[kevinjohngallagher]

Not a great title but it’s after 3am here.

I remembered in October last year _ck_ posted a link to ForumMatrix and it’s information on BBpress:

http://www.forummatrix.org/show/bbPress

Now, if it’s not someone involved with the project that keeps ForumMatrix up to date, then i’m very sorry for asking but right now i find it a good source of “where we’re at”, but ee seem to have PLUGIN listed in every box. The thing is, i dont think we have plugins for some of this stuff.

For example, where is the WYSIWYG plugin?

According to forum matrix BBpress has plugins for Full BBcode, WYSIWYG editor, nested quotes, syntax highlighting, multiple file attatchments, acl, blacklist, warnings, suspensions, ip-block, audit logging, user reports, rating/karma system, custom profile fields, split threads, calendar, pruning , archiving, export private messages, lo-fi view.

Thing is, i dont see any working plugins that do those jobs. Now, i’m more than happy to admit that i may be wrong (be great if i was), but i do find the whole current plugin page a bit of a mess (given that the latest plugins, latest talked about plugins, and the highest rated plugins are generally quite similar).

Any help in finding working plugins that BBpress is supposed to have would be really helpful

Thank you all

[_ck_]

Showing the gravatar for topic starter and last poster would be something like this (untested)

Topic started by

<?php echo "<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=".md5(bb_get_user_email($topic->topic_poster))."'> $topic->topic_poster_name"; ?>

Last Poster

<?php echo "<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=".md5(bb_get_user_email($topic->topic_last_poster))."'> $topic->topic_last_poster_name"; ?>

[Txanny]

Hello,

Next days (or weeks) I sill start a new project. It will take long to develop and probably it will be finished later this year. I think it will 6 months or a bit more. It must be integrated with the latest version of WordPress.

So, I’m thinking about starting the project with the 1.0 alpha versions. I know it’s not as stable or secure as 0.9.x but hope it will be later this year. I’ve seen there are lots of changes from 0.9 to 1.0 and perhaps will be easiest to merge the new 1.0 versions than 0.9 to 1.0…

What’s your opinion? It’s the best idea to start the project with the alpha version ? Or you would start it with 0.9x and in the future you will make all arrangements to upgrade it? Consider that it will be finished this year fall.

Thanks for your comments,

Txanny.

[deadlyhifi]

(profile.php in theme folder)

My users were asking for the ability to jump to the last post on the ‘User Activity’ area within their profile page. So I amended the page to use tables like the favorites listings do with two columns >

TOPIC > DETAILS

topic name > You replied 2 weeks ago. No replies since.

<?php bb_get_header(); ?>



<h3 class="bbcrumb"><a href="<?php bb_uri(); ?>"><?php bb_option('name'); ?></a> &raquo; <?php _e('Profile') ?></h3>



<div class="vcard">



<?php if ( $avatar = bb_get_avatar( $user->ID ) ) : ?>

<div id="useravatar"><?php echo $avatar; ?></div>

<?php unset($avatar); endif; ?>

<h2 id="userlogin"><span class="fn"><?php echo get_user_display_name( $user->ID ); ?></span> <small>(<span class="nickname"><?php echo get_user_name( $user->ID ); ?></span>)</small></h2>



<?php if ( $updated ) : ?>

<div class="notice">

<p><?php _e('Profile updated'); ?>. <a href="<?php profile_tab_link( $user_id, 'edit' ); ?>"><?php _e('Edit again &raquo;'); ?></a></p>

</div>

<?php elseif ( $user_id == bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' ) ) : ?>

<p>

<?php _e('This is how your profile appears to a logged in member.'); ?>



<?php if (bb_current_user_can( 'edit_user', $user->ID )) : ?>

<?php printf(__('You may <a href="%1$s">edit this information</a>.'), attribute_escape( get_profile_tab_link( $user_id, 'edit' ) ) ); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

