Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings

[AzzX]

Working great as far as I can see with Wordpress 2.7 - still updating the site here www.ozsource.org if you want to see it working.

Thanks for all your hard work Jafo. Great Stuff.

[larks]

This plugin seems like exactly what I need.
However, the only part of it that I really need to function, is syncing the users so they only have to login once.

If I start out in the forum, then click a link that takes me to the WP blog I can view the page just fine. But when I click on comments to try to leave a comment a "404 page cannot be found" error shows up.
Any help would be appreciated.

the blog site is: www.fatguysports.com/wp (because it's still in development, when it's finished it will move to the root) , forum - www.fatguysports.com/forum

[wtb]

I also only want it bridge users/groups as I will not be posting to my forum or posting comments outside the standard Wordpress comment system. How would I go about this?

Your installation instructions tell me to do all kinds of things and enter all kinds of data but it's overkill for what I want this to do.

I simply want people to be able to leave comments or post on our community blog (based on their vB group).

Any assistance would be appreciated!

[AzzX]

I also only want it bridge users/groups as I will not be posting to my forum or posting comments outside the standard Wordpress comment system. How would I go about this?

Your installation instructions tell me to do all kinds of things and enter all kinds of data but it's overkill for what I want this to do.

I simply want people to be able to leave comments or post on our community blog (based on their vB group).

Any assistance would be appreciated!

The readme explains everything. Just ignore the comment replacement part of the Readme as it says. It will only map your primary vb usergroup by the way.

[pericolosogr]

Is there any way to display online users (both from vbulletin and wordpress pages) in my homepage (which is the blog) based on cookies from vbulletin:)?

[AzzX]

Lesterchans WP-UserOnline 2.40 should do it. http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/ Some great wordpress plugins there.

[XManuX]

Unexpected charset conversion pbr between Wordpress and vBulletin.
(I use Wordpress 2.7 but had also the pbr with 2.6.)

vBulletin (running for years) is using ISO 8859-1 and i had trouble with charset when publishing Wordpress post to vbulletin. Wordpress was configured for UTF-8 and i had to convert WP tables from UTF-8 to ISO and to set the charest to use into both wp-config.php and WP settings\reading\Charset.

Now everything is *almost* running fine :
- Creating a new post in Wordpress
- Publishing it in Wordpress
- Checking the posted version on vBulletin -> Characters with accents are OK "éàèç..."

But something unexpected happens when editing Wordpress posts :
- Editing a previously published post
- doing some changes to the post (including Title and Post content itself) & publishing it again
- Post's characters are OK into WP, Post's title is OK in vB but characters with accents are not showing anymore into post's content in vB.

E.g. :
- Creating a WP post with title="testing (êçà)" and content="testing (êçà)" -> Ok in vBulletin.
- Opening this post into WP and modifying it : title="testing (êçà) - edit" and content="testing (êçà) - edit" -> title will display correctly into vB but post's content will display "testing (?) - edit"

Copy/paste of this text in a new post and publishing it works. editing a post doesn't.

Any ideas ?

[CKDexterHaven]

The installation instructions say:

"YOU MUST go to the options page before you do anything else. Click Options, then "Vbridge Options"."

I couldn't find this but did some hunting. You must click "Setting" and there you will see a vBridge Settings link. That is where options are - at least in this current version of WP.

[roots549]

KSB,

I am in the same boat.

vbull 3.7.X
WP 2.7

The first part of the comment addition, adding code to index, single and page .php files was easy enough, but the second part, where comment code needs to be changed to provided, I cannot id the appropriate code to replace.

I am using the wp default theme.

Thanks!
eric

[Panagioths]

Same here. No luck finding the appropriate code to replace...

[AzzX]

Use firebug to locate the code involved:
http://getfirebug.com/

[hydn]

Great Mod.

Two quick questions.

1) Is it possible when a member logs in via the vb forums that if he goes to WP page it will show him as logged in there also?

2) Would it be possible to show PMs count (read and unread) on WP

[Panagioths]

Use firebug to locate the code involved:
http://getfirebug.com/
Did you find it?

[Shaliza]

Does it work with Wordpress 2.7?

[skariko]

Does it work with Wordpress 2.7?

i have vb 3.7.4 and wp 2.7 and it works.

[hydn]

I have the same code as below. Any help? It's been 2 weeks since OP posted the request.

I don't seem to have the same strings in the Readme on my template for the comment system. Anyone wanna take crack at telling me what strings I'm suppose to replace?? I'd really appreciate it....

index.php


<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="entry">
<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php $firstpostquery = new WP_Query('showposts=1'); ?>
<?php while($firstpostquery->have_posts()) : $firstpostquery->the_post(); $firstpost = $post->ID; ?>

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<small>Written by <?php the_author() ?> on <abbr title="<?php the_time('Y-m-dTH:i:sO'); ?>"><?php unset($previousday); printf(__('%1$s – %2$s'), the_date('', '', '', false), get_the_time()) ?></abbr> - <?php if(function_exists('the_views')) { the_views(); } ?> </small><br /><br />
<div class="line"></div>


<div class="postbg"><?php the_content('Read more &raquo;'); ?></div>

<br />
<?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?>Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?> <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments ?', '1 Comment ?', '% Comments ?'); ?><br />

<?php adsensem_ad('banner'); ?>

</div>

<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

<?php $count=0; while (have_posts()) : the_post(); if(!($firstpost == $post->ID)) : ?>
<?php
### Vbridge Call
$vbridge = Comment_Handler($post->ID);
###
?>

<?php if($count % 2 == 0) echo '<div class="left">'; else echo '<div class="right">'; ?>

