It’s possible something in the content you were posting was not escaped properly and it caused a syntax error when bbPress tried to insert it into the database. I don’t imagine you have the text of what you were trying to post, do you? You could try posting it here and see if this errors out.
It’s possible with that old version that something was fixed in the latest release and it won’t occur here.
The password normally contains special characters and that’s fine. That’s how I can usually tell if the bbPress is an old version or new version, based on the password being sent out when you register.
There is no problem with having special characters in the secret keys: it’s just that if they’re not properly escaped, the server will choke on the config file because the bb-config.php does not have proper syntax.
So, make sure the keys are the same for WordPress and bbPress, make sure the bb-config.php is syntactically correct (php -l bb-config.php from a Linux command line) and then figure out why you can’t log in.
You can also make the secret keys really short and easy to compare while testing to see if that’s the problem.
It’s also worthwhile to check any php file you edited for the proper syntax. Maybe once you log in, you are being served another page that has a syntax error (a template file?) and that is causing the blank screen.
Also, access to error logs will help with this, if you have them.
If beta is the new stable (thanks Google) then alpha is the new beta?
In a test installation (just copy all your WordPress files and database) you can’t really hurt anything. Just use it and see if it works enough for you.
My advice would be to install it in a test instance and use it. See how unstable it is for yourself. Only you can make the determination if it’s ready enough for you or not.
I have a fresh installation of the latest release of WordPress and integrating it with an installation of bbPress seems to be easy enough for a non-hacker like myself.
But, how unstable is the 1.0 alpha of bbPress really? The site I’m working on is to be a soon-to-be-released homepage for a choir that will use it mainly for news, recruiting and general talk. Would you rather advice me to go for the wp 2.5.1 + bbPress 0.9 version?
I just installed the latest stable release of bbpress and integrated it with wordpress 2.5.1. After setting up the integration, I immediately was logged out and couldn’t log back in with my keymaster. I searched the forums and tried everything that was suggested such as the plugin, adding a line to bb-config.php, and trying to edit phpmyadmin usermeta. I don’t know why the plugin didn’t work since my keymaster is at ID#1. And editing through phpmyadmin was useless since my usermeta was already set to keymaster. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled and keep getting the same results.
I have a band messageboard that’s worked flawlessly for a year now… but when I tried posting myself just now, it didn’t appear on the board. When I checked the dashboard, this is what it said for the latest post:
Post on
bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND meta_key='views'' at line 1]
SELECT meta_value FROM bb_topicmeta WHERE topic_id = AND meta_key='views'
bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ' 'views', )' at line 1]
INSERT INTO bb_topicmeta ( meta_id, topic_id, meta_key, meta_value) VALUES ( NULL , , 'views', )
Gavin DeGraw by neddi.
Any idea what’s going on? I’ve never seen this before… and I think I’m the only one with access to the backend.
how can i include bbpress in another system? the scope issues are confusing me.
Fatal error: Call to a member function get_results() on a non-object in bb-includes/functions.php on line 1761
TEST.PHP:
<?php
bb_load();
function bb_load()
{
global $bb, $bbdb, $bb_current_user, $page, $bb_cache, $posts, $bb_post, $post_id, $topics, $topic, $topic_id, $forums, $forum, $forum_id, $tags, $tag, $tag_name, $user, $user_id, $view, $bb_roles, $bb_table_prefix, $bb_locale, $bb_timestart, $timeend; #….???
require(‘./bb-load.php’);
}
?>
I’ve tried this a number of times. I can get bbpress 1.0 alpha installed on a test server without wordpress integration. When I move to another server, I’ve run into a number of problems. They aren’t the same problems every time, which is driving me crazy.
The most common problem I have is at some point during the installation process, I get a “The page isn’t redirecting properly” error. I get this most often at the very last stage of installation, but I’ve also gotten it after the first step. The last time I got this error at the last stage, I received a chmod and a could not modify headers error.
The current page is at http://forums.brynmawr.edu
I’m guessing we could have an error with our web server. I’m not a sys admin, so I’m not entirely sure where to check. Any ideas that I can pass on to our sys admin would be most appreciated.
Does bbpress allow for… or is there a plugin to allow for…
holding a topic entry for Admin to approve before displaying on the frontend?
I’m wanting to create a ‘picture contest’ entry page.
Memebers login, open then page, and upload an image to be voted/rated.
I’d like for Admin to approve each before making each entry visible on the frontend.
Ditto on the bozo feature. Never did understand that or get any benefit from it. At least it’s a plugin now where you can disable it. And the Human Test plugin works remarkably well in the arms race against preventing spammers from registering.
I turn off Akismet and just use Human Test to prevent bots from registering: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/
You just never know when a user will improperly get “bozo-ed” and you might miss their messages entirely. In fact i turn off the bozo feature too, it’s never quite worked right.
Hello,
how to control the number of topic in “latest discussions” in front-page.php?
bye
I can not figure out where i went wrong.. I’m using the latest 1.0 alpha release at 2.6. Everything apperas to work as expected (users exist in both systems, etc). However, the auto login is not working. I believe i followed the instructions to the “T”. Heres the stored cookie for both systems.
