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.

[WorkerB]

Hello - great bit of code here. Nicely done. Worked right out of the box.

I am having one small problem regarding whenever I try to insert an image into a post in Wordpress. In the status bar at the bottom I see multiple requests/responses flying back and forth and then nothing - the usual image insert window never pops up.

This got me thinking - maybe I can try inserting an image another way, so I go back to Wordpress dashboard and I click on the "Media" selection on the left. Shortly thereafter, Firefox cancels the request and displays a warning:

Redirect Loop
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

I thought this was.... strange. The next thing I did was rename vbbridge.php to vbbridge.php.old and then again, clicked on "Media" in the dashboard and all was well again.

The link that "Media" is hooked up to is:
/wp-admin/upload.php
and looking in there I see lots of code that performs a wp_redirect...

I'm on signed in as an Administrator on Wordpress 2.7.0 with a fresh install of VB 3.8.1 and this latest Add-on. Any ideas? Thank you, much appreciated!

[WorkerB]

Oops - I also forgot to mention that on my Wordpress WYSIWYG editor, I've lost the ability to flip between Visual and HTML. All of the other editor docks that are typically rolled up are expanded as well... anyone else seeing this?

[laztrix]

Originally Posted by WorkerB

Oops - I also forgot to mention that on my Wordpress WYSIWYG editor, I've lost the ability to flip between Visual and HTML. All of the other editor docks that are typically rolled up are expanded as well... anyone else seeing this?

I have silimar issues witht the visual editor.

Also I had to deactivate the plugin - like it say in the readme file! - because when I did activate the plugin the pages went blank.

This time I can not active it either because as soon as I activate it it happens again!

I searched for tables in the database found one in the user table but it was helpless....

[WorkerB]

Some additional info -

Looking around in vbbridge.php, near the top I see:

PHP Code:

if (basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) == 'upload.php') { return; } 


and

PHP Code:

if (basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']) == 'media-upload.php') { return; } 


which looks like its bailing out of the script if either of these two .php files is being parsed. I commented them both out and was able to get into the media gallery, but uploading an image from a post had bizzare results - a warning popped - clicking OK, go ahead - a new Wordpress dashboard was placed inside of where I normally choose the image to upload.

[AzzX]

How is your Users list in wp-admin displaying as WorkerB? All my users show as nothing, just checkboxes.

[AzzX]

Originally Posted by laztrix

I have silimar issues witht the visual editor.

Also I had to deactivate the plugin - like it say in the readme file! - because when I did activate the plugin the pages went blank.

This time I can not active it either because as soon as I activate it it happens again!

I searched for tables in the database found one in the user table but it was helpless....

In the Table wp_options there should be 20 odd entries for this bridge. If you are using phpmyadmin select the table wp_options, click browse, show 800 records from 0 and search for vbb (F3 in Firefox)

[laztrix]

Originally Posted by AzzX

In the Table wp_options there should be 20 odd entries for this bridge. If you are using phpmyadmin select the table wp_options, click browse, show 800 records from 0 and search for vbb (F3 in Firefox)

I digged in more and remove them on my own.Thank though

[Senseya]

Hey, and thank's for upgrade this mod
But i can't us this because my forum it's under a subdomain

forum.plop.fr

and my site on

www.plop.fr

.
How can i fix the cookies bug ? it's possible ?

Thank you.

[WorkerB]

Originally Posted by AzzX

How is your Users list in wp-admin displaying as WorkerB? All my users show as nothing, just checkboxes.

Hey there - mine are not. My Wordpress Users lists is also showing all blanks with the odd user as an Administrator. Unfortunately, I've had to disable the bridge for the time being.

I think I am seeing what others are seeing as well:

1. visual editor strangeness
2. user list showing up with blanks
3. users showing up as Administrator in WP

[tjpeople]

Thanks again, Jafo232.

I heavily customised the WordPress template code you used in the older version, I have updated the plug ins, but not changed any code. Things still seem to be working? Is this what should happen, or do I have to update the template code? What am I missing using the old code?

Did you fix the bug I reported?
Bug Report: "soft deleted" Post replies/comments in vb still show up in wordpress

Many thanks.

Jafo: You can add my site if you wish http://www.malcolminthemiddle.co.uk/