Integration with vBulletin - Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings

Identical to this Mod here, but now for the Vbulletin 3.8 line.

DOES NOT WORK FOR Vbulletin 4.x

This version probably no longer works for Wordpress 3.x. I have started developing this product over and have released the NEW version here:

http://www.lampwrights.com/showthread.php?t=41

This mod bridges your Vbulletin users over to Wordpress. You can also use Vbulletin as your comment engine instead of the spammy one built into Wordpress. You can display the comments inline in your post. You need not use the comment feature, if your only interested in sharing users.

You can map your Vbulletin Usergroups to Wordpress Usergroups and those users will then be recognized as registered Wordpress users.

For example, user "Joe" registers at your forum and logs in. Joe then clicks on your Wordpress page. Joe is instantly added to the Wordpress user base with the permissions you set for his usergroup. In otherwords, if a user comes over belonging to the "Registered User" group, you can select that he is placed in the Wordpress "Subscriber" usergroup.

If you change a users group from vbulletin, it will automatically change in Wordpress.

Requirements:

• DOES NOT and WILL NEVER support Wordpress MU.
• Wordpress and Vbulletin scripts must reside on the same physical server.
• Wordpress and Vbulletin must use the same domain name.
• Stable Wordpress Version greater than or equal to 2.7.
• DOES work for Vbulletin 3.7.
• Does work for vBulletin 3.8.

Limitations:

• Does not work for 4.x. Why? Because VB 4.x does not work for me. If they ever make that product worth a shit, I might support it.
• Please don't ask if it works for any BETA versions of Vbulletin. I do not know and will not convert this to the latest version of VB (whatever it is at the time you are reading this) until the version is released as non-beta.
• Does not work with XMLRPC.
• Chances are, this will not work when VB and Wordpress are located in different sub domains. I.E. forum.yoursite.com - blog.yoursite.com. Cookie issue.
• I did the best I could in determining your forums file path with the script. There may be certain script setups that cannot find the file path properly, in which case you may get errors that the script cannot find or open /config.php. If this is the case, please HARDCODE your ABSOLUTE path to the forum in vbridge.php.
  
  To do this find:
  
  

   ## If you are having path problems, uncomment this next variable and define the path
  ## NO TRAILING SLASH!
  # $vwd = '/some/path/to/your/forum';

  And uncomment the last line, and change the path to your forums path:
  
  

   ## If you are having path problems, uncomment this next variable and define the path
  ## NO TRAILING SLASH!
  $vwd = '/some/path/to/your/forum';

Common Mistakes When Installing:

• Using two different host names causes problems. If your forum URL contains www.yourdomain.com, then your wordpress blog URL MUST contain the www. part of www.yourdomain.com also. This goes for any other host name. Browsers are finnecky when it comes to cookies (as they should be).
• Editors generally EDIT, not write. In Wordpress, editors don't show up in the post author drop down. This has nothing to do with this plugin, that is Wordpress code.
• Make sure you DO NOT create a subdirectory for this plugin in the wp-content/plugins directory. Just upload it directly there..
• If you do not map users before you turn auto-integrate on, the plugin has no idea whether your allowed into the dashboard.
• If you all of a sudden can't login to the dashboard, see the above two common mistakes.
• FOLLOW the directions and make a test post first. Being in a rush and not testing will most likely turn out bad for you.

UPDATES:

Changelog is included in download, here is the most recent changes:

3/09/2009

• Added code to process scheduled posts
• Addressed code where links and images would not show up properly in VB
• Added new table called vb_forumid for scheduled posts
• Reduced redundant calls when dealing with forum excerpts

Sites Using This Plug-In:

• http://www.jeffsrecipes.com
• http://www.xboxcircle.com
• http://www.detailuniversity.com
• http://www.zeropaid.com
• http://www.daggersden.net/
• http://www.talkbronx.com/
• http://www.czeta.it
• http://www.boonvilleforum.com

(PM me if you want to add your site here)

Special Thanks:

axisoverdrive - Debugging Help, Kyraal - Paypal Donation, Kalina - Paypal Donation, Wildcard27 - Paypal Donation, Shri - Paypal Donation, pspcrazy - Paypal Donation, Tomahoochi - Paypal Donation.

If you use this plug-in, and find it useful, please support us by nominating us for Mod Of The Month (MOTM) in the top right corner of this thread, or feel free to donate.

If you do install:

Please Click Install

Brought To You By: Lampwrights.com.

[hkocer]

it worked on my wordpress 2.9.2 + VBB 4.0.3 setup, but once enabled the plugin , I am not able to upload any image in wordpress , anyone facing the same problem as me?

[jacobomoya]

Originally Posted by hkocer

it worked on my wordpress 2.9.2 + VBB 4.0.3 setup, but once enabled the plugin , I am not able to upload any image in wordpress , anyone facing the same problem as me?

Try using the browser upload instead of the flash one.

By the way, I couldn't get the comments to bridge, people who made it, how did you do it? I think the attached instructions are obsolete since some lines I should be looking for are different.

Like

Find:

<?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>

seems to have been replaced by

<?php if ($comments) ?>

I made the change nonetheless

<?php if ($comments and ($vbridge[id] == '')) : ?>

yet it's still using Wordpress comments.

[hkocer]

I didn't use them all and I keep the <php if have commecnts> one unmoved.

[jacobomoya]

I have somewhat fixed it, actually the problem was that the link to comment in the forum was there AS WELL as the Wordpress comment form, so I just commented the code for the WP one since the conditions to not show it (adding those "and ($vbridge[id] == '')" I guess) weren't doing their job.

Nitpicking one last time: while the comments count works properly on each article/page (they count the VBulletin comments) the counts on the main blog are still counting the WP comments, is this normal?

[whem]

hi all

Is there any way to add the counts of comments in WordPress to the counts of Posts in vbulletin.


thank you

[TomOfSweden]

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I'd be willing to pay someone to fix it for me.

So if there's Is there anybody here who knows what my problem is, knows how to fix it and want money, please contact me.

My problem:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1092

[vrinteractive]

Will this work with vbulltin 4.0? What happens when WP integrates Multi-user into the standard protocol?

[phsycical]

Hello, I followed the instructions in readme.

After I update the settings and click submit I get broken path errors.

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/phsycical/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 40

I've tried adding a new post to see if it would appear in vBulletin anyway, but I got this error.

Warning: require_once(DIR/includes/functions_newpost.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/phsycical/public_html/forums/includes/class_dm_threadpost.php on line 18

I've tried editing the vbbridge.php to include my forum path but to no avail, does anyone have an idea on what's wrong and how I could fix it?

[THETMZ]

I found this mod very useful but in the end I had to stop using it.

It turned out that when this mod was enabled there were issues with logging in/logging out. If you click logout on vbulletin and then try to navigate through threads as guest - it turns out after two or three clicks that you are logged in again. (I was recommended to try changing cookie settings on vbulletin - didn't help).

Next issue comes with "Read posts" and "Unread Posts". When you read post and go to the root of your forum it still shows that you haven't read that post.

After turning off this plugin everything works fine.

WP 2.9.2.

Any comments?
Thanks!

[neoacro]

Originally Posted by vrinteractive

Will this work with vbulltin 4.0? What happens when WP integrates Multi-user into the standard protocol?

Yes, I also need to find out if this plugin will work with vb 4.0 too. Thanks alot!