<div class="excerpt" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<small><abbr title="<?php the_time('Y-m-dTH:i:sO'); ?>"><?php unset($previousday); printf(__('%1$s – %2$s'), the_date('', '', '', false), get_the_time()) ?></abbr> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>
<div class="clear"></div>

<p><?php the_content_rss('', TRUE, '', 10) ; ?></p><div class="clear"></div>

<span class="smallies"><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments ?', '1 Comment ?', '% Comments ?'); ?></span>
</div>
</div>
<?php if($count % 2 != 0) echo '<div class="clear"></div>';?>

<?php $count++; endif; ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>



<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
</div>

<?php else : ?>
<div class="post">
<h2 class="center search">Atlantic Anime could not find anything!</h2>
<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

</div>
<div>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/topbar.php'); ?>
<div>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar1.php'); ?>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php'); ?>
</div>
</div>
<br clear="all" />
<?php adsensem_ad('bottom'); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
<!-- 60fe2dc8c122376d6564167ddb13db59mochiads.com -->


comment.php


<?php // Do not delete these lines
if ('comments.php' == basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']))
die ('Please do not load this page directly. Thanks!');

if (!empty($post->post_password)) { // if there's a password
if ($_COOKIE['wp-postpass_' . COOKIEHASH] != $post->post_password) { // and it doesn't match the cookie
?>

<p class="nocomments">This post is password protected. Enter the password to view comments.</p>

<?php
return;
}
}

/* This variable is for alternating comment background */
$oddcomment = 'class="alt" ';
?>

<!-- You can start editing here. -->

<?php if ($comments) : ?>
<h3 id="comments"><?php comments_number('No Comments', 'One Comment', '% Comments' );?> to “<?php the_title(); ?>”</h3>

<ol class="commentlist">

<?php foreach ($comments as $comment) : ?>

<li <?php echo $oddcomment; ?>id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
<?php comment_author_link() ?> Says:
<?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>
<em>Your comment is awaiting moderation.</em>
<?php endif; ?>
<br />

<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" title=""><?php comment_date('F jS, Y') ?> at <?php comment_time() ?></a> <?php edit_comment_link('edit','&nbsp;&nbsp;',''); ?></small>

<?php comment_text() ?>

</li>

<?php
/* Changes every other comment to a different class */
$oddcomment = ( empty( $oddcomment ) ) ? 'class="alt" ' : '';
?>

<?php endforeach; /* end for each comment */ ?>

</ol>

<?php else : // this is displayed if there are no comments so far ?>

<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>
<!-- If comments are open, but there are no comments. -->

<?php else : // comments are closed ?>
<!-- If comments are closed. -->
<p class="nocomments">Comments are closed.</p>

<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>


<?php if ('open' == $post->comment_status) : ?>

<h3 id="respond">Leave a Comment</h3>

<?php if ( get_option('comment_registration') && !$user_ID ) : ?>
<p>You must be <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php echo urlencode(get_permalink()); ?>">logged in</a> to post a comment.</p>
<?php else : ?>

<form action="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform">

<?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>

<p>Logged in as <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity; ?></a>. <a href="<?php echo get_option('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout" title="Log out of this account">Logout &raquo;</a></p>

<?php else : ?>

<p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?>" size="22" tabindex="1" />
<label for="author"><small>Name <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>

<p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo $comment_author_email; ?>" size="22" tabindex="2" />
<label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published) <?php if ($req) echo "(required)"; ?></small></label></p>

<p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>" size="22" tabindex="3" />
<label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>

<?php endif; ?>

<!--<p><small><strong>XHTML:</strong> You can use these tags: <code><?php echo allowed_tags(); ?></code></small></p>-->

<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>

<p><input name="submit" type="image" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/submit_button.jpg" id="submit" tabindex="5"/>
<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
</p>
<?php do_action('comment_form', $post->ID); ?>

</form>

<?php endif; // If registration required and not logged in ?>

<?php endif; // if you delete this the sky will fall on your head ?>

[hydn]

The readme instructions seem outdated.

But requirements are:
Stable Wordpress Version greater than or equal to 2.5.

None of my wp 2.7 codes changes seem to match.

[Panagioths]

Can someone guide us through?

[AzzX]

Make sure you are editing your template files not the wordpress php files.

[welovehiphop]

None of my 2.7 codes seem to match either

[roots549]

I think we are all OK up until part two of "IF YOU WANT TO USE VB For comments:" from the readme.

From there!

Code to swap out is NOT the same in all themes.

Using the default theme, line 34 of the index.php file. Swap that out with code provided in the readme.

The code to swap out looks like this:

<?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?> <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?>

With the classic theme it is line 23 of the index.php file, and there it reads identical to the content of the readme file.

In a custom theme I have the code is also in the index.php file, reads identical to the code in the default theme, the code above.

woohoo!
eric

[welovehiphop]

love the mod, and I want to use VB for comments as well.
Do I disable the comments on WP after inserting the codes?

[welovehiphop]

Also, Im inserting these in the vbulletin or wordpress templates? I have the new blog posts showing up in the forum, but am having a time getting the comments to work. What am I doing wrong?

[slinky]

Here is an interesting question. I'd like to use this modification on Wordpress MU but my site will only have one user table. I have multiple "blogs" but only for the admin user and nobody else. I just want to have the user directory in sync and don't plan on offering blogs to any of my users. Has anyone been able to successfully install this with MU installed with only the main user table?

Actually, I have gotten it to work. The only problem I'm having is that when the plugin is enabled, you can't login to WP and keep getting redirected to the forums URL.

[Khashyar]

Excellent Plug-in, Jafo, thank you for creating and sharing it.

XMan, I am receiving the same issue as you are.

