Movabletype to vbulletin bridge
 

Hi,

I'm looking for something allowing the creation of a new thread in vbulletin off a new post made on a movabletype blog.

Something working as follows.

Scenario: movabletype blog and vbulletin forum installed on the same server

- author creates a new blog item / news on movabletype
- a new thread is created in vbulletin, under a certain category, with subject and body excerpts of the news posted on movabletype
- the "comments" link on the movabletype news points to the just created thread on the vbulletin forum

Does anyone know if something is already available out there to accomplish what described above?

Thanks,

- Adriano

actually, it's 90% inpossible to create such a bridge between the two systems because movabletype does not use the same kind of data storage, and the script is a CGI, not coded in PHP like vBulletin... so it would take a world to be able to recode some tool that interpret the content of movabletype inside vbulletin...

i've worked with the sixapart team last year about this kind of situation, ad for now, there is no final solution... they work on something for php, but not the server version of movabletype...

hmmm that seems odd... especially considering that if using MySQL storage in Movabletype the framework would be already setup.

It would be a matter of finding where MT saves the news in its database, and immediately afterwards adding a call to a function that will take care of creating a new thread in a certain vbulletin's forum (adding the appropriate record(s) to all the tables involved, etc.)

It might not be a super easy thing to do... but at the same time I don't see it as something impossible.

Here I was checking to make sure I was not going to reinvent the wheel.

- Adriano