[Trent Adams]

It would be great if I could stop “bozos” that register in my bbPress forum from being moved over to WordPress when using the bbpress-integration plugin located at:

http://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/438

Anyone have an idea how to put a check in for Bozo users not being added?

Trent

[thomasklaiber]

It’s called from the register.php (not the template) … it’s an internal function, so i would have to find another way.

[Trent Adams]

This is currently the only way that bbPress gives new users passwords. It serves a double purpose. The first is a record of a password for a user if they don’t end up changing it and second of all, it makes sure that people register with an actual email address (which stops most spam bots right there) because they have to retrieve their password from email.

If you need something, I would assume it would require a core hack unless someone can develop a plugin. Right now, I don’t think anything is in the works.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

I cleared my browser cache and downloaded the file from above and installed and still get the error on my register.php file of my forum. Am I getting the right download URL for the newer version of the plugin?

Trent

[pontus]

I have worked on my forum for some time: http://www.crazy-media.com/bbpress/

Well, i guess i messed something up, the “profile” menu that used to appear at the top-right corner disappeared. Anyone know how to cal the function?

One other, not releated, problem is that if you tag a forum to much the post disappear longer and longer down the screen. Do anybody know how to limit the tags shown at a topic to maby 10. And is it any way to disallow unregister users to add and remove tags? Some idiots “may” remove every tag and add something like “hitler and anal sex i greate” like 200 times…

[spencerp]

As I had said in my blog post, I have those plugins up and running, but.. the problem is that those that register on the bbPress forums, are not able to post comments on my blog, as their username..?

Plugins are:

WordPress Integration (0.7)

bbPress Integration (0.72)

Display-Name

bbPress Post (0.02)

It’s not pulling their email address, and their nicknames have to be assigned by me, in the blog’s control panel, under USERS? I’d hate to have to edit each USER on my blog, so they can post as their “nickname or username”.. rather then “Anonymous”..

Anyone with suggestions, and so forth?

spencerp

[Trent Adams]

My problem was created by the notification plugin with this error on the register page. Check that plugin page for a fix in the future if this happens to you.

[Trent Adams]

This plugin is causing me some errors. It has to do with the portion of the plugin:

extra_profile_info

Not sure why, but it kills me registration on the forum. Instead of the ‘register’ button, it spits out the following error:

bb_get_user needs a numeric ID

If goes back to working if I delete the plugin. Could you maybe take a look into this one?

Thanks,

Trent

[papercuts3]

I needed desperately a script that would restrict all access to unregistered users so I wrote one. But I am an absolute beginner so don’t know no nothin’ about elegance or whatnot but I just tested it in my installation and it works.

The thing is naturally bb_press has authentication scripts. but to make all you website protected you need to put this in your header.php. However bb-login.php, which your users need to login also use the header.php, so I had to make sure that this small script runs on all pages EXCEPT the login page.

Here’s the script:

<?php

$login_page = $bb->path . ‘bb-login.php’;

if ($_SERVER != $login_page) {

if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {

header(‘Location: ‘ . $bb->domain . $bb->path . ‘bb-login.php’);

} else { }

}

else { }

?>

How to Use it:

1. Copy paste the above code to your my-templates/header.php AT THE VERY TOP of the file. Make sure you leave no empty space before the <?php line (use something like TextPad – it’s free). So you header should look like:

<?php

$login_page = $bb->path . ‘bb-login.php’;

if ($_SERVER != $login_page) {

if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {

header(‘Location: ‘ . $bb->domain . $bb->path . ‘bb-login.php’);

} else { }

}

else { }

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” ….

That’s it. Since I use the values you provided in you BBPRESS setup all the paths should be correct.

Like I said I am complete newbie, so use at your own risk. BACKUP your header.php, or if something goes wrong just delete the script you just added.

Hope it works for you,

Caner

[Trent Adams]

If you haven’t figured this out already, but there is a plugin for doing this at https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/4?replies=1 and it does the following:

Share user accounts between your WordPress blog and your bbPress forums.

This plugin ensures current WordPress users can use the forum. As for registrations in bbPress and adding them to WordPress Users, check out:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/438

It is a WordPress plugin to bring across the information for bbPress registrations.

My blog is setup so users can register in WP or bbPress because with these 2 plugins, it doesn’t matter where they register.