WordPress cookie after login:
/r30ab08c19a56be384114b23c09751029b7cf0de2e632d894d28d72e65f7f9f4=paul%7C1219369085%7Cc34a82349db07b4910c7910f399a9524
wordpress_=brian%7C1219369051%7Cf203245956a5b6a1e75d245128f85ced
wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check
wordpress_logged_in_=brian%7C1219369051%7C3738545f5bdb765f9ba4f5696e435ff9
wordpress_logged_in_57ff593b3dd6a2c72983ec37fa6fbe1a=paul%7C1219369085%7C6abf020fe1dc18102166be4e3a709ab1
BBpress immediatly after logging into wordpress:
/rwordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check
wordpress_logged_in_=brian%7C1219369051%7C3738545f5bdb765f9ba4f5696e435ff9
wordpress_logged_in_57ff593b3dd6a2c72983ec37fa6fbe1a=paul%7C1219369085%7C6abf020fe1dc18102166be4e3a709ab1
BBpress (already logged into wordpress, now manually logging into BBPress:
/rwordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check
wordpress_logged_in_=brian%7C1219369051%7C3738545f5bdb765f9ba4f5696e435ff9
wordpress_logged_in_57ff593b3dd6a2c72983ec37fa6fbe1a=brian%7C1219369533%7C9bc6a13aa1062a28d82bf0c30680253d
any ideas?
Cheers!
Brian
**edit**
I am using the latest WordPressMU with the Alpha release of bbPress.
**end-edit**
I am actually receiving this same error. I tried installing initially and completed the install until the final step where I needed to create a forum. I tried to make a Hello World forum and I got an error saying that the installation failed. I couldn’t go back a step or anything .
I just gave up on that install since it was fairly quick anyways, and removed the bbpress directory. I then re-downloaded the install file, unzipped it into my root directory and re-attempted the install. Now, whenever I try and re-install by going to the url that contains the bbpress install http://danvollans.com/bbpress I get a redirection error after the first step where I input my database information. I have since not been able to get past this step. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, especially since now I believe I’m not the first to receive this type of error.
Thank you very much!
When my forum is viewed in Firefox, the long email addresses of users who post are encroaching on their post content. Not a big issue, but a bit untidy and annoying. See: http://ashb.proofreadercentral.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=8
(user name: tester / password: testing123)
Which CSS in which file would I modify to make the page width of the forum a bit wider and increase the distance between poster email details and their adjacent post content, please?
Ok all that’s not working now is posting. The box shows and you can enter everything, but clicking submit just sends you back to the index with no changes. Any help?
I just tested removing the line “require(‘/var/www/html/wp-blog-header.php’);” in config, and it works again, so that fix you gave works, this is another issue caused by integration.
The diff between functions.core.php from the working install (without errors – latest-alpha.zip) and functions.core.php from the trunk directory (in this install I see the error message) .
A diff recursive from the root directory of both installs gave me a lot of output so I focused only in this file. I made a backup of the “problematic” file and overwrote it with the working (from the latest) so I got no more erros.
I made this just to test, I know we should not mix files from different verionos
$ diff ./bb-tag/bb-includes/backpress/functions.core.php ./bb-trunk/bb-includes/backpress/functions.core.php
494a495,507
>
> function backpress_convert_object( &$object, $output ) {
> if ( is_array( $object ) ) {
> foreach ( array_keys( $object ) as $key )
> backpress_convert_object( &$object[$key], $output );
> } else {
> switch ( $output ) {
> case OBJECT : break;
> case ARRAY_A : $object = get_object_vars($object); break;
> case ARRAY_N : $object = array_values(get_object_vars($object)); break;
> }
> }
> }
@chrishajer: I didn’t the diff cause I’m starting over with the forum – no data to care. So after the error comes I just removed all files and elimI searched and inated all tables from database. I should make some tests and take the diff.
@balgo: Yes, is a php error, but is called from a script in functions.core.php. There’s no results relevant to actual versions of bbpress neither functions.core file.
@zappoman: What let me really confused, please correct me if I’m wrong, is that I got error installing from “svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/tags/1.0-alpha-1/” but had no errors with a installations from “bbPress 1.0 Alpha (latest-alpha.zip)” in the download page. Since is tagged, is the same package right?
Thanks all your attention guys.
Guys,
Something really strange in this problem, only happens when I do a SVN install.
Errors to:
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/tags/1.0-alpha-1/ .
svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/ .
But if I download (wget) latest.zip or latest-alpha.zip extract and install it will work without the mentioned error. omg –confused–
Ok, just to let you know.
I tried a latest stable version (0.9.0.2) install and got no errors… only occurs with the alpha release.
Help plz.
Let me add that I’m doing all my testing/installing locally using Xampp. https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/928 made me think that maybe I’m having the plugin issue because of this problem? Just a shot in the dark perhaps? I think I’ll try uploading the latest trunk to my website (run on a unix server) tonight and see if it’s different in that environment.
Hi guys,
I want to start a forum from scratch and was going to install phpBB but after too much reading I decided that is best to me (and to the forum) use the bbPress.
I installed both stable and trunk versions on my local machine and was playing around for a couple hours. bbPress is really what I want, but I’m a little bit undecided about what version upload to my host.
I know 1.0 final release is coming soon but have too many tickets to close and I don’t want to wait.
In your opinion guys, for who wants to start over theses days… should I install 1.0 Alpha or latest stable version to put on production.
Thank you so much.
Joel Teixeira
I’ve tried doing four clean installs of rev1651 and in none of them have I been able to properly activate plugins. I’ve tried to enable everything from Akismet to mini-track to a simple plugin I made to allow more html tags. All the plugins I’m trying are the latest up to date and work on my rev1646 installation.
