[lucaiz]

many thanks Chris! I have tested your second example (pluggable.php, row 361 etc.) was exactly what I needed!

I agree with you that a plugin would be nice, and also it would be even nicer to be able to set new users default role somewhere in the admin interface, but for the moment your suggestion just work.

thanks again!

[darkling235]

I have the code to work with the new field in the DB all ready and tested. To test it I just created a new column in the user table manually. Is there a way to do it automatically on install?

I.E. bbpress creates a bunch of tables and fields when it is first activated, how can I alter what tables are created and what columns they possess?

[319]

To test things further i did a fresh install of bbpress on a different server (this one hosted by hostgator) and again did the require_once wp-blog-header.php etc… and i’m getting a similar problem with these weird 404 errors. They occur much less frequently than the last forum but they are still there. And further, I just ran it through http://validator.w3.org and its giving me a 404 just like the other forum did. Here’s a link to this second test forum i just setup: http://formatmag.com/bbpress

I think this might be some sort of incompatibility between WordPress 2.3.3 and BBpress 0.8.3.1, since those are really the only similarities i can think of between these two test forums, since they are seperate domains and seperate servers and have the same problem.

[kernow]

I had a problem with WordPress in IE7, and I installed the latest version of IE7 which cured the problem. There has been several beta versions of IE7, and it could just be that you are running an old version. Worth a check….

[chrishajer]

noyz319: need a URL to test your site.

[319]

Hi, i have a wordpress integrated bbpress forum (sharing the same database and users) and everything works great except 95% of the time the forum pages come up as “404 – Page Not Found” errors when using IE7. This only happens in IE as i’ve tested things in Safari, Firefox and Opera on both a mac and PC and have no problems at all. The Internet Explorer 404 errors happen when trying to load any forum page, including all admin screens. Once in a while a page might load up proper and usually you can get the 404 to go away on a page if you sit there and refresh it about 6 or 7 or 30 times.

The main wordpress backed site (2.3.3) is domain.com and the bbpress install (0.8.3.1) is in domain.com/bbpress. To try and track down the problem, i did a seperate install in domain.com/bbpress2 using a separate database, not the WP one, and this weird IE only problem starts happening as soon as i add the require_once(‘/home/content/domain/html/wp-blog-header.php’); bit to the top of the bbpess config.

The wordpress site itself works just fine in IE7 and never serves up these seemingly random 404 errors, its just the forum that is the problem. Any help figuring out what could possibly be causing this would be extremely appreciated! This strange error is driving me nuts, i hate IE!

[chrishajer]

I think for bb-plugins.php, you would need to make this change:

if ( function_exists( 'glob' ) && is_callable( 'glob' ) ) {

foreach ( glob(BBPLUGINDIR . '_*.php') as $_plugin ) {

$_data = bb_get_plugin_data( $_plugin );

$_plugins[$_plugin] = $_data ? $_data : true;

}

}

That’s the whole block of code from trunk. Looks like they test now to see if glob is callable, then actually call it. That should fix your glob problem.

[chrishajer]

Regarding the glob thing – you are going to need the same sort of fix for the glob anywhere it’s used in bbPress since your host disabled it. You would have to grep through all the code and say something like:

if ( function_exists( 'glob' ) && is_callable( 'glob' ) ) {

whatever test that used to use glob;

}

Not sure the best way to deal with that.

[jompen8]

oh I missed your message before my last one.

“It looks like you made bbPress a page inside your WordPress installation?”

Yes, I´m afraid.

So maybe the full-url is wrong in the config-file? Do I have to reinstall the whole thing then? And what should the full-url-thing be next time.

I tested right now to create a page (the URL to my forum) and that worked But as u see u cant do anything when u are there.

I´m really confused right now,doh.

I just want to have a forum, a link to it in the menu, it should be integrated (not just for itself, it should be like a new page)

Is this possible? its feels hopeless.

//Johan

[chrishajer]

Interesting…

I don’t know why it would redirect to the home page vs. giving you a failed login attempt. I registered, received my email, tried logging in, and it seemed like it just redirected to the front page of the forum again.

Is the WordPress installation going to be here:

http://www.johnwade.ca/puppyplaydate/ ?

If so, with integration, the bbPress installation should be here then (I believe):

http://www.johnwade.ca/puppyplaydate/Forums/

but it’s actually here:

http://www.johnwade.ca/Forums/

I wonder if the cookie path is wrong and that prevents bbPress from setting the proper cookie and thus thinks you’re not logged in, or that you logged back out since there is no valid cookie?

I checked the cookies that were set and I have a cookie path of /puppyplaydate/ for wordpressuser and wordpresspass. I would expect the cookie path to be /Forums/ with this setup.

As a test, I just stopped accepting cookies for my site (integrated with WordPress as well), then tried logging in. If I tried to log in while I was viewing a forum, it just silently redirected me to the forum home page. This seems like confirmation that it’s a cookie issue at this point. I can make mine do what yours is doing.

If I set the 2 cookies manually in Firefox, I am logged in! Check this out:

Screenshot of me logged into your forum:

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/ppd-profile.png

Screenshot of the cookies I manually set (note path /Forums/):

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/ppd-cookies.png

Here is the response from your server where it tries to set the cookies with a path of /puppyplaydate/:

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/ppd-response.txt

HTH

[chrishajer]

I believe that is due to the language files. Look here for more info:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/latest-wordpress-038-bbpress-in-another-language

It looks like your site is in Portuguese, but maybe this Spanish thread will be useful:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/en-espanol

[_ck_]

I’d love to see such a plugin.

However your test is not working for me in Firefox 2.0

I hit preview and it show “Please wait…..”

