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.

[WouterN]

Originally Posted by glowinggal

anyone using this with wordpress 2.7.1?

Yep, I do.

[glowinggal]

yea! i'm working on installing this today on our test wordpress development - we have almost 100k members and will post back on how it works out

[diosrl]

Any chance this would eventually work on subdomains? I have multiple subdomains, like blog, forum, links, and more to come. I truly like this script but I think I cannot give up subdomains

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by lucalucius

It's a problem if I have the forum in a subdomain?

WP : http://www.domainname.com/
ForumVB : http://forum.domainname.com/

Regards

Yes, it wont work. Mod limitation.

Originally Posted by glowinggal

anyone using this with wordpress 2.7.1?

Yes, I am. Works perfectly!

Originally Posted by diosrl

Any chance this would eventually work on subdomains? I have multiple subdomains, like blog, forum, links, and more to come. I truly like this script but I think I cannot give up subdomains

You can use subdomain redirects. I am having no problem with that.

[icewarp]

Originally Posted by Lowestoft Life

I have this installed using VB 3.8.2 and WP 2.7.1. The test post worked fine, however when replies to the test post are made on VB they are not showing as comments on my Wordpress site, which I believe they should be doing unless I have misread something?

Comments made on the Wordpress side are not transmitted as replies to the post on the forum either, so i'm not sure which way round this is supposed to work.

Also before installing the hack I had just 1 member on VB (me) but quite a few on WP. I notice mapping users has not created forum accounts for the WP members automatically - are they expected to create seporate accounts for VB?

I am having the exact same problem. Does anyone have any clue on this?

[peleh]

Originally Posted by Shinichi_bien

in vbbridge.php

just before

PHP Code:

add_action('publish_post', 'Vbridge_Post'); 


but you can add anywhere that you want, I put it there to keep it close to the add_action (easy to remember)

please change the posted code to the following, add this filter only in admin end

PHP Code:


if (is_admin()) {
add_filter('wp_dropdown_users', 'vb_post_author');
function vb_post_author($output) {
    global $post;

    $vb_post_author = get_userdata($post->post_author);
    $output = str_replace('</select>','<option value="'.$post->post_author.'" selected>'.$vb_post_author->username.'</option></select>',$output);
    echo $output;
}
} 


Thank you for this, worked here.





About the author link going to vbulletin profile, does anyone here tried this code?

PHP Code:

You can also now link authors usernames to their VB profile page.  Wherever you see the code:

<?php the_author() ?>

You can replace that with something like:

<?php

if (function_exists('Comment_Handler') and $vbridge == '') {

    $vbridge = Comment_Handler($post->ID);

    global $vbulletin; 
}

if ($vbridge[id] > 0) {
?>
<a href=<?php echo get_option('vbb_VBURL') ?>/member.php?u=<?php echo $vbridge[thread_starter] ?>><?php echo $vbridge['postusername'] ?></a>

<?php
}
else {

    the_author();

}
?>

It was writen in the readme, doesnt work here since i dont have the_author on the files, its ... :{

Here is a bit of my theme's code:

PHP Code:

<div class="postmetadata">Posted by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> at  <?php the_time('F  j,  Y') ?>  <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#discussion"></a></span>
                <span id="digg"><?php digg_this(); ?><span>

[peleh]

About the post above, i got it working by folowing this tutorial, which is not exactly like the readme instructions: http://www.sisak.info/wp-content/plugins/readme.txt

The important part:

PHP Code:

Find in any of the following templates: index.php, single.php, page.php.  

<!-- start post loop -->
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

ADD the following code after it:

<?php 
### Vbridge Call
$vbridge = Comment_Handler($post->ID); 
###
?>

The author code:

PHP Code:

<?php the_author() ?>

You can replace that with something like:

<?php
if ($vbridge[id] > 0) {
?>
<a href=<?php echo get_option('vbb_VBURL') ?>/member.php?u=<?php echo $vbridge[thread_starter] ?>><?php the_author() ?></a>

<?php
}
else {
the_author();
}
?>

[EagleNick]

Originally Posted by SABRSox

I've noticed an issue. When I auto-integrate, the bridge seems to confuse the wordpress userid with the vbulletin userid.

For example, say I, with userid #2 on the blog, writes a post. With auto-integrate, it will list on the wordpress blog the article as written by whomever has userid #2 on vbulletin.

Has a fix been posted? I'm having the same issue and it's annoying.

[peleh]

Originally Posted by EagleNick

Has a fix been posted? I'm having the same issue and it's annoying.

I guess this mod was made to run a fresh install, but you can get around that by hijaking some user accounts on your forum that match the wordpress user ID. Also, you can edit wordpress user ID at the database, but i really dont know if that could bring more problems.

[EagleNick]

Originally Posted by peleh

I guess this mod was made to run a fresh install, but you can get around that by hijaking some user accounts on your forum that match the wordpress user ID. Also, you can edit wordpress user ID at the database, but i really dont know if that could bring more problems.

That's a good idea about changing the WordPress user ID. I don't see it having any adverse affects. We'll see.