vBSSO - vBulletin Single Sign-On

[xeagle]

vBSSO is a vBulletin plugin that helps you connect to different software platforms like content management systems, blogs, and online stores using a secure Single Sign-On

The system has two components. First, there?s a vBulletin plugin that creates an interface for authenticating, controlling access, and managing user profile data. The second component is plugins for other platforms (like WordPress) that teach it to talk to vBulletin and exchange data. Here?s a list of support platforms.

Supported Platforms (https://www.vbsso.com (https://www.vbsso.com/getting-started/vbsso-connect-1-x-features/))

vBulletin
WordPress
WordPress Multisite
Drupal
Mediawiki
Moodle
Prestashop
DokuWiki
Joomla
Magento


SSO Key Features

Run across different sub-domains, domains, servers and ports
Easy setup & configuration
Automatically log into third party applications when you log into vBulletin
Automatically log out of third party applications when you log out of vBulletin


Single Sign-On

Log to third party applications through vBulletin
Log out of third party applications through vBulletin
Register to third party applications through vBulletin
Recover password to third party applications through vBulletin


License

Free, open source
GNU general public license, version 2
Reusable code


Safety

Encrypted data exchange via private unique shared key
Friends with firewalls
Communicates purely through API of the connected platform
Basic Access Authentication support


Setup & Configuration

Quick startup
Advanced configuration options
Backup & Restore


Avatars

Sync vBulletin avatars with third-party applications


User Groups

Restrict access to third-party applications using vBulletin usergroups
Add visitors of third-party applications to vBulletin usergroups


Miscellaneous

Custom vBulletin login page
Custom vBulletin registration page

== Changelog ==

= 1.6.4 =

Feature #6421: vBSSO | Add PHP 7.1, 72 support. Fixed PHP warnings.
[Updated on March 26, 2019]


= 1.6.1 =

Added PHP 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0 support for vBulletin 4.2.
Fixed an issue when vBulletin throws the Warning: Invalid argument supplied... in case of connecting platforms on different domains/BAA.
Fixed an issue when user location is shown as unknown on the "Currently Active Users" page.
Other enhancements and bugs fixes.
[Updated on July 25, 2017]


= 1.6.0 =

Added PHP 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 7.0 support for vBulletin 4.1.x.
Fixed the issue when download logs function was not working and was displaying an empty white screen (PHP5.6).
EOL (End-of-life due to the end of life of this version) for PHP 5.2 support.
EOL (End-of-life due to the end of life of this version) for vBulletin 3.x support.
Other enhancements and bugs fixes.
[Updated March 10, 2017]


= 1.5.1 =

Fixed an issue when vBulletin redirects to WordPress search page after сlearing the browser's cookie and cache.
[Updated February 19, 2016]

= 1.5 =

Fixed fatal error on logout operation if logout is initiated from "vBulletin Mobile Suite".
Enhanced intensive logging to troubleshoot issues with ease.
Added vBulletin 5 compatibility notifications message on installation.
[Updated August 31, 2015]



= 1.4.16 =

Added PHP 5.6 support
Added support of cross-domain single-sign on in Internet Explorer.
Fixed an issue when vBSSO didn't connect platform with strong www redirect.
Fixed an issue when vBulletin didn't work as a child platform.
Fixed an issue when vBSSO widget for Wordpress didn't show the number of notifications due to bug on vBulletin side.
Other enhancements and bugs fixes.
[Updated June 04, 2015]


We strongly recommend you to upgrade vBSSO to the latest version (1.4.15)

= 1.4.15 =

Fixed the potential SQL injection vulnerability that might display md5 version of password (the original password is safe).
Fixed an issue when sometimes avatars are not fetched and displayed in connected to vBulletin platforms.
Fixed an issue when some redirects in vBulletin 3.x were processed improperly.
Fixed an issue when sometimes white screen was displayed after registration.
Fixed <base> tag for vBulletin 3.x
Other enhancements and bugs fixes.
[Updated January 20, 2015]


= 1.4.14 =

Fixed "Support www alias" option on "Connect Platform" page.
Fixed <base> tag behavior when "Always use Forum URL as Base Path" option disabled.
Other enhancements and bugs fixes.
[Updated November 17, 2014]


= 1.4.13 =

Implemented possibility to get vBulletin notifications counter through vBSSO.
Improved avatars rendering method.
Added usergroups support in vBulletin as connected platform.
Added a new warning entry to ?Warnings? page identifying vBulletin hooks status.
Added a new warning entry to ?Warnings? page identifying forum accounts with empty username.
Added a new warning entry to ?Warnings? page identifying missing PHP extensions.
Added a new warning entry to ?Warnings? page identifying disabled PHP functions required by vBSSO.
Added support for authorization both with www and without it.
Fixed an issue, when the platform couldn?t be disconnnected while uninstalling vBSSO.
Fixed AdminCP login issue.
Fixed E_NOTICE errors in debug mode.
Other enhancements and bugs fixes.
[Updated November 1, 2014]


= 1.4.12 =

Made the version compatible with other extensions like "PurevB Theme Manager", "GlowHost - Spam-O-Matic", "PhotoPost vBGallery".
Added a new warning entry to "Warnings" page identifying forum accounts with duplicated username/email and empty email addresses.
Added a forum "moderation" page support while user is being registered through vBSSO.
Logout is not any longer restricted by "Access Settings" configuration.
Adding "https" domains to forum "whitelist".
Fixed the "logs in .zip" downloading issue.
Resolved "Logout" issue for user with no forum access privileges when two forums are connected to each other.
Adjusted "Access Settings" to handle login access restrictions properly.
Other enhancements and bugs fixes.
[Updated June 17, 2013]


= 1.4.11 =

Prepared the feature to handle broken user accounts between WordPress and vBulletin.
Enhancements and bugs fixes.
[Updated May 22, 2013]


= 1.4.10 =

Added usergroups support in vBSSO vBulletin. Other vBSSO extensions should implement vBSSO vBulletin usergroups API to support usergroups on a connected platform.
Implemented an ability to login visitors by their email address.
Improved support of vBulletin SSL mode.
Improved vBSSO avatars lookup performance.
Removed unsed 'cssrollup_vbsso.xml'.
Fixed login issue through vBulletin API. Tapatalk compatible.
Fixed the issue when "Show vBulletin Profile" option is not being updated in case of connection two forums.
Fixed the issue when the platform couldn't be connected if "Allowed User Groups" is filled out to restrict login access.
Other enhancements and bugs fixes.
[Updated May 20, 2013]


= 1.4.9 =

Restored the visibility of the activation message showed before user proceeds with login after registration process.
Improved "Logging & Notifications" section to get much quicker and flexible access to log files.
Added a special section called "Warnings" to warn administrators about potential issues required to be solved.
Added tips to "Access Settings" section.
Improved the verification process in case if we establish forum to forum connection.
"vBulletin Links" section was renamed to "Link Custom Pages".
Enhancements and bugfixes.
[Updated February 01, 2013]


= 1.4.8 =

Made vBSSO "vBulletin 4.2.0 PL3" compatible.
Added new supported profile fields "Birth", "Phone".
Enhancements and bugfixes.
[Updated October 26, 2012]


= 1.4.7 =

Extended the authentication and login vBSSO API.
Added 4 new hooks (vBSSO Login Event, vBSSO Logout Event, vBSSO Authentication Event, vBSSO Register Event).
Fixed creating user from admincp.
Fixed Admin Panel menu items order.
Enhancements and bugfixes.
[Updated October 26, 2012]


= 1.4.6 =

Implemented support of SSL.
Handled endless redirect once it finds non-compatible accounts.
Fixed the conflict when "Save stylesheets to files" option is enabled in vBulletin 3.x.
Enhancements and bugfixes.
[Updated September 23, 2012]


= 1.4.5 =

Implemented support of avatars for connected vBulletin platform.
Implemented support of user profile and author links for connected vBulletin platform.
Adjusted login form for connected vBulletin platform.
Implemented the feature to update the settings of all the connected platforms as soon as master plugin is upgraded.
Enhancements and bugfixes.
[Updated September 03, 2012]


= 1.4.4 =

Added vBulletin 3.x compatibility.
Added support of vBulletin connection as slave platform.
Fixed an issue on adding new user from admincp when it is not added to the connected platforms.
Fixed "Class 'LoggerReflectionUtils' not found" issue.
[Updated August 10, 2012]


= 1.4.3 =

Http status code 100 shouldn't be tracked as error - fixed.
Adjusted extensive debug logging of the response errors.
Fixed an issue when sometimes avatars are not fetched and displayed in connected to vBulletin platforms.
[Updated June 22, 2012]


= 1.4.2 =

Resolved installation error "Invalid SQL: INSERT INTO `vbsso_users`" thrown in cases when account duplicates exist. We check for the duplicates and throw the warning during the installation phase.
Fixed Fatal error: Call to undefined function print_cp_header() error when vBulletin is configured to have custom named AdminCP folder.
Implemented un-installation hook to disconnect all the connected to vBSSO platforms.
Added a check to warn if vBulletin "User Registration Options -> Require Unique Email Addresses" is disabled and duplicated accounts are allowed.
[Updated November 17, 2011]


= 1.4.1 =

Fixed Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'Logger::warning' was given in /vbsso/includes/functions_logging.php.
[Updated October 10, 2011]



= 1.4 =

Refined Notifications section, renamed it to Logging & Notifications, added the options to log vBSSO logic, keep logging files and send log messages to email.
Improved installation process by cleaning up the database before the product is completely installed.
Improved installation process by adding a check for the required PHP extension before the plugin is completely installed or upgraded.
Fixed the issue that might be a cause of the empty page in admincp.
Moved the settings to standard vBulletin Options.
Moveed Backup & Restore to standard vBulletin Backup & Restore facility.
Added vBulletin 4.x version as a dependency for the plugin.
Removed option to set Forum Path.
[Updated September 28, 2011]


= 1.3 =

Added sending of the authentication event to the connected platform as soon as user is registered in vBulletin.
Fixed issue with ':' delimiter located between host and port in url in case of using non-standard port #80
Added support to redirect to lost password page via API.
Added config.custom.default.php file as a config sample.
Fixed "Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated" error.
Added error message in case if platform couldn't be verified for some reason.
Removed the extra steps to set up forumpath setting, it's being setup automatically during plugin installation.
Fixed css to display "SSO provided By" text correctly in different theme layouts.
[Updated September 18, 2011]


= 1.2 =

First release
[Created September 10, 2011]


Project Supported by Diabetes Daily (http://www.diabetesdaily.com)
"We are in dept to those who have donated their code and advice to us over the last six years. Without that support, we would never have built one of the most successful diabetes communities. This is our way of 'paying it forward' so others can do more better and faster." - David Edelman, Co-Founder of Diabetes Daily

Download Now

vbsso-vbulletin-1.6.4.zip (https://www.vbsso.com/download/vbsso-connect-vbulletin-1-x-required)
vbsso-wordpress-1.4.3.zip (https://www.vbsso.com/download/vbsso-connect-wordpress-1-x/)
vbsso-drupal-1.1.2.zip (https://www.vbsso.com/download/vbsso-connect-drupal-1-x/)
vbsso-mediawiki-1.0.2.zip (https://www.vbsso.com/download/vbsso-connect-mediawiki-1-x/)
vbsso-moodle-1.0.0.zip (https://www.vbsso.com/download/vbsso-connect-moodle-1-x/)
vbsso-prestashop-1.1.zip (https://www.vbsso.com/download/vbsso-connect-prestashop-1-x/)
vbsso-dokuwiki-1.1.0.zip (https://www.vbsso.com/download/vbsso-connect-dokuwiki-1-x/)
vbsso-joomla-1.1.0.zip (https://www.vbsso.com/download/vbsso-connect-joomla-1-x/)
vbsso-magento-1.1.0.zip (https://www.vbsso.com/download/vbsso-connect-magento-1-x/)

[ProFifaLeagues]

Sorry which platforms does this support???

[xeagle]

It currently supports WordPress platform http://vbsso.com/platforms/wordpress/ and new plugins for other platforms are going to be released soon.

