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Installation Basics

First thing that you will need to do is install Addicted Live Search and make sure its working on your blog. Note: that this plugin adds the prototype javascript to the header. If you already are using the prototype package, comment our line 12 from live_search.php which says

echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="' . get_bloginfo('siteurl') . '/wp-content/plugins/addicted_live_search/js/prototype.js"></script>' . "\n";

To complete the hack you will also need to have the following things.

1. – The web path to the files in the plugin directory and the files in it
2. – Basics of XHTML, PHP, JS

You can download the changed files from here. If you need explanation on the changes or customization. Read on.

Plugin Basics

The live search plugin has three files that are needed to be hacked
search_results.php - integrate bbpress
js\live_search.js - fix a couple of quirks
css\live_search.css - if you want to customize the plugin


Lets start with search_results.php

Hack the Results

Lets open search_results.php. Between lines 13 and 33, bbPress will fetch the titles matching the query, titles with recent posts matching the query and topics of relevant posts with matching content. If you don’t want any of these to show up in the results just comment out the respective query. Meat of the search is in here.

After retrieving the topics, they are displayed by the topics loop between lines 50 and 61. You can also show the results individually for titles, recent posts and relevant posts. For that adjust the queries on lines 13 and 23 and then run a loop for them.

Uncomment the lines between lines 63 and 65 to show a close results link under the results. In some cases, the results fluctuate before disappearing. If you are having that problem, replace

onclick="ls.close(); return false;"

with

onclick="Field.clear('s'); return false;"

Showing the Results

The plugin by default adds the results under the search box. But sometimes thats not where you would want the results to be. To place it anywhere else comment out the line 10 from js/live_search.js which looks like this

<code>new Insertion.Bottom(ls.search_form, '<div id="addicted_results"></div>');</code>

Now just place the following div tag anywhere you want.

<div id="addicted_results"></div>

Customizing the Results Display

Edit the css/live_search.css file to customize your display.

Adding links to Blog Search and Forum Search

You can add links to blog search and forum search on the search results. here is the code that you will add to get the link to the blog results.

<a href="<?php bb_option('uri'); ?>search.php?q=<?php echo $_GET['s']; ?>">» more results</a>

And here is the code to get the link to the forum results.

<a href="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>/?s=<?php echo $_GET['s']; ?>">» more results</a>

With the redesign of my site I have taken the integration of wordpress and bbpress a step beyond theme integration. This time I wanted to reuse the plugins for wordpress and also have forums showup with wordpress. I received requests from many of you about how to do it. Also the previous post about the integration is sort outdated because of the consequent releases of bbpress.

For the purpose of this article I am assuming that the bbpress installed in a subdirectory of wordpress

File: bbpress/config.php

Add the following code to the top of config.php

define('WP_BB', true);
if ( !defined('DB_NAME') ) {
require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/../wp-config.php');
}

Define the following variables.


$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp__'; // your wordpress db prefix is
$bb->wp_home = 'http://www.yourwebsite.com';
$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://www.yourwebsite.com';


File: wordpress/wp-config.php

In this file the last statement is which says

require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');

After this statement (before the php closing tag – ?>) add the following statements

if ( !defined('BBDB_NAME') )
require_once(ABSPATH.'bbpress/bb-load.php');

replace bbpress with whatever the directory bbPress is in.

bbPress Plugin: Display Name

This plugin ensures that the name shown is the display name from the wordpress rather than the username.
Download, Upload and activate this plugin in bbPress.

bbPress Plugin: Wordpress Integration

This plugin ensures that your existing wordpress users can log into your bbPress install.
Download, Upload and activate this plugin in bbPress.

Wordpress Plugin: bbPress Integration

This plugin makes suer that the users created in wordpress have valid roles in bbpress.
Download, Upload and activate this plugin in wordpress. After activating this plugin, go to Plugins » bbPress and enter the bbPress database prefix and update.

Theme: Template Integration

Download this file and drop the created directory in your my-templates directory. All this theme does is takes that header and footer from the wordpress theme and uses it.

Note 1: You will still need to add some more css styling for the forum contents.
Note 2: This theme does assumes that the footer and header will bring in any sidebar that you need automatically. If thats not the case you will have to add get_sidebar(); wherever needed.

Enjoy the bliss

That should do it. Now all your plugins and functions in wordpress should work with bbPress and also all the functions in bbpress should work with wordpress. You can all any of the bbpress functions in the wordpress themes.