That will be easy to fix. I'll address it next version.

I already fixed it :P

If I decide to install and run this now, how easy is it to upgrade to future versions? Will it require any "reworking" on my part?

Once this goes gold upgrades will be uploading the code and installing the vbulletin product-jos.xml -- the joomla installer should never need to be ran more than once.

During beta though I will make no promises about how easy or difficult an upgrade path is.

That said, I am hoping to see a final now within a couple weeks. We're getting very close to done.

This couldn't have come at a better time. I've been dying (slowly for several years) for a CMS that integrates with VB and has its own article system.

I've never used Joomla before though, so let me get this straight: all of the site content is stored in one database (the Joomla db) and all of the forum content in another (the VB db), right?

What about news? Is that stored in the Joomla db or does it pull threads from a specific forum (a la VBA style)?

From what I understand this is basically Joomla but using VB users and VB skins?

Joomla's tables are in the same database. It's content is its own in the initial release. I will be writing a component that will be able to transfer content between vbulletin and Joomla - I'm not sure whether I'm going to make that component available for free or for a nominal charge though.

Am I missing something or is that contradictory?

I guess what I'm asking is if there's a way to store all of the news/articles/comments/whatever posted in Joomla in the VB database - so I don't have to do multiple restores or worry about security issues.

And is this ^ what you'll be charging for?

You're confusing databases with tables. A database is a collection of tables. When Joomla and vbulletin are installed together in one database they have a total of some 149 tables (88 or so for vbulletin, the rest are Joomla's).

Most content of vbulletin is stored on it's post table. Most content in Joomla is stored on its content table. Moving content between the two tables (Between being an 'article' and being a 'post') isn't going to be in the initial release. In most installations it won't be necessary.

I see. Thank you for the explanation. My reason for asking was due to the search mechanics that (I assume) are different for both vb and joomla? Or will a search in either be able to search information found in all tables?

<- not a coder

Also, I realize this is a beta version, but I need to get my site back up and running stat (message board is already active). Would you recommend waiting until the gold release comes out or is it safe (from a database information storing perspective) to go ahead and install/run it now? As you can tell I'm pretty anxious to get started.

an error message cannot find global.php file error :(

A quick thanks for your work Michael. MOTY without question. :up:

Mhmd, yoursite.com/installation/install.php

Make sure the forum path is correct. vJoomla will guess at it - but if you're seeing that error it's likely that it is guessing wrong.

I think I'm going to love it but are there any live demo's or screenshots available?

The vJoomla site is running it

http://www.vjoomla.com

Lucky , Michael Morris thanks for replying, do anyone knows how to remove the left column of Joomla i already removed all moudels using it !!

hey, thanks again for the updates

What if I've already got Joomla installed on my server, and am still going to upload and install vbulletin
do I just upload the files that u have marked to be uploaded where the forum is after I install my board and then install the plugin, or will that mess up the whole site??

Aloha,
I only get:

Warning: chdir(): Unable to access in /srv/www/htdocs/web7/html/globals.php on line 102

Warning: main(global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /srv/www/htdocs/web7/html/globals.php on line 103

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'global.php' (include_path='.') in /srv/www/htdocs/web7/html/globals.php on line 103

Joomla is in my root and vB ist in /vB/ can someone help me please?

That would appear to be a server read permissions error. Check the chmod settings for the files.

Correction - this is a bug in the installer. I have written and tested a fix for this problem. I'm now going to write some additional product code for the next revision.

Overall page layout is controlled by template jos_main. You will need to remove $module[left] where it appears in the template.

Productive night so far. Who's Online is done and Login nearly so.

Well, we've arrived - Release Candidate 1. There are still a couple of *wants* missing from this product, but all the *needs* are covered. Specifically

• Unified login between Joomla and vBulletin
• Single Sessions between Joomla and vBulletin
• You may choose between the Joomla and vBulletin template engine (the setting for this is in the vbulletin admincp.
• You may configure which usergroups in vbulletin match up to joomla. Using this permission masking you can then limit content by usergroup in Joomla.
• Recent threads and Who's Online is displayed in Joomla.