Thanks,

Trent

[Trent Adams]

I don’t think WP user roles can be used in bbPress yet. In bbPress, you are either a user, a bozo or not registered. WordPress obviously has more roles. Unless I am missing something, that is where we are until someone writes a plugin or they change the bbPress core.

[berndfh]

0. XAMPPlite installation on a USB thumbdrive

with ‘WordPress’, ‘Mediawiki’, ‘Vanilla’, Gallery2′ running smoothly

1. BBPress install complete

2. See forum page, login

3. Write a post, click ‘send post’

4. Get a ‘page isn’t redirecting properly …. maybe cookie warning’

5. On Forum main page the post is visible, a click brings above warning

6. Check again config. php $bb-> path = ‘/’; and ‘settings. php’; can’t find the wrong reference ‘X:/htdocs/bbpress/’ I entered in 1st install page (and changed in config. php to ‘/’.

7. Can someone point out the file to change?

Thanks for your help

Detailed log of events below

0. XAMPPlite installation on a USB thumbdrive

with ‘WordPress’, ‘Mediawiki’, ‘Vanilla’, Gallery2′ running smoothly

1. Extracted bbpress into htdocs directory

2. Changed bbpress config.php (see below)

3. Started install and went throught step 1 (see below), step 2 (got password) and

4. Came to the site ‘knowledgeflowsaround.us/forum (typing: ‘http://localhost/bbpress/&#8217;)

(strangely ugly, so apparently theme did not load, somewhere I set a wrong path?)

5. Tried to login: Access forbidden!

=>You don’t have permission to access the requested object.

It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

6. Clicked on any other link on the forum page and got the same result

7. Checked config file of ‘Vanilla’ (‘settings.php’) there the same parameter worked (irrelevant as Vanilla is Vanilla and bbpress/bbpress)

=>Note: Write protection can not be the problem as it is XAMPPlite on a PC so nothing is protected

8. Changed config.php $bb->path =’/’; and now I can see my forum

9. Login, okay

10. Go to ‘Topic – ADD NEW’ and write a new topic, click ‘Send Post’ and get

11. ‘The page isn’t redirecting properly’ This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies’

12. Start the never used IE and with ‘localhost/bbpress’ go to the forum. click on any link and get (after long wait) nothing

13. In Firefox try other links it all goes to the same ‘the page isn’t redirecting properly (cookies are enabled)

=> So I think in 1step install the ‘Location: X:htdocsbbpress’ has to be changed but in what file?

14. Check ‘settings.php and register.php’ but the wrong string ‘X:/htdocs/bbpress/’ from below is not found.

15. Do you have an answer?

bbpress config file

// define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘bbpress’);

// define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘root’);

// define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’);

// define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

// $bb->domain = ‘http://localhost/bbpress&#8217;;

// $bb->path = ‘X:/htdocs/bbpress/’; (=> changed to ‘/’; and could access forum, add a post, but can’t see)

// $bb->name = ‘knowledgeflowsaround.us/forum’;

1step install

login name: admin

website: http://localhost/bbpress/

location: X:htdocsbbpress/

1st Forum: Working in DevAid

[Trent Adams]

Did you get this fixed? I get this error on my register page.

[Trent Adams]

On the bottom of my register.php page I have an error and it doesn’t have all the information needed for my registration form. The error is:

bb_get_user needs a numeric ID

Check it out at:

http://blog.trentadams.ca/forum/register.php

I cannot register users without it, so I guess I better fix it!

Thanks in advance,

Trent

[ear1grey]

Seealso: Combined Register + Post

[marky]

Is it possible to configure bbPress to allow people to post a message as a guest, without registering a new username and logging in?

[fee4ka]

I made so.

Nothing new; still can’t login. And I can’t register new user – nothing happens after registration, I don’t receive e-mail to my address and see form again and again.

[intelliot]

I agree. Get someone on it!

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

In bbPress1 config.php, can you put the following line near the top:

$bb->debug = 1;

Then go try to register a new user and see if the urls listed at the top of each page view are the same (if they are not, something is wrong).

I don’t think this will give us any useful information, actually, but it’s a place to start.

[Trent Adams]

Mdawaffe,

I really love these 2 plugins! Thank you! Could I make a suggestion though? Would it be possible to add an option to have accounts that are created in bbPress and marked as ‘bozo’ not be added to WordPress. I am having trouble with ‘many’ and I mean ‘many’ spam bots registering in bbPress and then moved over to WordPress. I know they cannot really add comments because of Akismet, but I hate going in and seeing these users in WordPress.

