Integrate or bridge with MediaWiki
 

Do you want to use vBulletin's user database with your MediaWiki? You might like this.

I have taken Kai Backman's MediaWiki authentication plugin idea, fixed coding errors, and expanded greatly on it.

Working on:
vBulletin 3.5.4 and MediaWiki 1.6.3

Features:

• Allows you to run MediaWiki with your vBulletin user database
• Disallows users with invalid username characters
• Disallows users who are not part of specified usergroups
• Sets users to sysop status in MediaWiki if they are part of a specified admin usergroup
• Removes users from sysop status in MediaWiki if they no longer are a part of a specified admin usergroup
• For same-database setups, allows easy installation

Possible Future Features:
These are possible features for inclusion in the how-to in the future. They have not been investigated for their feasibility, but are here to let you know they have been requested and I am thinking about them. If you know how to add the features, please let us know.

• No-login required (automatic) integration
• Option: User profile field points to, or has option to link to vBulletin profile
• To register, link the user to vBulletin's registration script on the login pages

How to:

1. Install Reynaldovb's Restrict usernames to alphanumeric and underscore plugin, and disallow both spaces and underscores
2. Optional: On boards that already have existing users, somehow have their usernames changed so that they are only alphanumeric. This is required if you wish your users to be able to login and edit the wiki using their vBulletin username. The reason you have to do this is because MediaWiki has some Restrictions on what can go in a page title, and as usernames have to be passed as page titles, they also have to adhere to the same restrictions. If you do not change the usernames, I have included a check to not allow users to login if their username contains non-alphanumeric characters.
3. Open your wiki/LocalSettings.php file
4. Insert the following code at the end of the file, before the ?>:
   
   PHP Code:

   ---

   # vBulletin integration script
require_once("AuthPlugin_vBulletin.php");
// if vBulletin and MediaWiki are not installed on the same database
// change these values to reflect your vBulletin database information
$wgAuth = new AuthPlugin_vBulletin($wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword, $wgDBname, "vb_"); 


   ---

   If you are running vBulletin and MediaWiki in the same database, then it already uses the connection information.
   If you are not running vBulletin and MediaWiki in the same database, please change the strings to reflect your vBulletin database information.
   In either case, the last value is whatever your vBulletin table prefix is.
5. Insert this code below the require_once( "includes/DefaultSettings.php" ); at the top of the LocalSettings.php file:
   
   PHP Code:

   ---

   # Disabling new user registrations
$wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "sysop" => 1, "developer" => 1 );
# Disabling anonymous edits
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgWhitelistRead = array ("Special:Userlogin"); 


   ---

   This prevents people from registering new accounts on the wiki, requiring people to register on vBulletin. It also prevents anonymous edits. This code may only work on MediaWiki 1.5.x and above, but I am unsure.
6. Download the AuthPlugin_vBulletin.php file and put it in your main wiki directory, ie: /wiki/AuthPlugin_vBulletin.php

Please let me know if this was helpful, or if you can expand on this code.

Thanx HolisticEarth,

maybe you should add $wgCapitalLinks = false; too, so the usernames will be exactly the same and not changed at the first letter.

Probably one of the best little snippets of code here! Well done HolisticEarth, its awesome! :banana:

Ive been using the original method for a while, ill take a look at the code and see if I can merge it in to mine(done so many edits since then, which ive not made notes on..)

Also if you like to use subdomains on yoru sites, ill find the code so you can have something like http://wiki.site.com/PAGETITLE (eg http://wiki.exceem.co.uk/Help:Contents)

The article on making a really short url for MediaWiki is here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_a_very_short_URL

However I am not a hardcore techie to konw which (if any) of the methods listed are foolproof. I have heard now and again that some of those methods do not work perfectly, as in they will not display URLs that contain periods properly.

Also, the script I came up should work great with the other script... the only difference is the extra function call in your LocalSettings.php file for your vB table prefix. If you simply add that information to the LocalSettings.php, then all you need to do is replace the original file with my file and you will be good to go, no worse than before, but have more functionality.

I've followed the instructions but it don't work...
When i open my wiki page it remain to an error page.

http://tutorialweb.org/wiki/

here is the link.

Bye!

Did you try logging in using your vb information?

You might want to try changing
to
if you want anonymous users to be able to read the wiki.

I'll be happy if I can use my info to login but in the wiki page no login box appear, and if I click on "login" it remain on the same page.

However when I visit that page, I'm already logged in on my vbulletin.

I can't provide technical support for it. You dont have to login to the forums, you just have to have an account there. Then you have to login with that same information on the wiki, and your login information must have only alpha-numeric characters.

Intresting, say I already have a wiki setup and working, how will this work then?