</p>



<?php if (bb_current_user_can( 'edit_favorites_of', $user->ID )) : ?>

<p><?php printf(__('You can also <a href="%1$s">manage your favorites</a> and subscribe to your favorites’ <a href="%2$s"><abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> feed</a>.'), attribute_escape( get_favorites_link() ), attribute_escape( get_favorites_rss_link() )); ?></p>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php endif; ?>



<?php bb_profile_data(); ?>



</div>



<h3 id="useractivity"><?php _e('User Activity') ?></h3>



<div id="user-replies" class="user-recent">

<h4><?php _e('Recent Replies'); ?></h4>



<?php if ( $posts ) : ?>



<table id="favorites">

<tr>

<th><?php _e('Topic'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Details'); ?></th>

</tr>



<?php foreach ($posts as $bb_post) : $topic = get_topic( $bb_post->topic_id ) ?>

<tr<?php alt_class('replies'); ?>>

<td><a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a></td>

<td class="num">

<a href="<?php topic_last_post_link(); ?>">

<?php if ( $user->ID == bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' ) ) printf(__('You replied %s ago.'), bb_get_post_time()); else printf(__('Latest reply %s ago.'), bb_get_post_time()); ?>

<span class="freshness"><?php

if ( bb_get_post_time( 'timestamp' ) < get_topic_time( 'timestamp' ) )

printf(__('Latest reply %s ago'), get_topic_time());

else

_e('No replies since.');

?></span>

</a>

</td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</table>



<?php else : if ( $page ) : ?>

<p><?php _e('No more replies.') ?></p>

<?php else : ?>

<p><?php _e('No replies yet.') ?></p>

<?php endif; endif; ?>



</div>



<div id="user-threads" class="user-recent">



<h4><?php _e('Topics Started') ?></h4>

<?php if ( $topics ) : ?>



<table id="favorites">

<tr>

<th><?php _e('Topic'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Details'); ?></th>

</tr>



<?php foreach ($topics as $topic) : ?>

<tr<?php alt_class('topics'); ?>>

<td><a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a></td>

<td class="num">

<a href="<?php topic_last_post_link(); ?>">

<?php printf(__('Started: %s ago.'), get_topic_start_time()); ?>

<span class="freshness"><?php

if ( get_topic_start_time( 'timestamp' ) < get_topic_time( 'timestamp' ) )

printf(__('Recent reply: %s ago.'), get_topic_time());

else

_e('No replies.');

?></span>

</a>

</td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</table>



<?php else : if ( $page ) : ?>

<p><?php _e('No more topics posted.') ?></p>

<?php else : ?>

<p><?php _e('No topics posted yet.') ?></p>

<?php endif; endif;?>

</div>



<div class="nav">

<?php profile_pages(); ?>

</div>



<?php bb_get_footer(); ?>

[_ck_]

By the way there are now windows ports of lighttpd and nginx to use on a local PC for testing too for a faster, lighter footprint. But their installs are not as robust as xampp or wamp though and not for novices. Also since they don’t use .htaccess but their own proprietary system you have to hand write the rules for pretty permalinks.

xampp can be installed and running in under a minute flat, it’s amazing.

[andyimages]

So far I am failing on this. I am going to try the plug-in that xurizaemom has suggested…..my integration is failing and I have tried the suggested method running WP 2.7 and the latest bbpress 0.9.0.4 .

There is definitely some conflict between the cookies as if I login as admin on wp, then go to bb, clicking on the admin link fails and I am redirected to the front page instead of admin area. Logged out of WP, and logging into BBPress as admin, the link works properly and the admin panel opens…

The wordpress is in the the root directory and bbpress in its own directory in the root.

[chrishajer]

You can use and configure bbPress locally if you like, but it needs to be in a server environment. You need PHP, a web server and a database. It’s easiest to have it on the same type of system it will eventually be hosted on, to minimize problems when you go live, but it’s not essential.

On Windows there is WAMP:

http://www.wampserver.com/en/

On OSX (and for many other systems) there is XAMPP:

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

On Linux, well, if you have that I don’t need to tell you what you have.

