[kevinjohngallagher]

Don’t you just love people that say “Bump” and dont add anything to the conversation?

I also love it when it’s their only post on the forum ever – way to give back

Deep integration is not supported by automattic, and apparently was never the intention of the BBpress developers. To that end, getting BBpress with a WP “deep integration”, to then call WP plugins is never going to be something that’s going to get any development time or priority.

I think this is a shame because we could make use of WP plugins that we’re effectively replicating in BBpress, but we shouldn’t be reliant on plugins for layout.

That said, i wonder if anyone has testing creating a call to a plugin function from inside an added function in the your WP’s theme’s functions.php file?

To reiterate though, try and avoid WP plugins for theming. What will happen if there is a WP upgrade that breaks the theme?

Also, every time someone bumps a thread, God kills a kitten. Please think of the kittens.

[Gautam]

There are many bots like this (made in VB, etc.) which stops when they see a captcha (or math problem or a clickcha), waits for the user to enter/click that and then it does the rest. A more reliable way to be to install Project Honey Pot for bbPress plugin by Ben (though that also blocks the admin sometimes).

[kevinjohngallagher]

Its been a while since i used this plugin, but as i recall it asked an X + Y = question (4+4 = .

Seems to me, as more and more people use this sort of protection, that spambots have become quite intelligent about reading the line before the <input> and seeing if it has a + in it. That seems fairly straightforward to do, i’ve done it myself when accessing a remote site using cURL to grab some data.

Either way, it’s hardly a “plugin fail”, because the plugin does exactly what its set out to do, not to mention, they could just be simply putting the answer “5” in every unknown field and eventually it would match.

You ask how is this possible, is it really beyond our imagination that a computer could answer a question about adding one digit to another? The only way to combat spam is to moderate constantly. Akismet, Human Test, Honey Pot and every other tool out there are just tools, they are not solutions. YOU are the solution.

[johnhiler]

Spambots are constantly evolving. Do you have the latest version of Human Test plugin installed?

[Marius-]

How is this possible?

I have had Human Test installed, and managed to keep spambots out.

The Mass Delete plugin caused trouble to my bbpress, so I deleted that, but still a spambot managed to register. How can I remove him now?

[yoyopop]

paul – I understand private messages aren’t part of the bbpress core, and I haven’t investigated all the possible plugins yet. If there could be an optional conversion that relates to a certain plugin, then of course that would be great. However, at the moment if I’m going to transfer my forum across, I was planning to inform my users before the move just to backup their PMs if they have anything important in them.

I just got a test conversion to work so will start to check out possible plugins etc next! Thanks for the help, hopefully bbpress can continue to grow!

[paulhawke]

@yoyopop – I have been looking at what is core to bbPress thus far. It hadnt even crossed my mind that private messages would want to be converted. But there’s a problem – if I convert them, what do I convert them to? Does the community feel that any one private messaging plugin should be endorsed over any other, and, does the private message plugin provide the code I need to create its raw data? If the answers are “yes” (or a ‘qualified yes’) then I’ve no problem working it in.

For those interested in beta testing, the plugin (at present) is grossly inefficient as far as memory goes and now that it works at a basic level, I’m looking at optimizing & reducing memory footprint.

[paulhawke]

I have an experimental plugin for bbPress I’ve been working on this week that adds an “Import” wizard under the admin area “Tools” menu. As it stands I have been using a phpBB 2.0.23 forum with 3 users (“Anonymous”, “admin” and one other) and about a dozen posts for testing and things look pretty good.

The “Import” plugin needs beta testers who’re willing to give it a run through and provide feedback.

The plugin reads data from the phpBB database, and rather than generate an enormous SQL file that is version specific, the plugin calls the same internal methods inside bbPress as occur when you manually create forums/topics/posts/users. A mapping is maintained between old and new user/post/topic/forum ID values, and referential integrity is maintained throughout.

