[bbDev] BB & WP together

[Michael D Adams]

You shouldn't be changing anything in bb-settings.php.  Everything  
you'd need to change there is wrapped with if statements, so you can  
preempt those settings by setting them in bb-config.php.

Currently, combining cookies is only easy if your WP site and your bb  
site are on the same domain (i.e. NOT different subdomains).  My  
setup is as follows:

http://example.com/ - Current WP SVN (it should work for WP1.5, but I  
haven't tried it)
http://example.com/bb/ - Current bb SVN
My WP install has $table_prefix = 'wp_', my bb install has  
$table_prefix = 'bb_'.

In bb-config.php, I pasted the following below the gmt_offset line  
and above the Stop Editing line.

define('CUSTOM_USER_TABLE', 'wp_users');

$myhash = md5('http://example.com'); // No trailing slash.  This  
should be WP's 'siteurl', which can be easily found by browsing to wp- 
admin/options.php.

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser_' . $myhash;
$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass_' . $myhash;
$bb->cookiepath = '/';

My bbPress site now draws users from my WP tables and logging in/out  
works seamlessly since the cookies are the same.

You could also define CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE.  You'll have to decide  
what's best for your particular setup.  WP1.5 doesn't have a usermeta  
table, so if you're trying to do WP1.5+bb, you'll want to keep  
drawing usermeta from bb.

Other things that should be possible that I haven't tried:
     Combine multiple bb sites by customizing one site's users and  
usermeta tables and its cookies.  See bb-settings.php for what bb  
cookies normally look like.
     Combine WP and bb by customizing WP's cookies and users and  
usermeta tables so that WP draws from bb. (only possible with current  
SVN of WP)
     Combine multiple WPs by customizing one install's cookies and  
user tables.

Those last two possibilities won't be discussed here, though; they're  
WP issues.

Oh - and bbPress is _still_ alpha software.  Things may/likely will  
break.  Don't take it live or meld it with a live WP install unless  
you're willing to risk all your data going away.  (The same could be  
said of the current SVN copy of WP.)

Michael
--mdawaffe

On Aug 5, 2005, at 8:25 AM, Jaxia Kiley wrote:

> Hey Everyone,
>
> I see that bbPress and WP are now integrated.
> However, I cannot find any information on how to do
> it.  Do I add my WP user table to the bbpress db?
>
> I tried to do that, but it doesn't seem to work.  I
> was able to get it installed and add forums using it's
> own user table.
>
> Once I get this working, I will write it up and try to
> help you guys with documentation.
>
> Thanks!
> ~Jaxia