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.

[Trana]

Anyone know of a way to bridge the style settings from the forum?

[m-hoefti]

sorry i woud like to help, but my english is very bad.
detele all vbb optionen in yout wp Database name wp-config
then you must follow the instruction in the read me file step by step.

... ich kann gern jedem helfen, der deutsch spricht.

[deepmartini]

Honestly this plugin is now useless. Errors galore and hasn't been updated in over 6 months. Maybe the developer is waiting for vbulletin 4.0?

A more useful plugin would be a wordpress plugin that integrates seamlessly with vbulletin. Using wordpress as the front end for CMS, and pulling in vbulletin avatar information where wordpress avatars on the CMS side. Also, cookies so people don't have to login twice, and ability to map different levels of users.

Basically, we all need the REVERSE of this plugin. Now, that would be something a LOT of people would pay for!!!

Look at http://www.jfusion.org they do this for joomla/vbulletin as a master control bridge. Why not make one for wordpress to vbulletin?

Any developers how difficult is this?

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by deepmartini

Honestly this plugin is now useless. Errors galore and hasn't been updated in over 6 months. Maybe the developer is waiting for vbulletin 4.0?

A more useful plugin would be a wordpress plugin that integrates seamlessly with vbulletin. Using wordpress as the front end for CMS, and pulling in vbulletin avatar information where wordpress avatars on the CMS side. Also, cookies so people don't have to login twice, and ability to map different levels of users.

Basically, we all need the REVERSE of this plugin. Now, that would be something a LOT of people would pay for!!!

Look at http://www.jfusion.org they do this for joomla/vbulletin as a master control bridge. Why not make one for wordpress to vbulletin?

Any developers how difficult is this?

This plugin already does all what you said. With a little of extra tweaking and customizing if you know even a bit of HTML or PHP you will get exactly what you need!

But yes its true..it should have been more simpler for non-techy/geeky. Lets wait for 4.0 I am sure someone is working on a real plugin and hopefully for WPMU too.

[Jafo232]

Well, if you cannot install it Amjadz4, by all means go elsewhere. I personally have this running on 4 sites, two which are rather large.

As far as the future of this mod? I am waiting to see the new suite. If the VB CMS is not a piece of junk, I will probably abandon this.

[ericdesmontagne]

Hi there... This mod is fine for those who have already a big blog/cms with wordpress... and do not want to copy everything in the integrated CMS of vBulletin ^^

By the way, i have a big problem with the mod... it was fully ok during many days, and suddenly id do not work anymore... It is impossible to log in with the name used in the vb forum ?!?
The rest is OK, for example if i post an article with admin user, it is well shown in the appropriate topic...

Subsidiary questions :
About the accent... In french many accent are not well displayed in the vb forum... when this mod is activated... Do you have any idea ?

Thank you for your help on this mod

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Well, if you cannot install it Amjadz4, by all means go elsewhere. I personally have this running on 4 sites, two which are rather large.

As far as the future of this mod? I am waiting to see the new suite. If the VB CMS is not a piece of junk, I will probably abandon this.

I am sorry Jafo... I dont think you actually heard me right. I have installed / helped more than 80 members personally installing this mod, giving them my time. I support this completely and I use it personally too. If you just go back and read all the posts you have missed, you will know what I mean. The members here are the witnesses.

Thanks!

[awgrfx_nick]

Hello,

I've successfully installed this plugin on one site (was very very easy) and am trying to install it on another site. For some reason I just can't get the resetvbbridge.php file to actually reset anything. If I leave it in the root wp directory and reenable the plugin, it doesn't even seem to notice that the file is there -- in the previous installation, I couldn't enable the plugin with this file still in the root wp directory.

Even though I am able to see the forums through the plugin (all forums load up, all user groups displayed -- so I know it could 'see' the forum) I am getting a white page when I attempt to post. Normally I'd use the remove script to reset and start integration all over again but I can't seem to do that.

Is there a manual way to reset?

Thank you for your time.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by awgrfx_nick

Hello,

I've successfully installed this plugin on one site (was very very easy) and am trying to install it on another site. For some reason I just can't get the resetvbbridge.php file to actually reset anything. If I leave it in the root wp directory and reenable the plugin, it doesn't even seem to notice that the file is there -- in the previous installation, I couldn't enable the plugin with this file still in the root wp directory.

Even though I am able to see the forums through the plugin (all forums load up, all user groups displayed -- so I know it could 'see' the forum) I am getting a white page when I attempt to post. Normally I'd use the remove script to reset and start integration all over again but I can't seem to do that.

Is there a manual way to reset?

Thank you for your time.

Yes there is. Delete all files first then go to phpmyadmin and search for tables starting with vbb_ in the WP database. delete them all. Then re install it!

[awgrfx_nick]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

Yes there is. Delete all files first then go to phpmyadmin and search for tables starting with vbb_ in the WP database. delete them all. Then re install it!

Thank you!

Do you think that there is any correlation between the script not being able to see the reset script and posts going to a white page?