[nacaruncr]

can you add a screenshot please or demo??

thanks :D

[xeagle]

Sure! The screenshots are available inside the downloaded package and additionally we have attached the screenshots to this thread as well. The actual demo presentations are going to be uploaded later this month.

[Gemma]

Sounds promising. Thanks, I might now look at using Wordpress with vB now :)

[nacaruncr]

waa.... thanks man :)
a question... if I install it... can I do a conection with wp and vb? that is, the posts from vb do to appear in wp....
excuse me for my english :S

[MoDz]

Is this a wordpress bridge?

[Alfa1]

Do you plan to add more integration functions, like showing vbulletin avatar in other software & linking to vbulletin profile in other software?

[puertoblack2003]

not working properly in admincp is showing a blank page.I do have curl installed.

[dihuta]

This is my long wait mod.
Thank you.

[MoDz]

Doesnt work for me :(
Ive installed the plugin on vb 4.1.5 and the newest wordpress.
Is the Platform shared key--> vbulletin api key?
Realm User: wordpress login name?

Help me please.

[xeagle]

waa.... thanks man :)
a question... if I install it... can I do a conection with wp and vb? that is, the posts from vb do to appear in wp....
excuse me for my english :S

Currently vBSSO provides a way to synchronize only the entities required for single sign-on. If you would like to synchronize other entities like posts, etc, you are welcome to submit a feature request on vBSSO website.

[xeagle]

Is this a wordpress bridge?

Not really a bridge in terms of the bridge originally. That's like an single sign-on standard provided on vBulletin side, where 3rd party is able to implement vBSSO API to connect your platform like well known WordPress or your own website developed using custom technologies on your own.

[xeagle]

Do you plan to add more integration functions, like showing vbulletin avatar in other software & linking to vbulletin profile in other software?

Yes, we do. You are welcome to give a try an "Avatars" feature in this WordPress version. vBSSO WordPress plugin fetches and displays vBulletin avatars easily.

If you are interested in other features, you are welcome to submit your request to us through vBSSO website.

[xeagle]

Doesnt work for me :(
Ive installed the plugin on vb 4.1.5 and the newest wordpress.
Is the Platform shared key--> vbulletin api key?
Realm User: wordpress login name?

Help me please.

Platform shared key is vbulletin api key, the keys should be identical to establish connection between two platforms. It's not necessary to specify username and password if you do not have Basic Apache Authorization enabled. Just leave these last fields empty.

If you have any issues please contact us though http://vbsso.com/request-new-feature/ page and our support will help you.

Thanks for helping to improve the product!

[Alfa1]

With Joomla or Wordpress, there are problems with integration:

how to get all content from both systems in one new content overview?
how to get usergroups and usergroup permissions working in the CMS?
how to get it in one integrated design?
how to let the CMS refer to the vbulletin profile?
how to use one editor?
how to let the CMS show the vbulletin avatar?Its great that you are solving the avatar problem.

What do you think about the other problems? Do you plan to add functionality that will resolve these issues?

[davide101]

Hi Alfa, this project was developed for our community (http://www.diabetesdaily.com) with a vision of having a flexible SSO system. We've open sourced and shared it so that others can use it and extend it freely. This community has given an enormous amount to us and we wanted to return that it in a substantial way. If we can save even one person a few hundreds hours of development and testing time, I will fall be very happy.

Some of your requests, like 1, 3 and 5, go beyond the goals of a single signon system. In our eyes, a good SSO can connect multiple systems and provide the plumbing. Items like providing access to usergroup permissions and avatars fall cleanly within that scope. Making two programs function as one by integrating designs and surfacing content jointly goes beyond what we think an SSO should do.

That said, there is a wonderful opportunity to extend this vBSSO into a full blown API for vB. I don't know if that's the direction that we want to go (it's something that vBulletin really should have done a while ago), but it's a worthy goal.

If you were interested in hiring us to create additional addons, we are able to do so and could open source the end product so others can utilize it. Even better, we'd love to see some dedicated members of the community jump in and help extend this project. We are happy to give feedback and support to anyone that wants to make it happen.

[Bomyne]

Does this work across domains? eg

www.example.org
blog.example.org

[puertoblack2003]

Does this work across domains? eg

www.example.org
blog.example.org


I'm curious to that myself...Can't seem to get it work with a blank page in admincp...

[xeagle]

I'm curious to that myself...Can't seem to get it work with a blank page in admincp...

Could you please let us know your vBulletin version and some environment information such as OS/PHP/CURL versions to help us figure out the cause and provide a quick update to the product.

Thank you!

[davide101]

Bomye & puertoblack2003, the single signon works across domains and servers. This was a key requirement for us because we wanted to be able to create new applications that could run on their own server with their own domains.

[Brandon Sheley]

great idea and mod
will be watching this one for sure ;)

[puertoblack2003]

Could you please let us know your vBulletin version and some environment information such as OS/PHP/CURL versions to help us figure out the cause and provide a quick update to the product.
Thank you!

vbulletin 4.1.5/ Apache 2.2.20 on windows server 2008 /php 5.2.17/ curl 7.21.0/

[xeagle]

vbulletin 4.1.5/ Apache 2.2.20 on windows server 2008 /php 5.2.17/ curl 7.21.0/

puertoblack2003, thanks for the provided environment to help us track this down!

[Hornstar]

great idea and mod
will be watching this one for sure ;)

Agreed. This looks very promising.

[cavyspirit]

Very interested in a vB 4.1.5+ and Joomla 1.7+ SSO

[whitey10tc]

Does this have the ability to do VB 4.x.x and VB 4.x.x connecting multiple forums on multiple domains with multiple vb licenses.

[davide101]

whitey, not at this time. It would be possible to extend it to do so, but it would not be able to have one set of profiles and private messages. I imagine that the ideal would be to get multiple vBs to run on one codebase. This was always one of my biggest requests from vB - and I still hope it happens one day.

[whitey10tc]

whitey, not at this time. It would be possible to extend it to do so, but it would not be able to have one set of profiles and private messages. I imagine that the ideal would be to get multiple vBs to run on one codebase. This was always one of my biggest requests from vB - and I still hope it happens one day.Would this be a future feature. I basically want to share login info between 2 vb forum.

[davide101]

It's a possibility. If someone wanted to pay for the integration, we could do it very quickly. Otherwise, we'll add it to our list based on how much interest there is. If there are any coders out there that want to extend it in this way, we would gladly accept the code and add it to the project under the open source license.

[puertoblack2003]

Would this be a future feature. I basically want to share login info between 2 vb forum.

this is a feature that i would donate too. !

[davide101]

There are a few who have expressed interest. We're going to plan out this project and get back with a project quote. If a few want to pitch in, our team can get it built relatively quickly and inexpensively.

[whitey10tc]

Sounds good. Let us know of the price, you know my interest.

[CILGINKRAL_]

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.6:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE `vbsso_users` (
`email` VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
`emailmd5` VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
`vbuserid` INT(10) UNSIGNED UNIQUE NOT NULL
);

MySQL Error : Table 'vbsso_users' already exists
Error Number : 1050
Request Date : Monday, September 26th 2011 @ 12:58:24 PM
Error Date : Monday, September 26th 2011 @ 12:58:24 PM

:(

[xeagle]

Database error in vBulletin 4.1.6:

Invalid SQL:
CREATE TABLE `vbsso_users` (
`email` VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
`emailmd5` VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
`vbuserid` INT(10) UNSIGNED UNIQUE NOT NULL
);

MySQL Error : Table 'vbsso_users' already exists
Error Number : 1050
Request Date : Monday, September 26th 2011 @ 12:58:24 PM
Error Date : Monday, September 26th 2011 @ 12:58:24 PM

:(

CILGINKRAL_, It looks like you have already tried to install a product several times and all your attempts failed. We recommend you remove already created in vBulletin tables by executing the following SQL:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS vbsso_listeners;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS vbsso_properties;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS vbsso_users;

And try to install it again.

[davide101]

To create a plugin for two vBulletin forums would take about 15 hours of work ($750).

(Required) vBulletin vBSSO minimal package implementation
1. Setup package - 1h
1. Handle login event - 1h
2. Handle logout event - 1h
3. Handle register event - 2h
4. Sync user credentials if user changes his email in vBulletin - 1h
5. vBSSO Configuration page - 1h
6. Adapt primary vBSSO Access Settings page to filter that vBulletin could be like a connected platform - 3h
7. Testing, packaging, and deploying - 5h

(Optional) vBulletin vBSSO optional implementation
1. Override login, logout, register creating new custom vBSSO block in vBulletin as custom solution, because vBulletin user a form to submit user login data by default., vB has no API to overwrite login block itself, but allows to create new login page. 1-2hr

Account Collisions
If you have two different sites, this would not solve the issue with the issue of two users having the same username or email addresses on multiple sites. If there is serious interest in this, we could work out a system that handles those duplicates. For example, we could offer the ability to change the username to something that doesn't exist or to allow the same username if the email address matches.

[KevinL]

To create a plugin for two vBulletin forums would take about 15 hours of work ($750).

(Required) vBulletin vBSSO minimal package implementation
1. Setup package - 1h
1. Handle login event - 1h
2. Handle logout event - 1h
3. Handle register event - 2h
4. Sync user credentials if user changes his email in vBulletin - 1h
5. vBSSO Configuration page - 1h
6. Adapt primary vBSSO Access Settings page to filter that vBulletin could be like a connected platform - 3h
7. Testing, packaging, and deploying - 5h

(Optional) vBulletin vBSSO optional implementation
1. Override login, logout, register creating new custom vBSSO block in vBulletin as custom solution, because vBulletin user a form to submit user login data by default., vB has no API to overwrite login block itself, but allows to create new login page. 1-2hr

Account Collisions
If you have two different sites, this would not solve the issue with the issue of two users having the same username or email addresses on multiple sites. If there is serious interest in this, we could work out a system that handles those duplicates. For example, we could offer the ability to change the username to something that doesn't exist or to allow the same username if the email address matches.


That last part would be great! Say...if someone registered on the toyota forum and there was (the same person) or username on the honda forum there could be a choice in the admincp to choose the prefix for the alike user names. So one would be toy-bob and hon-bob -- something along those lines. Or a choice to merge the users.


It would also be interesting to see other forum platforms added to this somehow. Invision - Xenforo.

I will be keeping a very very close eye on this though. It is incredibly handy for network sites.

[CaneInsider]

Just let me know how much to donate and please get this rolling! PLEASE!!!

[nezr]

Thank you so much for this mod.

[whitey10tc]

Just let me know how much to donate and please get this rolling! PLEASE!!!
I can cover some, let's get some interest in this.

[Guru Samrat]

bad mod not working

[derandechser]

Hi,
first thank you for this mod. But i get an error when i fill the platform-fields and get connected:

Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'Logger::warning' was given in /www/xxxx/xxxx/vbsso/includes/functions_logging.php on line 154

What could it be?

Thank you and greetings,
Peter

[xeagle]

Hi,
first thank you for this mod. But i get an error when i fill the platform-fields and get connected:

Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'Logger::warning' was given in /www/xxxx/xxxx/vbsso/includes/functions_logging.php on line 154

What could it be?

Thank you and greetings,
Peter

Peter, this issue was corrected in newly released vbsso-vbulletin 1.4.1 update. Feel please free to download and install it. In an event of any questions or issues you are welcome to contact us at http://vbsso.com/request-new-feature/ as well.

Thank you,

[xeagle]

bad mod not working

Dear Guru Samrat, could you please help us to figure out what kind of issue you are experiencing during working with the plugin. It could be environment or any related issue, whatever. We would be thankful if you could describe your issue in details and post it to us via http://vbsso.com/request-new-feature/ form.

We are looking forward to hear from you and help improving the plugin.

Thank you,

[derandechser]

Peter, this issue was corrected in newly released vbsso-vbulletin 1.4.1 update. Feel please free to download and install it. In an event of any questions or issues you are welcome to contact us at http://vbsso.com/request-new-feature/ as well.

