[bbDev] setting admin user

[Thomas Leavitt]

Whoopee! It worked like a charm (downloaded it off the changeset page,
dropped my tables, ran it). Just like WordPress (hehe).

Now, am I still limited to directly editing the database to create new
forums? Don't see an interface that will permit this otherwise.

Also: is there a specification for the CSS file you're interested in
having? If so, I can have my wife, who is a professional web designer,
create at least one, if not several, CSS files.

Also, having upgraded through an ungodly number of WordPress variations
dating back to b2, I'd say a critical architectural issue would be to
create some way of cleaning separating content and code, such that she
doesn't have to essentially redo all her work every time a new version
comes out.

Also, it would be nice if you could avoid drastically changing things
from version to version such that it takes significant amounts of time
and energy to figure out where the user interface/presentation needs to
be altered in order to do it.

As a result of these issues, I have upwards of two dozen b2 and
wordpress installations scattered on my server, in many different
versions.

Also, it would be cool if, again, there was a way to have a single
version of the bbPress code that front ends to different user
interfaces, and backends to different databases... it is a huge
maintenance nightmare to have twenty different pieces of the same set of
code, in varying versions, scattered across as many different sites,
some of them under my control, and some of them on our web
design/hosting client's sites.

Regards,
Thomas Leavitt

On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 01:04 -0700, Michael D Adams wrote:
> The warnings I think I've doused ( http://bbpress.automattic.com/ 
> changeset/261 ).  You weren't able to get an admin account because  
> the upgrade script is only that: it expects some previous data from  
> which to upgrade.
> 
> The new install script ought to work.  You'll have to drop all your  
> tables first, though.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Aug 20, 2005, at 11:30 PM, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
> 
> > ... as far as I can tell, no combination of nightly build,  
> > installation
> > instructions, trouble tickets, or mailing list postings can combine to
> > give me a means of getting a working installation with an  
> > administrative
> > user.
> >
> > I downloaded the August 21 build, ran update-schema, everything seemed
> > to work... I went ahead and uncommented "upgrade_150", got two error
> > messages:
> >
> > The first one was identical to the line below, but a warning for a
> > different foreach... (sorry I didn't copy it)
> > Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
> > in /domains/bbpress.thomasleavitt.org/www/bbpress/bb-admin/upgrade.php
> > on line 208
> > Done translating from user_type to role
> > Done deleting user_type
> >
> > I then looked in the database, and it seemed like there were less  
> > lines
> > (3) in user_meta than the previous build...
> >
> > I then registered a user, but still didn't seen any indication of
> > administrative privileges. It occured to me to run upgrade.php again,
> > which produced just one error message this time (see above).
> >
> > A copy I'm working with, pretty sophisticated set of folks, wanted  
> > me to
> > recommend forum software... I thought that it might be cool to point
> > thme to bbpress, as they're the types who might be interested in  
> > hacking
> > away and contributing something back to an open source project, but I
> > guess it isn't there yet, eh?
> >
> > In the meantime, do y'all have any recommendations for forum software
> > you like (other than bbPress, of course)?
> >
> > I'm not a major hacker, but I might be able to contribute... at least
> > with testing, maybe even simple bug fixes, etc. How does one get to  
> > that
> > point?
> >
> > Thomas
> 
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