vbDrupal 5
 

vbDrupal is a fork of the CMS Drupal. It integrates Drupal into the forum software vBulletin.
vbDrupal is a close fork of Drupal, it has only be forked to modify some of the core files of Drupal for better interoperability. All changes made to the Drupal code will be merged with vbDrupal. Therefore a vbDrupal 5.x.y release is more or less identical to a Drupal 5.x release.

Drupal and vBulletin are tightly connected with each other, user accounts and sessions are shared between the two systems. vbDrupal tries to offer the best of both worlds. vbDrupal should be compatible with all user contributed modules and themes that can be found on the Drupal site.

Besides user and session integration vbDrupal also offers various modules to bring vBulletin content into the Drupal space.:

• Latest threads/posts blocks
• Import any vBulletin post as content
• Use vBulletin for content comments
• Latest poll block
• Event and birthday blocks
• Use vBulletin code for formatting in Drupal content

vbDrupal 5 makes used of the Drupal 5.x series and is only compatible with the vBulletin 3.6 series. vBulletin 3.5 users can use the vbDrupal 4.7 series.

Examples of sites using vbDrupal can be found here.

For support and latest updates please go to the vbDrupal forums

Great THX for this plugin it is very nice INSTALLED!!! 4 sure :) and nominated

very nice hack

thanks,,,

Very nice, Thanx

Very nice, this looks like a viable alternative to vBulletin's blog product. I love Drupal and the plugins available for it.

Looks very nice actually, I am going to give it a quick try.

Thanks I always needed something like this

Thank you

How easy is updating from vBDrupal 4.*?

been using vbdrupal version 4..will wait for the final to be out for 5 before I upgrade, but happy with this integration so far.

great.*installed* and nominated for hack of the month!Great work.Thx!

How hard is this to install? looks like something I could used...

Is there supposed to be a product .xml file in the download? I may have missed it.

Very very cool!

[high]* projectego clicks install :D[/high]

For proper support please go to the vbDrupal forums. Also take note that this product is still beta. Try it on a test installation first (and, of course, make backups), specially when you are already using vbDrupal 4.7.
It only had some minor testing, mostly done by me.
Personally I wouldn't use the vbDrupal 5 series on a production server until it hits RC (=Release Candidate).
Of course, more people testing this software will most likely result in better software.
So report anything that isn't correct (including documentation errors) on the vbDrupal forums.

Upgrading from vbDrupal 4.7 should be painless, assuming you don't have any 3rd party modules and themes. If you do, you of course, should update them to Drupal 5 versions.
Upgrading from vbDrupal 4.6 should be possible, but it's not something I've tested, it's probably best to first upgrade to the latest 4.7 release.

Starting with vbDrupal 5 there is no longer a need to manually install the product .xml, this will all be done automatically during installation/update.
But if you really need to manually (re)install the vBulletin plugins and what not, the product.xml can be found in: drupal/modules/vbcore/xml

Ok This appears to be useful but I'm a little confused on what it looks like on someone's site in a "production environment". I run a World Of Warcraft Guild site and I was thinking I might be able to use this, but my thinking is a bit foggy on it's relationship to Vbulletin. Can anyone fill in the blanks for me?

Thanks much,
Jim

The default theme of vbDrupal uses the vBulletin template engine and tries to make it look as much like vBulletin as possible.
Examples of sites using the default theme (all currently run on 4.7, but for 'looks' nothing changes with 5):
http://www.unrealadmin.org/ (this one also uses vbDrupal in the forum environment for the left side menu bar)
http://www.alleria.com/
http://www.spacebuffs.com/

But of course you can also decide to use a more customized theme for the drupal side.


(non-support questions can be asked here, but preferably on the vbdrupal forums because I don't monitor this thread as much as the vbdrupal forums are monitored).

