Integration with vBulletin - vbWiki Standard - vBulletin+MediaWiki integration

Update:

9/28/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC5 is now available for download. This version adds compatibility with MW 1.11.0+

5/17/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC4 is now available for download. This version is compatible with MW 1.10.0+ and vBulletin 3.6.6+

1/21/2007: vbWiki Std v1.0.2 RC3 is now available for download. This version fixes the 'session error' that used to happen on some installations of MediaWiki 1.9.x.

Description:

vbWiki Standard is the lite version of vbWiki Pro. vbWiki Standard allows the integration of vBulletin and MediaWiki user authentication.

(vbWiki Pro is a commercial product that, in addition to the functionality found in vbWiki Standard, provides full skin integration, enhanced user management, Admin CP, editing of wiki skin in vBulletin's Style Manager, among other features.)

Why should you add a wiki to your forums?

Forums are great for community building with their high level of interactivity. Successful forums have hundreds or thousand of concurrent users creating and replying to threads.

However due to this very reason the more your forums grow the more "collective knowledge" is scattered throughout the thousands (or hundreds or millions) of threads in your forums. Making it difficult for users to find and use.

A wiki is not that good at community building, but it is a great medium to centralize this 'collective knowledge'. Enabling you to create an 'ecosystem of information' (quoting pipin ) maintained and contributed by your users.

The idea behind vbWiki (both Standard and Pro) is to enable the seamless integration between these two packages (vBulletin and MediaWiki) side-by-side in your community. You (and your users and community) get the best of both worlds.

Or so the theory goes...

Features:

• Single sign-on for vBulletin and MediaWiki (users log in only once)
• Supports mapping of vBulletin usergroups to MediaWiki user roles
• Users viewing wiki pages are shown in vBulletin's "What's going on?" section (both guests and registered users)
• Supports auto-authentication, users who choose to be "remembered" are logged in upon visiting the site to both vBulletin and MediaWiki.

Installation:

These installation instructions do not apply to vbWiki Pro. Refer to vbWiki Pro installation instructions for more information.

MediaWiki and vBulletin must be installed and properly working before installing vbWiki. MediaWiki can be downloaded here.

• Create a new directory in your forums directory named vbWiki.
• Upload the content of the installation package to this new directory.
• Rename the file vbWiki_Init.php-dist to vbWiki_Init.php
• Open the file LocalSettings.php found in your MediaWiki directory in a text editor and at the very end find the following line and remove it if present:

PHP Code:

?> 


• Add the following code at the end of the file (entering the correct directory path):

PHP Code:

require_once "/absolute/path/to/your/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Init.php"; 


Troubleshooting:

• Last installation step: Click Mark as Installed..

If you run into any trouble installing vbWiki (blank page, logins not working, etc.), follow these instructions to temporarily turn on vbWiki's Diagnostic Tools.

Open vbWiki_Init.php (or vbWikiPro_Init.php) and find this line:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = false; 


And change it for this:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = true; 


Navigate to the wiki home page, and see the results.

Changes:

• 0 vBulletin files to Edit
• 1 MediaWiki file to Edit
• 10 vbWiki Files to Upload

Requirements:

• vBulletin v3.5.4 (version 3.6.x recommended)
• MediaWiki 1.6.8+ (recommended 1.7.x+).
• PHP4+

Uninstalling...

• To uninstall vbWiki Standard simply remove (or comment) the line added to LocalSettings.php.
• Optionally remove the directory vbWiki from your forums directory.

[siriuxs]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

Hi I just went to your site and I don't see vbWiki Std or vbWiki Pro installed. What kind of error are you getting?

Thanks.

I reinstall all, but there is the problem... http://www.pchs.it/wiki-pchs/

Please help me

[ElfMage]

Thanks. Could you PM me the content of vbWiki_Init.php?

What version of MW are you using?

Thanks.

[siriuxs]

PM Sent I run the last versione of mediawiki

[ElfMage]

Originally Posted by rfikki

Warning: Cannot modify header information

I get a bunch of these errors when I try to visit the wiki after I place this line(modified to include the proper path):

require_once "/path/to/wiki/vbWiki/vbWikiPro_Init.php";

in the LocalSettings.php file per the instructions for installing the Pro version that I purchased.

Any help appreciated....

Thanks for the PMs.

We found that Jelsoft introduced a change in vBulletin 3.6.6 which was producing an error. Please download the latest vbWiki Pro from the Premium Members Area, and let me know how it goes.

Thanks.

[siriuxs]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

Thanks for the PMs.

We found that Jelsoft introduced a change in vBulletin 3.6.6 which was producing an error. Please download the latest vbWiki Pro from the Premium Members Area, and let me know how it goes.

Thanks.

Please help me...?

[ElfMage]

Originally Posted by siriuxs

Please help me...?

Hi, I was in the process to do that...

Please download and install vbWiki Std 1.3 RC4. This version adds compatibility with MW 1.10.0 and vBulletin 3.6.6.

Try this and let me know if the error persists.

Thanks.

[siriuxs]

Tanks, but the error there is.
http://www.pchs.it/forums/vbWiki/
www.pchs.it/wiki-pchs

[ElfMage]

This is a different error. Did you get an e-mail from your forum with the DB error details? (You may need to turn the option on in vBulletin's Admin CP).

Thanks.

[siriuxs]

This is a report:
Database error in vBulletin 3.6.7:

Invalid SQL:

SELECT languageid,
phrasegroup_vbwiki AS phrasegroup_vbwiki,
phrasegroup_global AS phrasegroup_global,
options AS lang_options,
languagecode AS lang_code,
charset AS lang_charset,
locale AS lang_locale,
imagesoverride AS lang_imagesoverride,
dateoverride AS lang_dateoverride,
timeoverride AS lang_timeoverride,
registereddateoverride AS lang_registereddateoverride,
calformat1override AS lang_calformat1override,
calformat2override AS lang_calformat2override,
logdateoverride AS lang_logdateoverride,
decimalsep AS lang_decimalsep,
thousandsep AS lang_thousandsep
FROM vb_language
WHERE languageid = 2;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'phrasegroup_vbwiki' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Date : Thursday, May 17th 2007 @ 05:20:18 PM
Script : http://www.pchs.it/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Init.php
Referrer :
IP Address : 194.177.98.211
Username :
Classname : vB_Database

[ElfMage]

Thanks, indeed that is a bug in vbWiki Std. It is something that was left from vbWiki Pro.

Please open arcane_vbulletin_core.php and find this line:

PHP Code:

$phrasegroups = array( 'vbwiki' ); 


And replace it for this:

PHP Code:

$phrasegroups = array(); 


Since vbWiki Pro reuses most of the code from vbWiki Std, the piece of code mentioned above was left in vbWiki Std, while it shouldn't have.

I have updated the download on the first post.

Thanks.