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.

[twistedsymphony]

I'm running this on my site http://collectorsedition.org... actually I'm running the version for 3.7 and I'm debating whether I should upgrade or not.

I found some bugs in the old pluging that were causing things to not work right, I fixed them and then other aspects of the plugin that were dormant because of the errors now started firing and THEY had some errors... I eventually sat down and went through line by line fixing all the syntax errors I found and everything works great...

I even added a few features that I wanted that weren't included (like support for PAGES as well as posts)

there is one issue I have though and if this is fixed in the new version then It will be worth it for me to upgrade.

if I publish a post in WP it creates a post in vB just fine... everything as desired...

HOWEVER if I edit that post again in WP and re-save it... it will update the vB post BUT it will break all of the image URLS going from proper urls like: "http://mysite.com/uploads/2009/03/imagefile.jpg" and replacing them all with: "http://mysite.com/wp-admin/" it does this for all images... and it has done this before I even modified a single line of code in the plugin so I know it's nothing I changed...

This is quite annoying since I post a lot of pictures (most of my posts are a few lines of text followed by 20 or so pictures)... so if I go back to fix a minor typo I have to edit the vB post and fix all of the image links...

Is this fixed in the new version?

[myHybridcar.com]

I'm using the previous version because of the bugs in the new one. However, I realized that members in my "registered users" usergroup are able to access my Wordpress Dashboard! They are properly mapped and should not be able to do this. Does the problem exist in the new version?

[b-roll]

I'm using the Mimbo Pro theme on my wordpress site (http://b-roll.net) and when I install this plugin, it breaks the theme. The front page displays to a certain point on the page and then stops. All other pages display fine.

In my brief experiment, the plug-in seemed to work properly... other than breaking the them.

Has anyone had this issue? Is there a modification I can make to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance...

kev

[NatalieMarie87]

I'm sorry I'm so new to this, I have a blog www.comeboca.com and i want to install a vbulletin forum on a separate page....i bought the licence for vbulletin but i havent installed it yet because i dont know if it'll interfere with my wordpress blog....can someone please explain to me how to go about installing vbulletin into a separate page(tab) on my blog... like: Home | vbulletin forum | contact | site map etc

[AzzX]

Originally Posted by NatalieMarie87

I'm sorry I'm so new to this, I have a blog www.comeboca.com and i want to install a vbulletin forum on a separate page....i bought the licence for vbulletin but i havent installed it yet because i dont know if it'll interfere with my wordpress blog....can someone please explain to me how to go about installing vbulletin into a separate page(tab) on my blog... like: Home | vbulletin forum | contact | site map etc

You would just install vb into a seperate directory like "forums" and link to it via a wordpress page or category. Like the community menu I have on www.ozsource.org.

[getfitatl]

Ok so I rename the file back to vbbridge.php, log in to the vBulletin admin panel as an admin, open another browser and navigate to http://mysite.com/wp-admin which takes me to the Wordpress Dashboard. Now I'm dizzy with confusion. From this point how do I, or my users, access Wordpress? I hear you when you say that existing WordPress users don't get used but what about the rest of the site? I'm guessing it's made available to my vB users via the integration instead? If so then are they logged in to WordPress the same as I am? If so am I suppose to create a link to their WordPress profile or do they now use their vB profile? Is there a separate hack or mod that allows vB to sit within the WordPress header and footer or does it have to appears as a link off the front page?
Is there another round of documentation on this so that I don't feel like I'm asking "simple" questions?

Any responses appreciated.

[getfitatl]

You would just install vb into a seperate directory like "forums" and link to it via a wordpress page or category. Like the community menu I have on www.ozsource.org.

Nice site AzzX and it looks as though you have it sitting between the header and footer? If you link it as a page is there piece of code to add it like you'd do say the WordPress event calendar, [wpcalendar]? If not then how do you add this to the page?

Any responses appreciated

[Jafo232]

I have updated this version to address the following issues:

* Fixed issue where media manager would break

* Fixed issue were users would not have certain capabilities

* Addressed issue where slashes would be in the title in the VB forum

[vbplusme]

Originally Posted by myHybridcar.com

I'm using the previous version because of the bugs in the new one. However, I realized that members in my "registered users" usergroup are able to access my Wordpress Dashboard! They are properly mapped and should not be able to do this. Does the problem exist in the new version?

I think its not the "dashboard" you think it is if you are thinking that its that admin dashboard. I check this the other day and its the members WP account not the admin.

[mercuryyy]

Hi Jafo232 Thanks for another update, i keep checking every few days as i'm really depented on your plugin

I got this issue were users who add / edit new posts to my site sometimes get database errors and i also keep getting emails like this:

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

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Friday, March 6th 2009 @ 08:41:32 PM
Error Date : Friday, March 6th 2009 @ 08:41:50 PM
Script : http://www.****.com/search/anime Episode 1 english dubbed
Referrer : http://www.*****.com/
IP Address : 69.120.152.47
Username : Unregistered
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :



SELECT * FROM user WHERE userid = '1';
this line keeps randomly changing the userid between the users who has editor access.

I still didnt apply the latest update, and i also run VB 3.7 do you think i should upgrade to 3.8 ?