[chrishajer]

So what is in the html directory?

And how does the web server know to show bbPress when accessing your domain?

It’s almost like the web server is serving the files from another directory since everything in this bbPress directory looks OK. I’m curious what’s in the html directory and also where is the setting that tells the server what directory to serve files from.

We can do a quick test by placing a file in the html directory and one in the bbPress directory (or just one or the other) then calling it up by name. Please post a screenshot of the html directory same as you’ve done for the others so far.

The date is one day before the others which make me think something happened in there at some point. Maybe an earlier installation or maybe that’s just when the account was set up.

[rajada]

If someone copy/pastes a paragraph of text that has wiki formatting into a post, I can no longer view the page with the post on it (gives me a 404 error), nor can I use post administration (also gives me a 404 error). The only way to resolve it is to delete the entire topic in topic administration (hopefully there weren’t any posts you liked in it!). The test text I used was very basic, it was text with just a header and body, nothing more and it still caused the issue. It also contained “quotes” but not the straight up and down kind, the slanted kind.

I’m not certain if this is a known bug, or just my installation acting funny, either way, I really don’t want people purposefully or accidentally forcing me to delete topics, so any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated.

Oh, and yes I can still post/edit normal text to my forum so no its not my server acting up entirely.

[Samuel Wood (Otto)]

Not oEmbed, it only works with YouTube.

Matt asked me to add it… and well, I had to test, didn’t I?

To use, just paste a youtube “watch” link on a line by itself.

[pagal]

In case of if this information is required then,

I’m using latest wp, bbpress 1.0.2

Not deep integration,

Just Share Database and Shared Users.

Not – Cookies Integration.

[Swoods]

Kevin –

That seems to have done the trick! I just did a test registration on both Firefox and Safari and both seem to have gone through successfully. Thank you for pointing out the plugin! I had been searching for some time beforehand, and I would probably still be searching without your help.

Thanks again.

[pkr3]

Latest Test:

For all examples below, “require_once” represents the command line: “require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../wp-load.php’);”

At no time are errors displaying, nor are the error logs showing “internal 500 error.”

Test 1: Embedding “require_once” command line into “bb-config.php” causes blank page at forum (http://website.com/forum/) and no themes will load; including bbPress themes.

Test 2: With “require_once” command line still in “bb-config.php,” entering http://website.com/forum/index.php/ in browser FORCES any bbPress theme (no 3rd party themes) to load, BUT clicking on bbPress “admin” from within the bbPress forum (http://website.com/forum/index.php/) displays another blank page at (http://website.com/forum/bb-admin/).

Test 3: Removing “require_once” command line from “bb-config.php” file allows bbPress forum homepage to load (http://website.com/forum/) AND allows the bbPress admin page to load (http://website.com/forum/bb-admin/).

[pagal]

@korti did you try these plugins?

For your Forums

1 – https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/nospamuser/

2 – https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

For your WordPress Blog

3 – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ban-hammer/

With WordPress plugin you can block emails ending with .ru

They really work, the author of bbpress plugin nospamuser also talking in this topic.

All the Best

Pagal

[korti]

I agree/disagree with you on that, however

what other way is there? I have 100 active sites that get a lot of emails and without captcha there is no way I could keep up. Some of them got 500 spams a day. Captcha instantly fixed it and I still get just as many emails from customers asking questions if not more. To me it separates those that are truly serious and those that are not. If typing 4 extra letters makes you decide not to post then you really are not serious are you?

I did my own test and there was no difference. I simply the signup form to make up for it.

If there is another way I would surely do it. All mine are just 4 digit, so some get past it, but it stops 99%.

I like the one that is numbers eg: 2+7 = and then you just put in 9.

not sure if it is worth a hoot. Assuming not as I do not see them very often.

I do appreciate the feed back and the consideration. I definitely want my users to have a pleasant experience.

I have a major site that I gets mega traffic on and mega questions so I was hoping to integrate this, but I would be worried I might delete accounts that I mistake for spam that are not. The sign up of any new forum is a task, so I do not think an extra 10th of a second for a captcha code would make people go anywhere else.

It is the huge captcha codes that are nerve wrecking. Especially when you cannot get them to work. Even Google down sized theirs to 4 digits on adwords.

I am in no way a “bad” moderator a busy one yes.

I really appreciate your help. I know everyone is busy, and I appreciate the responses.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Captcha’s are by and large a real pain; and they’ve been mostly written off since late 2008, as they somewhat assume that everyone is fully-abled and is using a modern browser on a modern computer with everything turned on.

http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/

As a colour blind dyslexic, captcha = i can’t post.

The crux of it is this:

Your/Our/Any website letting in spam is not your user’s fault. If you want people to post, don’t annoy your them by making them do extra work to compensate for [you or your software] not being good at moderation. ***

Also, Captcha’s don’t stop human spam, which is on the rise, but they do turn away genuine users from even posting.