There are other wants I will address in the next few months - but I have two sites I'm developing more specific code for. One of the first addon's will be aimed at one of those boards - the recent blog entries for vBlogetin.

Enjoy - and please report any bugs found either here or at www.vjoomla.com

First. Good to know. When you say you can choose which template system to use, does that mean Joomla templates will skin your VB board accordingly? I thought you said you couldn't use any Joomla-only templates with this product?

thanks , i did that already and it works fine

i think we should thank the guy and test it and see how things will turn ..

Joomla will NOT skin vbulletin. This last minute addition is to allow Joomla's template engine to control the Joomla pages as normal. It might also come in handy with certain modules and components.

No, that is the problem i asked you about. Alot of people have been getting it! What you have to do is go straight to www.yoursite.com/installation/install.php

Also another thing, if you cannot login for step 2 or 3 for adminCP, go into your adminCP on your forums, go into options and for your cookie and session settings, dont have stuff like "/forum" make sure you have the entire path, "home/myname/public_html/forum" and it will let you login to websites in another path of your domain. You may wish to include this somewhere in a faq michael morris, it fixed my problem and im certain it will fix others.

How to upgrade?

i get this error :confused:

Nice, it works, i have one final small problem however. The Who's online module doesn't include the forum in it's link. So it's supposed to go to http://www.teamqg.com/qg/member.php?etcetc. But now it goes to http://www.teamqg.com/member.php?etcetc. Is there a easy way to fix that?

One more error:

Warning: Unknown(./includes/class_bbcode.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /member.php(817) : eval()'d code on line 292

Fatal error: (null)() [function.require]: Failed opening required './includes/class_bbcode.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gsclan/domains/teamqg.com/public_html/qg/member.php(817) : eval()'d code on line 292

Happens when i visit a forum profile...

You'll get that error if you don't install the product-jos.xml in the vbulletin admincp! ;)

From which beta?

Now that we're in RC1, do you recommend installing it in a production setting?

Yes - but proceed with caution.

Keep up the great work! I'm keenly interested in this mod and wish you the best of luck.

Hello. I've been pondering over this for a while now and can't get my head around it. Basically i'm wanting all the frontendness of Joomla and also the powerfull forum qualities of VB. I suppose im stuck on how to move on with from memory (im doing something else for 2 weeks while i think about the above)

Using Joomla wraps really slows things down so i was looking at not wrapping. Bah i don't know anymore. I think im gonna have to just wait till the day that you can export all my threads and posts on VB forum to Fireboard or something which is more intergrated. Am i right in thinking that using vb and joomla will always be a problem and it's just like sticking them both together with glue in a shoddy fashion?

I was getting navigation difficulties too with the forum navigation top left showing in a wrap and then folks still using it and the wrap size all going to pot. I dont think i ever did suss out how to just present the forum as a forum with no 'other bits'

Actually there must be room for improvement in my thinking. Can anyone tell me what i'm missing here or can advise the best way? Sorry iff this is not the time nor place to discuss this so feel free to move it mr moderator. I really would love to put this to bed. It's killing me truth be told. I don't even know what i'm doing anymore. It's all just a big mess :(

Thanks

Cant be because i install it.This error comes only if i log in:(

Well, you can look at my site if you want to see a non-wrapped vb that's integrated with Joomla to a degree - just took a lot of work customizing the vbulletin skin to match the Joomla one. Add in the bbpixel bridge for $20 and you have a pretty well integrated site on the front end, just two with different admin areas on the back to worry about.

I wasn't looking at using this hack because originally it just used Vbulletins template system for Joomla pages - that might have worked out for some, but for those like me who already have a lot of work in to nice looking Joomla templates it was a no-go - but now that there is an option to use Joomla templates for Joomla pages I may try it out.

You could wait for a converter, and for Fireboard to become more stable, but frankly Fireboard doesn't have half the features vbulletin does and it's not all that integrated either - it's skins and templates are also separate, so if you are looking for a fully integrated "look" you still have a lot of work to do.

Uninstall then reinstall - this field is supposed to be added by the product-jos.xml. If it doesn't add it then I'll check the XML.

Also make sure the plugin system is enabled - if I recall correctly install code will not execute if you have the plug in system turned off.