When posting a blog article for the first time into VB, the encoding is fine.

But then, when editing a WP article, all of the characters do not translate to the edited version of the blog post in VB.

When WP was UTF-8, and VB was ISO 8859-1, question marks ("), the and symbol (&), and apostrophes (') converted to "?" in VB when I edited a WP post in WP.

So, I decided to change both WP and VB encoding to UTF-8 (since I have read that this is more universally used), and now edited WP posts post all characters OK, except for the "&" symbol, which displays in the edited VB post as "&amp;"

Again, I really appreciate the Plug-in, and this is going to be very useful for both my WP and VB installations.

I haven't activated the User Bridge or WP comment bridge yet, but I will try to activate and test this within a few days.

For now, I love the fact that my WP blogs post in VB, and that when I edit a WP blog post, the edits appear in the same VB post as well, without impacting VB replies to that bridged WP article.

Khashyar

Unexpected charset conversion pbr between Wordpress and vBulletin.
(I use Wordpress 2.7 but had also the pbr with 2.6.)

vBulletin (running for years) is using ISO 8859-1 and i had trouble with charset when publishing Wordpress post to vbulletin. Wordpress was configured for UTF-8 and i had to convert WP tables from UTF-8 to ISO and to set the charest to use into both wp-config.php and WP settings\reading\Charset.

Now everything is *almost* running fine :
- Creating a new post in Wordpress
- Publishing it in Wordpress
- Checking the posted version on vBulletin -> Characters with accents are OK "????..."

But something unexpected happens when editing Wordpress posts :
- Editing a previously published post
- doing some changes to the post (including Title and Post content itself) & publishing it again
- Post's characters are OK into WP, Post's title is OK in vB but characters with accents are not showing anymore into post's content in vB.

E.g. :
- Creating a WP post with title="testing (???)" and content="testing (???)" -> Ok in vBulletin.
- Opening this post into WP and modifying it : title="testing (???) - edit" and content="testing (???) - edit" -> title will display correctly into vB but post's content will display "testing (?) - edit"

Copy/paste of this text in a new post and publishing it works. editing a post doesn't.

Any ideas ?

[Candrews9]

I have installed Wordpress and vBulletin in two different MySQL databases. WordPress is ver 5.0, and vBulletin is sql ver 4.1.

To make this work, do I have to combine the two databases? Any tips on how to go about doing that? Which database should be the combined one?

Thank you!

[Khashyar]

Hi Cadre,

I have wordpress and VB in two seperate MYSQL databases (I believe that is standard)...

As long as the databases are in the same domain, then you should be fine.

It's a pretty easy install.

Khashyar

I have installed Wordpress and vBulletin in two different MySQL databases. WordPress is ver 5.0, and vBulletin is sql ver 4.1.

To make this work, do I have to combine the two databases? Any tips on how to go about doing that? Which database should be the combined one?

Thank you!

[Khashyar]

Hi Everyone,

Again, I appreciate the effort that went into this plugin, and that Jafo is sharing it with all of us.

Everything seemed to be working fine with VB Bridge installed, and WP posts are posting correctly into the VB forum I chose.

However, today, I just noticed what I think is a bug: I also have "My Category order" plugin installed in WordPress (so that I can change the order of my categories in WP), but when I tried to change the order of categories again (after VB Bridge was installed), I received this error in Wordpress:

Table 'dalailamaforum.wp_terms' doesn't exist

The "My Category Order" Plugin should be accessing the DB table "wordpress.wp_terms," and so it looks like the WP/VB Bridge changed the database name reference in Wordpress to the VB database name without changing the database name to "wordpress."

I "Deactivated" the WP/VB bridge plugin to see if it was the casue of the error, and the error went away when I did.

My temporary work-around is when I want to change the order of categories, I deactive the WP/VB Bridge plugin, change the category order through "My Category Order" plug-in, and then reactivate the WP/VB Bridge again.

So, the two errors that I have found so far are:

1) WP/VB Bridge changes the reference to the database name in Wordpress (to the VB database name) without changing it back to the Wordpress database name after the WP/VB Bridge plugin is finished with its process.

2) When a post is edited in Wordpress, some characters do not import correctly into the corresponding VB post.

I do appreciate this plugin, and thank anyone who can help find fixes to these two bugs.

Khashyar

[AzzX]

Hi Everyone,

Again, I appreciate the effort that went into this plugin, and that Jafo is sharing it with all of us.

Everything seemed to be working fine with VB Bridge installed, and WP posts are posting correctly into the VB forum I chose.

However, today, I just noticed what I think is a bug: I also have "My Category order" plugin installed in WordPress (so that I can change the order of my categories in WP), but when I tried to change the order of categories again (after VB Bridge was installed), I received this error in Wordpress:

The "My Category Order" Plugin should be accessing the DB table "wordpress.wp_terms," and so it looks like the WP/VB Bridge changed the database name reference in Wordpress to the VB database name without changing the database name to "wordpress."


Using the exact same wordpress plugin here www.ozsource.org but not experiencing that issue. A strange one.

[Khashyar]

That is odd, Azz.

I haven't modified any code in either software.

I wonder if this particular error is a result of the WP theme that I chose (I believe that each theme has its own corresponding .php files.

Are you experiencing the same edit issue that Xman and I are where some characters don't migrate correctly to VB?

Khashyar

QUOTE=AzzX;1698889]Using the exact same wordpress plugin here www.ozsource.org but not experiencing that issue. A strange one.[/QUOTE]

[itsbobtista]

So, does this not work for WordPress MU, or is it just not supported?