Thank you,
Thanks for the fast response and the update, works well now!
Greetings,
Peter

[eliteguias]

when someone writes a comment on wordpress.... how is that comment published? like a wordpress comment or in the forum like a post?


Same registration/login its usefull but the option to write comments in the forum like post... would be... :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: (at least the option to chose between wp comments or vb posts)

[gsnindia]

kindly make it to work for the custom application build in vb.net of c# or PHP

Just when a query is passed to the vbulletin it should supply with the true after authentication

[xeagle]

when someone writes a comment on wordpress.... how is that comment published? like a wordpress comment or in the forum like a post?

Same registration/login its usefull but the option to write comments in the forum like post... would be... :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: (at least the option to chose between wp comments or vb posts)

The comment is basically published like a WordPress comment.

Currently that feature is not really a major goal of Single Sign On, but we would be able to see how many people would like to have the similar feature(s) around the plugin to decide about the further steps.

Thanks for the suggestion.

[xeagle]

kindly make it to work for the custom application build in vb.net of c# or PHP

Just when a query is passed to the vbulletin it should supply with the true after authentication

We are planning to publish API later this year. We believe this is exactly what you are looking for. Using API you would be able to integrate vBSSO with your custom platform or application. There is no ETA for API yet. Just keep watching periodically.

Thank you,

[eliteguias]

The comment is basically published like a WordPress comment.

Currently that feature is not really a major goal of Single Sign On, but we would be able to see how many people would like to have the similar feature(s) around the plugin to decide about the further steps.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I know, that's the most important: share users and 0 problems with vb and wp updates :)

[davide101]

I can safely say we will keep this product as simple as possible. We cannot support complex integrations, especially with multiple platforms, so it would not be wise to offer them.

If someone wanted to retain xeagle to do programming work ongoing and budget for it, I can highly recommend his services.

[MadMakz]

vB 4.1.7 (Forum only)
vBSSO v1.4.1, first-time install.

when click on "Platforms" or/and "Access Settings" in vBSSO menu:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function print_cp_header() in /<path>/vbsso/includes/functions_template.php on line 19

No logs produced in vbsso/logs (loging level "ALL")
EDIT: Tue Oct 18 19:45:54 2011,249 [2323] WARN localFileLogger - PHP Unknown Type: [8192] Function split() is deprecated on line 4 in file /<path>/forum.php(651) : eval()'d code. PHP 5.3.6-nmm1 (Linux)
Tue Oct 18 19:49:26 2011,562 [2327] DEBUG localFileLogger - Method execution [vbsso_db_update_vbsso_user_email]: 0/
Tue Oct 18 19:50:58 2011,551 [5625] WARN localFileLogger - PHP Unknown Type: [8192] Function split() is deprecated on line 4 in file /<path>/forum.php(651) : eval()'d code. PHP 5.3.6-nmm1 (Linux)
not quiet sure about this error since line 4 in forum.php is the commented vB versin and licence number?!

other notes: Admin and Mod CP are in custom named folders. vBSSO's "admincp" folder has been renamed accordingly.

Other mods installed:
Change Author And Date 2.2
DownloadsII 6.0.8
KeyCAPTCHA 3.6.0
Mod-Mall.com Remember Me 1.0.0
More Share Options for VB4 by BOP5 Light 2.6
Remove quoted images and videos 1.1
RSS items as posts 0.6
Separate Sticky and Normal Threads 1.1
Skimlinks-Add-on 2.0.7
Steam Connect [BETA] 1.2.1
Tabs en vBulletin 4.x 2.0.3
Thread Starter in Postbit 1.0.3
Usergroup Color Bar 2.1.1
vBadvanced CMPS 4.1.2
vBGamez Lite 4.0.4
vBSSO Single Sign On 1.4.1

[nCODE]

hello,
I've got a question: can I use this on two vBulletin sites?

[davide101]

nCODE, not yet. I've been traveling and haven't been able to orchestrate that. I continue to think about ways to handle collisions between users with the same username and email address.

[nCODE]

hmm... well, how about keeping this mind?
like there are two forums: A and B
if a user registers at A an account will automatically be created at B... I think thats possible ;)

[davide101]

The issue is what happens when Johnny signs up for forum B but someone else already has an account called Johnny in forum A. Or what if you have one email address per person and someone has different usernames in Forum A and Forum B. We're open to suggestions on handling these two cases. If one forum starts out empty, then just using a true SSO is ideal. We could probably implement that quickly.

[thedarkroom]

im getting an error when installing this:


Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO `vbsso_users` (`email`, `emailmd5`, `vbuserid`) SELECT `email`, MD5(LOWER(`email`)), `userid` FROM `user` WHERE LENGTH(TRIM(`email`)) > 0;

what can i do?

-------------------------

i manage to avoid the error by deleting a specific user email, but now im receiving this error on my email:

Time Thread Level Category Message
120 32654 ERROR localEmailLogger Communication: Platform returned error http status code: 100

[xeagle]

im getting an error when installing this:


Invalid SQL:
INSERT INTO `vbsso_users` (`email`, `emailmd5`, `vbuserid`) SELECT `email`, MD5(LOWER(`email`)), `userid` FROM `user` WHERE LENGTH(TRIM(`email`)) > 0;

what can i do?

-------------------------

i manage to avoid the error by deleting a specific user email, but now im receiving this error on my email:

Time Thread Level Category Message
120 32654 ERROR localEmailLogger Communication: Platform returned error http status code: 100

Could you please let us know if you have MySQL 4.x installed on your server?

[thedarkroom]

Could you please let us know if you have MySQL 4.x installed on your server?

took me too much to answer, im really sorry, i managed to fix the error by deleting one user haha, and now VBSSO is up and running in two of my wordpress sites :D i <3 this hack, thank you very much for the help

[xeagle]

took me too much to answer, im really sorry, i managed to fix the error by deleting one user haha, and now VBSSO is up and running in two of my wordpress sites :D i <3 this hack, thank you very much for the help

Sounds great that you have got this working to manage single sign on for all your sites :)

[Mukashi]

Well now, this is a very interesting project.

From the looks of the drop downs on the request feature page, it seems that Mediawiki is on the agenda for a plugin in the future. One thing I am interested in though is if it'd be able to connect an already existing user database (from Mediawiki, or any other system) to the vBulletin database (and allow for a single sign-on), so that people who already have accounts on both would simply be linking their accounts, rather than creating a whole new account. One thing that was a dealbreaker for us with similar modifications in the past is that we use an addon to allow our forum members to change their username, which doesn't work when the addon only matches exact usernames. We'd be looking for something which matches on the forum side based on the user ID number.

[xeagle]

Well now, this is a very interesting project.

From the looks of the drop downs on the request feature page, it seems that Mediawiki is on the agenda for a plugin in the future. One thing I am interested in though is if it'd be able to connect an already existing user database (from Mediawiki, or any other system) to the vBulletin database (and allow for a single sign-on), so that people who already have accounts on both would simply be linking their accounts, rather than creating a whole new account. One thing that was a dealbreaker for us with similar modifications in the past is that we use an addon to allow our forum members to change their username, which doesn't work when the addon only matches exact usernames. We'd be looking for something which matches on the forum side based on the user ID number.

Agreed. So far the plugin is quite good to start a network up quickly from scratch based on vBulletin and WordPress platforms.

From other hand we are in internal brainstorm period of thinking to connect already existing accounts and letting users to change their username and email address in platforms.

If somebody opens to share the vision how they would like to see this, that's greatly appreciated!

Thank you,

[AttalaEA]

Excellent Mod Thank You. Installed, rated 5 stars, and nominated. Keep up the good work. :)

[lazytown]

What happens if a user changes their password on wordpress or on vbulletin?

[xeagle]

What happens if a user changes their password on wordpress or on vbulletin?

vBSSO actually hides user profile inputs to change password in WordPress. In meantime user is free to change its own password in vBulletin and use it further.

vBSSO doesn't touch passwords in WordPress and single sign-on is relied on passwords stored in vBulletin users database only. Thereby, the passwords in WordPress stay untouched / unchanged as they were prior vBSSO plugin is activated.

[xeagle]

Hello, Please I have installed your mod and it is fine but when i login it gives me redirect and remains like that without redirecting.

I also now not able to open my wp-admin it is giving me redirecting of vbulletin

You did create accounts and did not specified email address for each registered one. Make sure you have email specified, additionally have no duplicated accounts (accounts with multiple similar email addresses) and your administrative WP account matches to your vBulletin account (username and email).

Thank you,

[synseal]

vB 4.1.7 (Forum only)
vBSSO v1.4.1, first-time install.

when click on "Platforms" or/and "Access Settings" in vBSSO menu:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function print_cp_header() in /<path>/vbsso/includes/functions_template.php on line 19

No logs produced in vbsso/logs (loging level "ALL")
EDIT: Tue Oct 18 19:45:54 2011,249 [2323] WARN localFileLogger - PHP Unknown Type: [8192] Function split() is deprecated on line 4 in file /<path>/forum.php(651) : eval()'d code. PHP 5.3.6-nmm1 (Linux)
Tue Oct 18 19:49:26 2011,562 [2327] DEBUG localFileLogger - Method execution [vbsso_db_update_vbsso_user_email]: 0/
Tue Oct 18 19:50:58 2011,551 [5625] WARN localFileLogger - PHP Unknown Type: [8192] Function split() is deprecated on line 4 in file /<path>/forum.php(651) : eval()'d code. PHP 5.3.6-nmm1 (Linux)
not quiet sure about this error since line 4 in forum.php is the commented vB versin and licence number?!

other notes: Admin and Mod CP are in custom named folders. vBSSO's "admincp" folder has been renamed accordingly.

Other mods installed:
Change Author And Date 2.2
DownloadsII 6.0.8
KeyCAPTCHA 3.6.0
Mod-Mall.com Remember Me 1.0.0
More Share Options for VB4 by BOP5 Light 2.6
Remove quoted images and videos 1.1
RSS items as posts 0.6
Separate Sticky and Normal Threads 1.1
Skimlinks-Add-on 2.0.7
Steam Connect [BETA] 1.2.1
Tabs en vBulletin 4.x 2.0.3
Thread Starter in Postbit 1.0.3
Usergroup Color Bar 2.1.1
vBadvanced CMPS 4.1.2
vBGamez Lite 4.0.4
vBSSO Single Sign On 1.4.1

Got the exact same error as this member posted on previous page, did you find a solution to this?.

Thanks.

[lazytown]

vBSSO actually hides user profile inputs to change password in WordPress. In meantime user is free to change its own password in vBulletin and use it further.

vBSSO doesn't touch passwords in WordPress and single sign-on is relied on passwords stored in vBulletin users database only. Thereby, the passwords in WordPress stay untouched / unchanged as they were prior vBSSO plugin is activated.

So does that mean existing users are automatically enabled in wordpress?

I wanted to make sure that this is 100% compatible with wordpress plugins and themes.

[xeagle]

Got the exact same error as this member posted on previous page, did you find a solution to this?.

Thanks.

vBSSO doesn't support custom named "admincp" folders originally, but, please be patient and new update of vBSSO is coming within a few days where these issues are taken care of.

Thank you,

[xeagle]

So does that mean existing users are automatically enabled in wordpress?

I wanted to make sure that this is 100% compatible with wordpress plugins and themes.

Right. If person registers or logs in to vBulletin, having the same email address and username registered previously in WordPress, he is automatically connected.

In case if account doesn't exist in WordPress, vBSSO creates it automatically in WordPress based on vBulletin user profile and all themes and plugins are fully compatible to work for this user.

Thank you,

[Akangage]

When i try to install on my server this message show up
We have detected account duplicates babbtanagerseq@gmail.com. Duplicated accounts should be removed or merged before installing or upgrading this product!

How to solved it?

Thnks

[xeagle]

When i try to install on my server this message show up


How to solved it?

Thnks

It pops up because you have account duplicates in your forum's users database. There are two options how you can resolve this:


Merge accounts through AdminCP -> Users -> Merge Users.
Or just delete unused account with the similar email address.


