Okay, I promise in future I’ll be all mature and responsible and test these things first. Sorry for the inconvenience. This works on my forum now; just copy and paste this into a new plugin file. Then put <?php aposttime(); ?> for default time output, or <?php aposttime( 'DATE FORMAT' ); ?> for your own time formatting.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Accurate Post Time
Plugin URI:
Description: Outputs an accurate post time in, optionally, your choice of formatting. Use <?php aposttime( 'DATE FORMAT' ); ?> in your template, <a href="http://uk3.php.net/date">date formatted according to PHP standards.</a>
Author: fel64
Version: Phi
Author URI: http://www.loinhead.net/
*/
function aposttime ( $dtformat = "jS F 'y" ) {
global $bb_post;
$aposttime = date( $dtformat, strtotime( $bb_post->post_time ) );
echo $aposttime;
}
?>
I really do 
This Patrick Ehrlund? He’s great – even if he does have a flash website 
I’d argue that the coolness of appearance is worth it, since the login form’s not exactly rocket science. I think it’s still pretty distinguishable anyway. Mockups:
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5090/ochreblackuf9.jpg
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5758/ochrewhiteyh4.jpg
That’s just suggestions if you’re interested, no need to give it further thought
Test account to see the problem with the HTML, didn’t realise Chris had already fixed it. My bad.
Aha – thanks very much chrishajer! I’ve just noticed that there’s a surplus /div in footer.php. I’ve removed it and all is now well, as far as I can tell. Though it’s strange how it only affected that one page (?!). Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Thanks fel64 – glad you like the design of the site! The header pic was designed by a friend of mine, Patrick Ehrlund. I’m torn about the login background – it does look much better without the white background, but also more difficult to read. I might play with some font colours to get something that displays nicely over the header pic colours.
A test account? What do you mean? I’ll help if I can.
It’s a really nice site and I love the header. The login form would fit in more if you remove the background: #FFFFFF property in the CSS.
Could you make a test account please, so we can see the HTML?
I did add the avatar upload plugin to the post.php page, and add a few line breaks br / but thats about it?
I can’t get it to work with safari or firefox either on your site. Have you changed any of the files in your template that deal with the feed?
Trent
I used phpbb for about 4 years and once I created a test site of bbPress, I converted over all my forums to bbPress and continue to help support a great product. As far as I can tell, almost all the ‘bloated’ features of phpBB that people love have now become plugins for bbPress, so if you like all or most of those features, you will love bbPress.
Trent
XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
Location: http://mysite/rss.php?profile=1
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″?><!– generator=”bbPress” –>
This is the error I am getting when I try to load my rss feed from ie7? any idea how to fix this?
Yup! Find this (or similar) codeblock in your theme’s front-page.php.
<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>
<td><a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a></td>
<td class="num"><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>
<td class="num"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>
<td class="num"><small><?php topic_time(); ?></small></td>
</tr>
Around it put
<?php if( $topic->forum_id != 666 ) { ?>
... that code block ...
<?php } ?>
You will probably want to change 666 to whatever forum id you actually want to exclude. You can put any conditional logic you like inside those if( … ) brackets, so for example to filter for two forums you would put if( $topic->forum_id != 666 && $topic->forum_id != 999 ). Hope that helps.
I would like to limit the forums being included in the latest discussions section. More accurately, I wish to specifically exclude a forum. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this in the template?
Very nice! I will test it out for you and report back if I see any problems!
Trent
Thanks Trent!
I tested the change on one user, and I was able to edit his ID number to match the number from the old PHPBB. As hoped, his posts in the transferred Forum are now correctly attributed.
However, I ran ino a quirk. When I change the ID in WordPress, the user gets bumped in the User Role list. He went from “Subscriber” to “No role for this blog.” I manually promoted him to Author from the wp-admin/users panel.
What field in the wp-db controls the user roles? Can I avoid this quirk on future ID edits?
i am sorry to see that tag can’t work for chinese
I haven’t tested this yet, but it looks like the mods that fel64 and Sam have proposed here should work. So, instead of rushing a new version of the plugin out today, I think I’ll just save these changes (and some other functionality I’m working on) for the next major release. Hopefully I can get a new version of it out in the next couple of weeks.