[rich! @ etiviti]

I’m assuming your bbPress forums folder is on a separate domain than the buddyPress install? It’s not in the ‘default’ /forums location, right?

Correct, standalone bbPress is installed on a subdomain (forums.mydomain.com) and obviously the group forum is activated within buddypress (mydomain.com/forums) as well. All share the same bb tables; so group discussions can be carried on via a more direct forum feel with extra bells and whistles.

How the heck have you gotten BuddyPress’s activity stream to work with an external bbPress install?

There is a plugin for BuddyPress called bbGroups (uses xmlrpc) but is outdated. I had to update the code for 1.2 due to the activity stream changes. (and i need to update once more since 1.2 RC1) – the XMLRPC is not ideal but does carry over the hidden/read-only and who has access. (i’d probably code it to access the db directly – but it works for my testing)

Seems redundant to have 2 forum interfaces but this allows “outside” forums which may not be appropriate for setting up a group.

But at some point BuddyPress 1.2 now expects the dates in GMT while standalone bbPress 1.0.2 must insert the timestamp on a topic/post differently. (I just haven’t had the time to sift over the code to figure it out yet)

[kevinjohngallagher]

Paul,

I know this may be really obvious, and apologies if it is, but PHP’s built in functions for handling json are very much release dependant. There was a large change from php5 to php5.2 as i recall.

It’s 5.36am here, so you’ll have to forgive me for the lack of links, but i’d do a little googling into that. At the end of the day you either stats a minimum PHP version, or test for the php version and do and if/else.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Neotoxic,

No i’m afraid you’ll have to figure out your own SQL script for the users. My code isn’t tested or anything, i’m afraid you’ll have to write teh custom code for your own specific solution yourself. the code i’ve posted above just does 95% of the work for you

[Raize]

Thanks for the update Paul, I’m up for some beta testing when your ready

[bingsterloot]

Hi all

Does anybody know if it is possible to add buttons like “view resolved”, “view un-resolved” and “view non support topic” so it fetches the data like the (latest discussions).

Thanks

Bingster

[bingsterloot]

hi all and thanks for your answers which were (not what i hoped for) but expected ;O) I know going back to v. 0.9 would solve most problems, but i have based everything on the latest build and i am quite happy with that. I will just have to wait and see where things is going )

thanks

[paulhawke]

I just committed files to SVN … the “thanks” plugin is a reality and available to test. I’m waiting on the refresh cycle of the plugin browser for it to appear on the site now.

[fokissed]

I just upgraded to the latest stable version of bbpress.

Just before doing so, I would receive an email notification whenever any new topics or posts were created, so I could easily go through each one and reply. They always came from “unknown sender” which was a little strange, but they still served their purpose.

Since upgrading, I’m no longer getting these email notifications at all, and I don’t remember what I did exactly to get them in the first place. I can’t find a setting for this anywhere, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t install any plugins, because there isn’t any additional plugins in the “my-plugins” folder of my backup that I made of bbpress before upgrading.

Has anyone else experienced this and/or know how I can start receiving email notifications of all new topics and posts again?

Thanks in advance,

Brandon

[grassrootspa]

@ all:

Not sure about the rest of you, but I certainly seem to have quite a few spambot users signing up. They don’t seem to actually leave any spam but I notice them registering and sitting there. Kind of freaks me out, like they are sitting there all quiet, planning an attack!

There are various ‘human tests’ type plugins but I’ve had problems with them not working properly and preventing legitimate users from signing up. Anyone else had issues with those plugins not working properly?

[bingsterloot]

Sounds great paulhawke. I would very much like to beta test if possible ;O)

Keep up the good work

[paulhawke]

There are plenty of 3rd party libraries that deal with the feed reading. Thus far I have a working admin screen that relies on AJAX services to validate a given feed URL. Combination of a GOOD rss library on the backend, and the encode_json() method from PHP means I’m golden for right now.

Milestone 1 of the plugin is complete – administration page to handle a single feed. Milestone 2 is starting – using that data to actually monitor the single feed. When Milestone 2 is completed I’ll grab a couple of people to beta test.

