That works, but now if i go to my forums homepage it doesn't show anything (vBAdvanced). When i disable the product it shows everything again.

That's odd.

Anyway, I'll be purchasing my own vbulletin license and launching vjoomla.com this weekend to both demo this addon and give more comprehensive support than can be done in a single thread. (I can post code here since I'm listed as technical advisor for 4 different licensed vb sites - but they aren't mine own ).

Just to let you know that this will be a very good package, keep up the good work. Can't believe no one did that before. Thanks Michael for the time invest in this project :)

BTW, any plan to make it compatible with the Joomla CB ?

I have rechristened this project "Joomla for vBulletin" which is more descriptive and added the logo, however the shorter "vJoomla" nickname will continue to be used. This product has moved beyond being a mere bridge and though it is largely compatible with Joomla it needs to be regarded, for the most part as it's own branch.

The goal however is as Joomla 1.5 allows for more powerful manipulation of the core functionality without hacking the code (and therefore the diversion) from standard Joomla can be reduced. The goal of this project will remain staying as close to Joomla as possible without compromising vBulletin code at all and only compromising Joomla code when absolutely necessary.

Over the weekend I will be launching the vJoomla website. In addition to providing support for vJoomla I will be providing some crossover help for coders interested in coding modules and components for Joomla in general and vJoomla in particular. This includes a detailed mapping out of exactly what I did to Joomla's standard code and why.

This project will be managed and licensed subject to the same terms of it's parent - the Gnu Public License.

This is really good news.

It seems that bbPixel has dissapeared.

Their page is down now, which is entirely dissapointing considering we've just paid the $20 for the product about a month ago...

I'm very interested in this, even more so now...

If I had the ability to install a test board for our page (I'm not the admin with the say-so powers) I'd help test this...perhaps I can work on getting that done...

Tonight's project goals --

1. Get the vJoomla site up and running. I'll continue to watch this site, but the forum will provide a working example of the module. For now the site will be my online dev example.
2. If I have enough time after that I'll be releasing version .1.3. It will include the login module among other fixes.

would the joomla user database and the vbulletin user database be cross used as you logg into the site you can use it and the mods and admin will have extra privileges in the joombla article / news post

Sort of. vJoomla doesn't use the Joomla table for authentication at all - it authenticates off the vbulletin object. This means only one list of users with one set of log ins are all that are needed for both sides of a site.

Now I'm still cleaning things up, but for those of you that have been holding out for a demo of this product, here we go ;)

http://www.joomla.com

Version 0.1.3 is out. The debug code has been removed (it was generating more mail than I can hope to sort through - luckily I linked it to a throwaway email account). Those worried about security though can rest easier. A minor bug in the product_jos.xml has also been removed.

Re: bbpixel.

Michael has clearly stated that bbpixel and vJoomla are different solutions with different goals. Some vB users might want to use bbpixel.

vJoomla.com looks good. So very cool to see the native Joomla! install with vB templates.

:)

Hmm, strange, just installed the newest version of vBAdvanced, and if i enable the hack now, some modules work (at the vBAdvanced homepage), not all, but most of them. My news module isn't working though. I wonder what the problem could be... It might be the PHP-files?

EDIT: @Micheal: You might want to try installing vBAdvanced CMPS (at www.vbadvanced.com), it's free and alot of people are using this. Maybe you can see what's wrong.

I wouldn't know. I'm familiar with vbAdvanced, this is the system the sites I admin currently run. I haven't investigated any of the problems between them - the two products aren't really meant to go together at all.

Yeah, that's the strange part. Only the News and Who's Online modules aren't working... Hope i can figure it out, since i could really use this.

Well, my next tool I'm working on will move news posts out of the forum you designated for them in vbAdvanced and put them in the Joomla content table where they really belong, and also allow for commenting. Once vJoomla is ready to go there shouldn't be a NEED to run vbAdvanced alongside it.

noo what my question was and you pretty much cleared it up already, would the use the same user database and would the admins and mods get special privileges on the joomla end

its probably the most exciting mod i've ever seen in vb. Thats just what i need as hundreds of other vbulletin&joomla users.