[dblaze]

I have it working on my site http://www.onthexbox.com :P

[oldford]

Part of the problem seems to be something fundamental... As it usually is ;)

Everything in the configuration seems to be set up and working correctly, new entries are showing up in the designated vB forum as they should. Users logged into vB are able to access WP as they should and accounts are being created in the WP users correctly.

But when I create an entry logged into vB, the link to the author profile
<?php
if ($vbridge[id] > 0) {
?>
<a href=<?php echo get_option('vbb_VBURL') ?>/member.php?u=<?php echo $vbridge[thread_starter] ?>><?php the_author() ?></a>

<?php
}
else {
the_author();
}
?>

doesn't happen. Instead the else kicks in and I just get the author's name. If I force the evaluation by changing it to <?php
if (1 > 0) {
?>
<a href=<?php echo get_option('vbb_VBURL') ?>/member.php?u=<?php echo $vbridge[thread_starter] ?>><?php the_author() ?></a>

them I get a link: http://www.ikeafans.com/forums/member.php?u=
:confused:
Same exact issue here. Everything else on my install works great (thanks Jafo232!) but I can't insert an author link per the same problem described above.

[AzzX]

That is odd, Azz.

I haven't modified any code in either software.

I wonder if this particular error is a result of the WP theme that I chose (I believe that each theme has its own corresponding .php files.

Are you experiencing the same edit issue that Xman and I are where some characters don't migrate correctly to VB?

Khashyar

I get the character issue if I re-edit the Wordpress post, though if I do I have just been cutting and pasting the post into wordpress if need be. I usually like the vb post to contain extra info as well.

[skariko]

i think it doesn't work on vb 3.8 :)
it give me 404 page when i try to logout from wordpress website.

[slinky]

So, does this not work for WordPress MU, or is it just not supported?

It depends. If you're doing blogs by more than 1 user it definitely wont work. If you read the read me he says it will never work with MU. I only use the user bridge portion since I run multiple blogs from only one user.

[MadsK]

Will this one work for the newly released 3.8 or do we have to wait for it to be updated?

[skariko]

Will this one work for the newly released 3.8 or do we have to wait for it to be updated?

I've tryed to upgrade to the VB 3.8 but it give me an 404 error when i try to logout from the wordpress website.. so i think it's good wait for a new version :D

[MadsK]

I've tryed to upgrade to the VB 3.8 but it give me an 404 error when i try to logout from the wordpress website.. so i think it's good wait for a new version :D

Ok! Others who have tried?

Else we must hope an updated version will be released soon! :)

[MrLuck]

I just recently installed this add on (didnt update the step to use VB for comments yet) and I was sent a message from a guy saying he was not able to register. So I gave it a run myself, and I could not register a new account on the forums anymore either.

The forum is located here http://vetzballin.com/forums

Right after you input your date of birth and go to accept the TOS is says "You have left a required field blank." But there are no fields other than clicking the check box which is being done.

Can anyone give this a look and let me know what happened?

[vsumargo]

First, thank you for this great plugins!

When i integrated the plugins to wordpress, i didn't map the wordpress administrator usergroup to vbulletin administrator usergroup.
Now the problem i'm facing is, i cannot enter my wordpress admin dashboard. The admin login i'm using to vbulletin work, but it gave me "wordpress editor dashboard" for admin.

I still have another wordpress login which has administrator right. How to delete this bridge database and start over? I wish to map the word administrator usergroup to vbulletin administrator usergroup.

Thanks

[skariko]

If anyone is interested i've solved the problem changing this line:

echo "<script> location.href = \"" . get_option('vbb_VBURL') . '/login.php?do=logout&logouthash=' . $vbulletin->userinfo[logouthash] ."\"; </script>"; exit;

to this:

echo "<script> location.href = \"" . get_option('vbb_VBURL') . 'login.php?do=logout&logouthash=' . $vbulletin->userinfo[logouthash] ."\"; </script>"; exit;

[MadsK]

If anyone is interested i've solved the problem changing this line:

echo "<script> location.href = \"" . get_option('vbb_VBURL') . '/login.php?do=logout&logouthash=' . $vbulletin->userinfo[logouthash] ."\"; </script>"; exit;

to this:

echo "<script> location.href = \"" . get_option('vbb_VBURL') . 'login.php?do=logout&logouthash=' . $vbulletin->userinfo[logouthash] ."\"; </script>"; exit;

So now it works with VB 3.8? As far as you know?

[skariko]

So now it works with VB 3.8? As far as you know?

Yes, for me is all ok (with this small modification).
I have Wordpress 2.7 and VBulletin 3.8 installed and the bridge works.. i don't use the 'posting' but i use only the bridge user and it all works :)

[MadsK]

Sounds great. I'll be using both 2.7 and 3.8 for my new website and only using it for the user stuff not posting so.

Thanks for the modification :D

[Shaliza]

That's good to know. I was really only trying to merge users. That's the biggest deal here, so thanks for that small mod.

[MadsK]

I've just switched host and now i get this problem everytime i turn on auto integration. I can turn the plug in on all right.

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/swtorco1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 454
cannot load /usr/local/apache/htdocs/home/swtorco1/public_html/forum/global.php. You should check your path!

So i uncommented and wrote in the relative path $vwd = '/home/swtorco1/public_html/forum';

but the problem still persists. I don't know why it goes out and gets /usr/local/apache/htdocs - i haven't specified that anywhere. Can someone help me?

[tafreeh]

does it work wid wp2.7 and vb 3.8 ?
if not can some1 update dis please?

