[Tynan Beatty]

onel0ve, I converted a phpbb2 forum to bbpress 1.0a6 awhile back and it was quite a bit of work. You’ll need to export the entire db, then figure out which forum/topic/post ids correlate between phpbb3 and bbpress. The easiest way I found to rebuild the db in bbpress is to write some regexes that take the exported phpbb3 forum data and format it into correct sql statements to preserve the old id associations between posts/topics etc. Of course, phpbb3 and bbpress 0.9.5 are probably totally different from phpbb2 and bbpress1.0 in terms of db table format, but I remember having to combine data from several phpbb2 tables into single bbpress tables to accomplish the task. Make sure you have a test environment to build the new bbpress db on as you’ll probably need to give it a few tries and test out a few things before attempting to rebuild the entire thing.

Unless you own your server, you’ll also want to be sure to do the actual regexing (if you decide to run it in a php script for example) on your own computer (XAMPP or LAMP), because if your forums are large, that is quite a load on the server to run the regex routines that format your sql insert statements (and your hosts may not be too happy about that). I also ended up having to split up my data into several files to get it to work with a php regex.

[Sam Bauers]

@the_Wish

You could also grab the latest nightly build…

https://bbpress.org/nightly-builds/bbpress-latest.zip

[Sam Bauers]

This is a bug in the RC 2 release. Grab the latest nightly build instead.

https://bbpress.org/nightly-builds/bbpress-latest.zip

[_ck_]

SimpleScripts does a free install of bbPress to many hosts including GoDaddy.

http://www.simplescripts.com/script_details/script:bbPress

I cannot vouch for their quality or security and I highly recommend you change all your password afterwards, but it’s one way to get started if you have little technical knowledge.

SimpleScripts has been tested to work on the following web hosts:

(some may need manual database input)

* Bluehost

* Hostmonster

* Fastdomain

* LunarPages

* HostGator

* SiteGround

* GoDaddy

* WebHostingPad

* LiquidWeb

* StartLogic

* iPowerWeb

* Dot5Hosting

* MidPhase

* 1and1

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

All the latest poster links go directly to /profile and not a user’s profile.

[the_Wish]

So you have 1.0-RC-2 except for that one file? Can you please try replacing the entire install with the latest trunk? If you don’t use SVN I can create a package for you.

Yes unfortunately I’m not using SVN so far, so I’d need that package to try it out.

@Ipstenu: Are you using trunk or RC-2 with the fix?

[Sam Bauers]

So you have 1.0-RC-2 except for that one file? Can you please try replacing the entire install with the latest trunk? If you don’t use SVN I can create a package for you.

[the_Wish]

Assuming that this is the latest trunk at

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/

I actually tried both approaches (only changed that one file, not the entire installation though).

[Sam Bauers]

Works for me. Did you make the change manually or did you grab the latest version from trunk?

[michael3185]

Something I don’t see mentioned yet (unless I’ve missed it) is what will happen to custom themes if I upgrade to RC2? By which I mean, have the files been changed in the default template? Will I have to re-write them, or will my custom theme from 0.9.0.5 work fine?

I’d like to test out RC2 on a non-live forum, but don’t want to spend ages modifying template files all over again.

[Arturo]

@Sam

i’ve downloaded the latest trunk at the mooment is rev # 2192, updated my installation.

bb-config side i’ve $bb->cookiedomain = ‘.www.site.com’; (i’ve tested without www but nothing change…)

in wp-config i’ve deleted

define(‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘whatever’);

define(‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/wp-admin’);

so i’m

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.www.site.com’); (or without www, but nothing change)

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

the results?

when i login in bb i’m logged out to wp and vice versa, i’m waiting for your plugin to test it.

thanks for your help!

[Tynan Beatty]

Please excuse my previous longwindedness as it seems it was unnecessary. I just tested a site with WP in the base folder and bbP in a subfolder of WP, and a site with WP in a subfolder of the base folder with bbP in a subfolder of WP. Neither site needs anything added to either config file except that the 3 secret keys match between them (my nonce keys also match but that shouldn’t matter). It is also necessary to fill in the wp-admin’s bbPress Integration Plugin settings, and the bb-admin’s WordPress Integration settings.

On any sites I’ve tested where I have WP in a subfolder of the base folder, and bbP in a subfolder of the WP folder, bbP sets 2 logged_in cookies, one with a trailing / and one without, which poses a problem since WP doesn’t get rid of the one without a trailing / and thus WP cannot logout from bbP if the user logs in from bbP. After I made the change mentioned above to bb-settings.php and tested it on both sites mentioned I found both sites integrating as expected and the double logged_in cookie from bbP login was no longer a problem. That’s why I submitted the patch to Trac.

[Tynan Beatty]

Do you have WP in a subfolder of your main site? Do you have bbP in a subfolder of WP? Are you 100% certain that you can log in from bbP and then logout from WP, and that you actually get logged out from both when you try that order? I think the easiest way to stop all these integration headaches is to put up a document with a dummy wp-config.php and bb-config.php that have been tested in the situation mentioned and in the situation where WP is the base site folder and bbP is a subfolder of the base.