Thank you,

[synseal]

vBSSO doesn't support custom named "admincp" folders originally, but, please be patient and new update of vBSSO is coming within a few days where these issues are taken care of.

Thank you,

ANy news on the update yet, TIA. :up:

[xeagle]

ANy news on the update yet, TIA. :up:

The updated version 1.4.2 was released almost a week ago on November 17. Please feel free to download it :)

Thank you,

[Da^MsT]

I'm getting the following error when I'm trying to connect vB (4.1.8) to WP (3.2.1):

tor 24 nov 2011 17.56.41,096 [354865] WARN localFileLogger - PHP WARNING: [2] mcrypt_encrypt() [<a href='function.mcrypt-encrypt'>function.mcrypt-encrypt</a>]: Size of key is too large for this algorithm on line 275 in file /storage/content/62/130000/xxxx.se/public_html/forum/vbsso/includes/sharedapi.php. PHP 5.2.17 (Linux)
tor 24 nov 2011 17.58.26,729 [355262] WARN localFileLogger - PHP WARNING: [2] mcrypt_encrypt() [<a href='function.mcrypt-encrypt'>function.mcrypt-encrypt</a>]: Size of key is too large for this algorithm on line 275 in file /storage/content/62/130000/xxxx.se/public_html/forum/vbsso/includes/sharedapi.php. PHP 5.2.17 (Linux)
tor 24 nov 2011 18.03.23,293 [360888] ERROR localFileLogger - Communication: Unable to accept response:
tor 24 nov 2011 18.03.23,407 [360888] ERROR localFileLogger -
tor 24 nov 2011 18.05.04,091 [361308] ERROR localFileLogger - Communication: Unable to accept response:
tor 24 nov 2011 18.05.04,093 [361308] ERROR localFileLogger -


The key is 7 characters, a-z only. Any suggestions?

[Da^MsT]

I'm getting the following error when I'm trying to connect vB (4.1.8) to WP (3.2.1):

tor 24 nov 2011 17.56.41,096 [354865] WARN localFileLogger - PHP WARNING: [2] mcrypt_encrypt() [<a href='function.mcrypt-encrypt'>function.mcrypt-encrypt</a>]: Size of key is too large for this algorithm on line 275 in file /storage/content/62/130000/xxxx.se/public_html/forum/vbsso/includes/sharedapi.php. PHP 5.2.17 (Linux)
tor 24 nov 2011 17.58.26,729 [355262] WARN localFileLogger - PHP WARNING: [2] mcrypt_encrypt() [<a href='function.mcrypt-encrypt'>function.mcrypt-encrypt</a>]: Size of key is too large for this algorithm on line 275 in file /storage/content/62/130000/xxxx.se/public_html/forum/vbsso/includes/sharedapi.php. PHP 5.2.17 (Linux)
tor 24 nov 2011 18.03.23,293 [360888] ERROR localFileLogger - Communication: Unable to accept response:
tor 24 nov 2011 18.03.23,407 [360888] ERROR localFileLogger -
tor 24 nov 2011 18.05.04,091 [361308] ERROR localFileLogger - Communication: Unable to accept response:
tor 24 nov 2011 18.05.04,093 [361308] ERROR localFileLogger -


The key is 7 characters, a-z only. Any suggestions?

Never mind, seems my browser cached my first attempt with a much longer key. Clearing the cache did the trick :)

[nacaruncr]

I have this problem:

We have detected account duplicates ---------@hotmail.com, xxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com. Duplicated accounts should be removed or merged before installing or upgrading this product!

How I can fix it?

[Akangage]

It pops up because you have account duplicates in your forum's users database. There are two options how you can resolve this:


Merge accounts through AdminCP -> Users -> Merge Users.
Or just delete unused account with the similar email address.


Thank you,

Great :) its solved, anyway how to setup the platform address? it says setting page on connected platform but i can't find it. Is there any detail information regarding it?

Thanks

[Amadeusmq]

I haven't tried this addon; however, from the documentation on the initial posting, I'm assuming it only works "one way" (i.e., other programs share vbulletin's login.)

However, does this addon work the other direction (or suggest an addon that does?)

Basically, I'm interested in having vbulletin use another authentication for allowing users to login to vbulletin. For example, a person would enter a login/password in vbulletin...then, if it doesn't exist/match, then vbulletin would ask another .php file to authenticate elsewhere before giving up. If that makes sense....

[xeagle]

I have this problem:

We have detected account duplicates ---------@hotmail.com, xxxxxxxxx@hotmail.com. Duplicated accounts should be removed or merged before installing or upgrading this product!

How I can fix it?

We have already answered it at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=2271199&postcount=73.

[xeagle]

Great :) its solved, anyway how to setup the platform address? it says setting page on connected platform but i can't find it. Is there any detail information regarding it?

Thanks

Akangage, you should install WordPress vBSSO plugin in order to connect WordPress platform to vBulletin Single Sign On. I guess the screenshots available at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/vbsso/screenshots/ would help you connect it.

Thank you,

[leoglobant]

Hi.

Is there a tweak I could do, or maybe it is already implemented to use this plugin as a SSO but in the other way around? I mean, Signing-in in other application signs-in on vBulletin.

I need to connect to a third-party RPC authentication system so every user already signed up can log in to vBulletin without registration. Any clues?

Thanks a lot in advance.

[xeagle]

Hi.

Is there a tweak I could do, or maybe it is already implemented to use this plugin as a SSO but in the other way around? I mean, Signing-in in other application signs-in on vBulletin.

I need to connect to a third-party RPC authentication system so every user already signed up can log in to vBulletin without registration. Any clues?

Thanks a lot in advance.

leoglobant, there is no tweak out of the box unfortunately and the need you are looking for should be additionally implemented to extend vBSSO plugin and provide connection for your RPC system. If you have more questions regarding this, you are welcome to send me a private message.

Thank you,

[kleinschwanz]

My problem is... that when I disable or uninstall the addon my forums will act strange.

for instance when people login they will not get the message, "thank you for logging in, xeagle" but "thank you for logging in bbusername" =(

How can I get rid of this?

[Arkham]

Great mod, with unlimited potential. Congrats.

My Top 3 requests for additional platforms:

- PHP Link Directory
- ExpressionEngine
- Joomla

Can you reveal which--if any--additional platforms you're currently considering or testing?

[xeagle]

My problem is... that when I disable or uninstall the addon my forums will act strange.

for instance when people login they will not get the message, "thank you for logging in, xeagle" but "thank you for logging in bbusername" =(

How can I get rid of this?

kleinschwanz, vBSSO doesn't modify any of the standard templates and couldn't be a reason. I guess anything else might be a cause of the issue. You should try to analyze what was done around the vbulletin forum in your case or get a programmer to help you figure this out.

Thank you,

[xeagle]

Great mod, with unlimited potential. Congrats.

My Top 3 requests for additional platforms:

- PHP Link Directory
- ExpressionEngine
- Joomla

Can you reveal which--if any--additional platforms you're currently considering or testing?

Arkham, we can say that we have Joomla platform in our tasks list. We have noted your suggestion regarding these two additional platforms also and would be able to consider them for later integration If we decide that it's worthy to be done.

Thank you,

[Arkham]

Arkham, we can say that we have Joomla platform in our tasks list. We have noted your suggestion regarding these two additional platforms also and would be able to consider them for later integration If we decide that it's worthy to be done.

Thanks, that's great to hear. PHPLD is one--if not the--most popular link directory scripts out there, and there have been a few requests on vB.org for such an integration over the years.

[Brandon Sheley]

nice idea!
can't wait to test this

[xeagle]

Thanks, that's great to hear. PHPLD is one--if not the--most popular link directory scripts out there, and there have been a few requests on vB.org for such an integration over the years.

We will try to get it in our focus.

[OldSchoolDSL]

Warning: fopen(/forums/vbsso/logs/vbsso_2011-12-09.log) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /forums/vbsso/vendor/log4php/appenders/LoggerAppenderFile.php on line 78

Changing the directory /forums/vbsso/logs to 777 corrected this error.

Don't recall reading the need to do that, but it fixed the issue. Now the fun part.... Installing Word Press and seeing if the two will work together.

[Davey-UK]

Keep getting "Unable to verify platform" when trying to configure VB side. Key and address are identical on each.
This is from the log file
[9356] ERROR localFileLogger - Communication: Platform returned error http status code: 0
Sun Dec 11 10:53:58 2011,506 [12580] ERROR localFileLogger - Communication: Platform returned error http status code: 0

Any ideas.

[xeagle]

Keep getting "Unable to verify platform" when trying to configure VB side. Key and address are identical on each.
This is from the log file
[9356] ERROR localFileLogger - Communication: Platform returned error http status code: 0
Sun Dec 11 10:53:58 2011,506 [12580] ERROR localFileLogger - Communication: Platform returned error http status code: 0

Any ideas.

Could you please enable vBSSO -> Logging & Notifications -> Logging Level to DEBUG and send me all this via private message to investigate the issue?

[Davey-UK]

Sent it mate.
It looks like it is making weird addresses with things like http:\/www\/
Thanks for looking.

[OldSchoolDSL]

WordPress 3.3 was released

Anyone test this on it?

[xeagle]

Sent it mate.
It looks like it is making weird addresses with things like http:\/www\/
Thanks for looking.

The addresses are completely correct. I left a reply to your message.

[xeagle]

WordPress 3.3 was released

Anyone test this on it?

We have tested vBSSO on WordPress 3.3 and verified that it's working.

[Davey-UK]

The addresses are completely correct. I left a reply to your message.
It wont let me log in to my WP admin now, it is just looping on the login script!

[xeagle]

It wont let me log in to my WP admin now, it is just looping on the login script!

We have activated your vBSSO WordPress instance manually according to your logging information. We have left a message for you and would like to help you verify your installation.

[OldSchoolDSL]

I finally got around to connecting vBulletin and Word Press, but had to disconnect them.

While connected, anyone who tried to log-in via the forums were shown the "now logging you in page" over and over and over.... An endless loop.

[Inferno Dragon]

I have tested it with wordpress 3.3 and vb 4.1.9, it's working fine however I am facing some minor issues like:

- When we click on the logout option (both on vb and wordpress) it just redirects to a blank page and don't logout the user.

- If I manually do the logout using the vbulletin URL: login.php?do=logout then it just make the user logout from the vbulletin forum, user remains logged-in in the wordpress, I can't seem to find a solution for logging-out the user from WP.

Lastly, I thought that this plugin use the vbulletin to control the user access, but it don't work like this..all this addon do is just sync the vbulletin users with the wordpress, so for example if the ABCD user change his info in the vbulletin then he/she have to change his/her information the wordpress too (like email etc) :S am I right?

[OldSchoolDSL]

Uninstalled, but tagged for possible future use.

Even though I removed the connection and no one other than me ever used it .... vBSSO would every so often send me a small warning e-mail.


PHP WARNING: [2] fopen(/var/attachments/2/71.thumb): failed to open stream: No such file or directory on line 252 in file /var/www/forums/attachment.php. PHP 5.3.8-1~dotdeb.2 (Linux)


And sometimes


PHP WARNING: [2] Invalid argument supplied for foreach() on line 210 in file /var/www/forums/includes/functions_threadedmode.php. PHP 5.3.8-1~dotdeb.2 (Linux)


I thought it was odd that vBBSO was sending me these e-mails (which there is an option for it to do) when I clearly wasn't even using it.

[xeagle]

I finally got around to connecting vBulletin and Word Press, but had to disconnect them.

While connected, anyone who tried to log-in via the forums were shown the "now logging you in page" over and over and over.... An endless loop.

The loop might mean that vBSSO is unable to verify account for the connected WordPress platform. One vBulletin account might match several WordPress accounts. We will add this to our tasks list and handle this case in our next versions.

[xeagle]

Uninstalled, but tagged for possible future use.

Even though I removed the connection and no one other than me ever used it .... vBSSO would every so often send me a small warning e-mail.