[PGP]

If anyone is interested i've solved the problem changing this line:

echo "<script> location.href = \"" . get_option('vbb_VBURL') . '/login.php?do=logout&logouthash=' . $vbulletin->userinfo[logouthash] ."\"; </script>"; exit;

to this:

echo "<script> location.href = \"" . get_option('vbb_VBURL') . 'login.php?do=logout&logouthash=' . $vbulletin->userinfo[logouthash] ."\"; </script>"; exit;

The right is to change
echo "<script> location.href = \"" . get_option('vbb_VBURL') . '/login.php?do=logout&logouthash=' . $vbulletin->userinfo[logouthash] ."\"; </script>"; exit;
to this
echo "<script> location.href = \"http://" . get_option('vbb_VBURL') . '/login.php?do=logout&logouthash=' . $vbulletin->userinfo[logouthash] ."\"; </script>"; exit;
This will solve '404 error' problem if you specify you forum URL in settings without http://

P.S. VB ver 3.8.*

[skariko]

The right is to change
echo "<script> location.href = \"" . get_option('vbb_VBURL') . '/login.php?do=logout&logouthash=' . $vbulletin->userinfo[logouthash] ."\"; </script>"; exit;
to this
echo "<script> location.href = \"http://" . get_option('vbb_VBURL') . '/login.php?do=logout&logouthash=' . $vbulletin->userinfo[logouthash] ."\"; </script>"; exit;
This will solve '404 error' problem if you specify you forum URL in settings without http://

P.S. VB ver 3.8.*

I try this but the link became:

http://http//www.etcetcetc

and it goes to a 404 page :)

[rcadden]

I'm getting a vBulletinHook error, and I've tried uncommenting the line in the plugin, no dice. This is for cross-posting from WP2.7 to Vbulletin 3.8

Edit: had to reactivate the plugin in Wordpress first. D'oh!

[Shaliza]

This is strange. I could make posts just fine & they showed up on the forum, but after I checked auto-integrate, I tried to make a new post & this came up:

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 454
cannot load /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/xxxx/global.php. You should check your path!

The bold x's is the forum path I had set up. How do I fix this properly? The path must be right somehow if I was able to post before turning on auto-integrate.

[rcadden]

This is strange. I could make posts just fine & they showed up on the forum, but after I checked auto-integrate, I tried to make a new post & this came up:

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 454
cannot load /home/xxx/public_html/xxx/xxxx/global.php. You should check your path!

The bold x's is the forum path I had set up. How do I fix this properly? The path must be right somehow if I was able to post before turning on auto-integrate.

Interesting, I didn't change anything and it integrated just fine for me. Hmmm...

[Shaliza]

I tried to make the global paths absolute, but no luck.

[MadsK]

I got this to work with the path problem


REPLACE all instances of

chdir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . get_option('vbb_VBRPATH'));

WITH

chdir('/yourpath/path');
$vwd='/yourpath/path'';

This did it for me!

[TyPenn613]

I'm sure this is a dumb question, but I'm never the best when it comes to this stuff. I'm trying to integrate comments between VB and WP as well. I read in the Read Me about editing the templates. My dumb question is, where are these templates? I have found a number of files with the names specified, but none of them have the lines of code mentioned in the Read Me. Thanks guys.

[vsumargo]

I'm using this plugins. And now it works great! But i still have one problem. My posts on wordpress have tags like <strong> <img href. How to make vbulletin convert those tags into vbulletin format? Right now, vbulletin showing those tags as they are.
Thank you...

[Shaliza]

Yeah, I did those paths right after I installed it. I'm still having the global issue.

[GoodOmens]

Is there a good way to pull the Username for the post from the WordPress post rather then from the person who publishes / last edits the post?

When a user is a contributor it seems to pull the user id from the person who hits publish (IE the Admin who approves the post) rather then the user who's name is attached to the article.

See http://www.lineagejunkies.com/?p=42 for a example.

Anyone else have this issue?

[PGP]

I try this but the link became:

http://http//www.etcetcetc

and it goes to a 404 page :)

hmmm it looks like get_option('vbb_VBURL') doesnt work for you...
for me i did this at all:
if ($logging_out and get_option('vbb_VBION')) {
require_once('wp-includes/pluggable.php');
wp_clearcookie();
echo '<script> location.href="http://' . get_option('vbb_VBURL') . '/login.php?do=logout&url='. get_option('siteurl') .'&logouthash=' . $vbulletin->userinfo[logouthash] .'"; </script>';
} elseif ($logging_in and get_option('vbb_VBION')) {..... skipped

[Shaliza]

Nevermind, I got it working. It was actually an error that had nothing to do with paths which is even weirder, but everything works now.

[Poldimania]

Hello together,

first: the Wordpress Bridge is genious and it works now, after little starting problems.

But now I have one problem which I can not fix alone. It is not a problem of the bridge itself, but I hope that here are some guys which made the same.

I want to use wordpress as the mainpage and layout. VBulletin is linked in wordpress navigation and it should be nicely integrated.

Check this out: (only test installation):
Wordpress: http://fihe3.fihe.de/blog/
VBulletin: http://fihe3.fihe.de/forum

As you can see I have made some little changes of the forum template. But I want to include the wordpress header into vbulletin now.

I have read thousands of different threads and found also a possibilty to build a plugin and load some php code, but until now nothing worked out. And I just see no progress since the last three days...very depressing :(

Has anybody solved this problem on his/her page? I would be glad to get some hints...

Thank you very much in advance!

[AzzX]

View source on your wordpress page and copy everything from <div id="page" class="clearfloat"> to <!--END FEATURE--> and past it into the vb header template. Then adjust from here.

[oldford]

Part of the problem seems to be something fundamental... As it usually is ;)

Everything in the configuration seems to be set up and working correctly, new entries are showing up in the designated vB forum as they should. Users logged into vB are able to access WP as they should and accounts are being created in the WP users correctly.

