Joomla + vBulletin FULL integration help

[dawarren]

We are completely rebuilding our website using Joomla as our CMS and an existing install of vBulletin. We have been able to sync the vBulletin database with our site "membership" database, however, it's not a full 100% integration.

As an example, there are 2 seperate registration forms for users to join the site as a member, one custom one that we built, and the other through vBulletin's forum sign up area. Both will add the user to the database, but we need to have this done through one process only. We also need users to manage all of their site AND forum preferences through one interface. The problem we're having is that our programmers are not able to fully customize vBulletin to allow this.

I am wondering if there are any seasoned vBulletin/LAMP developers here who can either guide our programmers in the right direction or are available to work on this project themselves? We will pay handsomely.

Thanks!
Warren

[dawarren]

bump

[MustangLisa]

Did you get anything figured out? I'm considering that route too, and am interested in this a lot.

[joomlajon]

<a href="http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,3427/Itemid,35/" target="_blank">http://extensions.joomla.org/compone...427/Itemid,35/</a>

Looks like there is something on the horizon, but it seems the development are going for phpbb and smf now rather then vbulletin.

Can you do anything?

[InfoNirvana]

JFusion is the new component for integration between the new Joomla! 1.5 and vBulletin.

http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,243018.0.html

I take it everyone knows here that Joomla! 1.5 won CMS of the year (again).
http://www.joomla.org/content/view/4122/1/

I'll be trying this Joomla - vBulletin bridge.

For the record, bbpixel's bridge works for Joomla 1.0.x and vB and they have good support. They require you to modify core vB files though.