PHP WARNING: [2] fopen(/var/attachments/2/71.thumb): failed to open stream: No such file or directory on line 252 in file /var/www/forums/attachment.php. PHP 5.3.8-1~dotdeb.2 (Linux)


And sometimes


PHP WARNING: [2] Invalid argument supplied for foreach() on line 210 in file /var/www/forums/includes/functions_threadedmode.php. PHP 5.3.8-1~dotdeb.2 (Linux)


I thought it was odd that vBBSO was sending me these e-mails (which there is an option for it to do) when I clearly wasn't even using it.

It looks like that these are vBulletin error reporting messages. Did you specify "Email Notifications Addresses" and enable "Email Notifications" at admincp -> vBSSO -> Logging & Notifications?

[OldSchoolDSL]

The loop might mean that vBSSO is unable to verify account for the connected WordPress platform. One vBulletin account might match several WordPress accounts. We will add this to our tasks list and handle this case in our next versions.

There were no other Word Press accounts. I made a dummy account on my vBulletin, logged into it, and was placed in an endless loop.

[OldSchoolDSL]

It looks like that these are vBulletin error reporting messages. Did you specify "Email Notifications Addresses" and enable "Email Notifications" at admincp -> vBSSO -> Logging & Notifications?

YES :o

But after removing the connection, shouldn't it stop reporting? It wasn't so much an issue, but had my a little confused. One of those errors is someone was looking for an attachment that I had deleted, but the other had me confused because I had disconnected the link between vBulletin and WordPress, so I couldn't understand why it was telling me there was a log-in error between the two.

[xeagle]

There were no other Word Press accounts. I made a dummy account on my vBulletin, logged into it, and was placed in an endless loop.

That's weird, so we have put it into the investigation in-progress status.

[OldSchoolDSL]

That's weird, so we have put it into the investigation in-progress status.

Thank you Xeagle for taking the time to investigate and address my concern. I very much appreciate you're willingness to look into this and understand your time is valuable, so I am thankful you for your reply. :)

As a matter of interest and maybe if it will help, I was using vBulletin 4.1.9 and WordPress 3.3

[xeagle]

YES :o

But after removing the connection, shouldn't it stop reporting? It wasn't so much an issue, but had my a little confused. One of those errors is someone was looking for an attachment that I had deleted, but the other had me confused because I had disconnected the link between vBulletin and WordPress, so I couldn't understand why it was telling me there was a log-in error between the two.

Actually, it looks like vBulletin didn't remove a reference to the previously deleted file. In your case vBSSO was configured to capture all WARN messages and that's why you saw that error lines.

Those errors are actually belong to vBulletin, but we have noted such case and will think how to handle this in future.

[del Drago]

This mod looks very, very promising.

Could this be used to integrate vBulletin with Buddypress?

[xeagle]

This mod looks very, very promising.

Could this be used to integrate vBulletin with Buddypress?

Unfortunately we have no near plans to connect BuddyPress platform to vBulletin, however we have added this platform to the list and consider the connection in 2012.

[ndahiya]

Agreed. So far the plugin is quite good to start a network up quickly from scratch based on vBulletin and WordPress platforms.

From other hand we are in internal brainstorm period of thinking to connect already existing accounts and letting users to change their username and email address in platforms.

If somebody opens to share the vision how they would like to see this, that's greatly appreciated!

Thank you,

For mediawiki, this mod used to work very well, but is no longer active. would be great of the bridge could be based similar to this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=247279

ndahiya

[thompson]

what about drupal ?

[xeagle]

For mediawiki, this mod used to work very well, but is no longer active. would be great of the bridge could be based similar to this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=247279

ndahiya

ndahiya, we don't honestly think that our commitment is going to be a growth of the platform related features at the moment. Our initial and major goal is to provide a smart single sign-on mechanism to connect platforms together and connect already existing accounts properly. We have noted your advice and definitely get back to the consideration in 2012.

[xeagle]

what about drupal ?

We have a Drupal platform as a highest priority for the beginning of next year. It is going to be published as soon as we could provide enhanced version of the current plugins with the better existing accounts management.

[ndahiya]

ndahiya, we don't honestly think that our commitment is going to be a growth of the platform related features at the moment. Our initial and major goal is to provide a smart single sign-on mechanism to connect platforms together and connect already existing accounts properly. We have noted your advice and definitely get back to the consideration in 2012.

i believe there are 3 components to integration:
1. user authentication and sign on integration
2. look and feel
3. other addons (like, showing wikiedits in the profile page etc).

for me, the 1st is the key (the 2nd would be useful, but not critical per se). it would be great if mediawiki was included in the list of supported platforms. the other things will be taken care of by other sers, once the signon functionality is standardized and stable.

[Network-HQ]

Hey guys, I uploaded and activate the fils for vbulletin and uploaded the folder for Wordpress. When I wanne actiavte the wordpress plugin I get the follwing fatal error message:

Warning: require_once(x:\xxx\htdocs\wp-content\plugins\vbsso/../includes/config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in x:\xxx\htdocs\wp-content\plugins\vbsso\vbootstrap.php on line 13

Any solutions? :confused:

[xeagle]

Hey guys, I uploaded and activate the fils for vbulletin and uploaded the folder for Wordpress. When I wanne actiavte the wordpress plugin I get the follwing fatal error message:

Warning: require_once(x:\xxx\htdocs\wp-content\plugins\vbsso/../includes/config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in x:\xxx\htdocs\wp-content\plugins\vbsso\vbootstrap.php on line 13

Any solutions? :confused:

Hi, vbootstrap.php is a part of the vBulletin vBSSO package, maybe you just installed vBulletin vBSSO plugin for WordPress instead of WordPress vBSSO plugin?

[Network-HQ]

Hey, I uploaded all folders from the "upload" in the vbulletin root directory.
In the "/wp-conten/plugins" directory I only uploaded the vbsso folder. Then I uploaded the vbsso.xml on vbulletin. And now I want to activate the plugin on wordpress but I get the fatal error message. :(

[xeagle]

Hey, I uploaded all folders from the "upload" in the vbulletin root directory.
In the "/wp-conten/plugins" directory I only uploaded the vbsso folder. Then I uploaded the vbsso.xml on vbulletin. And now I want to activate the plugin on wordpress but I get the fatal error message. :(

What fatal message are you getting? Is that something different than "Warning" you published last time?

[Network-HQ]

The same message as in my last post.
Warning: require_once(x:\xxx\htdocs\wp-content\plugins\vbsso/../includes/config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in x:\xxx\htdocs\wp-content\plugins\vbsso\vbootstrap.php on line 13

[Leica.Robbiani]

Hi there,

Platform Shared Key: REQUIRED, Unique string taken from vBSSO plugin (settings page) installed on the connected platform
Using vb Forum 4.06, from where do I get this unique string? Trying to connect with the "simplekey" gives me a blank page in the adminCP.

Best regards

L.R.

[xeagle]

Hi there,


Using vb Forum 4.06, from where do I get this unique string? Trying to connect with the "simplekey" gives me a blank page in the adminCP.

Best regards

L.R.

Leica, key could be any word like a password shared between vBulletin and WordPress. The configuration instructions are available at http://vbsso.com/platforms/vbulletin/ and http://vbsso.com/platforms/wordpress/

[Leica.Robbiani]

Hi there,

Leica, key could be any word like a password shared between vBulletin and WordPress. The configuration instructions are available at http://vbsso.com/platforms/vbulletin/ and http://vbsso.com/platforms/wordpress/
I did it like it's described. But clicking on Connet in vB, I get a white page and nothing is connected. So I think there must be a fault. Maybe because I have once a time the same user name in vB and WP? If the password is the same, I don't know.

Thanks for your help, best regards

L.R.

[xeagle]

Hi there,


I did it like it's described. But clicking on Connet in vB, I get a white page and nothing is connected. So I think there must be a fault. Maybe because I have once a time the same user name in vB and WP? If the password is the same, I don't know.

Thanks for your help, best regards

L.R.

Hi, could you please open vBulletin -> admincp -> vBSSO -> Logging & Notifications -> Logging Level -> All, specify your email address, try to connect a platform again and send me private message of the log information delivered to your email for further investigation?

[owning_y0u]

is this also going to work with wordpress install where the buddypress plugin is installed?

[xeagle]

is this also going to work with wordpress install where the buddypress plugin is installed?

owning_y0u, plugin works when the buddypress plugin is installed as well.

[Silviu]

Nevermind, we solved the login "inconvenience" with a WP plugin.

[udhien]

Hi,

I've installed this mods successfully, unfortunately the avatar still not imported yet. I checked in "forum.domain.com/vbsso/assets/images/avatar", and no file found on this directory.

Is there any missing steps that I have done so far?

Thank you,

[xeagle]

Hi,

I've installed this mods successfully, unfortunately the avatar still not imported yet. I checked in "forum.domain.com/vbsso/assets/images/avatar", and no file found on this directory.

Is there any missing steps that I have done so far?

Thank you,

udhien, vBSSO doesn't actually import avatars. The concept of avatars implemented in vBSSO is to address an avatar request to a certain avatar url published by vBulletin, No copying of files physically.

[udhien]

udhien, vBSSO doesn't actually import avatars. The concept of avatars implemented in vBSSO is to address an avatar request to a certain avatar url published by vBulletin, No copying of files physically.

Thank you for the answer.

The situation is in vbulletin my profile already has an avatar, when I tried to make a comment in some article/post (wordpress engine), my avatar didn't show in that comment.

FYI that the wordpress installed in own folder (http://mydomain.com/wordpress) - not in the root folder.

Is there any custom config in VBSSO that I need to modified?

Thank you very much

[xeagle]

Thank you for the answer.

The situation is in vbulletin my profile already has an avatar, when I tried to make a comment in some article/post (wordpress engine), my avatar didn't show in that comment.

FYI that the wordpress installed in own folder (http://mydomain.com/wordpress) - not in the root folder.

Is there any custom config in VBSSO that I need to modified?

Thank you very much

We recommend to follow the instructions available at http://vbsso.com/platforms/wordpress/. The screen shots are available there and make sure that "Fetch and Show vBulletin Avatars" option is checked on vBSSO WordPress configuration side.

[AlbertAtTheory]

Got this up and running rather easily on my site. I did need to make sure to have rewrites enabled so that both Wordpress and vBulletin defaulted with a www. in front of the domain otherwise I ran into issues with the cookies being recognized across both platforms.

I turned on e-mail logging and am getting a bunch of errors regarding "localEmailLogger" Most of the errors are saying "Communication: Unable to accept response:" Everything seems to be working fine though, so should I just ignore this error?

Also, any ETA on a Drupal version? Would love to see this happen very soon!

[udhien]

We recommend to follow the instructions available at http://vbsso.com/platforms/wordpress/. The screen shots are available there and make sure that "Fetch and Show vBulletin Avatars" option is checked on vBSSO WordPress configuration side.

this case is closed. my fault that the avatar in vbulletin member profile not uploaded yet and that why in wordpress the avatar not showing up

[udhien]

Got this up and running rather easily on my site. I did need to make sure to have rewrites enabled so that both Wordpress and vBulletin defaulted with a www. in front of the domain otherwise I ran into issues with the cookies being recognized across both platforms.

I turned on e-mail logging and am getting a bunch of errors regarding "localEmailLogger" Most of the errors are saying "Communication: Unable to accept response:" Everything seems to be working fine though, so should I just ignore this error?

Also, any ETA on a Drupal version? Would love to see this happen very soon!

it means that between wordpress and vbulletin are not connected yet.

[xeagle]

this case is closed. my fault that the avatar in vbulletin member profile not uploaded yet and that why in wordpress the avatar not showing up

Sounds good! :)

[xeagle]

Got this up and running rather easily on my site. I did need to make sure to have rewrites enabled so that both Wordpress and vBulletin defaulted with a www. in front of the domain otherwise I ran into issues with the cookies being recognized across both platforms.

I turned on e-mail logging and am getting a bunch of errors regarding "localEmailLogger" Most of the errors are saying "Communication: Unable to accept response:" Everything seems to be working fine though, so should I just ignore this error?

Also, any ETA on a Drupal version? Would love to see this happen very soon!

