[peterve]

yes – creating the autoload plugin apperently did the trick !!!

(I still need to test if all functionality works, but at least I can now see the posts )

thank, this issue is resolved for now

[meitershaker]

erf, the bbcodes are already not displayed :'( :'(

i try to make:

code strong test /strong /code

but i can’t see the strong balise.

[meitershaker]

with pre or code, bbcode are not displayed…

i need to see bbcodes in code tags because on my forum i use pre-formatted posts, for many uses

in example for:

pre strong test /strong /pre

i would like to see strong and /strong …

there is no way?

++

[cartmanffc]

changes I made were related to the info being repeated twice and I was messing with the code to get the graphic bar working

I somehow worked out the first problem and the latest version of Karma plugin (0.0.5) solved the second problem so now everything is working perfectly

thank you for the update of the plugin and quick response

[Amir Habibi]

Thanks for your replies. After reading / testing your links, I found a quick working fix. Here’s the plugin code :

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: UTF-8 usernames

Plugin URI:

Description: This plugin enable utf-8 characters in usernames. Mbstring must be enabled in the php.ini.

Author: Amir Habibi

Author URI: http://www.residence-mixte.com/

Version: 0.1

*/



function sanitize_user_mbstring( $raw_username, $username, $strict = false ) {

$raw_username = $username;

$username = strip_tags($username);

// Kill octets

$username = preg_replace('|%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])|', '', $username);

$username = preg_replace('/&.+?;/', '', $username); // Kill entities



// Usage of 'mb_ereg_replace' instead of 'preg_replace' to preserve accents.

if ( $strict )

$username = mb_ereg_replace('|[^a-z0-9 _.-@]|i', '', $username);



return apply_filters('sanitize_user_mbstring', $username, $raw_username, $strict);



}



add_action('sanitize_user', 'sanitize_user_mbstring', 0, 3);

?>

To work, you must have mstring enabled in your php.ini.

Hope this will help !

chrishajer : our board is in french

[chrishajer]

This is the latest discussion I heard about the issue:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/diacritic-letters-i-username-like-goran

What is the primary language of your forum?

[chrishajer]

bbPress is beta software right now. The latest beta release is 0.9.0.2. That release is not compatible with WordPress 2.6. The decisions are up to you.

The compatibility is only an issue if you want integration. If you don’t need integrated users between bbPress and WordPress, then install bbPress 0.9.0.2.

[chrishajer]

There is a discussion of changing the number of front page topics here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-restrict-number-of-latest-discussions-on-front-page

To put the categories first and the latest topics after, you just need to move those things around in your front page template (front-page.php in your template directory).

[_ck_]

Never use an alpha of any product for anything other than testing. Otherwise it’s 100% at your own risk.

bbPress 0.9 is very stable.

There are sometimes daily updates to 1.0 alpha (via the SVN of the trunk) but it will not be “finished” for many weeks.

Who is reviewing 1.0 alpha? You can’t review 1.0 alpha, it’s not finished. That’s like reviewing a car that has no interior.

[wiggster]

Just a small cosmetic issue I noticed after installing the Version 1.0-alpha-1 zip file: after activating a few plugins, I noticed that the cells were not alternating classes correctly (or at least, what I’d think of as correctly).

To test this, simply go to the Plugins page and activate a plugin. If the plugin row had a white background, it changes to green to show it’s active. If it had a gray background, it stays gray whether it is active or not. It seems to me that we’d want there to be either one or two shades of green to show the active plugins.

The cause between this seems to be the CSS classes of the active rows alternated between <tr class="active"> and <tr class="active alt">; this means that the row with ‘active alt’ takes the properties of the ‘alt’ row, which overrides the background color of the ‘active’ class as it is lower in the style.css template. This derives from the function get_alt_class(), as defined in bb-includes/template-functions.php, which can assign two classes to one element.

[tmmaersk]

Is it possible to only get shown the last 5 topics on the main page, and still list more topics when you go into a category on the forum?

Or just switch them around so the categories will be listed first, and then the latest topics below the categories?

