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.

[Brew]

Is this working with vB 3.8.4?

Is there a version for vB 4.0.+?

Thanks!

[Demo16]

As for me is not working. I've uploaded the 3 files, activated the plugin, I left blank this fields:
VB User ID
VB Username
VB Forum ID

as I don't need comments using vbulletin. I just want to integrated users.
but when I click to the vbridge user settings I got blank page.

any idea?

[Stephan Whelan]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

You get this error when you have another plugin conflicting with it. Disable all other plugins and enable just the bridge. When you have it working, then enable the others one by one. If you encounter the same error, you have found the culprit. Sorry to say but you cannot use that plugin along side the bridge due to conflict. Try finding an alternative.

Thanks for your help previously but we've only just got round to restesting this. Even though we disabled all other plugins we still get the same error:

[Wed Feb 17 20:09:23 2010] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin() in /home/xxxxx/xxxxx/blogs/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php on line 3, referer: http://blogs.xxxxx.com/wp-admin/plug...us=all&paged=1

Any more ideas?

[Demo16]

Originally Posted by Demo16

As for me is not working. I've uploaded the 3 files, activated the plugin, I left blank this fields:
VB User ID
VB Username
VB Forum ID

as I don't need comments using vbulletin. I just want to integrated users.
but when I click to the vbridge user settings I got blank page.

any idea?

Ok now the mapping pages works, I've done the mapping but in WP there's still only admin user. Is this normal?

[Demo16]

Originally Posted by Demo16

Ok now the mapping pages works, I've done the mapping but in WP there's still only admin user. Is this normal?

Found the problem.
Is a path problem as I'm still working on a test wp website while my forum is in the right domain.

I have my wp website here:

www.mytest.com which is /var/www/html/mytest/
and my forum here www.mywebsite.com/forum which is /var/www/html/mywebsite_forum/

what I have to ut in this fields:
Forum URL:
Forum Relative Path:

shall I use also this?
$vwd = '/some/path/to/your/forum';

bye

[Demo16]

ok now I have:

www.mywebsite.com which is /var/www/html/mywebsite
and my forum here www.mywebsite.com/forum which is /var/www/html/mywebsite_forum/

but still not working, what are the correct urls for the above settings?

[kersti]

I've done everything in the readme, step by step...... all ok except - my test post did not post to my forum... now what do I do?

[djxer0]

I'm trying to set this up with Wordpress 2.9.2 and vBulletin 3.8.4 and am running into an issue.

I can set it all up but when I try to make a new post in Wordpress I get the following error...

Warning: require_once(wpvbbridge/includes/class_dm.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/immature/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 114

Here is line 114 from vbbridge.php

require_once('wpvbbridge/includes/class_dm.php');

I'm stuck at this point so if anyone might be able to help I'd really appreciate it.

[Demo16]

Originally Posted by Demo16

ok now I have:

www.mywebsite.com which is /var/www/html/mywebsite
and my forum here www.mywebsite.com/forum which is /var/www/html/mywebsite_forum/

but still not working, what are the correct urls for the above settings?

no more support for this mod?

[caracena]

Originally Posted by kersti

I've done everything in the readme, step by step...... all ok except - my test post did not post to my forum... now what do I do?

Make sure the Forum Admin User you are using has a different name that your WP users (no admin for example). If it is, change it in Vbridge Settings in WP, deactivate the plugin and activate it again. Also, make sure your paths in Vbridge Settings are correct.

Originally Posted by djxer0

I'm trying to set this up with Wordpress 2.9.2 and vBulletin 3.8.4 and am running into an issue.

I can set it all up but when I try to make a new post in Wordpress I get the following error...



Here is line 114 from vbbridge.php



I'm stuck at this point so if anyone might be able to help I'd really appreciate it.

Same as above... correct paths. Try with the complete URL for the Forum URL (http://www.mysite.com/forum) and the relative path in the second option (for the same example, the path would be /forum).

Originally Posted by Demo16

ok now I have:

www.mywebsite.com which is /var/www/html/mywebsite
and my forum here www.mywebsite.com/forum which is /var/www/html/mywebsite_forum/

but still not working, what are the correct urls for the above settings?

Same as above... full path first and relative in the second box.