We don't recommend to ignore these errors if they are thrown during platform connection phase. Also the debug information found there could point you to the source of the error.

Regarding the ETA, we just have been contributing to vBSSO depending on the team availability time. therefore we cannot guarantee the certain ETA date. We cay say that we have Drupal in our priority tasks list to get it connected.

[BWG22]

After following the instructions, vBulletin keeps telling me that it is unable to verify the platform. I read through all the responses here and nothing seems to work.

Your help would be appreciated.

[udhien]

please provide your wordpress url, vbulletin url and also the screenshoots in your wp and vbulletin side.

i'll trying to help based on my experience

[BWG22]

I'll get it for you in a moment, but the logger says "Communication: Platform returned error http status code:403"

[whitey10tc]

Would this work as a bridge between two forums
forum 1
wordpress (as the registration site for both forums)
forum 2

Any ideas

[xeagle]

After following the instructions, vBulletin keeps telling me that it is unable to verify the platform. I read through all the responses here and nothing seems to work.

Your help would be appreciated.

If you enable logging according to the instructions available at http://vbsso.com/platforms/vbulletin/ "Enable Logging" and send me a private message for review, I would be able to point you to the source of the issue.

[xeagle]

I'll get it for you in a moment, but the logger says "Communication: Platform returned error http status code:403"

We recommend to check the url you are trying to connect platform through to ensure it is accessible. 403 is forbidden.

[xeagle]

Would this work as a bridge between two forums
forum 1
wordpress (as the registration site for both forums)
forum 2

Any ideas

Unfortunately this feature wouldn't start working out of the box.

[BWG22]

We recommend to check the url you are trying to connect platform through to ensure it is accessible. 403 is forbidden.

Both WordPress and vB URL's are accessible. Still getting the error message.

The plug-in is telling me to use this URL.

http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/vbsso/vbsso.php

When I go to the page manually, I get this:

{"product":4,"version":"3.3.1"}

Looks like it may not be a permission issue, any thoughts?

Thanks

[xeagle]

Both WordPress and vB URL's are accessible. Still getting the error message.

The plug-in is telling me to use this URL.

http://mydomain.com/wp-content/plugins/vbsso/vbsso.php

When I go to the page manually, I get this:



Looks like it may not be a permission issue, any thoughts?

Thanks


Right. We actually faced the similar issue with other guys too, where the reason was in their hosting provider. There was a configuration blocked internal requests and they had to change their hosting environment. So, that's not really a software issue and we recommend to figure this out with your hosting provider.

Thank you,

[BWG22]

Right. We actually faced the similar issue with other guys too, where the reason was in their hosting provider. There was a configuration blocked internal requests and they had to change their hosting environment. So, that's not really a software issue and we recommend to figure this out with your hosting provider.

Thank you,

My hosting provider responded with this:

If I could get some technical information about how it works and what it does behind the scenes, I might be able to identify the problem and fix it. A simple 403 Forbidden message tells me nothing without some context as to what the system was trying to do.

[Masked Crusader]

Tagged.

[xeagle]

My hosting provider responded with this:

Briefly telling the plugin installed on vBulletin side actually opens CURL connection to WordPress platform and gets response error code 403 Forbidden. From other side vBSSO WordPress url/page is accessible outside if somebody opens it in a browser as usual, thus something blocks the requests initiated by CURL PHP library to host where WordPress is installed. You might like explaining this to your hosting provider, so, let them take a look at source code or give me access to your environment(if it's possible) to test this out on a quick sample and show this to your hosting provider then. Please don't hesitate to send me a private message if you want to be in touch according to your environment.

[insidegames]

does this works with vbulletin 4.1.10 and wordpress 3.3.1?

[xeagle]

does this works with vbulletin 4.1.10 and wordpress 3.3.1?

It should be, at least it works on our vBulletin 4.1.10 and 3.3.x installations.

[insidegames]

Nice, thank you!

[Kaelon]

Any chances that support for vBulletin 3.8.x might be forthcoming? A large number of boards, especially Big Boards, are still relying on vB 3.8.x given its general stability over vB 4.

[Brian Cruz]

It should be, at least it works on our vBulletin 4.1.10 and 3.3.x installations.

Mostly. I recently switched over to storing stylesheets as files and found that unless I turn this mod off while I'm saving those changes, it'll say that it can't write to the stylesheet directories. Ownership and permissions are fine and it saves the stylesheets as it should when this mod is disabled.

It is pretty annoying to have to remember to shut this off every time I touch something else that will force a stylesheet save. Anyone else have this issue?

[FreshFroot]

This looks really interesting..

I have a custom made CMS of my own, and I might see if I can integrate it with vB.

[xeagle]

Any chances that support for vBulletin 3.8.x might be forthcoming? A large number of boards, especially Big Boards, are still relying on vB 3.8.x given its general stability over vB 4.

We are still collecting the votes to make this vB 3.8 compatible. If somebody wants to have this version, you are welcome to leave the comments here.

[FreshFroot]

We are still collecting the votes to make this vB 3.8 compatible. If somebody wants to have this version, you are welcome to leave the comments here.
I guess you have no documentation on how we can integrate out own scripts with VBSSO and vBulletin?

Eg. my own CMS integrated with vB

[xeagle]

I guess you have no documentation on how we can integrate out own scripts with VBSSO and vBulletin?

Eg. my own CMS integrated with vB

If that's your own CMS and you would like to integrate it with vBulletin through vBSSO, I would be able to send you a brief API list and let your developers to work on this. If you are interested in this, just send me your contacts to PM.

[Silviu]

Mostly. I recently switched over to storing stylesheets as files and found that unless I turn this mod off while I'm saving those changes, it'll say that it can't write to the stylesheet directories. Ownership and permissions are fine and it saves the stylesheets as it should when this mod is disabled.

It is pretty annoying to have to remember to shut this off every time I touch something else that will force a stylesheet save. Anyone else have this issue?

Confirmed, unfortunately we had to uninstall the mod because of it.

[nando99]

question, i have an active wordpress blog and just installed a vbulletin forum for it, will this make my wordpress registered members registered members on the forum?

[Hostboard]

Sorry if I missed this but is it possible for this to allow one to login from 1 vb site into another across 2 domains?

[xeagle]

question, i have an active wordpress blog and just installed a vbulletin forum for it, will this make my wordpress registered members registered members on the forum?

Not really, vBSSO makes vBulletin registered members registered members on wordpress.

[xeagle]

Sorry if I missed this but is it possible for this to allow one to login from 1 vb site into another across 2 domains?

Yes, it works in case if you have vBulletin and WordPress installed on different domains, however it is not able to to connect two vBulletin forums yet.

[Hostboard]

Yes, it works in case if you have vBulletin and WordPress installed on different domains, however it is not able to to connect two vBulletin forums yet.

I have sent you a simular message via your site. Would like to start a conversation to see if this is something you would be willing to explore and do either through here or as a paid project. I am not sure the vbnetwork modification is being supported anymore and or I would like some additional functionality but what "it" does is along the lines of what I am hoping for.

Thanx for the quick reply :)

[nando99]

Not really, vBSSO makes vBulletin registered members registered members on wordpress.

Ok... so how exactly would that work or what do you have to do? Besides installing the plugin and adding the wordpress instance...

Like do they have to register on wp with the same email they have in vb or?

[BWG22]

Got a reply from my hosting provider.

“I am trying to figure out the problem with your application not working correctly. I cannot seem to replicate it or diagnose it further....

We are using a WHM/Cpanel setup. Your last post to him said it was attempting to curl his wordpress site and receiving a 403 Forbidden error. I have setup a page in his vbulletin site that attempts to access the connector url, which is http://mysite/wp-content/plugins/vbsso/vbsso.php

I set up a demo page to test it. It uses curl to grab the above link and output the result. It seems to work fine.

I would appreciate any help you might be able to give me. If you have an example I can upload to the site for easier troubleshooting, I would appreciate it. I have been using Google to search for ideas, but haven't found any others posting about this..”

[Amaca]

First of all, thank you for this awesome plugin! finally a strong solution to connect vbulletin and worpdress!!! i hope to see you grow up soon and i m looking forward for your next plugin releases!!!

now the questions: how can i set the link to vbulleting profile in the WP comments? now, thanks to your avatar feature, i have the avatar...but i really need to create a link on the nickname and the avatar as well to the user's vbulletin profile...can you help me to do this?

the second one: i have a website with a lot of articles and comments...after vbsso installation the users avatars who commented the news before the upgrade with this bridge, has disappeared. Instead with new comments work like a charm. how can i refresh all the old comments with updated avatars? Do you know some tips, tool, or sql snippets to refresh it all?

Please, i need help :(

[STronic]

Can i pass usergroup ID or another custom profile fields from vBulletin to Wordpress with VBSSO?

[studify]

Hey, you guys.
Unfortunatly I've experienced a few problems. I'm running vB 4.1.11 under boards.example.com and WordPress 3.3.1 under blog.example.com. vB is my "Core-System", so registration should only be available on it, but users need to be able to access WordPress as well (using ClassiPress Premium Theme).

After I found your great vBSSO Plugin I've installed it instantly ;)

Everything worked fine, the system established the connection and wordpress was fetching the users logging in to vB (they show up in WPs users list). But they are not logged in to wordpress automatically and cannot login via WPs login form (password error).

Another problem is, that I can't sign out of my wp admin account anymore. WP redirects me straight back to WP Dashboard after clicking the Sign out button keeping me logged in.

I just have no idea what to do... Would be great to hear from you, I need your help :/

Alex

[xeagle]

Hey, you guys.
Unfortunatly I've experienced a few problems. I'm running vB 4.1.11 under boards.example.com and WordPress 3.3.1 under blog.example.com. vB is my "Core-System", so registration should only be available on it, but users need to be able to access WordPress as well (using ClassiPress Premium Theme).

After I found your great vBSSO Plugin I've installed it instantly ;)

Everything worked fine, the system established the connection and wordpress was fetching the users logging in to vB (they show up in WPs users list). But they are not logged in to wordpress automatically and cannot login via WPs login form (password error).

Another problem is, that I can't sign out of my wp admin account anymore. WP redirects me straight back to WP Dashboard after clicking the Sign out button keeping me logged in.

I just have no idea what to do... Would be great to hear from you, I need your help :/

Alex

Alex, try please to back to your vBulletin, try to sign out there first. It should sign out all the connected platforms and start working next time as soon as you are logged in.

[xeagle]

Can i pass usergroup ID or another custom profile fields from vBulletin to Wordpress with VBSSO?

Unfortunately WordPress vBSSO plugin doesn't support it.

[xeagle]

First of all, thank you for this awesome plugin! finally a strong solution to connect vbulletin and worpdress!!! i hope to see you grow up soon and i m looking forward for your next plugin releases!!!

now the questions: how can i set the link to vbulleting profile in the WP comments? now, thanks to your avatar feature, i have the avatar...but i really need to create a link on the nickname and the avatar as well to the user's vbulletin profile...can you help me to do this?

the second one: i have a website with a lot of articles and comments...after vbsso installation the users avatars who commented the news before the upgrade with this bridge, has disappeared. Instead with new comments work like a charm. how can i refresh all the old comments with updated avatars? Do you know some tips, tool, or sql snippets to refresh it all?

Please, i need help :(

Hi Amaca, thanks for the trying vBSSO :) Sol, regarding the first your question, this feature requires to modify both vBSSO plugins for WordPress and vBulletin to support correct redirect to profile. The 2nd feature starts working if you create new accounts in vBulletin for people who left older comments and associate an avatar with account in vBulletin.

[xeagle]

Ok... so how exactly would that work or what do you have to do? Besides installing the plugin and adding the wordpress instance...

Like do they have to register on wp with the same email they have in vb or?

There is no needs to create user accounts in WordPress, if person has account in vBulletin and logs in, vBulletin vBSSO creates account in WordPress automatically.

[BWG22]

No answer for me?

[xeagle]

No answer for me?

You are a special case :) We were busy recently and were not able to leave post answers, so we will send you the updated vBSSO file with additional logging to try detect the cause in your case.

