[lonemadmax]

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?

[chrishajer]

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.

[chrishajer]

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.

[Staffan]

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.

[softsea]

interesting too,

not lost display WP Comments.

[nickbrady]

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!

[mrpapasworld]

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..

[nickbrady]

Hi,

I’m setting up a bbpress forum linked to a WP blog. Is there any way I can show the latest posts of the blog in the forums sidebar?

The forums and the blog use the same database, is there any way to get the latest posts from the database. If not, maybe reading the RSS of the blog, using a function like wp_rss() in WP.

Thanks!

[Null]

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

[chrishajer]

How about this?

http://www.atsutane.net/2006/11/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wordpress/

[marky]

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?

[drtech]

Forum-restriction version 1.5 does not hide latest topics when user is logged out.

[ardentfrost]

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

[marky]

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.)

[Stefano Aglietti]

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

[mrpapasworld]

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…

[cadre]

Hey, thanks for the tip, mdawaffe. That was a breeze!

[cadre]

I tried it and everything seems to be running smoothly, thanks again for the quick response!

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

That version of the plugin should work fine, but the most recent version (Front Page Topics 0. is a bit more configurable.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/3

[mrpapasworld]

you can see this in work now at http://test.158th.com

still some styling work to do and such… also going to port the forums and data in from phpBB (actually nukeBB)

[Trent Adams]

Looking it over, I can’t see any reason why this won’t work. I guess test it out and if you get and error, just delete the plugin and report back here!

Trent

[cadre]

Would anyone happen to know if this still applies to version 0.8? I have a new forum I’d like to try this in but I thought I’d check to make sure it wouldn’t break anything first. Or is there another method that would work better?

thanks!

[Jim S.]

I’ve made my first attempt ever at theme-building by trying to port the Navigation theme for WordPress over to bbPress. You can see it in action on my test setup:

http://open-dialogue.com/bbpress

I’m not entirely happy with the way the forum tables display. It looks ok on a 1024×768 resolution, but they mass to the left a bit too much for my liking on higher resolutions (I use 1280×1024). I’m at a bit of a loss, though, to know how to stretch them out enough to fill out the extra white space to the right. I’d be open for suggestions on how to tweak the stylesheet further.

I’m also not real crazy about the login form location, but I’m not sure of a better place to put it.

Everything else seems to look and operate alright. Any suggestions and tips would be greatly appreciated. I’m still figuring out some the latest nuances in stylesheeting (it’s been a few years since I’ve done much site design).

[Trent Adams]

I tested it out as I have the same error! It did fix it and a TRAC ticket needs to be created! Good catch! It was your find chrihajer! You post the ticket!

Trent

[chrishajer]

Martin, your webserver cannot send emails? Can you upload a file called mailer.php and put this into it: (if you don’t have command line access)

<html>

<body>

<?php

mail( 'you@yourdomain.com', "subject: test", "message: test", 'From: you@yourdomain.com');

echo "Mail should have been sent, check your inbox";

?>

</body>

</html>

Run that from your browser and check your inbox. I’ve never had it fail, so I don’t know what is displayed if the mail command fails. If you have a command line, you can just run the mail command:

php -r 'mail( 'you@yourdomain.com', "subject: test", "message: test", 'From: you@yourdomain.com');'

If you cannot send email from your server, then the patch you referred to would work, but I suspect that was for an older version (.73 maybe, since the post is so old.) You save that information to a file, call it mail.patch or something. You need a command line to patch the files, so if you don’t have that, you would need to download the files referenced in the patch, patch them locally (built in on Linux and OSX but I think you would need a 3rd party app on Windows.) To patch the files:

1. cd to the installation directory
2. run this command:

   patch -p0 < /path/to/mail.patch

That makes the changes to the files referenced in the patch, and the user registration email will be displayed rather than being emailed.

HTH