Integration with vBulletin - Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings

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 2.5.
• If your WP login name is the same as your VB username, this user will NOT be ported! If this was the case, you could lose your WP admin rights if there was an error, or if you deactivated the plugin.
• DOES work for Vbulletin 3.7.

Limitations:

• 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.
• If you delete a user, you must do so in both Wordpress and Vbulletin.
• If you are using XMLRPC to post with applications such as Windows Live Writer, you must change the password of the author in the WORDPRESS admin cp, after the user is ported over from VB. If you are not integrating users, then you do not have to.
• 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 the admin username in Vbulletin is the same as the one in Wordpress (i.e. Admin), that user will NOT be able to login to the WP dashboard.
• 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.
• When you create a test user in VB to test mapping users, the test user MUST have an email address. If a VB users email address is blank, they will not map.

UPDATES:

01/03/2007 - Fixed the unlock_tables() issue on some setups.

01/03/2007 - Fixed a bug in the script that if you used a MySQL database prefix, integration would not work. Please see this post for more information! Special thanks to axisoverdrive for giving me access to his server and letting me troubleshoot the issue!

01/05/2007 - Fixed issue where if a user saved (not published) and published later, the post would not be added to the forum.

01/05/2007 - When a post is edited, it will also be edited in the forum.

01/08/2007 - Modified slightly so when posts are edited, so are the titles (if edited).

02/07/2007 - Major modifications to new version (now 2.05). The list follows:

• Reworked the code so it uses the $vbulletin object throughout the code especially during the bridging process.
• Users are bridged whether they checked the "Remember Me" box or not.
• Removed a couple of SQL calls that became redundant.
• Addressed a bug where if a user logged out of the dashboard, it only logged them out of VB.
• Added Inline Comments capability. Comments posted to the forum (using VB for comments) will now appear at the bottom of a WP Post when viewing the post.
• Author user names can now be linked to their VB profile page if desired.
• Added option to turn off posting to forum. All this really does is remove the "Select Forum To Post To" option when writing a post. (There you go AxisOverdrive )
• The $vbulletin object should now be available in all templates and most plugins.
• Fixed a bug where deactivating any plugin would semi deactivate this plugin.
• With the reduction in SQL calls, and the removal of now unnecessary variables, speed and memory use should be improved.
• PLEASE READ THE UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS IF UPGRADING!

07/17/2007

• Fixed problem where upload iframe was a bit mangled.
• Fixed problem where users had to refresh the dashboard once after logging in.
• Fixed problem that arose from Wordpress 2.2.1 upgrade that would not allow activation.
• Fixed logout issue where users would still be logged into Wordpress.
• When a Wordpress post is deleted, so is the thread it created.
• Added option to allow thread posted from Wordpress article to be truncated, with a linkback to the article.
• Fixed issue when user re-activates plugin, and vb_threadid column already exists. Now checks for column first.
• Removed a stray VB_Init() call.
• Forums that do not allow threads will not be selectable in the drop down menu when writing a post.
• Forums are listed out in a parent/child nested pattern.
• (Note: 367 downloads of version 2.05)

11/29/07 - 3.00

• Added TABLE_PREFIX throughout the script instead of the get_option('vbb_VBPRX') call. get_option('vbb_VBPRX') is now deprecated.
• Addressed path issues by establishing $vwd first. If for some reason there are path issues on an install, the path only needs to be manually changed once, at the beginning of the script.
• Removed call to admin_db.php which seems to no longer be necessary.
• Changed all queries to the VB database to be handled by the $vbulletin object. This should facilitate multiple database configurations.
• Added limited XMLRPC support.
• Had to include a basic copy of the functions_wysiwyg.php file (functions_wysiwyg2.php) with a minor change in the sanitize_url function (now sanitize_vburl) as it conflicts with a new WP function of the same name. Otherwise, this is identical to the VB release. This was necessary to keep formatting somewhat uniform between the two.
• Removed unnecessary globals.
• Changed the global.php call so it always loads. $vbulletin should be available throughout the code (via global in functions).
• Edited some code around wysiwyg functions of VB, and conversions to vbcode.
• Added "Turn Plugin On" option.
• Fixed an issue with the forum list on the "Write Post" page. Default forum was not being auto selected in some cases.
• Modified from BETA so that the new functions_wysiwyg2.php file is loaded using the WP ABSPATH constant. Requires the plugin to stay in the plugins directory.
• Fix an error message when a post was deleted in VB, then edited in WP.

12/10/07 - 3.01

• Fixed two <? tags that should have been <?php (pointed out by Amenadiel)

03/31/08 - 3.02

• Fixed media-upload clash for new version of Wordpress (2.5).
• Added fix that will now delete threads in VB when the post is deleted in WP and not using Ajax delete.
• Added code to insert a default email address if VB users email address is blank upon bridging.

