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.

[deepmartini]

Does anyone know how to make Wordpress link to the vbulletin user control panel when someone clicks on their profile in Wordpress? Also, how can we get vbulletin avatars to show up in Wordpress in the comments underneath a post?

[pspcrazy]

Jafo can you make an option which will simply redirect you to the forums to login? I dislike having my user's see the wordpress screen it's not very professinal when your site is using wordpress, but doesn't want to be known as using wp and get hacked due to it (can't use the latest versions.)

Also can you not make it case sensitive? Atm my username is Pspcrazy, and i usually type pspcrazy, but it doesn't accept it from wp. It only accepts Pspcrazy now which is wierd.

Thanks,
Vahid

Also can you check your pm's? Sent 2 so far. thanks

[getfitatl]

I'm going to re-add this due to it "probably" overlooked because of the new release.

I rename the file back to vbbridge.php, log in to the vBulletin admin panel, open another browser and navigate to http://mysite.com/wp-admin which takes me to the Wordpress Dashboard. From this point how does anyone access Wordpress? This is where confusion sets in and I've yet to come across any documentation explaining this. So I'll ask again: How are users suppose to access Wordpress from vBulletin and vice versa? I'm 3 weeks into this project and I've yet to experience any of the other issues being mentioned. So at the rate I'm going I could be in for another 3-4 weeks in trying to get this thing working.
Is there a separate hack or mod that allows vB to sit within the WordPress header and footer or does it have to appear as a link off the front page?
I create a regular vbulletin user and when I try to log into vBulletin I get the window saying thanks for logging in then it takes me back to this:

You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
You are not logged in. Fill in the form at the bottom of this page and try again.
You may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.



Any responses appreciated.

[b-roll]

UPDATE ON MY ISSUE:
I tried the new version (4.01.12) but the problem still exists. After a recommendation from another forum, I turned off "auto-integration" and the system worked. So the "breaking" is isolated to just that part of the plugin.

Thanks again for all of the help...

==========================
Here my original issue:

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

[myHybridcar.com]

When a guest clicks "Log in to Reply" in the comments section of an entry, they're directed to the Wordpress login page. Does anyone know how to have them directed to the vBulletin login page instead?

[BigPete7978]

Ok we are trying to get this up and running we are getting this error

"Warning: include_once(/home/sev1512/Playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sev1512/Playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge4.01.12/vbbridge.php on line 94

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening '/home/sev1512/Playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/sev1512/Playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge4.01.12/vbbridge.php on line 94

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:3254) in /home/sev1512/Playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge4.01.12/vbbridge.php on line 569"

Any ideas?

[Jafo232]

You put vbbridge and other files in it's own folder, which the readme specifically says not to do..

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by 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

I would check your error log and see what error is being returned to kill the page half way through.. Not sure if you applied the edits in the readme, if so, there is a good chance you did something wrong and it is throwing an error..

[Jafo232]

As for PM's. Please note for those of you sending me PM's:

I am not currently available to do custom work. End of story. It isn't about the money, it is about the fact that the Earth rotates once every 24 hours. If it did that in 40 hours, then yes, I would probably then have time to help people on an individual basis.

Please keep your questions confined to this thread, PM's will be ignored.

[BigPete7978]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

You put vbbridge and other files in it's own folder, which the readme specifically says not to do..

Ok thanks. I will look into that. I wasn't the one installing it. My friend actually was. Not sure if he read the read me.