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.

[CyberRanger]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Care to elaborate on the error message?

Sure thing! If I hard delete the vb thread then try to get the WP post to make a new vb thread I get this error:

PHP Code:

Database error in vBulletin 3.6.8:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE post SET pagetext = '\r\n[B]Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 9 November 2007 –[/B] Leading video game publisher, Fireglow Games®, today released a new multilingual demo for “Stranger”, Fireglow’s upcoming RPG, which features the best elements of real-time strategy.
\r\n\r\n
You can download the demo here:\r\nhttp://www.fileplanet.com/182254/180000/fileinfo/Stranger-Demo?r=5\r\nStranger demo in English (218 Mb)\r\nStranger demo in German (218 Mb)\r\nStranger demo in Italian (218 Mb)\r\nStranger demo in Polish (220 Mb)\r\nStranger demo in Czech (220 Mb)\r\nStranger demo in Russian (226 Mb)\r\nYou will be able to find the game in stores in the end of November 2007.
\r\nAbout Stranger:
\r\nStranger is an RPG blended with the best elements of RTS.
\r\nAn innovative and never before seen magical system allows you to select your own strategy and tactics in the course of a battle, providing the suitable response to the enemy\'s move - you will be surprised by how simple yet versatile it is.  Hiring, training a... [url=http://www.armchairgeneral.com/?p=3666]Full Article[/url]', title = 'PR: Fireglow games released a new exciting demo for STRANGER' WHERE postid=;

MySQL Error  : You have an error in your SQL syntax.  Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1
Error Number : 1064
Date         : Tuesday, November 27th 2007 @ 02:48:34 PM
Script       : [url]http://www.armchairgeneral.com/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php[/url]
Referrer     : [url]http://www.armchairgeneral.com/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=3666[/url]
IP Address   : 24.199.229.157
Username     : CyberRanger
Classname    : vb_database 


Originally Posted by Jafo232

Umm, usually the encoding is ISO-8859-1.. Can't remember where you check in VB..

We have our WP install at utf-8. Changing WP to ISO-8859-1 seems to mess up our quotes. Thought I'd see what happens if I change the forum to utf-8. Hmmm ... must be in the config file??

[CyberRanger]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Umm, usually the encoding is ISO-8859-1.. Can't remember where you check in VB..

Ends up it's not a simple deal in vb, even a bit of contention over the issue. Basically, vb runs on ISO-8859-1

Thread of discussion: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...=205071&page=1

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by CyberRanger

Sure thing! If I hard delete the vb thread then try to get the WP post to make a new vb thread I get this error:

Ok, I see the issue.. I have fixed and reuploaded.. All you will have to do is reupload vbbridge.php.. Good catch..

[CyberRanger]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Ok, I see the issue.. I have fixed and reuploaded.. All you will have to do is reupload vbbridge.php.. Good catch..

fast work! The error message goes away but the wp post doesn't appear in vb.

[WEBclay]

I had also to change the charset to utf-8 in my vb. To do this:

AdminCP -> Languages & Phrases -> Language Manager -> [edit settings]

Beside that the mod works like a treat. Didn't had to modify any of the files and no more "blank page" after posting. Well done and many many thanks for this hard work :up:

[LBSources]

Jafo .. So the ?? rewriting from my quotes has been corrected? Is there anyway to correct this without upgrading to the beta version yet?

As I mentioned a few posts before; all of my ' and " are written as ?? in my posts to WP and VB

My WP is the same as the VB encoding. ISO-8859-1

[LBSources]

Originally Posted by WEBclay

I had also to change the charset to utf-8 in my vb. To do this:

AdminCP -> Languages & Phrases -> Language Manager -> [edit settings]

Beside that the mod works like a treat. Didn't had to modify any of the files and no more "blank page" after posting. Well done and many many thanks for this hard work :up:

It seems this has fixed it, but are there any consequences to changing this?

[Evolution06]

I have done the instructions in the readme and.. Everything works good like posting to the forums and the integrating of users.. but w/e I click on after Turn Auto-Integrate On takes me to the forums and then if I follow http://pandemicdesign.net/blogs/ is gives me some weird search error and even if I click something else it still wont work.. so far I have checked everything... any ideas?

I am using the wordpress where members can create their own blogs.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by Evolution06

I am using the wordpress where members can create their own blogs.

As it states in the requirements:

DOES NOT support Wordpress MU.

[CyberRanger]

With the BETA plug-in activated but turned "off", I get the following error on my WordPress main page:

Fatal error: Class 'vBulletinHook' not found in /home/brentan/public_html/vb36/includes/class_bbcode.php on line 2405

My forum software is installed in vb36.