Connector API for vBulletin

What it does
Allows you to access vBulletin functions and data through an API. This is useful if you want to tie vBulletin into a larger site and allow the users to only have 1 login for site/forum.

Allows other applications to edit data in vBulletin

Warning
This API opens up a lot of the internal functions of vBulletin, use it carefully and do not trust any input from the browser. Clean and validate your inputs!

Installation
Unzip the files into your the root of your forum
You may need to change

PHP Code:

/* User changable options */
// change this to your forum path.
$forumroot = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."forum";
/* end of User changable options */ 


in the connector.class.php if your forum doesn't sit in /forum/ on your site.

[0.02]
Added addUser function
Added delUser function
Added getUser function
Added editUser function
Cleaned up code
Added comments
Fixed warnings in 3.5.4
Fixed PHP4 incompatability

[0.01]
Initial quick dirty release.
Includes basic API
Allows login/logout through API

TODO:
Error checking function(s)
Forum listings
Topic/Post listings

[Jeff@Mutant]

Hello

I'm running vB 3.8 and I 'm getting the following error when trying to use the Connector API

Fatal error: Call to a member function unlock_tables() on a non-object in /var/www/forums/includes/functions.php on line 5772

Any idea what's going on?

[g.gadaleta]

Me too, same error. Any idea?

Originally Posted by Jeff@Mutant

Hello

I'm running vB 3.8 and I 'm getting the following error when trying to use the Connector API

Fatal error: Call to a member function unlock_tables() on a non-object in /var/www/forums/includes/functions.php on line 5772

Any idea what's going on?

[xilefen]

Has somebody an example for the dbConnector?

// make database connection

$db->connect(
$this->config['Database']['dbname'],
$this->config['MasterServer']['servername'],
$this->config['MasterServer']['port'],
$this->config['MasterServer']['username'],
$this->config['MasterServer']['password'],
$this->config['MasterServer']['usepconnect'],
$this->config['SlaveServer']['servername'],
$this->config['SlaveServer']['port'],
$this->config['SlaveServer']['username'],
$this->config['SlaveServer']['password'],
$this->config['SlaveServer']['usepconnect'],
$this->config['Mysqli']['ini_file'],
$this->config['Mysqli']['charset']
);

[rruchte]

Originally Posted by g.gadaleta

Me too, same error. Any idea?

I just got this working in vB 3.5.8. In connector.class.php, lines 99-116 do the same thing as lines 233-252 in include/init.php. In vB 3.5.8, most of those lines are commented out. Starting at line 106 in connector.class.php, change

    define('SAPI_NAME', php_sapi_name());
    if (!defined('NOSHUTDOWNFUNC'))
    {
      if (PHP_VERSION < '5' OR ((SAPI_NAME == 'cgi' OR SAPI_NAME == 'cgi-fcgi') AND $this->options['gzipoutput'] AND strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Microsoft-IIS') !== false))
      {
        define('NOSHUTDOWNFUNC', true);
      }
      else
      {
        vB_Shutdown::add('exec_shut_down');
      }
    }

To:

    /*
    if (!defined('NOSHUTDOWNFUNC'))
    {
      if (PHP_VERSION < '5' OR ((SAPI_NAME == 'cgi' OR SAPI_NAME == 'cgi-fcgi') AND $this->options['gzipoutput'] AND strpos($_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'], 'Microsoft-IIS') !== false))
      {
        define('NOSHUTDOWNFUNC', true);
      }
      else
      {
        vB_Shutdown::add('exec_shut_down');
      }
    }
    */    
    define('NOSHUTDOWNFUNC', true);

[xilefen]

Hi,

I use the vConnector API to create and/or authenticate Users and skip login.

include ('includes/connector/connector.class.php');
$connector = new vbConnector();

// get CASUser
$casuser = phpCAS::getUser();

// get UserID if present
$result = $connector->getUserID($casuser);

// check, if user is allready registered
if(empty($result)){
// edit/save new user
$user = array('username' => $casuser, 'password' => 'default', 'email' => 'test@test.com');
    $result = $connector->addUser($user);
}

// Login user
session_start(); 
$result = $connector->doLogin($casuser, "default", 1);

I 'm getting the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class vBulletinHook in C:\xampp\htdocs\forums\includes\init.php on line 288

Any idea to fix this?

Thanks Felix

[Clayton]

this was so ahead of its time

[Lysekoid]

Where do I find something similar for vBulletin 4, since this example is from 2006 I guess it doesn't work for the new vBulletin 4.

[kamilkurczak]

I am waiting for post/thread adding system

[c0der]

nice

but have alot of errors