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.

[GunShad0w]

Originally Posted by jacobomoya

Cookie domain problem. Use the tools.php to restore it, making sure it's pointing to the forum directory and not the root one.

so it turns out it was all cookie problems from the very beginning haha, I fixed it by having the wordpress and vbulletin cookies saved to the same path. Everythings fixed and running, thanks for your help...

now I can finally click install for this mod

[MumDadBaby]

Hi folks,

I'm also receiving the "headers already sent" error when making a post. The plugin still manages to post to the correct forum with the correct title/username etc but there's no content, just the link back to the article itself.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Robert

[MumDadBaby]

Originally Posted by MumDadBaby

Hi folks,

I'm also receiving the "headers already sent" error when making a post. The plugin still manages to post to the correct forum with the correct title/username etc but there's no content, just the link back to the article itself.

Any ideas?


Cheers,
Robert

This is what I'm getting (see attachment).

Now going by that (I'm not 100% on PHP errors) I'm assuming there's something wrong with my child theme's functions.php at line 20.

Here's the full function found around that line (line 20 is the echo $output line):

PHP Code:

    remove_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'twentyten_custom_excerpt_more' );
    function mindfulmum_custom_excerpt_more( $output ) {
        if ( has_excerpt() && ! is_attachment() ) {$output = str_replace(array("\r", "\r\n", "\n"), '', $output);}
        echo $output."…";}    
    add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'mindfulmum_custom_excerpt_more' ); 


Any ideas?


Cheers,
Robert

[AleXanniX]

Hello
i tried to install the bridge, but when i write a test post i recive a white page in mysite.com/wp-admin/post.php

where's the problem?

[way2xtreme]

Hello, I am having the same problem as below, how do you hardcode the link in the plugin file?

I see the line in my editor, just not sure what to type.

Also, let's say my forum is at 12345.com and my blog is at 12345.com/wpblog/ , what is the relative path ?

Thanks,
W

Originally Posted by amjadz4

Originally Posted by LegendZelda View Post

When I try to make a post I get the following errors

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home1/noahglas/public_html/hiddentriforce/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 108

Warning: require_once(./includes/class_dm.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home1/noahglas/public_html/hiddentriforce/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 113

This is when I Update a post, publish a post, etc.

I got everything else working. I do not want the posts to be published to my forums. I just wanted the user integration so I have the Post Articles to Forum option turned off.

What can I do to fix this?

Noah

Check your paths in the vbridge settings. Or, manually hardcode the link in the plugin file.

Originally Posted by saf-t scissors View Post

Does anyone know why the resetvbbridge file doesn't work?

I screwed something up and got locked out of WP, tried to use this file to turn integration off, uploaded it to the root WP dir (same as the root dir for that host) and ran it, but nothing happens. Looking at the code, I should get a confirmation echo.

Originally Posted by saf-t scissors View Post

I was able to manually edit the db and turn the plug-in off, but that little script still doesn't work.

Uninstall it completely from your DB and re install, step by step. Should work perfectly.

[cache]

I can not past the first installation step, as soon as I turn on this plug in, when accessing wp's post, I would get this:

wp-admin/global.php. You should check your path! Turning Plugin Off

I have seen three people had the exact same problem in this thread, but it seemed there was answer to their questions either.

[MumDadBaby]

Hmmm, the developer hasn't been on here since October, that's a bit worrying.

[bailz66]

Whenever I activate the "Auto-Integrate" on I keep getting blank pages for all of Wordpress. I tried mapping "Unregistered / Not Logged In" as every possible role but I get the same results (blank pages).

That said, if I head over to the forum and log in (either as a user or an admin), I get all Wordpress pages with no problem.

Any suggestions?

This was posted last year but no response made

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Thanks
Warren

Thanks in advance.

[bailz66]

I have the solution to the above problem

If you have your forums set so that unregistered users can not view your forum then unregistered users will not be able to view the log. There wont be an error message just a blank page. Hope this helps someone else

[MumDadBaby]

I've just discovered that Complete vBridge is screwing with "Set Featured Image". It hits you with the dreaded "Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again." page.