Further Reading:

• http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200512/captcha_is_bad_for_accessibility/
• http://www.zurb.com/article/158/captchas-are-bad-for-business-and-your-us
• http://www.zurb.com/article/285/its-official-captchas-are-bad-for-busines

*** People want simplicity. It’s why we get all this “zomg aol/msn/myspace/facebook/twitter/next-big-thing connect” nonsence.

[pkr3]

Chris,

OK. I will ask the host provider to look into the SSH and confirm, again, the home path.

Here are the latest attempts in bb-config.php. See anything unusual?

# 1. No errors, but forum page is blank (after removing the code, bbPress forum becomes visible again, of course).

define( ‘BB_LANG’, ” );

require_once(‘/home/content/08/123456/html/website/wp-load.php’);

?>

# 2. Here’s entered code with removed quotes. Causes error on forum page (see below).

define( ‘BB_LANG’, ” );

require_once(/home/content/08/123456/html/website/wp-load.php);

?>

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘/’ in /home/content/08/123456/html/website/bb-config.php on line 66

Thank you. Hopefully we’re narrowing it down.

[ianhaycox2]

Hi,

A themes front page usually displays the latest discussions, but with many forums there is no context to each topic listed so the topic title is often meaningless. E.g. a topic title of ‘Help’ does not invite the viewer to click the topic to see the posts.

I’d like to add a title=”first part of post…’ attribute to the <tr> tag of each topic in the list.

I tried adding a filter to topic_class(), to fudge class=”xx” to class=”xx” title=”yy” but alt_class() has no filters. My other approach was to add a new function to the theme, e.g. in kakumei

<tr<?php topic_class(); topic_tooltip(); ?>>

and in functions.php

function topic_tooltip() {

$topic_id = get_topic_id();

echo ' title="'.$topic_id.'"';

}

but I’m struggling to work out how to get the current post available to display an extract of the first post of the topic.

Any help really appreciated.

Ian.

[pkr3]

Good News: WordPress operating successfully. bbPress forum operating successfully. “Integrated” (NOT “deep” integrated) bbPress and WordPress successfully.

Bad News: 12 hours effort to “Deep Integrate” so WordPress theme can be used in bbPress, etc.

The “require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../wp-load.php’)” command line, when executed exactly as instructed inside the “bb-config.php” file (as shown by theme company, WordPress codex, bbPress Forum and Docs) brings up errors when the forum page tries to opens. Removed the Deep Integration code and the bbPress forum page pops back up.

Facts:

1. Databases are separate; but regular integration works fine.

2. All kinds of advice to no avail (i.e. putting code at top of .php file, removing forward slash before root, etc. etc.

3. Company programmers where I host did test on different server using basic WordPress and bbPress and attained exact same results. Not a directory issue, not a database issue, not a server issue. They also tried other methods/versions of the “require_once” code but kept getting same errors.

4. WordPress and bbPress are latest versions. WordPress is the brand new 3.0.1…requires different/new “deep integration” coding?

5. Basic integration works so the database/directory addresses are correct.

I have searched the forum and internet for solutions, prior to adding this post/topic, to no avail. Blindness and insanity creeping in…probably not due to this issue.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

__________

The errors below are what we ALL are getting on our forum page(s) when attempting to Deep Integrate. (In the errors below “DBnumber” = “undisclosed database number” – AND – “websitename” = “undisclosed website name.”)

___________

Warning: Division by zero in /home/content/08/DBnumber/html/websitename/forum/bb-config.php on line 65

Warning: Division by zero in /home/content/08/DBnumber/html/websitename/forum/bb-config.php on line 65

Warning: require_once(0php’) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/08/DBnumber/html/websitename/forum/bb-config.php on line 65

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘0php’’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php’) in /home/content/08/DBnumber/html/websitename/forum/bb-config.php on line 65

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Found out a way! Will get back after testing

_ck_, I am still interested in your bbdb tool, let me know

[mr_pelle]

Is 1.1 coming out soon?

At the moment we still have 4 tickets to close.

I suppose there will be a beta release in late autumn (I hope so), since more testing is definitely needed!

[zaerl]

Always wrap PHP code inside script tags

<script language="PHP">echo phpversion()</script>

also remember to make the change explained here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/admin-can-paste-php-code-in-post?replies=28#post-71965

Can you please explain what do you mean about production environment?

A public site. The code isn’t tested at all.

[nickaster]

okay right, thanks!

Looks like I had a different FB connect plugin running (JAvier Reyes’)

I installed the Adam Hupp one called WP-FacebookConnect and activated it with API/Secret in place. Still no luck on that page:

http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/fbtest.php

One idea – I have Disqus running on the main blog for comments. It seems to override the facebook connection there. Could it be screwing it up elsewhere too?

[nickaster]

Weird… nothing:

http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/fbtest.php

Forum URL is

http://www.triplepundit.com/forum

[kevinjohngallagher]

Works for me on latest Firefox and Chrome on Windows (XP i think, am at a client site)

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Try uploading a file named fbtest.php with the following content in the folder where your WordPress resides.

<?php

/* You can delete this file safely.