The machine you build, test and configure on doesn’t need to be on the Internet, but you do need to have a server environment to make this work.

[softtouch_ph]

I got an issue. I have Topic View plugin installed, but the theme does not display the views in the forum list, but it displays the views in the “Latest Discussion” section.

[Billy Wilcosky]

I hate it when something so easy is giving me problems. I have a link to my search page… mysite.com/myforum/search.php… like that. And it works fine, except the font color on the search form itself is a gray or reddish color and it doesn’t go with my dark blue layout… I need the font to be white. With CSS I’ve got the font set to white everywhere else, even the search results are white, but the form itself is not so you can barely read it.

I’ve tried editing the color with CSS, regular html, I’ve been in my search.php in my forum root and my search.php in my template, and I’ve been in my search-form.php file, and no matter what I do… I can only get the font to change in firefox… for some reason in ie6, which should be illegal to use, the font it not white.

I simply added <font color=”white”></font> to the form, and again, it works in firefox, but when I test it with ie6 it doesn’t work. Why?

I even tried adding a new div… I added <div id=”searchcolor”>search form code here</div> then in my CSS file I have #searchcolor {color:white;}, but even that doesn’t work. Nothing seems to change the form font color in ie6.

This is frustrating because it’s something SO simple! Font color!

[swaymedia]

I want to get the latest version, but I was wondering what would actually go wrong with it.

I mean dont you just develope it further from 0.9 which was stable…. so.. it should be fine. i mean what could go wrong with it?

[wendel-brume]

It appears that the ‘deep integration’ between bbPress and WordPress will provide the basis for doing this, I’d need to be able to re-code the registration screen to make the ‘occupation’ field a required field. I also want it to be coded so it’s a dropdown list of choices that I determine.

This issue is way huge for anyone wanting to monetize a website through advertising. Advertisers on the web want to know who your audience is before they will pay reasonable CPMs. I’m showing videos that will eventually incorporate ads, and I want the site to know how to identify a registered visitor so that the video ads can be targeted based on their self-identified occupation.

I also need the forum to be incorporated into a WordPress page, the way I have a test of Simple:Press set up here:

http://architecturecartoon.com/forum/

Is there a relatively simple way to make bbPress look like that?

[batesy]

Hey guys,

I just installed bbpress at http://www.halifamous.com/staff for writers of a new blog to discuss ideas for the site. I am able to view the main forum page, and get into the admin section. The problem is that I’m getting a blank page any time I try to click through to the test post or into the ‘Introductions’ forum section I created. I also get a blank page when I try to access my user profile.

I haven’t touched the code. Any idea why this might be happening?

Thanks,

Greg

[_ck_]

This is a quick and dirty security fix. Only tested on a basic level.

This code is for the original, not detective’s mod which I will examine tomorrow unless Detective wants to apply the stuff below himself…

replace around line 100 the entire function pm_new_message

from:

function pm_new_message( $id_receiver, $id_sender, $pmtitle, $message ){

...

}

to this:

function pm_new_message( $id_receiver, $id_sender, $pmtitle, $message ){

global $bbdb, $bb_table_prefix;



$created_on = bb_current_time('mysql');

$id_receiver = intval($id_receiver);

$id_sender = intval($id_sender);



$pmtitle=substr(strip_tags($pmtitle),0,64);

remove_filter('pre_post', 'post_regulation');

$message=substr($message,0,2048);

$message=force_balance_tags($message);

$message=apply_filters('pre_post',$message,0,0);

$message=apply_filters('post_text',$message,0);



$pmtitle=mysql_real_escape_string($pmtitle);

$message=mysql_real_escape_string($message);



$bbdb->query("INSERT INTO ".$bb_table_prefix."privatemessages

(id_sender, id_receiver, pmtitle, message, created_on)

VALUES

('$id_sender', '$id_receiver', '$pmtitle',  '$message','$created_on')");

}

This patch should in theory make it virtually completely sanitized (but still not completely validated unfortunately) and has the added bonus that most other plugins that affect posts like bb-smilies, etc. should work inside PM’s

[shinku]

I use the latest stable verson and doe not work for me. I think i finnaly i had to use the tinymce and have more secs loading it.

