Is this going to get submitted into the SVN trunk for 1.0 soon, or..? I’m really hoping so, all this “applying patches” is getting tiresome and confusing, sigh.
It’s one of the main reasons I haven’t even upgraded my bbPress forums to the latest full .80, with category enhancement, just seems pointless… 
spencerp
Hi, chrishajer
In the tests we have done, it does work adding a new topic and also adding new tags to an existing topic.
Hello,
I need to add a custom page to my forum that acts like any other page, but with custom content I have added. It’s actually going to be a “Contest Status” page, where users can check to see if they have completed the steps necessary to enter the contest, and once they have to track the contest’s progress. I know how to create a custom page in wordpress that just points to:
http://www.myurl.com/chosen-page-name
but I can’t quite wrap my brain around this in bbpress. I want the most elegant, simplest, and most unobtrusive solution I can find. I would love the page to resolve to:
http://www.myurl.com/forum/contest
Is this functionality built in? Is it plugin-able? (I’ve never built a plugin). Is there a simple workaround?
Any tips or information is greatly appreciated.
Hi
thanks for the quick reply.
Yes the IP, userid, pass is correct.
The domain string is where i may be having trouble as i am not sure wat to put in there. I have tried multiple domain strings but no success.
Have tried both TLS on/off.
I am fairly certain that the firewall is set ok.
We have other applications using the ldap server successfully, however from different servers.
I have successfully used the following code example to produce a connection and return a result from the LDAP server. maybe this can help you debug the issue?
<?php
// basic sequence with LDAP is connect, bind, search, interpret search
// result, close connection
echo "<h3>LDAP query test 2</h3>";
echo "Connecting ...";
$ds=ldap_connect("192.168.1.73"); // must be a valid LDAP server!
echo "connect result is " . $ds . "";
if ($ds) {
echo "Binding ...";
$r=ldap_bind($ds); // this is an "anonymous" bind, typically
// read-only access
echo "Bind result is " . $r . "";
echo "Searching for (sn=S*) ...";
// Search surname entry
$sr=ldap_search($ds, "o=Lions", "sn=S*");
echo "Search result is " . $sr . "";
echo "Number of entires returned is " . ldap_count_entries($ds, $sr) . "";
echo "Getting entries ...";
$info = ldap_get_entries($ds, $sr);
echo "Data for " . $info["count"] . " items returned:";
for ($i=0; $i<$info["count"]; $i++) {
echo "dn is: " . $info[$i]["dn"] . "";
echo "first cn entry is: " . $info[$i]["cn"][0] . "";
echo "first email entry is: " . $info[$i]["mail"][0] . "<hr />";
}
echo "Closing connection";
ldap_close($ds);
} else {
echo "<h4>Unable to connect to LDAP server</h4>";
}
?
Hi,
Mod rewrite rules set up for bbPress are OK and are better then the ones WordPress uses. However some tweaking can be done to make things better.
I’ve tried to put up together a permalinks plugin. I think that I am half way done but I need some help finishing things up.
The plugin can be downloaded from:
http://www.phpdigest.net/
You can take a look to my test site:
http://www.dfur.com (the template is not finished)
The forum link was changed from:
http://www.example.com/forum/forum_id
to
http://www.example.com/forum_name
The topic link was changed from:
http://www.example.com/topic/topic_id
to
http://www.example.com/forum/topic_id
I need help with creating the pagination mod_rewrite rules (page_2 ). Please let me know if anyone can help with setting up new pagination mod_rewrite rules for this page:
http://www.dfur.com/designer_furniture/topic5
Thank you,
Mircea Piturca and Paun Narcis Iulian.
The following is the encypted version of the password “test”
098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6
If you go into the database and put that in, your new password will be “test”. That will get you going!
Trent
In the course of testing I logged out. Whoops, need to log back in but don’t have the PW. Check email to look for original welcome email… nothing: never got one.
So I can retrieve it, right? Nope, it’s not getting to me. Must be my email address, right? I change it to another one (via database email field change), no dice. Create a new user, no email still.
So I can just look in the db for the pw, right? Nope, that’s encrypted. (Good, I’m not complaining, just saying what I’ve tried.)
Any hints on where to go from here?
Ah ok can you tell me what attributes it contains? (so how the table is build) Does it have: set, item, page etc etc?
