Using vB's sessions in Wordpress and Mediawiki
 

After about a day scouting through the various existing topics I decided to open up a new topic because none of the topics seem to cover my situation, and as I'm new to vBulletin I simply don't know enough of the subject yet to hack my way through. Also, I want to do it right the first time.

Situation:
- News section is running Wordpress 1.5.2
- Wiki section is running Mediawiki 1.5.4
- Forum is running vBulletin 3.5.3

News and Wiki are in full production but without user registrations enabled (anon comments and edits), because I wanted to wait with that until I could integrate it with a forum. Now I've purchased vB and it's completely set up, and I'm only left with the integration problem: I don't want to have users log in at 3 sites separately.

So, all 3 sites are running on the same server (and will be for the foreseeable future) and are underneath the same domain (subdomains www., wiki. and forum. respectively). I will be adding custom code in the future for specialized community elements.

My first idea was to make a central user DB myself and then sync this to the 3 other databases. Since I've taken vB for a test drive though I think that using its registration system makes more sense, and then sync it from there to Wiki and Wordpress that have quite thin registration systems.

But how I am going to do that syncing, and worst of all make sure that a forum login works for Wiki and Wordpress, I have no idea. I'm an experienced programmer, but I just don't know where to start and what approach would be best.

Anyone got some pointers?

Nobody has an idea? :(

I'm setting up a MediaWiki right now and came across your post here as well. Have a look at: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....1&postcount=10

Seems to work very fine! Just make sure to edit the queries in AuthPlugin_vBulletin.php if you are using a MySQL table prefix for your vBulletin.

Not sure about Wordpress, sorry.

Cheers, that looks simple enough, I'll have a try soon :)

I think I have found a solution to the problem. Doesnt quite use the session data, but the function will still be required to login anyways, so it is a good start. It is basically an expansion of what was already done.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=112973

Cheers, looks like a good read (and I still haven't done it myself, so helpful too :) )

someone who codes for the xoops cms (www.xoops.org) has released both a wordpress and mediawiki integration modules for xoops - www.xoopsforge.com so they can both be ported (well media wiki allready ported, but the xoops port is alot more in depth)

curry684,

Very interesting implementation.

Why did you want to use both WordPress and MediaWiki?

I went to your site (nice!) but would rather hear it in your words.

Stachel