[studify]

Hey xeagle,
thank you for your answer, but it didn't solve my problem...

I've been trying it for hours, but when I log in to vBulletin and go to my blog afterwards, I'm not logged in to wordpress and even cannot log in manually because it says "wrong password".

But when I log in to my blog with my admin account I see my vBulletin Account in the wordpress user list.

After that I can't even log out of Wordpress anymore, it just redirects me (saying "Logging you out.") back to the page I'm currently viewing.

What can I do?

Alex

[mekmike]

hi i have a problem... when i run vbsso, it doesnt allow me to open my threads?.. i tried playing with the user groups settings but it doesnt help.. please help thanks

[nando99]

Hey, you guys.
Everything worked fine, the system established the connection and wordpress was fetching the users logging in to vB (they show up in WPs users list). But they are not logged in to wordpress automatically and cannot login via WPs login form (password error).

Another problem is, that I can't sign out of my wp admin account anymore. WP redirects me straight back to WP Dashboard after clicking the Sign out button keeping me logged in.

I just have no idea what to do... Would be great to hear from you, I need your help :/

Alex

some of my members and I are having the same problem, we're logged into vb but not logged in to wp - and we cant login to wp... another thing thats happening, everytime some1 logs in to vb a duplicate user is created in wp but they still cant login... i have a member with over 10 accounts on the wp...

any help is appreciated...

[markp_2000]

I'm having a similar issue as above. When I am logged into vb and try and log into wp I cycles four or five times saying log in successful with the vb page.

Mark

[Amaca]

The 2nd feature starts working if you create new accounts in vBulletin for people who left older comments and associate an avatar with account in vBulletin.

i don't understand...how can i associate an avatar with account in vbulletin? is there a feature that can do that?

some of my members and I are having the same problem, we're logged into vb but not logged in to wp - and we cant login to wp...
recently my system is doing the same thing...

And other bug: some new users after registration aren't recognized by wordpress, and you can't see them in the users list of wp. Or sometimes the user's avatar doesn't work in wordpress, but only in the forum.

can you help me? have you some tips?

They are big problems and i m thinking to delete the bridging method...but it's a very bad thing.:(

[hhumas]

i am getting this error


We have detected account duplicates w.glatze@web.de. Duplicated accounts should be removed or merged before installing or upgrading this product!

[BWG22]

Still waiting... lol

[speedytwenty]

We are having many issues already described as well. When can we expect a new release of VBSSO that addresses these?

The biggest issue we have had is not being able to logout through Wordpress.

[edit] We are looking to purchase your license if/when we get these issues resolved. No sense in paying for a plugin that doesn't work!

[SiteTalkZone]

Hi, These are the list of issues on my site.

1) I cannot login to wordpress using the account on vbulletin
2) clicking the 'login' link on wordpress will redirect to forumhome
3) wordpress/wp-admin will redirect to forumpage, the user must login the forum before they can access to wp-admin
4) when i try login from widget (using login widget plugin) it stuck at redirect page, can't stop directing from that page.
5) when i am logged in, in my vbulletin and i go to http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/ it keep direct me to redirect page that can't stop directing and stuck again in that page
6)Is there are server requirements for this mods? seems its not working on my development site.

Thanks!

[MikeF]

Can two or more vBulletin forums be bridged with this product?

[chrisbjax]

Do you have any documentation that shows how the vbulletin user groups map to the wordpress usergroups? I've tried testing with my vbulletin admin group, however, I have been unsuccessful giving my vbulletin admin user, level 10 access in wordpress? (atleast, not without manually making changes within mysql)

[insidegames]

do this also works with vBulletin 4.1 and vBulletin 3.6

[doubleclick]

I'm trying to understand how this works. The description says:

Single Sign-On
Log to third party applications through vBulletin
Log out of third party applications through vBulletin
Register to third party applications through vBulletin
Recover password to third party applications through vBulletin

I have a number of scripts on my site that I'd like to be able to use this, but don't know how to accomplish this.

Is there documentation somewhere to explain this? If not, can you provide an outline of the basic process to accomplish this (files to copy to other script's directory, which files to edit, etc.)?

[xeagle]

Could you please drop me a private message and we would try to solve this.

Hey xeagle,
thank you for your answer, but it didn't solve my problem...

I've been trying it for hours, but when I log in to vBulletin and go to my blog afterwards, I'm not logged in to wordpress and even cannot log in manually because it says "wrong password".

But when I log in to my blog with my admin account I see my vBulletin Account in the wordpress user list.

After that I can't even log out of Wordpress anymore, it just redirects me (saying "Logging you out.") back to the page I'm currently viewing.

What can I do?

Alex

[xeagle]

vBSSO doesn't impact to the opening the threads at all. The cause of your issue is a something else. Please try to see what else you installed on your system, probably you will find a cause.

hi i have a problem... when i run vbsso, it doesnt allow me to open my threads?.. i tried playing with the user groups settings but it doesnt help.. please help thanks

[xeagle]

Could you please try to sign out vBulletin and sign in there again and it should start working properly? That looks like an issue, which should be fixed.

I'm having a similar issue as above. When I am logged into vb and try and log into wp I cycles four or five times saying log in successful with the vb page.

Mark

[xeagle]

vBSSO doesn't work with duplicated accounts and you are recommended to clean up accounts to avoid any duplicates before start installing vBSSO. You might have accounts with similar email address or usernames.

i am getting this error


We have detected account duplicates w.glatze@web.de. Duplicated accounts should be removed or merged before installing or upgrading this product!

[xeagle]

just sent you PM.

Still waiting... lol

[xeagle]

Could you please contact me via PM to help you solve the issues?

We are having many issues already described as well. When can we expect a new release of VBSSO that addresses these?

The biggest issue we have had is not being able to logout through Wordpress.

[edit] We are looking to purchase your license if/when we get these issues resolved. No sense in paying for a plugin that doesn't work!

[xeagle]

Could you please contact me via PM to help you solve the issues?

Hi, These are the list of issues on my site.

1) I cannot login to wordpress using the account on vbulletin
2) clicking the 'login' link on wordpress will redirect to forumhome
3) wordpress/wp-admin will redirect to forumpage, the user must login the forum before they can access to wp-admin
4) when i try login from widget (using login widget plugin) it stuck at redirect page, can't stop directing from that page.
5) when i am logged in, in my vbulletin and i go to http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/ it keep direct me to redirect page that can't stop directing and stuck again in that page
6)Is there are server requirements for this mods? seems its not working on my development site.

Thanks!

[xeagle]

We are working on this.

Can two or more vBulletin forums be bridged with this product?

[xeagle]

vBSSO doesn't map vBulletin groups to WordPress groups.

Do you have any documentation that shows how the vbulletin user groups map to the wordpress usergroups? I've tried testing with my vbulletin admin group, however, I have been unsuccessful giving my vbulletin admin user, level 10 access in wordpress? (atleast, not without manually making changes within mysql)

[xeagle]

It doesn't work with vBulletin 3.x. vBSSO is supported for vBulletin 4.x so far.

do this also works with vBulletin 4.1 and vBulletin 3.6

[xeagle]

We would be able to send you programming API document if you contact us via PM.

I'm trying to understand how this works. The description says:

Single Sign-On
Log to third party applications through vBulletin
Log out of third party applications through vBulletin
Register to third party applications through vBulletin
Recover password to third party applications through vBulletin

I have a number of scripts on my site that I'd like to be able to use this, but don't know how to accomplish this.

Is there documentation somewhere to explain this? If not, can you provide an outline of the basic process to accomplish this (files to copy to other script's directory, which files to edit, etc.)?

[littleginsu]

I have installed this mod and it was painless and appears to be working beautifully!

I do have a question, are there instructions on the other settings (i.e. Access Settings, Profile Fields, etc.). Is there anyway to allow certain vBulletin Usergroups to be Authors on the blog, opposed to just Subscribers?

[xeagle]

I have installed this mod and it was painless and appears to be working beautifully!

I do have a question, are there instructions on the other settings (i.e. Access Settings, Profile Fields, etc.). Is there anyway to allow certain vBulletin Usergroups to be Authors on the blog, opposed to just Subscribers?

The Profile fields are used to transfer first name, last name of the user, etc from forum to blog in case when user registers account in vB.

Access settings are used to restrict auto login to blog, for example the person who signs in from forum, might not be in to blog automatically or person who signs in from blog should be signed in automatically in both platforms.

[beekay]

We are still collecting the votes to make this vB 3.8 compatible. If somebody wants to have this version, you are welcome to leave the comments here.

Where are you collecting votes? I would like to vote and possibly offer to pay for this to be compatible with 3.8

[xeagle]

Where are you collecting votes? I would like to vote and possibly offer to pay for this to be compatible with 3.8

So far we basically listen to the people who are interested in this and collaborating in a forum to do this then would be able to split the amount contribution between them.

[gamerscms]

It would be great to see a Joomla plugin made as there is not one out yet, i would be happy to pay to get this.

[xeagle]

Dear,

We are ready to schedule the work to make the product vBulletin 3.x compatible and waiting for your +1 for vBulletin 3.x for coming weeks.

Right after that I will contact all of you to discuss the contribution amount immediately and schedule the process to release the compatibles updates.

Thank you all for your interest!

[xeagle]

It would be great to see a Joomla plugin made as there is not one out yet, i would be happy to pay to get this.

That would be feasible certainly.

We are going to start collecting the votes regarding the Joomla and Drupal plugins by the end of this month to get you all support us and make this happen and released this summer.

[gamerscms]

That would be feasible certainly.

We are going to start collecting the votes regarding the Joomla and Drupal plugins by the end of this month to get you all support us and make this happen and released this summer.

This is great news to hear :)

+1 from me.

[beekay]

Dear,

We are ready to schedule the work to make the product vBulletin 3.x compatible and waiting for your +1 for vBulletin 3.x for coming weeks.

Right after that I will contact all of you to discuss the contribution amount immediately and schedule the process to release the compatibles updates.

Thank you all for your interest!

I hope it gets underway soon. I can pay my contribution as soon as your ready. Let me know the contribution amount you had in mind and if its reasonable I'd be willing to go beyond that amount to speed this process up if possible.

[xeagle]

I hope it gets underway soon. I can pay my contribution as soon as your ready. Let me know the contribution amount you had in mind and if its reasonable I'd be willing to go beyond that amount to speed this process up if possible.

Yes, it does. We have been working on the estimation these weeks, meanwhile getting the votes.

[xeagle]

Don't hesitate to put your +1 vote to make vBSSO working and vBulletin 3.x compatible.

[littleginsu]

Hello!

Me again.

I turned debugging on in Wordpress for other reasons--but noticed I am getting this error in reference to the vbSSO plugin:

Notice: Use of undefined constant IS_PROFILE_PAGE - assumed 'IS_PROFILE_PAGE' in /home/blah/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/vbsso/vbsso.php on line 61

The code at line 61 is:
if (IS_PROFILE_PAGE) {
add_action('profile_personal_options', 'vbsso_profile_personal_options');
}

Any thoughts?

[xeagle]

Hello!

Me again.

I turned debugging on in Wordpress for other reasons--but noticed I am getting this error in reference to the vbSSO plugin:

Notice: Use of undefined constant IS_PROFILE_PAGE - assumed 'IS_PROFILE_PAGE' in /home/blah/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/vbsso/vbsso.php on line 61


The code at line 61 is:
if (IS_PROFILE_PAGE) {
add_action('profile_personal_options', 'vbsso_profile_personal_options');
}

Any thoughts?

It doesn't impact to the functionality of the plugin. The reason is WordPress defines this constant in case of profile page only and doesn't in other cases. We will put update of the WordPress plugin this month and it will include the required fix.

[DefiantComplex]

Hi,
First of all thanks for the plugin, it works very nice vB and wordpress sided. However i have come across a error.

After setting it up today, it seems to be fully working however when i goto wordpress when im logged out of both sides then click Login via wordpress it chucks me to a 403 forbidden page.

http://forum.mysite.com/vbsso/vbsso.php?do=login&d=http%3A%2F%2Fmysite.com%2F&lid=4fd79003da9fe4.90611855

Now i have checked to see if the file is there and indeed it's there, not sure what is really causing this?