But when I create an entry logged into vB, the link to the author profile
<?php
if ($vbridge[id] > 0) {
?>
<a href=<?php echo get_option('vbb_VBURL') ?>/member.php?u=<?php echo $vbridge[thread_starter] ?>><?php the_author() ?></a>

<?php
}
else {
the_author();
}
?>

doesn't happen. Instead the else kicks in and I just get the author's name. If I force the evaluation by changing it to <?php
if (1 > 0) {
?>
<a href=<?php echo get_option('vbb_VBURL') ?>/member.php?u=<?php echo $vbridge[thread_starter] ?>><?php the_author() ?></a>

them I get a link: http://www.ikeafans.com/forums/member.php?u=
:confused:

Just bumping again to see if there's a fix for the author link not working.

Thanks!

[swiftor]

Can this bridge work between 1 forum and 2 blogs on the same host? The forum is forums.swiftor.com and the blogs would be swiftor.com and cookingwithcasa.com - would the issue with the domain names prevent this from working?

Thanks!

[rcadden]

This is working great with Wordpress v2.7 and vBulletin v3.8.0 for me, but I still have the issue with scheduled posts not properly creating a forum thread, and therefore, not being integrated.

Can anyone else test this for me? Simply compose a post, and schedule it to go live a few minutes later, then see if the appropriate thread in the Forum is being created.

This is something I used heavily, and really need to get back. Where is the dev?

[DDIG]

It works great, only one small prob with logging out....

Logging in redirects me to forum, all fine. I log in, and I’m logged in to wordpress as well, great!

But when I log out of vBulletin, close my browser, and later come back to see the wordpress page, I am still logged in in Wordpress! But I am logged out of vBulletin.

So logging out of vBulletin does not log me out of Wordpress. Does anyone here have this issue and is there a fix?

[Shaliza]

Can this bridge work between 1 forum and 2 blogs on the same host? The forum is forums.swiftor.com and the blogs would be swiftor.com and cookingwithcasa.com - would the issue with the domain names prevent this from working?

Thanks!


It should be fine. My forum is installed on a subdomain, while WP is installed on the main domain. I'm having no problems with this.

[bahattab]

hi man

cant you make it auto template

[desi-boy]

iz it work for 3.8.0 ???????

[desi-boy]

there is instructnz for upgard but not for new instalation

Help me plezzz if any 1 know somethinggggg ???

thnxxx

[GlitterKill]

I see the comment that it works in VB 3.8 and WordPress 2.7, which is perfect! I am planning on moving to this setup as our main article CMS script. There is one issue in the directions which may end up being a sticking point for me, though.

I run two different content-driven sites that posts reviews and articles and has used our own, home-brewed, CMS since they started over 5 years ago. The CMS is definitely showing it's age nowadays with the lack of features and usability. The main thing is that it connects to our forum database for users and uses the forum for article comments.

The part that may make it very tricky is that both PCApex.com and GameApex.com now use the same forum for their communities which is located at ForumApex.com. Each of the main content sites have their own sections on the forum for discussions and there are general forums for either site as well. It is basically just one big community that has it's articles sorted between two different domains based on their content (one is PC hardwre and modding articles and the other is game reviews).

So, what do you all think? Can I make it work through some cookie tweaking? Any suggestions for me to try?

[dreamhost]

After a serious amount of hacking to this code, I can finally say that I have it running on wordprss mu perfectly.

There is one thing that I would like to change though, and maybe someone here has an idea of the direction that I should attack this problem.

I have mu setup so that when a person signs up and add's a blog to their account that they have to select a category for their blog, sports, weather, news, etc....

I have created corresponding article categories in mu for articles.

Here's what I want to happen:
When a person adds an article to mu, currently they can choose a forum to post their article to as well. (this is normal operation for the bridge). Problem is they have access to post their article to any forum that exists, I have no control over where they choose to put it.

what I want is to force them to have all 'weather' posts go into their designated blog category in the forums.

This will make is so that everything 'weather' related from all 'weather' category blogs will automatically be forced to have their wpmu posts put into the proper vb category.

And if they are going to write an article on their blog that doesn't belong in 'weather' they can put it into a personal category, which does not get put into vb.

make sense?

--theory being that I can use the forums to aggrigate all the wpmu articles into specific vb forums, on a per blog type basis. Gives me a vb 'central repository' of related articles to draw from.

ideas?

[PET]

Hello,

I did exactly as asked in the file.

My blog is in:

/blog

and my forum is in

/forum

I set up the path correctly, however when I go to wordress to post something, I press publish and the script goes directly to a HTTP 500 error. The script stops at post.php

I noticed the message is saved but only as DRAFT. If I want to edit and publis it again, I get that 500 error.

Any sugestions please?

Thanks

[deepmartini]

Hi, I have been trying to get this plugin to work. My problem is that I am using Wordpress CMS upfront and vbulletin as my forums. I want the website visitor to login via Wordpress first and then be automatically logged into vbulletin when they click on the forum link.

From what I understand, this plugin here only works by importing vbulleting users INTO wordpress. How do I get it to work the other way around? Wordpress into vbulletin?

Please help anyone?!

[PET]

Hello,

I did exactly as asked in the file.

My blog is in:

/blog

and my forum is in

/forum

I set up the path correctly, however when I go to wordress to post something, I press publish and the script goes directly to a HTTP 500 error. The script stops at post.php

I noticed the message is saved but only as DRAFT. If I want to edit and publis it again, I get that 500 error.

Any sugestions please?

Thanks
So any suggestions to my problem? What's causing the HTTP 500 error when I want to make a new post in wordpress?

[AzzX]

So any suggestions to my problem? What's causing the HTTP 500 error when I want to make a new post in wordpress?

