to delete the gspark001 account