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.

[andyfielder]

Is there a way to make it post the excerpt instad of the actual post content.

Or converting HTML images to BB?

Looking a html image tags in the forum doesnt look good!

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by andyfielder

Is there a way to make it post the excerpt instad of the actual post content.

Or converting HTML images to BB?

Looking a html image tags in the forum doesnt look good!

Yes mate.... just enable it in dashboard > tools > vbridge settings.

as for HTML tags thingy, just enable HTML in all forums or install that mod i posted in the previous links.

[rcadden]

Ugh - finally integrated the users so that scheduled posting works through, but now XMLRPC doesn't work. I searched through the thread and found that it was removed in the February update - any chance of getting that back?

Not only is it dead useful for offline desktop blogging using Windows Live Writer, but it's also the only way that most mobile apps can blog.

Btw, if anyone wants an example of the mod in action, you can hit http://www.symbian-guru.com, the forum is at /forum, but it's all integrated with comments and whatnot. I still need to update the wordpress side so that the Comments look better.

[MorfiusX]

Originally Posted by GoodOmens

Ok I've made some changes to get post authors to correctly display:

Changed in vbbridge.php

PHP Code:

$sql = "select replycount, postuserid FROM " .  TABLE_PREFIX . "thread where threadid = '$results->vb_threadid'"; 


to

PHP Code:

$sql = "select replycount, postuserid, postusername FROM " .  TABLE_PREFIX . "thread where threadid = '$results->vb_threadid'"; 


and

PHP Code:

$ret = Array('id' => $results->vb_threadid, 'count' => $results2[replycount], 'thread_starter' => $results2[postuserid], 'replies' => $results3, 'vb_parser' => $parser); 


to

PHP Code:

$ret = Array('id' => $results->vb_threadid, 'count' => $results2[replycount], 'thread_starter' => $results2[postuserid], 'replies' => $results3, 'vb_parser' => $parser, 'postusername' => $results2[postusername]); 


Then in the instructions for the Author (wordpress templates) - this was only being called once and resulted in the same author being displayed in all my posts on the main page:

Changed:

PHP Code:

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


to

PHP Code:

if (function_exists('Comment_Handler')) { 


Also to removed the following from the comment code (redundant since a function call is already made by the author portion of the code)

PHP Code:

if (function_exists('Comment_Handler')) {

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

    global $vbulletin; 
} 


Everything fully working on LineageJunkies.com

Thanks! This worked for me.

[MorfiusX]

I was having problems with the redirection when logging in to the Wordpress side of things. Looking through the code I found the following in "functions_vbbridge.php":

$login_url = site_url( 'wp-login.php?redirect_to=' . urlencode( $redirect ), 'login' );

However, I could not find where $redirect was being called from. In my case, I believe it was NULL. So, I replaced it with this code:

		if ($redirect) {

			$login_url = site_url( 'wp-login.php?redirect_to=' . urlencode( $redirect ), 'login' );
			
		} else {
			
			$login_url = site_url( 'wp-login.php?redirect_to=' . urlencode( "/wp-admin/" ), 'login' );
			
		}

[fmckinnon]

OK - thanks for all your help.

I've been using this for about a week now.
Keep in mind: we are NOT using auto-integrate. We have no interest in sharing users ... only in crossposting our articles (WordPress) to our forums, and using the forums for the comment engine.

Earlier, I posted about how regardless of what UserID I have in the vbridge settings, it always posts to the forum as UserID #1. This somehow magically started working correctly all of a sudden - I never did go into phpmyadmin and change userID's around - it just started working.

HOWEVER - now that multiple articles have been published, the actual articles are now hitting the forum with RANDOM userID's ...

I think it has to be a conflict with the Users/Role Manager plugin we're using in WordPress - we have many contributors ... and when they publish their articles, they appear in the forums with random userID's ....

Example: user "SaintLewis" in wordpress adds an article and submits it to the editor. Editor approves and publishes. The article hits the forums in userid: 27? (which is someone else's userID, of course!).

Another user in wordpress publishes an article - and it gets published on the forums as another random ID.

Then, another one publishes, and it goes to the forum with the correct userID as defined in the vbridge settings.

I'd really love for this to work, but I'm on the brink of giving up unless someone has a clue what keeps causing this.

[fmckinnon]

EUREKA:

OK, we've discovered that all of the posts that went into the forums correctly were published directly. All of the ones that went INCORRECTLY were posts that were "scheduled to be published" and were published according to the schedule, automatically.

Seems like in my reading (and re-reading) of this 44+ page topic that i've seen some issues of scheduled posts.

[kent_lkc]

verified by me working like a charm on vB 3.8.3 . . . good job.

[alanhoskins]

Is there anyway, without using the forum for comments, to pull in the avatar from the forum to display next to each persons WP comment?

[Spawnie1978]

I get this error:

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/palompon/public_html/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 /home/palompon/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 113

Code in this line:

 chdir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . get_option('vbb_VBRPATH'));

Seems like its searching for a table caled vbb_vbrpath but there is no such table in my database!

Problem solved...

Changed line to:

chdir('/home/palompon/public_html/forum');