very interesting. there is some very cool stuff out there for joomla. few questions. i have read on here that there is huge security holes in joomla. the coder made it sound like it was common knowledge. was that a opinion or do you disagree or agree?

next thing is do you anticipate alot of problems or changes to make this work as vbulletin upgrades?

Can you compare this to the bbPixel bridge that I literally just purchased YESTERDAY!

Why does that always happen...lol

Thankyou for a very useful hack :D
Digressing, it is just so pleasant and refreshing to see a full detailed description (as in the second post), Mr. Morris, a million thanks.

Whatever security holes Joomla has, they are irrelevant to this mod since it does user authentication using vbulletin.
I anticipate no problems. The vbulletin code isn't hacked in any way so unless Jelsoft changes the structure of the vbulletin registry in a major fashion this mod will continue to work. I would imagine that any change in vbulletin sufficient to break this mod would also break every mod on this site - in other words the type of change you might see in version 4.0, but not in version 3.6 forward.

Speaking of which, although I haven't tested it with 3.5 I *think* it will work there - this installs templates only and runs an alter table query - it doesn't have any plugins so it should work in 3.5

bbpixel hacks both Joomla and vbulletin. It merges then mirrors the user database and allows logins from both sides. This hacking means that every single time either product updates you have to reinstall the hack.

bbpixel doesn't bridge the template engines - therefore if you want a site to have a unified look and feel you have no choice but to skin the thing TWICE. vJoomla uses vbulletin's template engine and throws away Joomla's master template engine (modules can however still call and use patTemplate to build their content).

bbpixel is more mature than vJoomla having been around for a couple years. I'm working to get most of the same functionality in place as quickly as possible. The main obstacle - getting the bridge itself to work, has been accomplished.

These are the main differences. For the record I purchased bbpixel and was vastly disappointed in their customer service and how they implemented the bridge, so I wrote my own.

By the final version I hope to use a modRewrite schema to work around this.

Check your PM Michael Morris. I may be able to assist.

I'm a novice to this. But find it great that you are creating this for us. As I was turned on to Joomla! the other day and I like the way it functions.

I don't understand what you mean by this, and feel free to make fun of me for it...

What exactly does it take to create either one of those?

J.T.

I run my forum on a sub-domain.....forum.mywebsite.com....and i really do not want to move it.

Anyway this mod will work on my setup?

A symbolic link is exactly like a windows shortcut icon on the desktop that points to a file or folder elsewhere. The command is

For my dev site the command to link the cpstyles was



The final release version will - part of the installer will be the setup of the paths between Joomla and vbulletin. Expect to see that within 3 weeks or so.