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.

[hiphopargentino]

I really think this MOD is played out because VB4 will be out really soon. So I hope Jafo is working with the new version of VB (and the new of wordpress, WP 2.9 is coming soon too), and give everyone a better MOD, solving issues like:

- share users perfectly (mapping users from existing WP to VB)
- jQuery issue with the Featured Content Gallery
- Authors problem when a lot of users are posting

I'm anxios waiting for the new MOD!

[MadsK]

Originally Posted by AndyAA

Just like everyone else I am desperate for the following:

* a piece of code to help avoid the Featured Content Gallery jquery conflict
* a wordpress plugin or piece of code that will let my users login from my wordpress sidebar and remember them...showing their forum stats would be a bonus like this mod:

I currently have tried all the external login mods and they all work when i test them on my site outside or wordpress but the second I try them in wordpress I get errors and they don't remember my cookie

I am willing to pay money for these things

My external login on a wordpress page works perfectly. I've provided it on one of the previous pages.

[Phelios]

I couldn't log into Wordpress admin after install, so I uploaded the resetvbbridget.php, got an error on line 4 when I ran it:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/epicbatt/public_html/resetvbbridge.php on line 4
Vbbridge integration disabled!'

umm... suggestions?

[WouterN]

The biggest problem as far as I am concerned is the flash-uploader not working in wordpress when using this plugin. ANyone got a solution for this?

[creativepart]

I haven't found a workaround the Flash uploader problem. We just don't use it at all.

[creativepart]

Originally Posted by alanshort

I have almost 15,000 members in my wordpress site and have just added the VB forum... is there a script available that i can run which will copy these users into the VB db ??

You might be able to find a programmer that could make that happen, but I don't think anyone has, what is basically, a reverse version of this mod - one that is a VB bridge rather than a WP bridge. Have you checked WP mods and widgets out there? Because as this mod comes from the VB side, the mod you're looking for would have to come from the WP side. Just the opposite of this mod.

I added this bridge to my WP install as a CMS on my VB forum and it works great -- but then I'm not using it to cross post between the two programs. I'm using it to let my 38,000 VB members have access to writing comments on staff written posts. And, I also, have given some of those VB members "Author" permissions via a custom "Authors" usergroup in VB.

[AndyAA]

Originally Posted by WouterN

The biggest problem as far as I am concerned is the flash-uploader not working in wordpress when using this plugin. ANyone got a solution for this?

Hey WouterN

Not sure if you are already doing this but I just use the Browser uploader instead of the Flash uploader

[AndyAA]

Originally Posted by Clayton

I gather jquery conflicts with Featured Content Gallery

or has there been a patch for this, please?

Hey Clayton I still haven't found a cure for this after trying out heaps of JQuery conflict hacks and in the end I just chose to go with the D13 Slideshow Wordpress plugin for now

Andy

[AndyAA]

Does anyone know how to display the authors information next to their avatar in wordpress?

I want to echo the users about me, location, etc.

[RobInjection]

Has anybody tried to upgrade to 2.9 and has it worked? LET US KNOW!!