Some suggested using set and item isn’t smart and could cause problems. But if these excist in your table, then it isn’t a problem. I think there is something “wrong” with the insert but to be sure. I am gonna make a version where I change the set and item into other values. Perhaps you can test that version for me when it’s done?
Still funny, it works on my own 2 test servers 
yeah, this forum is still online, feel free to play, I’ve been testing in this thread, but my css needs updating as not all effects are visiable (i.e. quotes are marked up in html, but css show’s white on white – doh !)
Sometime ago I adapted a script that imports data from phpBB. Some of the changes are probably a Bad Thing, but it worked for me (about 40 users, 15 forums, 150 topics and 800 posts).
Among the changes:
- Keeps current users, forums, etc. in bbPress. The new forum had started, so I wanted that, even though most new messages were just for testing.
- When an SMF username is found in the bbPress DB, the bbPress user is assigned to the SMF one. Otherwise, a new user is created.
- Imports tags that can’t be used in bbPress, such as table, flash and some stupid formatting stuff.
- Probably other things I don’t remember.
Jump to the CONFIGURATION SECTION and change to match your setup and liking. Wherever you see phpbb it really means smf, of course. One of the things I didn’t do was that type of cleanup. Also, despite the comments saying that you need a fresh new install of bbPress, that’s not true anymore.
Keep in mind that data reuse only happens with users. If a forum or a topic exists in bbPress with the same name that one from SMF, you’ll probably get two topics with the same name (different ID number, though). I haven’t tested this, and I don’t know if that means problems.
Also, subforums become forums on their own, as bbPress uses a flat one-level system. If you are using the plugin that allows for subforums, you may be able to correct this afterwards, or even add the code to the script so that it is done.
If you don’t want any of the probably Bad Things I introduced, get the original one and look compare the
$export_sql
lines to have a feeling of what to change.
Now, if there’s any interest, where do I send it?
DavidBessler, thoughtful comments. That Wikipedia page is very daunting. The last link on the page though is the resource I use for testing the various CMSs:
http://opensourcecms.com/
You can test and try all the Open Source packages right there, admin and front end. It’s a good resource.
It seems that the text is converted to emoticons on the initial post or display or something, but when I got back and edit a post to add one, it is not converted on display? When I make a test post immediately afterward, the same text is converted to an emoticon.
Anyone have a similar experience? It would seem the text is translated on display, not posting, so, I can’t see how this would happen actually.
I have the same problem. My display name is shown correctly in the posts and on the forum front page, but not at the top of the topics.
interesting too,
not lost display WP Comments.
that was fast! 
Very interesting, I see you’re doing both things:
– Display WP posts in bbpress forums
– Display bbpress topics in WP
Are these two different plugins? I guess it’s one for WP and one for bbpress.
Looking forward to those plugins!
finalizing a plugin… it includes a sidebar function and and page function…
http://test.klasen.us for the sidebar function
http://test.158th.com for the main page latest forum topcis functions…
should be all one wp plugin soon..
Yeah I wanna know too cause this has a menu I can go test with my menu plugin https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/743?replies=4
If you visit http://bbpress.org/forums/bb-login.php and use the top-most login form (the one in header.php), a recursive redirect occurs, which displays an error message in Safari. (I haven’t tested it in other browsers.)
This happens in all bbPress installations using the default template (and a few other templates that include the login form in the header). Is there a way to avoid this situation?
Forum-restriction version 1.5 does not hide latest topics when user is logged out.
mdawaffe’s plugin isn’t as cool as mine
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/21?replies=1
j/k about mine being cooler, but it may work in a way that you like better
Hi chrishajer,
Thanks for the help. I’m using Windows XP Home with SP2 installed and XAMPP as the web server.
I tried a test installation on a private subdomain on the actual web host hardware and it is indeed working there, but since I’d ultimately like to try developing themes and plugins, it would be a lot more convenient if I could work on this locally. (I actually run a complete mirror of my site locally for development purposes. Since the site is somewhat complicated as a whole, it’s important for me to test everything on the non-live site before I flip the metaphorical switch.)
I did the same step but i can’t get it to work, and I’m sure i’m logged in as Admin cause i teste and i can change other admin status etc… but the menu doesn’t apper
ooopsss… actually, you have to to the forums page to see all the forum stuff… http://test.158th.com/forums
though you did get a peek at my wordpress plugin to display latest forum stuff in wordpress…