Thanks

[_ck_]

Untested. auto-closes a topic on-the-fly when someone visits it and it’s last post is 90 days old (adjustable)

add_action('bb_head','auto_close_topic');

function auto_close_topic() {

global $topic;

if (is_topic() && $topic->topic_open===1) {

$old=time()-3600*24*90; // 90 days default

if (strtotime($topic->topic_time)<$old) {

bb_close_topic($topic->topic_id);

$topic->topic_open=0;  // just in case the cache doesn't clear

}

}

}

[lstelie]

_ck_

In latest bb-config.php there is no /* Stop editing */

Do I put $bb->load_options = true; at the end of the file ?

[_ck_]

Hidden Forums has not been tested yet again 1.0 alpha.

I simply don’t have time to modify every plugin for all the changes.

This is why people should not use the alpha yet for regular sites.

Update: I’m unable to reproduce your problem however.

I have no extra queries with using Hidden Forums on the 1.0 trunk. Are you using the Alpha from the download on bbpress.org, or are you using the SVN trunk?

[ddemeo]

How well do existing themes work with the latest alpha release? And is that likely to change with the final release? I’ve made lots of modifications to my existing theme, and would hate to have to start from scratch. (Although, admittedly, I knew I was running that risk using a beta release of bbpress!)

[cartmanffc]

2 more working plugins:

– human-test

– temporary-ban

[cartmanffc]

I thought it might be helpful; I tried the following popular plugins with the latest release of bbPress and they seem to work perfectly:

– bb-smilies

– bbcode-buttons

– mini-track

– my-views

– post-count-plus (with some minor changes)

– support-forum

– bb-reputation (to some extent)

– bb-signatures

– bb-topic-views

– bbcode-lite

– hidden-forums

– report-post

– unread-posts

what is missing most is the working plugin for quotes…

[_ck_]

The following is just my personal opinion but there seems to be a growing misunderstanding around here that makes me want to petition Sam and Michael to take 1.0 alpha off the download section and limit it to people who know how to use the SVN.

“Alpha” means “NOT ready for regular use”

I don’t know how to explain that any more clearly.

It only exists for people to test and report problems for eventual repair.

Do NOT use the Alpha:

1. on a forum with active members

2 on a forum that you would care if it’s down for a week

3. if you expect it to be trouble-free

4. if you expect immediate fixes for your troubles with it

5. just because you insist on using WP 2.6 and it’s the only version that will work with it

About 1 out of 5 of my plugins has some kind of unforseen problem with 1.0 alpha because of extensive internal changes with how it does things

Last but not least, even I do not run 1.0 on any of my public forums yet, only for testing. If that doesn’t discourage you from insisting on using it, well then you’ve been warned.

A month from now 1.0 might be perfectly stable and lovely. Right now it is NOT. You’ve been warned.

[Andrew]

I am currently running the following:

WP 2.3x (using due to theme limitations)

BBPress 0.8.3.1

I am planning to upgrade the theme to be compatible with the latest version of WordPress. Once I do this I need to upgrade BBpress. Given the availabiltiy of the Alpha and the 2.5 restriction of BBpress 0.9 I was looking for suggestions on how to go about things.

Option 1 – Is this a valid path?

1. Upgrade to WP2.5 & BBpress 0.9

2. Wait for stable 1.0 Beta of BBpress

3. Upgrade to WP 2.6x and BBpress 1.0

Option 2

1. Upgrade to WP2.6 & BBpress Alpha

Questions:

1. Is a 2.5 version of WP still being distributed?

I hope this was clear. Thanks.

[citizenkeith]

Where can I download the latest version?

[bmc_webdev]

I have an installation of bbpress 0.9 (installed independent from WordPress).

When I pull the rss feed, I get code that looks like this:

<item>

<title>Anonymous on "Hello"</title>

<link>http://forums.brynmawr.edu/topic.php?id=2#post-8</link>

<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:45:22 +0000</pubDate>

<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>

<guid isPermaLink="false">8@http://forums.brynmawr.edu/</guid>

<description><p>test

</p></description>

</item>

The <p> is a <p> tag that is entity-encoded (I presume so that <p> won’t be parsed as an XML tag by an XML parser).