Everything but that order of action works fine for me without adding anything to bb-config and without adding anything but cookiepath to wp-config. However, every way I tried to line up the configs I’d always get that second logged_in cookie without a trailing / when logging in from bbP and WP won’t get rid of it.

Looking in the bb-settings.php I see that cookiepath always gets a trailing / added on and sitecookiepath always gets the trailing / trimmed, so the check to see if they both exist and are the same, never returns true, and thus bbP always sets 2 logged_in cookies.

[the_Wish]

Thank you for your continuing work and effort on bbPress.

I upgraded from RC1 to RC2 and something seems to be messy with the way additional markup is handled.

So far, users could use syntax like this:

<a href='http://bbpress.org'><img src='https://bbpress.org/test.jpg' /></a>

to link a picture for example.

Now with RC2, the ‘…’ upper commas aren’t recognized any longer but instead you’d have to write:

<a href=http://bbpress.org><img src=https://bbpress.org/test.jpg /></a>

and “…” quotation marks will be automatically added.

Now the problem is that once the user edits a comment with such markup later on, the now present “…” will again not be recognized and turned into broken code instead.

[Arturo]

i’ve upgraded wp from 2.7.1 to 2.8, checked all the key for the cookie and

AUTH_KEY in wp-config is the same of BB_AUTH_KEY in bb-config, the same for SECURE_AUTH_KEY – BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY,

LOGGED_IN_KEY – BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY, NONCE_KEY – BB_NONCE_KEY.

i’ve installed and activated the plugin bbPress Integration 1.0-rc-2 configured with the url of bbpress (http://www.site.com/forums/) saved the option, copy/past in wp-config.php for the “code” in the box which is:

define(‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘e99db1aecc456188d6dc1ccc37528ff8’);

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.www.site.com’);

define(‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/wp-admin’);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

i’m able to login in bbpress side, and i see the cookie wordpress_e99db1aecc456188d6dc1ccc37528ff8 for /forums/bb-admin, /forums/bb-plugins, /forums/my-plugins, /wp-admin, /wp-content/plugins and /.

i’ve other 2 cookies bb-user-settings-1 and bb-user-settings-time-1 for /forums/bb-admin.

when i try to go in wp-admin i’m slogged from wp and 2 new cookies appear, wordpress_test_cookie.

when i try to login in WP side i’m redirected to the login page every time.

if i remove the code generated by the Sam’s plugin i can login but i’m logged out from bbpress…

how resolve this problem? thanks for the help.

[Arturo]

sam i download the latest trunk and upload it manually (i export the latest rev and then upload the file with an ftp software) following the upgrade instruction… is right?

[Sam Bauers]

OK, took me a couple of reads to work out what was happening.

Now fixed in the latest trunk. If you aren’t using SVN to update then you will also need to grab the latest BackPress seperately.

[Arturo]

@sam

thanks for the reply.

i’ve downloaded the latest trunk rev #2178 and the problem persists… switching the theme:

Your attempt to switch themes has failed.

Try again

Back to Forum.

posting a new topic and other activity give me the same error or similar.

the problem is with the require_once(‘…wp-blog-header.php’); or wp-load.php.

[Anonymous User]

Hi again,

the code doesn’t work 100% in my installation.

After the Login in WordPress – my testuser is shown as “logged”, but I can’t go to the Administration. The System doesn’t redirect me. At the same time my testuser ist shown as “logged in” in bbPress and there I can go to the admin.

When I test the login from bbPress first nothing seems to happen. I’m not logged in in both bbPress and WordPress.

hmpf … So … I’m going to test tomorrow again.

[chromestory]

I’ve downloaded a plugin and now testing it ..

[Arturo]

so, i’ve tested some things, and when i insert in bb-config.php require_once( ‘/…/html/wp-blog-header.php’ ); or wp-load.php i receive the error message and nothing work…

the cookie integration wp 2.8 <-> bb 1.0 rc-2 works without a problem.

please help me…

[Arturo]

the cookie keys radioinsight?

i’ve modified all the 4 ket in wp-config and bb-config but nothing change… any help?

i’ve the same problem with wp 2.8 and rc-2 (latest trunk)

[Anonymous User]

Hi Vizworld,

thanks for your fix – I will test it soon – after a little “distance” from my computer.

Today – it’s to sunny … so i must go to the mountains.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Use this in header :

<?php

// URL location of your feed

$feedUrl = "http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ashfameblog?format=xml";

// Replace the above URL with yours

$feedContent = "";



// Fetch feed from URL

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $feedUrl);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);



// FeedBurner requires a proper USER-AGENT...

curl_setopt($curl, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, true);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "gzip, deflate");

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3");



$feedContent = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);

?>

Use this to show :

<?php

$count=0;

// Did we get feed content?

if($feedContent && !empty($feedContent))

{

$feedXml = @simplexml_load_string($feedContent);

if($feedXml)

{

?>

<ul>

<?php foreach($feedXml->channel->item as $item): if($count==6) { break; } ?>

<li><a href="<?php echo $item->link; ?>"><?php echo $item->title; ?></a></li>

<?php $count++; endforeach; ?>

</ul>

<?php }} ?>

[chrishajer]

Couldn’t you just take the latest posts RSS feed and use that in your other page?