The unrealadmin.org site really almost looks like a portal, good job on that. This is running well on my system right now, and I'm working on including some plugins to improve functionality.

vbDrupal 5.2.0 RC 1 has been released

For support and latest updates please go to the vbDrupal forums

Thanks for this release.

Well, there were a few annoying bugs in the last RC release. So here is a second release candidate. No new features, just bug fixes and performance improvements.

Got it.Thanks for this mod!

Is there any way to get vbdrupal to work with vBadvanced CMS?

I have two sets of nav bars! How do I eliminate one of them?

http://www.fabsboards.com/portal to see what I mean.

Vbadvanced and Vbdrupal are both CMS systems. I would not recomend running the both.

I started playing around with a few templates and other Drupal addons. Everything I've tried works with this addon and it seems to function just like Drupal with the addition of of a few modules that integrate it with the forum. Really nice.

Version 5.2.0 has been released, the first non-beta, non-RC release.


Change log

• some sessionid in url changes
• registered vBulletin pages as a $_REQUEST['q'] value. This way blocks will
  be properly filters. All vBulletin pages register itself as:
  <forum>/[script name]
  where [script name] is the name of the script, for example:
  <forum>/showthread
• fixed some issues with drupal bootstrapping and vBulletin's AJAX
• fixed &quot; in created threads by comment_vb
• updated .htaccess_new to not add a 2 weeks epiration to php files
  please update you .htaccess file according to these changes

Thank you! The latest release is running very smoothly for me and I appreciate all the hard work that's evident.

I recently uninstalled vbDrupal 4.7 (using VBulletins Manage Plugins within the AdminCP) -- if I installed this, would I follow the same instructions as a fresh installation? Or as an update? Does using the "uninstall" revert the DB changes that occured on the original installation?

if you uninstalled vbDrupal 4.7 all tables should have been removed, so it would be a clean install.
anyway, it should be more or less failsafe, the installer will notify you when it already detects an installed vbDrupal (even if it's a previous release).

Thanks I installed vbDrupal and vbulletin in the same directory and encountered one small problem ...

vBulletin's home page is "index.php" as is vbDrupal's home page.

So now I have 2 index.php pages -- vBulletin's main forum home and vbDrupal's home.

Is there a way to set vbDrupal's main home page to be something other than index.php? I renamed it and that did not work as all the links in the administration control panel are index.php?q=admin/build/themes etc. Is there a config setting to change the main drupal page to "default.php" or "main.php" or something other than index.php?

Thx

put the vbdrupal files in a directory like blogs, main, home, etc so the file names don't conflict.

Also, you will get much faster support responses by posting your issues and questions here:

http://www.vbdrupal.org

The best mod out for vbulletin. I love drupal and I love VB, and vbDrupal rocks.

Time to upgrade from 4.7 to 5.2 ;_; I hope its much better.

Thx for this mod.... :up::up::up:

Been a long-time user of vbDrupal, back when Tamarian was the main maintainer, wouldn't recommend any other CMS solution for vBulletin.

Finally upgraded from vbDrupal 4.7 to 5.3, clicking install. :D

Do all additional modules have to be reprogrammed by you in order to work with vbdrupal, or can one just use any drupal modifications, once they've installed vdrupal?

almost all drupal mods will work without issue (pretty much all i've tried). i would expect those that work with login functions to be most likely not to work out of the box. in practice, since vbdrupal stays close to the core drupal, incompatibile mods are few and far between.

this couldn't be further from the truth

vbAdvanced is not a CMS .. plain and simple

vbDrupal is much much more

and yes, you can use vbadvanced with vbdrupal

I see vbadvanced more as a SKIN (imo) which u can add blocks to and then vbDrupal can be used for content, blogs and even more

Installed fast and easy without problems.

I am very happy in the way it works with vbulletin. And Drupal
has won a lot of prizes as THE best CMS software.

Hi just a quick question..... Will it chance my forums? I mean will it put the drupal side bar on my forums like in the demo site? If so is there a way i can make it where it wont do that when i install it?