[bbDev] Installation of this Forum

[Tinus Guichelaar]

Amen Derek.
When bbPress hits Beta, the first thing to do is start a Wiki.

2005/11/2, Derek Winterstien <wordpressforum at robotz.com>:
>
> I've read some crazy stuff on this mailing list since I joined. Ufuk is
> a phpbb expert yet he feels the software is too complex. Ivan demands
> help in broken English, which may be perception rather than rudeness,
> difficult to say.
>
> The thing is, I see a lot of newbie level questions which supports
> Sannamaria's point that bbpress is perhaps not the appropriate choice
> for some at this juncture. It is barely documented and largely incomplete.
>
> You are going to want to have a strong background in PHP and basic MySQL
> knowledge before attempting to use this software; at least for now. In
> due time it will be more developed and user friendly with actual
> documentation.
>
> IMHO, the only real motivation to use phpbb over the vast sea of free
> forum software is to share the users table with your WordPress site.
> Simply sharing theme / styles.css doesn't really justify the selection
> because many other forums would integrate as well as bbPress. It took
> some hacking to get the theme look to extend to my bbPress site, this
> didn't work "out of the box."
>
> My advice: use bbPress if you want to share a users table with your
> WordPress site, you know PHP well, and you have SQL knowledge.
>
> Otherwise, save yourself a headache and try something easier.
>
> I've been going through the bbPress code quite extensively (mostly to
> get it to work, which I have done successfully) and have discovered
> several undocumented things that were obviously intentional by the
> developer but many users are unaware of.
>
> Wouldn't it be great if we had a bbPress Wiki so we could contribute
> documentation? The first contribution might be a good installation
> guide including basic hacks to address common configuration issues.
>
> Etiquette closure: I apologize to those I offend, and thank those that
> will agree. Live long and prosper.
>
>
>
> ufuk polat wrote:
> > i think im a phpbb expert however i need something more simple. Also i
> > couldn't understand the structure of the template in wordpress thats
> > why i couldn't integrate it with bbpress. Does the images are kept in
> > the css file? and how is that?
> >
> > On 11/1/05, Tinus Guichelaar <t.guichelaar at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>You guys should start with this tutorial:
> >> http://www.sitepoint.com/article/build-a-phpbb-forum
> >>
> >> BBPress is probably not the right software right now. Come back when
> it's
> >>in Beta
> >>
> >>2005/11/1, ufuk polat <ufukpolat at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >>>i still couldn't integrate it to my wordpress i copied the template
> >>>files it didn't work hhave a look at www.rcliyiz.biz/blog<http://www.rcliyiz.biz/blog>and
> >>>www.rcliyiz.biz/blog/forum <http://www.rcliyiz.biz/blog/forum>
> >
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