[gazouteast]

Andy / Jeff – in line with my latest topic-start in this forum … can you give us a statement on what BuddyPress is supposed to be?

When I first started trying to get it into play, I was led to believe it was a community suite that tagged onto WPMU, but that’s not true. Yes, it’s a community suite, but it completely takes over and dominates WPMU, and that’s not what I wanted at all for this project, where the core function of WPMU had to be dominant.

Now it may be that this position is due to the default BP theme and its layout etc, in which case more themes (that are site-purpose structured, not BP purpose structured, need released) – instead of themes that “look pretty” with BP, we need themes that are for xyz purpose of site, and lots of them – take a lead from the accounting softwares and the business-type templates they provide in their softwares.

Example – themes for clubs, for charities, for communities of e-tailers, or communities of pub and hotel owners – these types of groups want their core site function to be to promote what there club / charity / business does – which is a great use for WPMU, but not if BP takes over and subdues the blogs into oblivion with all the chat and community slap and tickle.

At the end of the day, there is no real business-oriented community software as such. Sure some softwares have been tweaked for it (e.g. LinkedIn) but it would be a great niche for BP+WPMU if the theme developers kept such considerations in mind when designing the templates.

Gaz

p.s. – how do I demote BP to be a plugin and subservient to WPMU – I still can’t figure it out.

[Jeff Sayre]

Gaz-

Read this thread and see if it gives you an idea on how you can accomplish what you’re after:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/can-i-run-non-bp-theme-on-tld-and-bp-theme-on-subdomain-all-on-same-wpmu-install#post-26695

[tr123]

Hi, Does any one have any ideas of this please, or is this not easily possible?

Thank you

[Jeff Sayre]

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-forum-integration#post-23059

[gazouteast]

Maybe a better summary question would be – how can I make BP a sub-site of the main site?

Think about eBay and the eBay forums – the forums are nearly as heavily trafficked as the shopping pages, but they closetted away off on a sub site – that’s where I want BuddyPress to be.

Hope that’s a clearer picture?

Gaz

[Jeff Sayre]

I just changed the Password of my database at my hosting-provider.

…

I have changed my “wp-config.php” file and entered the new password.

…

Jus try to change the Password of your database and you will see this error-message within the “Forums”-page of your website.

Did you also change the DB password in your bb-config.php file as well?

/** MySQL database password */

define( 'BBDB_PASSWORD', 'xxxx' );

[abcde666]

sorry, this was a typo:

I am running:

WPMU 2.8.4a

BP 1.1.2

[Jeff Sayre]

I am using latest BP-version 1.0.3

The latest BP version is 1.1.2.

What version of WMPU are you running?

[abcde666]

I have changed my “wp-config.php” file and entered the new password.

But still the above described error-message is showing up with mentioning the file named “wp-db.php”.

I am using latest BP-version 1.0.3

Jus try to change the Password of your database and you will see this error-message within the “Forums”-page of your website.

[Michael Berra]

Andy, since your on the move in the forums – do you know what could be the reason for that (your plugin)?

[Michael Berra]

Thanks for the hint, Andy, but I tried that one (i remembered from older upgrades)

I just did it again, but still the error occurs…

[Andy Peatling]

In the group’s admin page, disable the forum, then re-enable it.

[Michael Berra]

Hmmmm – nobody else having this issue? I am having the exact same issues on two different installs… One subdomain and one subdirectories…

It’s pretty much a blocker, so I would welcome any more help!

Thanx already!

[Andy Peatling]

Don’t be fooled by the forums. Forums for software are always going to be full of people with problems, it’s just the nature of the beast. People who set up BuddyPress and are happy with it don’t post. People only come here when they have a problem.

Generally most of the issues brought up here are user/hosting created. If I see anything that I think is an actual bug, I investigate or ask for it to be added to trac. This is not a high percentage of threads.

