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.

[Quantnet]

I have installed the Pro version with MW 1.10.0 but the log in doesn't seem to take it

Turn the Diagnosis tool on, everything seems ok, it found everything...

When I log in from the forum site, go the wiki site, it logs me out, i log in from the wiki site again and it doesn't take it...if i move to the forum side, it shows i'm logged in again.

I have the 1.6.10 version before and everything seems to work perfectly. I just upgraded it to 1.10.0 version and this happens.

Appreciate your help, ElfMage

[ElfMage]

Hi. Could you enable URL Commands from vbWiki Pro's Admin CP Settings, if you'd like you can set the IP filter to 67.191.58.190. Thanks.

[Quantnet]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

Hi. Could you enable URL Commands from vbWiki Pro's Admin CP Settings, if you'd like you can set the IP filter to 67.191.58.190. Thanks.

I did.
Thanks for your support. Look forward to your help.

[gforce75]

Elfmage, I agree with you. It's good for knowledge as you stated.

[Quantnet]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

Hi. Could you enable URL Commands from vbWiki Pro's Admin CP Settings, if you'd like you can set the IP filter to 67.191.58.190. Thanks.

I found the solution from your site http://www.nuhit.com/forums/4465-post7.html

I need to set the domain to .website.com and path to /

Now it works perfectly...weird...I didn't have to do it in earlier version.

Now that this issue solved, may I have your attention and help in another one.

I have a customized header template that has navigation bar in a similar fashion as vb.org in that the bar will be highlighted depends on the location of the page you visit. If you at forum home, the FORUM button will be highlighted, if you at the VBA home, the HOME will be highlighted and so on. I'd like to have it so that the Wiki will be highlighted when i'm on any page of wiki.

Here is my current code

<a href="#" onclick="window.open('/forum/javachat.php?$session[sessionurl]do=lite','javachat','statusbar=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,directories=no,width=750,height=550,left=50,top=100,screenX=50,screenY=100'); return false;" class="tab">Chat</a>

<a href="http://www.quantnet.org/wiki/" class="<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'vbwiki'">tab<else />tabpage</if>">Wiki</a>

<a href="http://www.quantnet.org/forum/" class="<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'adv_index'">tab<else />tabpage</if>">Forum</a>


<a href="http://www.quantnet.org/" class="<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'adv_index'">tab<else />tabpage</if>">Home</a>

This does not work at the moment.

When i'm at VBA home, both HOME and WIKI are highlighted
When I'm at forum, both FORUM and WIKI highlighted
When i'm on wiki page, the FORUM highlight

You can visit www.quantnet.org and see for yourself.

Do you know any page location I can use ?

[ElfMage]

Originally Posted by Quantnet.org

I found the solution from your site http://www.nuhit.com/forums/4465-post7.html

I need to set the domain to .website.com and path to /

Cool. Glad you got it working.

Originally Posted by Quantnet.org

I have a customized header template that has navigation bar in a similar fashion as vb.org in that the bar will be highlighted depends on the location of the page you visit. If you at forum home, the FORUM button will be highlighted, if you at the VBA home, the HOME will be highlighted and so on. I'd like to have it so that the Wiki will be highlighted when i'm on any page of wiki.

Try the following. I am assuming that tabpage is the class for the active tab. What it does is to highlight the Forums tab only if you are not in the wiki nor in the vbAdvanced Home.

PHP Code:

<a href="#" onclick="window.open('/forum/javachat.php?$session[sessionurl]do=lite','javachat','statusbar=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,directories=no,width=750,height=550,left=50,top=100,screenX=50,screenY=100'); return false;" class="tab">Chat</a>

<a href="http://www.quantnet.org/wiki/" class="<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'vbwiki'">tabpage<else />tab</if>">Wiki</a>

<a href="http://www.quantnet.org/forum/" class="<if condition="(THIS_SCRIPT != 'vbwiki') && (THIS_SCRIPT != 'adv_index')">tabpage<else />tab</if>">Forum</a>

<a href="http://www.quantnet.org/" class="<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT == 'adv_index'">tabpage<else />tab</if>">Home</a> 


[ElfMage]

FYI, I also replied to your other support thread. Thanks.

[Quantnet]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

Try the following. I am assuming that tabpage is the class for the active tab. What it does is to highlight the Forums tab only if you are not in the wiki nor in the vbAdvanced Home.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

It works perfectly....I tested it quickly but everything seems to work as expected. You are the man

Thanks very much.

[Quantnet]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

Cool. Glad you got it working.

I sent you a PM with an id
Can you test it with some different browsers to see if it work properly now.

Thanks

[RVSmarter]

Hi I am trying to install vbwiki standard at the moment and I went through the instructions and I get the following error on the wiki mainpage:

Warning: require_once(/includes/AuthPlugin.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mathhelp/public_html/math-help/vbWiki/vbWiki_Auth.php on line 14

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/includes/AuthPlugin.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/mathhelp/public_html/math-help/vbWiki/vbWiki_Auth.php on line 14

Line 14 reads: require_once( "$IP/includes/AuthPlugin.php");


What shall I do????

You can see for yourself here: www.mathhelpforum.com/wiki