@Sam, I use your excellent Page Links plugin, and I wrote mine specifically to be compatible with yours. In fact, I wouldn’t have known what filter to use if it weren’t for your plugin.
I set the priority of my filter as 99 (yours is set to 100), so it fires directly before yours. Also, my plugin checks to see if the page_links_add_links function exists, and if it does it automatically drops the page links to a new line below the title in order to make things a little more sightly.
@smurfdude, I thought about that, too. I initially decided against that route so I could have it function without having to edit any template files. The way it works right now is that it is inserted with a filter that is triggered when (and where) the topic title is fed to the page. If you’re feeling really ambitious, you can go into bb-topic-views.php to see how the mechanics of the plugin work. From there, you could change some things around so you could put the views count in its own column. Eventually I may add that functionality within the plugin, but that’s not a high priority right now.
Speaking of priorities, the next to-do on my list is to add functionality where a user can add a template tag that will display the top 5 (or 10, or whatever) most viewed posts, either as <li> items so you can use it anywhere, or in a format similar to the way the Latest Discussion area is laid out. Stay tuned…
I tested the second method on the latest build and it passes the bb_repermalink tests and loads.
I tried using standard URLs and both types of permalinks.
I didn’t try to load a template. I used a file called avatar-upload.php containing the following:
<?php
require_once('./bb-load.php');
bb_repermalink(); // The magic happens here.
echo 'test';
?>
My test plugin contained:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Test for fel64
Plugin URI:
Description: Test profile tab addition
Author: Scooby Doo
Version: 0.0.1
Author URI:
*/
$bb->debug = 1;
function felavatartab()
{
add_profile_tab(__('Avatar'), 'edit_profile', 'moderate', 'avatar-upload.php');
}
add_action( 'bb_profile_menu', 'felavatartab' );
?>
Thank you!
For testing if it’s bb it might be easiest to do exactly what you did but with a global variable bb uses anyway, such as $bbdb or whatever you feel like – saves you having to put in the declarations.
bb-Topic-Views keeps track of how many times each topic has been viewed, and then displays the count alongside the title of the topic on the front page, on forums pages, and on tags pages.
The plugin is written in such a way that it does not double-count views when a visitor browses to a different page in the same topic. If no view count record exists for a specific topic, the plugin will create a record for it. Rather than setting the initial view count to zero, the plugin sets it to the number of posts in the topic, because it has obviously been viewed at least as many times as people have posted in it! This is especially nice for adding the plugin to existing bbpress forums so the view count isn’t zero for every single topic.
You can download it here: http://blog.wittmania.com/bb-topic-views
You can see it in action here: http://blog.wittmania.com/bbpress
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By the way, I’ve only tested this plugin in browser environments where cookies were enabled. This plugin doesn’t set any cookies (directly, anyway), but it does use session variables which are usually passed as cookies. So, if anyone runs into any bugs, please let me know!
I’m also very open to suggestions as to how I could streamline or improve the code. Thanks!
Thanks Trent, but that link gave me nothing 
Fel64, I don’t really get what you mean with “live Windows server”… anyhow it’s a WindowsXP server, Apache 2.2, PHP5, latest MySQL – all installed on a personal LAN server.
And the Apache/PHP installation works fine with some other simple PHP applications.
I also tried to copy an older installation of bbpress that worked fine on a previous WinXP/Apache server, but due to a disk failure I had to format the drive and re-install everything.
However, that older bbpress turned out with the exact problem (blank page) and the same line Apache’s error.log…
My guess is something’s wrong with my Apache/PHP installation.
Thx,
lokem
Oops. Sorry about that! It works now.
Latest post link is screwed for the forum named OBT. Threads from other forums work fine. WEIRD.
Forum 1 is private, and I can’t login using “test” and “test” Last time I checked, though, the latest post thing was screwed. 