BuddyPress is moving forward quite quickly, 1.1 broke a lot of early development because a lot of forward thinking changes were made. This is new software and it can’t be held back right out of the gate to support older code. Most of the plugins that are broken can be fixed with a few function changes.

I can’t speak for any other platforms, but remember, the rabbit never wins the race. Boonex/Dolphin is certainly not without its development problems.

If you’re looking for direction, then the roadmap is a good place to start. Or you can talk in IRC to people who are helping with development: #buddypress-dev on Freenode.

Best of all, start taking bugs and fixing them and submitting patches. If you’re not a developer then consider writing some documentation, or helping out in the forums with experiences. Community is the most important thing.

[gazouteast]

Hi all – I’m very pleased to say that the above fix appears to have been the root problem with avatar uploads and cropping – they work great now

Many thanks to all who contributed – perhaps the php readfile() function requirement should be added to the install readme? It’s save a lot of support topics appearing here in the forums.

Gaz

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

DB password is in wp-config.php. IIRC you may have issues with the changed database password if you’re still using BP <= 1.0.3.

[gazouteast]

OK – thanks all

I’m sorry if it appeared I abandoned ship – I went back to the beginning and uncovered an issue with WPMU that may be contributory …

Undocumented in the WPMU readme file and not specifically called out anywhere in their forums or Trac, WPMU requires that the PHP function readfile() be enabled – my hosts for some strange reason had it disabled. This meant that images in WPMU were not displaying onto blog posts in the edit screen or public pages. They’ve now fixed this and I’m about to try putting buddypress back into what is around the dozenth reinstall of WPMU.

The current WPMU reinstall is 100% vanilla with zero plugins or tweaks – not even an extra theme in the themes folder – so this will be the acid test of whether or not that was the issue.

Wish me luck – I’ll post back with results

Gaz

[abcde666]

I just changed the Password of my database at my hosting-provider.

Now I get the same error as mentioned above.

Warning: mysql_get_server_info(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /www/htdocs/w00xyz815z/wpmu/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1202

So what do I need to change in line 1202 within the file “wp-db.php” so that WPMU or BP will work ?

My website was running fine so far, I just have changed the database-Password and then I get this error…….

The error is showing at the following path of my website:

http://domain.com/forums

[Xevo]

Andy posted this on another forum earlier.

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( 'object=blogs&action=new_blog_comment' ) ) : ?>

[bpisimone]

I’m still trying to make this happen without a plugin: Now I am pretty certain this can be accomplished by using this

if ( bp_has_activities( 'type=sitewide&max=6&action=new_forum_topic' ) )

I still haven’t figured out though how only to filter out the title (plus link).

<?php if ( bp_has_activities( 'type=sitewide&max=10&action=new_forum_topic' ) ) : ?>



<ul class="activity-list">



<?php while ( bp_activities() ) : bp_the_activity(); ?>



<li class="<?php bp_activity_css_class() ?>">



<?php bp_activity_content() ?>



</li>



<?php endwhile; ?>



</ul>



<?php endif;?>

Maybe by modifying bp_activity_content?

Thanks people!

[abcde666]

@JJJ

many thanks for your feedback !

So looking at the current pages “Members” (testbp.org/members) and “Groups” (testbp.org/groups) , I am currently missing the features “newest”, “active” and “popular” at those pages.

We have this at the “Home”-page at the “members column” and also at the “groups column”, but why not having those features also at the “Group”-page and at the “Member”-page ? It would even make good sense there, as the number of listed Groups and listed Members at those pages is much higher.

So maybe you are considering similar stuff for the “Blogs”-page (testbp.org/blogs) ?

A user is rather interested to see “newest”, “active” and “popular” Blogs than a list of Blogs sorted by “A-B-C”. Having a list of Blogs being shown by “A-B-C” as we do have currently, the user needs to walk through a list of hundreds of Blogs in order to find the e.g. “most popular” Blog.

The same goes for Forums (testbp.org/forums): we currently see “6 Popular Group Forums”. Why not also showing “newest” and “active” Group-Forums within those 6 Group-Forums at the top of the page ?