If I leave the user as Bozo, is it worth deleting them or leaving them as bozo anyway? Should I move them to ‘blocked’ or delete them? It really makes it tough as I am not quite sure what to do!

Thanks,

Trent

[john_roberts]

We’re considering BBPress for user forums on our website. However, our website already has user registration (account system), and we will not have a separate registration for our forums.

Therefore, a key question is how easy it will be to integrate BBPress into an existing user registration/authentication system. A colleague looked through the BBPress code, and came up with mostly good news (see bottom).

The bad news, though, made me come here to see what the plans are for abstracting the user registration system in future versions. I imagine that our situation is quite common: no one wants multiple registration schemes on a single site (it’s bad enough how many we all have around the web!).

Note: we’ve been very satisfied with WordPress on many fronts, although not for user contributions, so no WordPress integration questions at all. And, yes, we looked at http://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

BAD NEWS, SPECIFICS:

The SQL queries that interact with the users table are interspersed across a dozen files or so. While this makes integration slightly more difficult, the real issue is that future updates to bbpress might become difficult if not impossible to merge. Given how forum packages are magnets for security

vulnerabilities, this might become a critical issue.

—

I don’t want to argue about security vulnerabilities; that’s not the issue. The point is: at what point will BBPress change how user information is distributed around the application and/or abstracted?

I checked Trac to see if the Timeline or Roadmap had any hints, but didn’t see anything.

Is this situation seen as a problem? Anyone else sharing the pain? Any insight?

GOOD NEWS, SPECIFICS: (accounts = our site registration system)

* The bbPress user table consists of 9 columns, 5 of which overlap with our generic user table, requiring only a ‘glue’ table to provide the extra columns

* There are no SQL JOIN’s with the user table (that I could find), making integration easier.

* Integration with accounts is possible and would take only a few hours.

* Customizing the look and feel would be no more difficult than it was to customizing WordPress.

* Disabling registrations is easy to do, which would force users to register via accounts.

John Roberts

OpenDNS

[worrypascanada]

Thanks for ready my posts mdawaffe,

«… bbpress-integration.php should add a “bbPress” tab in your WordPress admin under the Plugins tab… »

It’s there as describe.

«… Go to the bbPress tab. Did you fill in your bbPress table prefix?.. »

Under my WordPress MySQL tables, I find the WordPress and bbPress databases.

The way this all should work is:

«… A new user registers on bbPress. The first time that new user browses to WordPress, he or she is added to the member list (prior to then, that new user is listed under “No Role for this Blog”)… »

Understand.

«… The same should hold if you swap “bbPress” and “WordPress” in the above paragraph… »

Ok.

«… What are your $bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl settings in bbPress’ config.php?… »

It’s configured with http://patrimoineacadien.com for both; it’s taken from WordPress – Options->General:..

Thanks for your patience and support.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Do you have any plugins installed?

EDIT: I tried registering on your site, but couldn’t. Can you check your database and see if there is a user called “mdawaffe”?

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

bbpress-integration.php should add a “bbPress” tab in your WordPress admin under the Plugins tab.

Go to the bbPress tab. Did you fill in your bbPress table prefix?

The way this all should work is:

A new user registers on bbPress. The first time that new user browses to WordPress, he or she is added to the member list (prior to then, that new user is listed under “No Role for this Blog”).

The same should hold if you swap “bbPress” and “WordPress” in the above paragraph.

What are your $bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl settings in bbPress’ config.php?

[worrypascanada]

Hello,

My bbPress and WordPress Admin username and password is the same for both databases: bbPress was integrated into WordPress MySQL tables during installation and configuration. Consequently, bbPress and WordPress seems to share the same cookies reason when I logged into one as Admin, I’m logged into the other as Admin; the same is true when I’m logout out.

The same is not true, as the above, with a new member registration within bbPress or WordPress. When I’m registered as a new member into one, I’m not registered into the other: the new bbPress registered member is not automatically registered into WordPress and vice versa.

How can I resolve? Thanks for your support.

The WordPress in question: http://www.patrimoineacadien.com

bbPress: http://www.patrimoineacadien.com/bbpress/

bbpress-integration.php and display-name.php are installed and configured.