This is causing an issue with the feed parser that I am using (lastRSS): the parser is passing the <description> contents through unchanged, and so I’m getting literal “<p>” and “<p/>” on the pages that use lastRSS.

I believe that the standard method of embedding HTML into an XML feed (or any XML document) is to use CDATA blocks:

<description><![CDATA[<p>test

</p>]]></description>

and this is the way feeds from wordpress, blogger, etc are formatted. bbpress should really do the same thing so that feed parsers like lastRSS will pass through correct HTML (in this example, text wrapped by a paragraph tag, rather than text with character entities that cause the browser to display the literal characters)

Can the feed generator code be changed to use CDATA blocks?

Thank you.

[benzilla069]

I’m just trying ghetto solutions at the moment just to see if I can actually get something to work.

$SQLtopic_id = 3;

$SQLtopic_title = 'Test';

$SQLtopic_slug = 'topic-test-slug';

$SQLtopic_poster = '1';

$SQLtopic_poster_name = 'admin';

$SQLtopic_last_poster = 1;

$SQLtopic_last_poster_name = 'admin';

$SQLtopic_start_time;

$SQLtopic_topic_time;

$SQLtopic_forum_id = 1;

$SQLtopic_topic_status = 0;

$SQLtopic_open = 1;

$SQLtopic_last_post_id = 1;

$SQLtopic_topic_sticky = 0;

$SQLtopic_posts = 1;

$SQLtopic_tag_count = 0;

//$SQLtopic_id, $SQLtopic_title, $SQLtopic_slug, $SQLtopic_poster, $SQLtopic_poster_name, $SQLtopic_last_poster, $SQLtopic_last_poster_name, $SQLtopic_start_time, $SQLtopic_topic_time, $SQLtopic_forum_id, $SQLtopic_topic_status, $SQLtopic_open, $SQLtopic_last_post_id, $SQLtopic_topic_sticky, $SQLtopic_posts, $SQLtopic_tag_count

// set database server access variables:

$host = “”;

$user = “”;

$pass = “”;

$db = “”;

// open connection

$connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die (“Unable to connect!”);

// select database

mysql_select_db($db) or die (“Unable to select database!”);

mysql_query(“INSERT INTO bb_topics (topic_id, topic_title, topic_slug, topic_poster, topic_poster_name, topic_last_poster, topic_last_poster_name, topic_start_time, topic_time, forum_id, topic_status, topic_open, topic_last_post_id, topic_sticky, topic_posts, tag_count)

VALUES ($SQLtopic_id, $SQLtopic_title, $SQLtopic_slug, $SQLtopic_poster, $SQLtopic_poster_name, $SQLtopic_last_poster, $SQLtopic_last_poster_name, $SQLtopic_start_time, $SQLtopic_topic_time, $SQLtopic_forum_id, $SQLtopic_topic_status, $SQLtopic_open, $SQLtopic_last_post_id, $SQLtopic_topic_sticky, $SQLtopic_posts, $SQLtopic_tag_count)”);

mysql_close($connection);

Adds nothing to the database.

[leoleoleo]

OK! Super thanks x 2 times! _CK_

I like install and test plugins, but I know if install a lot plugins will make the forum slow.

If the bbPress can every page keep 5-10 queries is best of best of best.

[Sam Bauers]

If you upgrade to the latest bbPress trunk you will have access to the new BBXF exporter. There is also a standalone BBXF importer for phpBB, but I have not tested it yet. You will have to do some work to get it running at this early stage of development, this should be a lot easier as we move forward with this idea.

For more check here http://bbxf.org/

[Sam Bauers]

Check the new project here.

http://bbxf.org/

Thanks to GSoC student Dan Larkin for his work over the Summer.

BBXF is now available for review and testing in bbPress trunk and we plan to make it a bundled plugin in bbPress 1.0