Thank you for devoloping and sharing that mod. Im looking forward to see the stable version. I think it will be a very popular mod in the future..;)

HI Michael,

Got this error while registering in www.vjoomla.com

Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in /www/vjoomla.com/production/htdocs/forum/register.php on line 384

yap... probably could be nominated to be listed in the "premuim modifications"

it works now... :)

That's an intermittent PHP 5 error - I need to upgrade my version of PHP on that server.

Hey,

I love this.
Thanks. Joomla is the best!!

I just would like to know how to make the forum like part of the whole layout.

For example the SMF board that is here is seamlessly part of the whole site.
http://forum.joomla.org/

How can i take whole header or footer and wrapp it around the forum?

what do I need?

This is some fantastic work you are doing here.. Can't wait for this to go stable!
What is a possible time frame to look at? I know it's too soon to say, but roughly?

vJoomla is automatically seamless as it will have the same templates as vBulletin.

If you like Joomla! but don't want vB .. use Joomla! and Fireboard.

SMF are good forums, the only reason http://forum.joomla.org/ looks integrated is because someone matched the templates well (between joomla and SMF). Not an easy task.

This is working great for me, my only question is how would I get the navbar locations set to go to the forums as currently they are pointing to:

instead of

in the vJoomla CMS section at:

Along with the images for the Joomla CMS

as I have put the direct path in and some of the images are still not showing.

Q: what Joomla! core and non-core components and modules have you verified that work ?

Ironically this will probably go stable a month or two before Joomla 1.5 does. I'll begin work on the Joomla 1.5 version right after this is complete.

vJoomla uses vBulletin's template engine so a wrapping of module positions around the forum body requires you to modify the header and footer template in the vbulletin admincp. (Styles and templates -> Edit Templates)

This isn't too difficult - you do the header stuff and the left column and module positions in the header. You can call any joomla module by including $modules[POSITION] in the template, where POSITION is the position you want at that point in the flow. End the header template with an open div or td tag, then close that tag in the footer template. Put the right column materials in this template.

While you're in there you can see the templates that define how Joomla lays out it's content and modules. (They all start with jos_ ) You can change these from the default tables to div's if you wish, just be careful - modifying those templates is NOT for the faint of heart. However it does give you a degree of control over the output of vJoomla not possible with standard Joomla (at least until version 1.5 goes final).

Another word of caution - by default vJoomla provides no styling definitions for Joomla's default css elements. This will probably be the last thing I add before going gold but it might affect some of the modules.

If you are on Linux go to the Joomla root and run these commands as the user with write permissions to the directory.

ln -s /path/to/your/forums/clientscript clientscript
ln -s /path/to/your/forums/cpstyles cpstyles

Copy all the Joomla images to the vbulletin /images folder then delete the Joomla images folder and run

ln -s /path/to/your/forums/images images

Finally rename the htacces.txt file that came with Joomla to .htaccess
Among other things, this will allow the Apache client to follow the "symlinks" created above.

Is it possible to use Joomla template system instead?

well with the vb system it does save the big effort in trying to convert it and what not ;D

No. This has been requested enough to warrant looking into - but it would require a different version of the files (I think. It might be possible to do by simply not uploading a few of the modified files).

and im getting that same issue i think its with the url path base i will see about figureing that out =)

I was thinking that also. I'll give it a try. A future option would be fantastic though.

BETA 0.2.0 IS DONE

That wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. Next version (0.2.1) will complete the usergroup configuration and I think I'll be able to relatively quickly place in a toggle that will allow you to choose which template engine to use (vbulletin or Joomla) for Joomla pages (why anyone would want to use two separate template engines eludes me - but it's been requested enough to warrant inclusion).

You are my hero! ^^

does this update also include the urls fixes ;3

No, sorry.

ya its a big issue for alot of forum users and what not :( it save alot of time editing stuff manually

It's something I do intend to address. It is near to the bottom of the list of things to do though.

I found my first bug :D In login.php, line 4, you still have the ./forum instead of our custom thingo