[chrishajer]

The latest stable bbPress (0.9.0.4) does not integrate nicely with WordPress 2.7.1.

What does line 14 of wp-blog-header.php look like?

[psheld]

Thanks Chris. My version of bbpress is the latest stable one at the time of writing: 0.9.0.4.

Just changed the secret key in both bb-config.php and wp-config.php to a 37 character long string of letters only, and we have success at http://www.atcv.net/bbpress . Awesome. Thanks v much.

But I get the following at my wordpress root http://www.atcv.net:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp() in /home/philipsh/public_html/wp-blog-header.php on line 14

so perhaps my integration with WordPress remains flawed?

[chrishajer]

Latest Alpha or latest stable? 0.9 series or the 1.0 Alpha series?

[swaymedia]

Hi,

In the latest version of BBPress, are the user roles/permissions well intergrated with the WP roles/permissions.. ?

[cldnails]

This is my first jump into bbPress and to be honest, I like the included template. So, I went ahead and used the included and am in the process of modifying it so it fits my needs.

Grayline bbPress Forum is for my automotive blog The-Grayline.com, so the theme is slightly modified to mimic my wordpress blog.

Mods:

Integrated Google Search

CARP Feed Parser for Updates on Blog in Lower Corner

Swapped Latest Posts w/ Forum Sections

The RSS feed for the blog in the bottom right has been floated to the right, so that when logged in the visitors information is displayed to the left and it all looks pretty. Please let me know what you guys think.

[deadlyhifi]

It’s probably slightly more complex than you think.

For each forum you’ll have to fetch the latest post and then its details. I’m not sure how to go about that. Maybe someone else can shed some light on it. Sorry…

[jpanizzoli]

Sorry if my original post was confusing. Let me clarify: I’m trying to add “Latest Poster” and “Freshness” to front-page.php – but include it in the main forum table – not in the latest discussion table. You can see it here:

www (dot) eco-wheelz (dot) com/forum/

You can see I’ve created the new columns, but I can’t get the appropriate information to display. I’m trying to include more data in the main table and only include new topics in the latest discussions…

[krischan68]

Thanks. I’ll give it a try on a test installation.

[superann]

You’re welcome, krischan68! You should be able to upgrade all the way to the current WP 2.7.1 as far as integration is concerned; I’ve tested this method on another site and have gotten it working.

I highly doubt the plugin will break with minor point releases; it wouldn’t make much sense for the dev team to make such drastic changes unnecessarily.

[Matias Ventura]

I just wanted to share the experience I have gathered while working, designing and pushing bbPress so as to not look like a generic bbPress instance. My latest work are these forums (the rest of the site is WordPress), and if you have the time please consider registering to be able to play a bit with the design from a member-perspective (enjoyed better in Safari). I would appreciate your feedback.

I am really captivated by the possibilities bbPress offers; but I also feel the obscurity of these possibilities are somehow hindering proper development in the design department. The lack of a proper and exhaustive codex, readable for theme authors —without having to dig into core files—, remains as the biggest obstacle. I am all for contributing, should it be possible, in this way or another.

[inkey]

I’ve installed bbPress 1.0.6. alpha and integrate it with WordPress 2.7.1. Everything is fine.

But there is one big problem:

When user with IE is registered, he can use forum for 2 or 3 days, after that he cannot open no one topic. After User is log in and click on topic link page loads and there is error pop-up, that says (translated to English):

Can not load page –there is url to topic page–

Operation aborted

With “OK” button.

After clicking “OK” there is IE page, that says “Internet Explorer can not view this page”.

In Firefox, Chrome, K-Meleon and Opera everything is fine.

You can test it on: http://oakdaily.ru/forum

Sorry for my English.