It was just to check if its conflicting with other WP stuff - Ashfame */

require 'wp-load.php';



if ( function_exists('jfb_output_facebook_btn') )

{

jfb_output_facebook_btn();

jfb_output_facebook_init();

jfb_output_facebook_callback();

}



?>

This should bring up the FB button if everything is fine at WP side.

[zthornto]

Hey All

Looking for a way for the admin to approve any newly registered users using the latest version of bbpress.

I know there’s a plugin out for this, but it doesn’t seem to work past version .9

Has anyone figured out a way to do this (or a workaround) that works for version 1+?

This is very vital to the forums I’ve set up so I’m really hoping there’s a fix out there!

thanks in advance for any insight

[chrishajer]

1. The warnings are from using PHP 5.3 on Windows (normally.) If you can use PHP 5.2 that would be better. If not, you can download the latest trunk version instead of 1.0.2 as the warnings will not occur with that version.

2. If bb_ tables are present in the database you are using when you go to reinstall, the installer will complain that bbPress is already installed. So, drop the bb_ tables or use a different database.

3. Where is your forum actually installed?

http://www.happybod.com/happybod_web/forum/

or

http://www.happybod.com/forum/

I am guessing it’s the 2nd location since the first looks like it contains the file system path from your host. Your WordPress files are probably installed in the happybod_web folder and accessible at http://www.happybod.com/ (right?) If so, and you placed a “forum” directory inside happybod_web, at the same level as wp-config.php, then your forum will be located at http://www.happybod.com/forum/

[kevinjohngallagher]

Ash mate, you know how much I like you and your work, but that poll is never going to give even close to an accurate figure. To start with you don’t know why people are voting for each one, or how often, or who’s voting.

I mean, Matt came on here and said that 0.9’s not been looked at in a long time and BAM 1.1 starts to get more votes. Matt forgets to mention, the 1.0 branch has had the same number of releases in the last year as the 0.9 branch: namely 0 !!

How much the 0.9 version has actually gone through testing and how much we can be confident it being secured.

Well it’s had 2 years more testing than 1.0 in the wild, and generally (apologies in advance) by people who are happier coding/debugging/ working without a GUI than the folks using 1.0 branch. Plus, the WP forums were running 0.9 until last August (at least), so it was known to be very secure then.

I know it may contain bugs, any code can but my curiosity lies in the testing & use it has gone through already.

A sh*t load more than 1.0.

Rememebr 1.0 was (another) rewrite decreeed from “above”, and we cancelled all Beta testing, and it took 10 alphas to even get useable (pres Alpha6 isn’t compatible with after-alpha-6), and broke most plugins etc. The process of getting 1.0 out the door also led to some of the real wizards leaving the project behind (see Chip Bennet, Justin Tadlock, JJJ, _ck_ etc), and released it in a week, and we released an update to 0.9 at the same time as 1.0’s last update

In my opinion, as someone who uses both; 1.0 only has 2 things going for it: The Admin section and it has more Actions/Filters.

Replicating actions/filters into 0.9 is easy. As _ck_ said, getting a nice looking UI into 0.9 is a mini project.

==============================================

1.1 has some good work, nae, some great work.

It also has some rusheed work, to get it out the door for testing.

It has at least 1000 lines of changed code last I checked (and that wasn’t today or yesterday) and we still have 10 tickets open – all before we release for Alpha testing, and all before we get a new package of BackPress released (in theory) after WP3.0.1’s release.

If we finished all of those tickets this week, and packaged an Alpha testing release for Monday, there is no way 1.1 will be released before September. Infact, we’re looking at a late-September/October release at a minimum, unless we skip testing and bug fixes (again).

Lets take our time and look at 0.9 objectively when 1.1 is close to coming out. Rushing into forks is just as dangerous as rushing into WP-reliant plugins

Ash mate, you’re a very smart guy. Go grab a busy forum and duplicate it on your machine, and convert to 0.9. You’ll very quickly see some of the small issues with it, but you’ll also be amazed at just how quick and robust it is.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@_ck_

How much the 0.9 version has actually gone through testing and how much we can be confident it being secured.

I know it may contain bugs, any code can but my curiosity lies in the testing & use it has gone through already.

If considered a fork, I think we need a few people on whom the people can count on for security updates.

What do you think?

[XU3E]

For example “test” and it find nothing…

[solved] It looks like it was fault at user role capabilities. But I am not sure.

[kevinjohngallagher]

_ck_,

More truly excellent work.

I offered a different solution though, it’s a geneology plugin thats currently with a few folks for testing. It is far from as elegant as this (though it’s scope is wider).

One of the things that I’ve “diskiked” about bbPress is lack of support for heirarchies. I know you’ve written some excellent code for finding the last poster for forums with sub forums before, but like the code above, they’re all workarounds.

It also makes it difficult for theme developers to get on board when wanting to call basic API functions for “last poster” for a forum or topic etc. At some stage, I’d love a discussion on small things like this where we could improve bbP0.9