Any help would be much appreciated!

[xeagle]

Hi,
First of all thanks for the plugin, it works very nice vB and wordpress sided. However i have come across a error.

After setting it up today, it seems to be fully working however when i goto wordpress when im logged out of both sides then click Login via wordpress it chucks me to a 403 forbidden page.

http://forum.mysite.com/vbsso/vbsso.php?do=login&d=http%3A%2F%2Fmysite.com%2F&lid=4fd79003da9fe4.90611855

Now i have checked to see if the file is there and indeed it's there, not sure what is really causing this?

Any help would be much appreciated!

Could you please try to check if your url address something like below is accessible from browser.

http://forum.mysite.com/vbsso/vbsso.php

If file exists but url is not accessible, hence the reason of this might be a web server configuration settings. If url is accessible I would you like to send us the log files collected by vbsso/logs/ folder.

[DefiantComplex]

Ok so i tested on localhost, it seems its a cURL issue with my host. Not exactly sure but i need to speak with them about it and see what is causing it.

As for the other issue now, on localhost when i click login it takes me just to the forum index, regardless of what i set the url to in the admin. Is there a way to bypass this and make it hit the login page correctly?

[xeagle]

Ok so i tested on localhost, it seems its a cURL issue with my host. Not exactly sure but i need to speak with them about it and see what is causing it.

As for the other issue now, on localhost when i click login it takes me just to the forum index, regardless of what i set the url to in the admin. Is there a way to bypass this and make it hit the login page correctly?

In case of CURL issue you might like to ask your hosting provider to make it working. So, regarding the login url, please make sure login url is specified under vBSSO settings page in admin area and it points to full url address starting from http:// or https://.

[xeagle]

The updated plugins were just released and available for download at http://vbsso.com/download/

[waylandprod]

Amazing stuff! Works perfectly. Now I just need to figure out how to link back to a custom simple login screen and I'll be all set. Thanks!

[xeagle]

Amazing stuff! Works perfectly. Now I just need to figure out how to link back to a custom simple login screen and I'll be all set. Thanks!

You are free to set the full http address of custom login page at admincp > vBSSO > vBulletin Links > "Login link".

[Brandon Sheley]

nice mod, tagging this so I have a record

[therother]

Excellent mod, very useful. We've been having an issue though (we've just installed the latest version). When the plugin is enabled, we can't view profile pages, the following is displayed instead:

Fatal error: Class 'LoggerReflectionUtils' not found in /usr/local/etc/httpd/vb/member.php(515) : eval()'d code on line 95

There's another symptom: when the vbSSO plugin is enabled (including when enabling it), we get this error message when enabling/disabling plugins: Failed to write css files. Please make sure that the directory 'clientscript/vbulletin_css' is writable".

These all disappear when the vbSSO plugin is disabled.

[xeagle]

Excellent mod, very useful. We've been having an issue though (we've just installed the latest version). When the plugin is enabled, we can't view profile pages, the following is displayed instead:



There's another symptom: when the vbSSO plugin is enabled (including when enabling it), we get this error message when enabling/disabling plugins:

These all disappear when the vbSSO plugin is disabled.

We didn't make any adjustments in our libraries we use and the cause of the 1st issue might be because you didn't copy all the files to the destination folder and vbsso is unable to find some of these libraries.

2nd issue is actually related to vBulletin. vBulletin is able to be switched on to cache css in files and the certain folders have to have a correct permissions to handle this. It looks like vBulletin tries to update its caches and throws such error.

If you have any other issues you are free to drop me a message to PM and we will take a look at your installation.

[Akangage]

Hi all,

How to configure this plug-in still don't know anything, any tutorial step by step?

Thanks,

[xeagle]

Hi all,

How to configure this plug-in still don't know anything, any tutorial step by step?

Thanks,

Here it is http://vbsso.com/platforms/vbulletin/

[Akangage]

Here it is http://vbsso.com/platforms/vbulletin/

I've tried that one but its always show this message
Unable to verify platform [http://www.*******.com/vbsso/vbsso.php] Please analyze log files located at `/var/www/*****/vbsso/logs/` to detect the cause of the issue.

The logs give this error :
Tue Jul 10 11:39:45 2012,631 [55530] ERROR localFileLogger - Communication: Unable to accept response:
Tue Jul 10 11:39:45 2012,648 [55530] ERROR localFileLogger -
Tue Jul 10 11:41:39 2012,599 [56130] ERROR localFileLogger - Communication: Unable to accept response:
Tue Jul 10 11:41:39 2012,599 [56130] ERROR localFileLogger -

Thanks

[xeagle]

I've tried that one but its always show this message


The logs give this error :


Thanks

If you are sure you correctly installed vBSSO WordPress plugin, please drop me a links to your WP via PM to let me take a look, however it looks like you installed something improperly.

[thunderclap82]

Add me to the list of Joomla integration.

I am curious how this works though... I have a WP site (currently being moved to Joomla) with thousands of users. I also have vBulletin forum with several thousand users. Does this software "link" accounts either by username or email address, or will this program create a new account in WP?

[xeagle]

Add me to the list of Joomla integration.

I am curious how this works though... I have a WP site (currently being moved to Joomla) with thousands of users. I also have vBulletin forum with several thousand users. Does this software "link" accounts either by username or email address, or will this program create a new account in WP?

Collected the vote. vBSSO links accounts on similarity of email/username or create new ones if necessary.

[thunderclap82]

Collected the vote. vBSSO links accounts on similarity of email/username or create new ones if necessary.

Installed and working nicely with WP so far. Out of curiosity... how does it know what usergroup to assign the vB user to in WP? Does it just default to Subscriber?

Also, any timetable on the Joomla version? I'm excited to get my hands on that.

[xeagle]

Installed and working nicely with WP so far. Out of curiosity... how does it know what usergroup to assign the vB user to in WP? Does it just default to Subscriber?


Right.

Also, any timetable on the Joomla version? I'm excited to get my hands on that.

We are unable to open it so far, because it depends on the certain factors we are dependent on. Please welcome to keep watching the thread and you will be definitely apprised.

[thunderclap82]

We are unable to open it so far, because it depends on the certain factors we are dependent on. Please welcome to keep watching the thread and you will be definitely apprised.

Well, I'm willing to throw a little extra in the donation I'm planning if it will expedite the process. ;)

[Peter_AUS]

Have you thought about using jfusion from jfusion.org it has an intergrated system that works, with joomla, vbulletin and gallery2, and other software as well. I have been using it for a couple of years now, with minimal problems.

[thunderclap82]

Have you thought about using jfusion from jfusion.org it has an intergrated system that works, with joomla, vbulletin and gallery2, and other software as well. I have been using it for a couple of years now, with minimal problems.

I have it installed but it doesn't seem the sync properly, though everything is installed correctly. This program seems much simpler to configure and maintain too.

[xeagle]

Have you thought about using jfusion from jfusion.org it has an intergrated system that works, with joomla, vbulletin and gallery2, and other software as well. I have been using it for a couple of years now, with minimal problems.

Their solution is welcome to be used keeping in mind that the master users table in their case is Joomla. If you have your websites hosted on different hosts and access to database is firewalled, or your websites are located on different domains I'm not sure these are supported by their product and their approach had a lot of the limitations influenced us to start with vBSSO some time ago. At that moment we didn't use Joomla and were not going to use it for a long time.

[xeagle]

I have it installed but it doesn't seem the sync properly, though everything is installed correctly. This program seems much simpler to configure and maintain too.

vBSSO doesn't perform a full sync as soon as it is installed. It tries to link account as soon as account is used. Anyway in case of the tech questions you are always welcome to drop me a PM message.

[Potters-Online]

Can anyone help ?

I'm getting "page not found" when clicking platforms & access settings in the acp.

Probably me being dumb but a point in the right direction would be appreciated :)

[xeagle]

Can anyone help ?

I'm getting "page not found" when clicking platforms & access settings in the acp.

Probably me being dumb but a point in the right direction would be appreciated :)

It might happen if you didn't download all the files from upload folder(installation package). Could you please check if you uploaded everything from upload/admincp/ to forum/admincp folder?

[Potters-Online]

The only file in the admin folder that's downloaded is vbsso.php is that correct ?

[xeagle]

The only file in the admin folder that's downloaded is vbsso.php is that correct ?

Right. If you named admincp folder differently in your vBulletin configuration, vbsso.php should be uploaded to that folder. Is it still saying "page not found"?

[Potters-Online]

Yes still showing page not found, everything else seems to be working ok just those two pages.

Appreciate the help :)

[xeagle]

Yes still showing page not found, everything else seems to be working ok just those two pages.

Appreciate the help :)

Just sent you PM message to get more details and help you get it solved.

[xeagle]

Just sent you PM message to get more details and help you get it solved.

The cause of the issue that you didn't copy the files from upload/admincp/vbsso.php to your custom admincp folder.

[xabo]

Hi

Tried this addon abit, but now it wont work anymore.

When i try to add my settings, i just get this error up

Unable to verify platform [http://www.gamecon.no/wp-content/plugins/vbsso/vbsso.php] Please analyze log files located at `/home/xabo/domains/gamecon.no/public_html/forum/vbsso/logs/` to detect the cause of the issue.

When i go check for logfiles, the folder is empty....

Any suggestions?

[xeagle]

Hi

Tried this addon abit, but now it wont work anymore.

When i try to add my settings, i just get this error up

Unable to verify platform [http://www.gamecon.no/wp-content/plugins/vbsso/vbsso.php] Please analyze log files located at `/home/xabo/domains/gamecon.no/public_html/forum/vbsso/logs/` to detect the cause of the issue.

When i go check for logfiles, the folder is empty....

Any suggestions?

Please verify you follow the proper instructions available at http://vbsso.com/platforms/wordpress/ to connect two platforms. In case of the issue, you are welcome to leave me PM message to help me get more details and identify the cause.

[trebor]

Hi, I followed your instructions for Wordpress but I still can't seem to get it to work. How can I get it so that people on my Wordpress site are actually logging in using my Vbulletin forum? I don't want them to have to create accounts on WordPress and Vbulletin separately.

[trebor]

So it looks like now it's working, but the problem I still have are two things:

1) Impossible to logout from forums or once you're logged in on the WordPress side. Message I get:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /vbsso/vbsso.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache Server at forums.nyrzone.com Port 80

2) I can't login with my original WordPress accounts before I applied this add-on. Again, because I can't logout from my vbulletin account which is now linked to WordPress.

PLEASE help!

[xeagle]

So it looks like now it's working, but the problem I still have are two things:

1) Impossible to logout from forums or once you're logged in on the WordPress side. Message I get:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /vbsso/vbsso.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache Server at forums.nyrzone.com Port 80

2) I can't login with my original WordPress accounts before I applied this add-on. Again, because I can't logout from my vbulletin account which is now linked to WordPress.

PLEASE help!

Regarding 404 - guys have already had the similar issue and it strictly depends on and the cause is the apache configuration where mod rewrite blocks urls where url address is passed through GET. Plesae verify your configuration and in case of continual issues drop me a PM message.

Please keep in mind that you are always open to login to WordPress via /wp-login.php script as usual or disable vBSSO WordPress links via custom configuration as described at http://vbsso.com/platforms/wordpress/.

[trebor]

Regarding 404 - guys have already had the similar issue and it strictly depends on and the cause is the apache configuration where mod rewrite blocks urls where url address is passed through GET. Plesae verify your configuration and in case of continual issues drop me a PM message.
What exactly am I looking for? And in what file?

Please keep in mind that you are always open to login to WordPress via /wp-login.php script as usual or disable vBSSO WordPress links via custom configuration as described at http://vbsso.com/platforms/wordpress/.

Thanks

[xeagle]

What exactly am I looking for? And in what file?

Thanks

I don't think I have an idea how your web server is configured. I would recommend to contact your hosting facility and let them check it. If you want us to help with this, you are free to drop me a PM message and discuss further steps.

Thank you,