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.

[djr]

Anyone who is sick and tired of all this hacky stuff to get user/password integration working with WordPress and vBulletin (like me), please vote for this suggestion to have a proper API for username and password: API for User name and Password (discussion)

[cagbaazee]

will it works on latest vbulletin version 4.

[Gnoll]

Works awsome on vB4 but just

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Those are showing as "?"

[slinkyman]

Originally Posted by slinkyman

Question - I posted an entry on WordPress and checked off "Do not post on forum", then I went back an edited it, but when I did that, I didn't select any option for using vB as comments. So now when you view the article on WordPress, it has the links to a thread that doesn't exist. Is there a way to remove it after that's happened?

Question still hasn't been answered, but I'm changing it up a bit. When I'm using the iPhone WP App I don't have the option to post the article to a forum - so I decided I would do that when I got home. I got home, edited the article (but this time I selected a forum) and it didn't get posted. How come? Is there a way to go back and edit the article to have it posted on the forums?

[Gnoll]

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM vb_user WHERE userid = '1';

MySQL Error   : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number  : 2006
Request Date  : Tuesday, July 13th 2010 @ 01:49:31 PM

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.4:

Invalid SQL:
SELECT * FROM vb_user WHERE userid = '2';

MySQL Error   : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number  : 2006
Request Date  : Tuesday, July 13th 2010 @ 03:02:29 PM
Error Date    : Tuesday, July 13th 2010 @ 03:03:01 PM
Script        : http://www.mmobrowser.com/etiketler/2010-mmorpg-oyunlar
Referrer      : http://www.google.com.tr/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CC0QFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mmobrowser.com%2Fetiketler%2F2010-mmorpg-oyunlar&rct=j&q=2010%20mmorpg%20oyunlar%C4%B1&ei=vn88TNO8M5KVOIXGmbIP&usg=AFQjCNHQHLqJHRDRCliuY9MHME2SOkESWA
IP Address    : 78....

[dcuellar]

Any time frame for this to be updated to 4.x?

I have this error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin() (previously declared in /home2/unifiedc/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php:214) in /home2/unifiedc/public_html/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php on line 33

I have WP version 3.0

Am I doing something wrong?

EDIT***
I'm going to post this because I really feel this is a great mod and because for the past few hours I've been busting my ass trying to get my forum to work again. Hopefully there can be an FAQ section created in the first post.

This error is due to incorrectly uninstalling this mod. I'm not really sure how I "incorrectly" did that, but oh well. Here is what I did to fix it:

1. Delete the 3 files in the 'wp-content/plugins' folder.
   • functions_vbbridge.php
   • functions_wysiwyg2.php
   • vbbridge.php
2. Delete the tables in your database. Backup your files just in case.
   1. Do a search for 'vbb' within the database '_wrd1'
   2. select only those tables that start with 'vbb'
   3. Delete them.
3. Reinstall the mod
   

[dcuellar]

Hopefully I can get this question answered.

I'd like to post on vB and have it post automatically on Wordpress. Possible?

[ElysianFox]

I couldn't get the comments system working, I was able to bridge users and logins, although whenever I post an article, it will always appear as the same user.

Then, When attempting to post as another user, it will blank out and not show an author or link at all.

Also, regardless of what userid or username for the forum, it will always post under the same username for the forum.

I love this plugin but i simply cannot use it if it does not show the article authors with the posts on wordpress. Comments, i couldnt care less, even though it would be nice to have, but the Author names not showing up is a huge problem to me.

if anyone can help me with this issue, please contact me here as i don't check these boards regularly.

[dcuellar]

For the sake of getting questions answered I am going to start an FAQ. If the author feels like it hopefully they will add it on the main post.

Mini FAQ:

Confirmed to work with the following (other than what is mentioned in the main post):

• vBulletin v4.0.2 & Wordpress 3.0 (confirmed by dcuellar)
• vBulletin v4.0.1 & WordPress 2.9.2 (confirmed by amplifiedshock)
• I'll add more as you guys let me know.

How to correct:
Logout Issue
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin() ...


WP Plugins that have interfered.
Minimeta widget & TDO Mini forms


Let me know if there is anything else I should add.

[Disasterpiece]

Originally Posted by dcuellar

Any time frame for this to be updated to 4.x?

I have this error:


I have WP version 3.0

Am I doing something wrong?

EDIT***
I'm going to post this because I really feel this is a great mod and because for the past few hours I've been busting my ass trying to get my forum to work again. Hopefully there can be an FAQ section created in the first post....

I discovered a better method.
It seems this happens, when you deactivate this plugin in the vbbridge settings, while it's integrated and an active WP plugin.

So in wp_options table, search for "vbb_VBPLUGION" and change value from 0 to 1, that did the trick for me.