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.

[MissKalunji]

works perfectly!! thank you !!

[MissKalunji]

Another question

When i post a new thread it does show in vb.

What about replies?

When i reply it doesn't show in vb...

Edit


I figured it out

[drsmash]

Originally Posted by drsmash

i make it /vb
my forum path is /vb

should i do it (/home/habebe/public_html/vb/)
?????

i change the path several times and still have the same problem

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

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'DIR/includes/functions_newpost.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/habebe/public_html/vb/includes/class_dm_threadpost.php on line 18

[MissKalunji]

what would be good is if "clicking add comment" would open an ajax box with the comment, when they click post, it will say thank you and you can close the box.

Would be much better then having to go on another page and such.

[Jeel89]

I have a question about the data requested

(VB User Id), I suppose this is my customer number
(VB Forum ID), number of the license I own
(VB User Name), what of this, is this my username on vbulletin.com?

[hagalil]

No download possible.

[hagalil]

Vbull may be a good thing, but to pay and then be unable to use anything as you need to identify yourself nearly everytime you click somewere, makes me angry.
You get much better and friendlier service, nearly everywhere - for free!!!

[RyanC]

I've been using this plugin for years. It's been great... Just recently, the plugin started acting strange for seemingly no reason. Here are the details:

WP 3.0.1
VB 3.8.1

When you post from the wordpress admin, you get a blank white page. The post shows up on the wordpress blog as well as the assigned forum, however the comment count does not display anymore. So, there is no link from the wordpress post to the forum thread that represents it.

Any idea how I can fix this? This worked fine just the other day and just randomly stopped working. Would love some help.

[credenscel]

can this mod work for vb 3.6?

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by hayamakun

This added code allows the Wordpress front page (and probably some others that calculate comment count) to show the number of replies in the vb thread.

Note: I am using WP version 3.0.1 and VB version 3.8.6

In vbbridge.php, add to the end:

add_filter('get_comments_number', 'comments_count', 10, 2);

### Return Comment count
function comments_count($count, $postID = false) {
	global $vbulletin, $vwd;

	$wpdb =& $GLOBALS['wpdb'];
	$sql = "select vb_threadid FROM " . $GLOBALS['table_prefix'] . "posts where ID = '$postID'";
	$results = $wpdb->get_row($sql);

	$sql = "select replycount FROM " .  TABLE_PREFIX . "thread where threadid = '$results->vb_threadid'";
	$results2 = $wpdb->get_row($sql);

	return $results2->replycount;

}

That should work pretty well. Did some testing on it, seems to work fine.

This would be possible ONLY if both are under the same database?