[Steven Hodson]

The subject pretty well says it but this is something that I have been asked for by my forum members. What they would like (since they use to have it on the old SMF forums I converted from) is a link button that when clicked will open up a single page (or possibly multipage) with the unread posts since their last visit.

If anyone is willing to give this a shot I’d be more than willing to be a tester for it.

[snickn]

“Bbpress Latest Discussion” is the plugin. It works fine – I’m pretty convinced this is some weird bug. There’s definitely nothing wrong with the db info.

[snickn]

Hi All,

I’ve moved a bbpress install for a client, and I’m seeing the strangest bug – Client has bbpress, and the bbpress “latest” plugin for showing the posts on his main page. The latest plugin works great, accesses the DB and all, the bb though – can’t access the DB. Same username/pass/database/host, file has correct permissions so it can read it – everything looks great..but BB continually can not reach the DB.

I’ve deleted/recreated the file, I’ve done it all – any tips? We rsync’d the files from the other host, and it worked fine prior.

[Windhamdavid]

Gautum – very nice! Have you investigated the use of @user mentions over at TestBP.org Perhaps integrating the two would be a great idea for future compatibility?

[Michael]

Gautam, this looks great. Can’t wait to try it out.

That can’t be helped. The plugin first checks if that username exists, if not, then checks if that nicename exists. This will be also mentioned on the plugin page.

Is there no way to test as far as three spaces in (until it finds a username)?

[Gautam]

Replying to kevinjohngallagher’s post (maybe its in spam, but I got an email notification as I am subscribed to topic):

1) Making “@” links is cool, and very “twitter generation”, even if its not something that’s totally globalised yet. But the “@” link is not pointing at what you’re replying to. We’re faking the functionality without the reasoning, which in the end will just confuse users.

On Twitter, you post on your profile page. People read it on their feed, and reply on their own Profile page. So a link to “@kev” goes to the page where “kev” has written his post. That’s the point of it, to link to someone’s post.

Here, we’re making the link “@kev” go to “/profiles/kev/” for the user to not see the post. That’s exactly the opposite of the purpose of the “‘@” linking system

–> That’s basically the work of a reply plugin, not of a mentioning plugin. I also have future plans with the plugin like linking #tag, etc. Even if I do something like that which you have mentioned, then a single user can make multiple posts, then which post will the plugin link to?

2) The other issue is that Twitter names don’t have spaces, while BBpress / wordpress names can. So if i write “@Michael R Thanks for your reply”, how does the plugin know where the username ends? What if it finds a “michael” in the usertable, it will then link “@Michael” to “/profiles/michael/” and the message will read “R Thanks for your reply”. In Twitter, it parses at the first space; but we can’t do that here.

Oh that will also involve looping through queries until you find a match, so first for Michael, then for Michael R, then for Michael R Thanks etc. Ofcourse there could/should be a word/search limit – either way there is huge potential for database issues there. Imagine adding up to 5 sql searches, per “@” per post, per page load.

The initial solution, and i suppose this is for Gautam, is to make a search of the user table for all users who have posted on the topic being replied to, which should narrow it down considerably, though it should be noted that if you have “Michael” and “Michael R”, or any similar naming issues, the plugin will not know that…

–> That can’t be helped. The plugin first checks if that username exists, if not, then checks if that nicename exists. This will be also mentioned on the plugin page.

3) You are effectively allowing a user to search your database for anything you put after your “@” symbol. Now this one is a little bit of scaremongering, but we’ve all seen bad coding before. What if I write “@drop table wp_usermeta hi bob, how much fun would this be “. There is a reason that we try to make sure we don’t take database queries from the user.

–> 1) This is what is used to match the username – /[@]+([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)/, so there is no point of mysql commands going in there.

If you want to test the plugin (how it works), you are free to use this as sandbox – http://forum.gaut.am/

I have made some posts to test the plugin here.