04/20/08

• Fixed a bug in user roles for the new version 2.5.1 of Wordpress.

05/08/2008

• Fixed issue where CSS was munging scrolling text box when selecting a forum during a post
• Fixed an issue where content encoding was getting screwey between WP and VP creating a lot of unintended characters (only on PHP installs where utf8_decode() exists (most)).

05/08/2008

• Fixed issue where post count of a user did not change

Sites Using This Plug-In:

• http://www.jeffsrecipes.com
• http://www.worldwidecreations.com
• http://www.xboxcircle.com
• http://www.detailuniversity.com
• http://www.daggersden.net/
• http://www.talkbronx.com/
• http://www.czeta.it

(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.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by jesusdlg

Hello Jafo, everyboy!

1st of all thank you for this plugin. I'll like to install the plguin but i'?ve a few questions before, hope you can help me.

Currently I've a vb forum with lots of people in there so I'm planning to make this install just to permit the vb users to post comments on my new wp install. I dont want to have the forum as the post area for my wp, i just want to share users between system. Can I do this?

Now regarding the admin, once I install this plugin, should I be able to login on the wp-admin? As I want to install some other plugins in order to perform certain tasks on my wp.

Thanks in advance for your help and your effort to create this plugin.

Jesus

You can still access the WP control panel if that is your question. The plugin can be used to share users.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by Greg-J

If you figure it out, let me know because I currently don't have a clue on how this is suppose to work.

To me it would make more sense to allow them to simply log in with their vbulletin credentials on either vbulletin or wordpress. While it may make sense to a developer to have it the way it is now, it makes a lot less sense to an end user.

Unfortunately, it really isn't possible. The password data isn't open to the script. It is md5 hashed which cannot be decrypted. Therefore you have to use one login method or the other and then that means you have to use one user database or the other.

Please re-read the readme exactly and do not skip any part to make sure you set everything correctly especially in the vbridge options...

[Jafo232]

capncapo, I am replying here because this could be what another user is doing wrong too.

Logged into your install and checked your usergroup mappings. There was no mapping for registered user. When I mapped registered users to "Contributer" then the user would port over. Remember, these groups refer to the PRIMARY user group, not secondary.

The VB username you set up for me to test was a registered user (in the registered user usergroup), therefore since he was not mapped, he did not bridge. Usergroups that are not mapped will not be bridged to WP.

It appears to be working fine for me.

You will notice the login link is still there because your template (sidebar.php) uses the wp_loginout() function, where it would probably be better not using it. Something along the lines of:

<?php
if ($vbulletin->userinfo[userid] > 0) { echo "Logout"; } else { echo "Login"; }
?>

Would be better.

[limey]

So this plugin shares users between blog and forums.

So vbulletin users can now post on the wordpress portion with this? assuming permissions allow it.

Also, does this plugin also do the same thing as your other vb comments plugin?

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by limey

So this plugin shares users between blog and forums.

So vbulletin users can now post on the wordpress portion with this? assuming permissions allow it.

Also, does this plugin also do the same thing as your other vb comments plugin?

Yes, you can define what VB usergroups can write new posts in WP.

And yes, you can use this to replace the WP comment method and use VB for comments.

[limey]

I'm getting errors with the comment portion of the plugin:

Fatal error: comment_handler() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/includes/class_bbcode.php'.....

I've tried going back to the old comment plugin where you hardcode the forum url in vbbridge but its doesn't work either.
ie

Warning: comment_handler(/includes/class_bbcode.php) [function.comment-handler]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/mysite/www/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 322

Fatal error: comment_handler() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/includes/class_bbcode.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /home/mysite/www/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 322

[Jafo232]

What did you hardcode in for the forum PATH?

[limey]

well hardcoding the forum path is not the problem, I've done everything exactly as the readme says and it doesn't work.

I've tried hardcoding the forum path here:
require_once($vwd . '/includes/class_bbcode.php');

and that brings up the error related to hook system; my hook system on the forum is on.

When I try hardcoding the URL here:
chdir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . get_option('vbb_VBRPATH'));
//chdir('/home/mysite/www/forums');

I've tried both ways, still error shows.

The error is occurring because of this part of the code:
<?php
### Vbridge Call
$vbridge = Comment_Handler($post->ID);
###
?>

The comments code does not cause any error as I have that loaded right now without the vbridge call.

[Jafo232]

Do you have integration set to on?

[limey]

Ok I didn't have integration turned on. That makes the call work, but comments don't show up.
I didn't realize that was a must.

ie the link "comments" on the single.php file. I'm only working on the single.php right now.

Also, kind of important:
"Sorry, that file cannot be edited." Now when I try to edit the themes.