It has to be a path issue - checking your error logs may help targeting the problem.

[EGF_Mafia]

How would I get this to work along side vBadvanced? I mean I know this plugin has the purpose to make WordPress the CMS, but I love the features of vBa, like the recent posts box and stuff... but when I have vBa activated along with the WP integration I get these errors.

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php on line 42

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in [path]/includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php on line 50

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/includes/init.php(293) : eval()'d code on line 24



Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/imenigma/templates/forums/includes/class_core.php
Line: 3239

Any Help?

[amjadz4]

Okay people! I'm using Wordpress v2.7 and vBulletin v3.8.1. I will post my progress here as I'm doing it.

UPDATE 1: Installing the plugin
So far so good. everything went smooth. The installation instructions were straight forward. done with no problems. users mapped correctly....blog post posted to forum.
# Having login problems. Going to dashboard directly [not logged in on vB] redirects to forums.
Solved - First login to vB, then go to dashboard and you will be logged in automatically. If not first time, then open the wp-admin/ page again and you are in.

UPDATE 2: Applying VB Comments...
All instructions applied carefully. Comments posted in WP are not posted as posts in vB. Its a template issue and I am trying to fix it. will update here.

So here is the good news: The plugin works with the latest versions of both WP 2.7 and vB 3.8.1 :)

[SWFans.net]

I have this bridge installed and working about 95% up to what I need. The last 5% appears to be an issue I have discovered causing the user bridge to not work for many of my users, including an Administrator and an Author/Moderator.

Usernames do not bridge at all, nor is there an error of any kind if the user has an apostrophe in their registered vBulletin name.

Example: One of my admins registered name is Lilaena De'Ville. I have tested this with other names with apostrophes and had the same problem. It refused to log them in or bridge them at all while names without apostrophes work perfectly.

[AzzX]

Changing vb to use the UTF8 character set should fix that issue.

[SWFans.net]

Changing vb to use the UTF8 character set should fix that issue.Already tried that one as well as the other way around (changing WP to ISO-8859-1), no joy.

[pypons]

Hi,
thanks for this fantastic plugin.

There is a solution for scheduled post ?
There is a new hook in wordpress for future post.
There is future_to_publish...

Check this link (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/154414)

Thanks!

[moethelawn]

I've had this bridge running for quite awhile and now Wordpress 2.7 and vB 3.8.1 with a custom homepage - it still works just fine :)

kudos to jafo

[pypons]

I've had this bridge running for quite awhile and now Wordpress 2.7 and vB 3.8.1 with a custom homepage - it still works just fine :)

kudos to jafo

Hi moethelawn,

work fine with future scheduled post ?

[swiftor]

Thank you!

It should be fine. My forum is installed on a subdomain, while WP is installed on the main domain. I'm having no problems with this.

[myHybridcar.com]

I installed this bridge the other day on 3.8 and everything (including vB posting) worked just fine. Then, for some reason, it stopped posting new comments into the forum (although new entries/threads worked just fine). The setting is still activated in the WP settings. What did I mess up?

[Separately, as I understand it a reply in vB should NOT post a comment under WP, is that correct?]

Thanks.

[roots549]

Has anyone figured out a way to get media files such as, images or youtube videos, that one posts in the wordpress blog to then appear in media format within the target vbull forum?

I have tried several wp plugins and so far, no luck.

thanks in advance
eric

[myHybridcar.com]

I seem to be a little confused about the abilities of the bridge. With everything enabled, this is how I understand it:

(1) Comments may only be posted using the vBulletin Reply to Thread page.
(2) Comments may NOT be posted using WordPress.
(3) Comments may NOT be posted using vBulletin Quick Reply.

Is this all correct? So, I have to disable both Quick Reply and WordPress commenting, neither of which are bridging?

The alternative option, if I understand it, is to allow WordPress to handle all commenting. If I do things this way, WordPress comments will not count towards a user's forum post count, and the comments can only be managed in WordPress Admin. Again, is this correct?

Thanks.

[rcadden]

I seem to be a little confused about the abilities of the bridge. With everything enabled, this is how I understand it:

(1) Comments may only be posted using the vBulletin Reply to Thread page.
(2) Comments may NOT be posted using WordPress.
(3) Comments may NOT be posted using vBulletin Quick Reply.

Is this all correct? So, I have to disable both Quick Reply and WordPress commenting, neither of which are bridging?

The alternative option, if I understand it, is to allow WordPress to handle all commenting. If I do things this way, WordPress comments will not count towards a user's forum post count, and the comments can only be managed in WordPress Admin. Again, is this correct?

Thanks.

1 and 2 are correct, though 3 is not - I have Quick Reply active and use it quite often on my site with no issues.

As mine is right now, when a post is published on wordpress, the corresponding forum thread is created, and comments on wordpress are pulled from the forum thread and displayed. the wordpress comments system is completely disabled/gone (at least on my site, obviously it's still 'there' in the backend).

You can safely *not* use the feature that maps vbulletin users with wordpress users - I'm not sure what the point of that is, but I turned it off with no ill effects.

Unfortunately, scheduled posting is still not working. The wordpress post goes up just fine, but the forum thread never gets posted, which means there's no way for readers to comment. I have to manually open the post and click publish, which is a huge pain.

[AzzX]

As mine is right now, when a post is published on wordpress, the corresponding forum thread is created, and comments on wordpress are pulled from the forum thread and displayed. the wordpress comments system is completely disabled/gone (at least on my site, obviously it's still 'there' in the backend).


How did you achieve this? I have been trying to decide whether to keep the wordpress comment system intact as an alternative or to do it as you have done.

Cheers.