Besides that: give the Admin the ability to make 1 Group-Forum within those 6 Group-Forums to be “sticky” ? See my TRAC-ticket: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/1240

Also sorting “alphabetically” just by “paging” would be fine, the “A-B-C”-tabs are not needed after all, as if somebody wants to search for all members starting with e.g. the letter “K”, he just performs a search by entering the letter “K” into the search-box.

BTW: I just tried what I have described above:

I entered the letter “K” into the search-box and searched for members.

The search-result is actually NOT showing members with the letter “K” (member-names showing in the search-result are actually NOT starting with letter “K” and have also NOT included the letter “K” in their name). Is this a bug ???

[Michael Berra]

Hi Jeff

so I am back and I tried your suggestion:

1. Deleted the old bb-tables

2. Deleted the new wp_bb tables

3. Deleted the old BB Install

4. Reintegrated the forum install (did it again)

BUT still does not work.

Posting in new groups that didn’t have the old forums activated works

Psoting in older groups that had the old forum activated still does NOT work

Any more ideas???

[courtneycoles27]

I would just like to thank you Trent and John James to this forum. The information given here is interesting and very helpful. Keep up the good work guys….

Courtney

Ballonfahrt

[abcde666]

just an idea:

why not having the “User-Blogs” sorted by “most popular blogs” like we have “most popular groups” , “most popular members” and “most popular forum topics” ?

Instead of having an alphabetical directory with “A-B-C”-tabs, why not just having the option to sort by “alphabetically”, “newest”, “active” and “popular” ?

[peterverkooijen]

@Chouf1, the code is not for uppercasing; it’s making sure firstname and lastname are stored consistently in the different places where WP/WPMU/BP stores names.

Why is it too much to ask for consistently, reliably stored firstname + lastname in the WordPress world? Uppercasing should be part that imho. It’s utterly ridiculous to have to do that in CSS. Is that even official CSS? Do all browsers support it?

In most software for grownups firstname and lastname fields are at the top of the members/users table, part of the core of the application, the heart of member registration and management. In the WP/WPMU/BP world it’s a messy afterthought, stored halfheartedly in three or four different locations, in different ways, without any synchronization between them. Aaarrrggghhh.

Before a WordPress user account is activated, it is stored in the wp_signups table; there’s a meta field storing various things. Have you checked if its that one?

That’s one of the two places where the lowercase version of the name is stored. My code above updates names with uppercase in the usermeta fields.

My question is which code stores them in xprofile or wp_signups. Where should I apply my nameize() function to get clean names in xprofile?

Cleaning them up before they’re stored in wp_signups would do the trick as well, because I think the xprofile data is taken from there. I don’t think the wp_signup data is used for anything else later, so it has a lower priority to me.

Edit: Of course I’m not trying to uppercase all chars of the name, just the first ones, as used to be custom in western culture. FYI, here’s the nameize function I use:

function nameize($str,$a_char = array("'","-"," ")){

//$str contains the complete raw name string

//$a_char is an array containing the characters we use as separators for capitalization. If you don't pass anything, there are three in there as default.

$string = strtolower($str);

foreach ($a_char as $temp){

$pos = strpos($string,$temp);

if ($pos){

//we are in the loop because we found one of the special characters in the array, so lets split it up into chunks and capitalize each one.

$mend = '';

$a_split = explode($temp,$string);

foreach ($a_split as $temp2){

//capitalize each portion of the string which was separated at a special character

$mend .= ucfirst($temp2).$temp;

}

$string = substr($mend,0,-1);

}

}

return ucfirst($string);

}

Edit2: The CSS solution only works on the first name. The last name still starts with lowercase. Any easy CSS trick for that? I don’t think so.

Apparently the same CSS trick is used in this forum, which would explain why my “username” – cough, spit – is displayed as ‘Peterverkooijen’ instead of ‘peterverkooijen’ as I had entered it. Why is that kind of mess considered acceptable?