You might also want to make/give an option to allow the preview to auto-kick in after say 2-3 seconds after “on key up” in the textarea (indicating a typing pause).

[tmeister]

Sorry, You can use

username: testuser

password: e6b4b5

To test it.. the post preview’s button only appears when the user is login

[tmeister]

Hi there.

I am working in a post preview plugin. you can see it here http://www.klr20mg.com/dev/bbpress/.

I dont know if that is enough to release a beta version.

The plugin only sends the textArea text, applies filters and shows the text using ajax.

The preview only works with replies and has no design at all .

What you think?

Test url http://www.klr20mg.com/dev/bbpress/

see ya.

[purdue512]

Thanks for the feedback. I think you are right. Reverse DNS, actually…

I dug a little deeper in the sendmail log and found that my server was identifying itself as ‘local.localdomain’. Some receiving mail servers are fine with this. Others are not. They want to do a look-up on your domain.

The fix (in case anyone else hits this) is to go into your network settings and inspect your host name and domain name. Put in your qualified domain name. Then do a test registration and look in the sendmail log… You should no longer see local.localdomain…

I’ve done these steps and will monitor. But my research suggests this was the root-cause..

[_ck_]

It’s fairly easy to test loading/decoding times using firefox+fasterfox or firebug but there are plenty of studies around the web if you want nitty-gritty details:

a quick search:

http://batiste.dosimple.ch/blog/2007-07-02-1/

http://ejohn.org/blog/library-loading-speed/

http://jst.pbwiki.com/summary.php

http://www.julienlecomte.net/blog/2007/08/13/

jquery with simple whitespace removal and variable name shrinking, *not* actual compression, sent via a server with proper gzip support (mod_gzip, apache2, litespeed, etc) is always fastest. Packed is always the worst. Not only that, packed has to be unpacked for EVERY page load. It’s never ready to run. So it uses more browser memory, and has a delay *every* time.

By the way, what does jquery actually do within bbpress’s topics for regular users? I don’t get it, there’s no javascript actions. bbpress used to have ajax posting but that was removed a long time ago (it should come back sometime…)

If you absolutely must distribute bbpress (and wordpress) with jquery in a more compressed form, please use the jsmin version but definitely not the packed version.

[howtogeek]

You can find this function in bb-includes/functions.php

function bb_add_topic_tags( $topic_id, $tags ) {

global $bbdb;



$tags = trim( $tags );

$words = explode(',', $tags);



if ( !is_array( $words ) )

return false;



$tag_ids = array();

foreach ( $words as $tag )

if ( $_tag = bb_add_topic_tag( $topic_id, $tag ) )

$tag_ids[] = $_tag;

return $tag_ids;

}

The explode() function is where the logic is happening… you’ll have to test to see if it screws up anything else, cause I’ve not tried it.

[_ck_]

But WP 2.4 should be out in March perhaps?

So it would be a nice co-release at that time.

I’ve got the two trunks purring along together, though I had to smack WP into submission to reduce the default mysql queries per page (27 for the default install with a single test post is a little high, wouldn’t you say?) Still trying to figure out if I can disable the new tag system in WP to reduce the load further.

[Sam Bauers]

Also, BackPress may or may-not be incorporated into WordPress. bbPress is a testing ground for the concept. If it doesn’t get incorporated into WordPress it doesn’t really matter, hopefully we’ll at least have a better structured core in bbPress as a result.

[edwinfoo]

The 2 key issues are server uptime and email reliability.

In the short 4 months that my forum has been running, I’ve had so many incidences of users registering 2 usernames. I’ve come to learn that the 2nd one is out of frustration that the email containing the password did not arrive.

This weekend, I have had no outbound email and sick of spending money on AdWords to bring in people that can’t sign up.

Apart from the registration email, I am using both Auto Favorite & Post Notification plugins. Therefore, reliable email is very important to maintain posting activity.

I’ve read alot about concerns that bbPress isn’t sending email. After extensive testing and in my situation, the problem is with the host.

I’m looking to avoid dedicated hosting at this time because my day job is funding this venture already. Can anyone recommend a hosting service that offers good reliability in both uptime and email?

[howtogeek]

Here’s a function that changes the last poster to a link to the last post:

function geek_addlatest_link()

{

global $topic;

echo ‘ topic_id) . ‘”>’.get_topic_last_poster($topic->topic_id).’‘;

}

Just needs to be added into a theme like this:

<td class=”num”><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”><?php geek_addlatest_link(); ?></td>

[salman1485]

problem solved..

instead of localhost i had to enter the other thing which dreamhost told me …

but now another problem

the forum is working fine http://test.nofullstop.com/bbpress/

but the slugs arnt??

what went wrong now??

[_ck_]

I have now updated “My-Views” to support pagination (multi-page) views for all the standard style views.

version 0.09 should be in the plugin browser shortly…

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/67

you can see a demonstration of the feature here:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/latest-discussions

[salman1485]

i use different database for my wordpress blogs and i created new database for my test forum

database name: testforum

user: testforum

password is also correct

I doubt what I need to enter in host..currently it is localhost and i am using dreamhost to host my account… but i am sure i do not need to enter that in place of localhost..!!

so what could be the problem?

and in that BBLANG i have written en even though i dont have any MO file..

confused …please help me

[salman1485]

I am not sure what is wrong with my config.php file..

this is a test forum which i am not finalising so i created a new database with new password and new user and updated the config.php file with the details…please tell me what is the problem..am copying the file here (pwd, akismet key, email have been removed)

______________________________________________

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘testforum’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘testforum’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://test.nofullstop.com/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘test forum’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘something@gmail.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = slugs;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 15;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 1;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = 0;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ‘en’);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ”; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ”; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

______________________________________________

please help me ..