[Armyqt]

I had this professionally installed with no issues. I am experiencing a few minor issues such as the login and being redirected to the forums. When I try to edit a post I am redirected to the forum although the post is not on the forum. This hack is nice, but it doesn't work perfectly.

I am VERY concerned about having duplicate content on my site. It seems like everyone is overlooking this as a possibility to be bad foe SEO. That alone would kill this whole hack. At first I thought this was cool. But with the lack of support in this thread and the many bugs, and the SEO aspect, I'm seriously reconsidering this.

I'm running VB 3.8.1 and WP 2.7.

[Armyqt]

Uninstalled. Too much hassle.

[AzzX]

Were you just trying to edit in wp-admin?

[joeymuk]

I installed this, everything appeared to work but when I created an account on vb it didn't create the user on wp..

Really wished a more feature rich version would be updated.

[remotay]

I keep getting this database error since i installed this bridge. I get it toally randomly, usually once a day (But i have very few users right now, so I expect to get more of these errors later on). How do I fix this..?

The login page on the error areas are WORD PRESS logins, not vbulletin logins, so the login area on the top left IS indeed wordpress login, because I don't want the script to redirect to the forum right away when people login...

Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect() [<a href='function.mysql-connect'>function.mysql-connect</a>]: Unknown MySQL server host 'mysql50-09.wc1.dfw1.stabletransit.com' (2)
/mnt/stor1-wc1-dfw1/379363/www.mmohut.com/web/content/forums/includes/class_core.php on line 311

MySQL Error :
Error Number :
Request Date : Wednesday, February 11th 2009 @ 09:02:20 PM
Error Date : Wednesday, February 11th 2009 @ 09:02:30 PM
Script : http://mmohut.com/review/perfect-world
Referrer : http://mmohut.com/review/combat-arms
IP Address : 24.210.207.72
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[Mr. Mooney]

Hi,

I just installed the mod and am having some issues. First of all, when I change any settings I get this error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:132) in /home/site/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 698

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:132) in /home/site/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 699

The second issue is that when I make a post, it normally chops off a line when posting. For instance, if I post:

"Test line one

Test line two

Test line three"

The actual post will show as:

"Test line one
Test line two"

Any help would be appreciated.:)

[remotay]

I'm getting at least 5-10 of these emails a day now, What's going on? If anyone can help me with this it'll be vastly appreciated. I can even pay for their time!

[Jafo232]

Just a quick note to everyone, I am rewriting this plugin and will hopefully finish testing this weekend.

The new version (IV) will include the following changes so far:

Integration is complete. Once you turn integration on, usernames and passwords from the forum can be used.

Users and admins can login from the WP login area.

If you log into VB or WP, then you remain logged in, until you log out (from either).

I hope to have time to rewrite the comment code instructions (for the default WP template).

I will be posting it in the 3.8 forum, but will also post a link here.

[myHybridcar.com]

My $vbuser variables will not display, despite the note in the readme. Any idea why? Thanks.

[AzzX]

Just a quick note to everyone, I am rewriting this plugin and will hopefully finish testing this weekend.

The new version (IV) will include the following changes so far:

Integration is complete. Once you turn integration on, usernames and passwords from the forum can be used.

Users and admins can login from the WP login area.

If you log into VB or WP, then you remain logged in, until you log out (from either).

I hope to have time to rewrite the comment code instructions (for the default WP template).

I will be posting it in the 3.8 forum, but will also post a link here.

Thanks Jafo, This is the best mod on vborg by far :)

[Jafo232]

Ok, I have released the update:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=205388

[xlcstaff]

Hi, this mod is great! I use it wit VB 3.8 e WP 2.7, all work perfectly just one little problem...
When i post to wp and i see the post in vbulletin, i can't see the image...the path image is wrong.
My post is like this: Image (left) text....
I hope someone wants help me!
Thanx

[vbplusme]

Yep! Your paths are wrong now and the query can't find what its looking for now...

[n96search]

I dont know what i am missing ,as i had installed the plugin exactly as told in readme.txt file .Passing all hurdles got stuck at one error for last 3 days couldnt pass it .

Error i got after clicking Vbridge User Settings link :"Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read() on a non-object in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\"server path"\wp-content\plugins\vbbridge.php on line 475"

Using current version of VBbridge 4.1
Server is window based.

at line 475 code is : " $fs = $vbulletin->db->query_read($sql); "

My Blog and forum folder is on the same level.

For this error , already read full forum but couldnt find any answer .

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

[n96search]

got pass this error .Installed new new blog and reconfigured it again and found that in Vbbridge settings i havn't turned on the plugin.

This time i found that while posting when i click on Upload/Insert to upload image and insert it in the blog post giving error

"Are you sure you want to do this?

Please try again."

Then i deactivate the the plugin and found it working . Dont know is the plugin compatibility problem of the plugin or what?

I am using wordpress 2.8.2 and vbbridge 4.1

Any help will be appreciated.

[Jafo232]

Because this version is no longer supported, see:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=205388

[n96search]

sorry posted my query in wrong thread as i had downloaded and installed vbbridge4.01.13.zip on vbulletin 3.8.2 .

posted new query at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=205388&page=49

[amjadz4]

Guys I need your support. All of you who want this plugin to work for the latest versions of vB and WP with extra features that are currently not available and more ... Go here on this page and put 3 votes.

http://wpmudev.uservoice.com/forums/148158-wpmu-dev-new-development-requests/suggestions/2651341-vbulletin-forum-integration

Come on people, lets get this plugin made for vB 4! They just need votes! Also if you can, please post some of your ideas there. :D

[Toorak Times]

Build all the bridges Wordpress, Joomla, even , gulp Blogger...Serif is tasty...love you vBnauts