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.

[JVCode]

Originally Posted by SmrtGyJeff

I'm running into the same problem as a previous installer, and getting this error with the Diagnostic Tools:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/content/t/o/c/tocnerak/html/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Tools.php
Line: 19

Anyone able to shed any light on this?

I'm getting the same error, Does anyone know how to fix this?

[sub_ubi]

^^ That's a cookie problem. Is your mediawiki on a different subdomain? If so, make sure your cookie domains are setup as .mysite.com

[PlymWS]

The table is broken in Firefox. The main text area extends past the boundaries of the style. This is not replicated in IE7. Has anyone else got this problem ?

[DeMiNe0]

Im having a problem where when i go to the wiki, it redirects to me "All Cookies Cleared" message in vbulletin. Logs me out of vbulletin. Any help on this?
Sometimes it works, and other times it doesn't. I set the cookie domain in the vb config and in the wiki config. Still a no go. Any idea why?

Also is there any other integrations that actually work, and havn't been abandoned?

Running mediawiki 1.12.0 and vbulletin 3.6.9

[iRO Wiki]

We've gotten it to work with 3.7 and 1.11.x. vB Wiki currently does not seem to support MW 1.12.0 or higher.

[NickCat]

Originally Posted by DeMiNe0

Im having a problem where when i go to the wiki, it redirects to me "All Cookies Cleared" message in vbulletin. Logs me out of vbulletin. Any help on this?
Sometimes it works, and other times it doesn't. I set the cookie domain in the vb config and in the wiki config. Still a no go. Any idea why?

Also is there any other integrations that actually work, and havn't been abandoned?


Running mediawiki 1.12.0 and vbulletin 3.6.9

Exact same problem here... been troubleshooting it all day without luck.

The cookie path and domain are identical on vbulletin and vbWiki. When I run the diag I get the following error:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/httpd/html/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Tools.php
Line: 19

My locations are simple, nothing complex with domains going on at all.

www.mydomain.com/forums/ <- vBulletin
www.mydomain.com/wiki/ <- MediaWiki

It's definitely some sort of a cookie issue, but I don't know what is causing it.

[zmsan]

Hey iRO Wiki - was the only change you made to wiki the fact that you changed the version back to 11.X? Any other changes on the install to get it to work with 3.7?

[Pirat3]

I get a blank page on everything when I add the line :
require_once "/absolute/path/to/your/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Init.php";

(The ?> not present)

I am using v1.12 of media wiki

also what is the actual url of the display for wiki?

[Pirat3]

Anyone?

[iRO Wiki]

Not sure what you mean.