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.

[lycheepassion]

What exactly does a wordpress bridge do, does it cross post too?? Thank you!

[vprp]

Anyone have Disqus installed on their Wordpress blog? Would this work with it?

[AndyAA]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

Hmm, should not be hard. I think it can be done using simple SQL commands and PHP. Also you have to include vBulletin's global.php before calling any variable.



Yes it works. no bugs or whatever.

Are you able to provide an example using simple SQL commands and PHP to call the users details in wordpress?

I already have global.php included in a variable.

[1up_dave]

I'm no programmer, but here's what we're using. I don't know if it's the correct query to use, but it works for us.

PHP Code:

<?php $db->query_first("SELECT username FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user WHERE userid = " . $post->post_author); ?>

Then again, we're using the Smarty template engine, so I'm not sure if this would work properly if put directly into the template files. Maybe create a theme function with it or something.

[AndyAA]

Originally Posted by 1up_dave

I'm no programmer, but here's what we're using. I don't know if it's the correct query to use, but it works for us.

PHP Code:

<?php $db->query_first("SELECT username FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user WHERE userid = " . $post->post_author); ?>

Then again, we're using the Smarty template engine, so I'm not sure if this would work properly if put directly into the template files. Maybe create a theme function with it or something.

Sorry Dave no luck

If I use <?php the_author_link(); ?> it displays the authors names but I want some more info to be shown like the authors about me and location

[AndyAA]

And random author wordpress codes work and some dont:

<?php the_author_posts(); ?> works
<?php the_author_firstname(); ?> doesn't
<?php echo the_author_email(); ?> works
<?php the_author_description(); ?> doesn't
<?php the_author_link(); ?> work's
<?php $curauth->description; ?> doesn't

Anyone who knows how to get this author stuff working please hit me up...its the last thing I need to fix on my entire blog!!

[caracena]

Hi all,

I'm having the same problem that AndyAA has but with a twist. I'm trying to make two things work: Show the author's info and also make the comments propperly work becouse it won't get the user's avatar. Also, I have a problem where the author is always the same (from vB DB) no matter which user posts and I have multiple contributors... how an I fix this?

Also, has anyone had any problem with the flash upload system in WP after installing this addon? I had to switch to normal uploader becouse the flash system won't recognize users as logged in when this plugin is active.

Using 2.91 + 3.8.4.

Thanks!

[Tomahoochi]

I'm having the same "author" issue as mentioned above. I'm currently running WP 2.7 and VB 3.8.1. I can't upgrade until there is a solution t this since the bridge is integral to my site (www.tmrzoo.com). I've been using ver. 3.05 of the bridge for some time now. NONE of my 774 WP users and 1362 VB users have the same userid. After I upgrade, all of the author names are wrong. Any fix for this?

[WouterN]

Originally Posted by AndyAA

And random author wordpress codes work and some dont:

<?php the_author_posts(); ?> works
<?php the_author_firstname(); ?> doesn't
<?php echo the_author_email(); ?> works
<?php the_author_description(); ?> doesn't
<?php the_author_link(); ?> work's
<?php $curauth->description; ?> doesn't

Anyone who knows how to get this author stuff working please hit me up...its the last thing I need to fix on my entire blog!!

You should try passing arguments to the function(s) like the_author_ID()

[Stephan Whelan]

Is this MOD supported anymore as i'm keen to get this working but have run into a few issues that would need the developer to help out with...