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.

[Lairston]

Originally Posted by FBChris

Does anyone have this mod running with Vbulletin 4.0 forum?

Yes it does.

[OcR Envy]

So I got this working on 4.0.3, even the comments(comments made in wordpress appear in the vbulletin thread) however posts made in the vbulletin thread do not appear in the wordpress comments.

Suggestions?

[simpixelated]

I am able to make posts in Wordpress and have them show on the forum. But I cannot reply to to them from either Wordpress or vb (posts to a blank white screen). I cannot get to any of the Edit Profile pages within settings (always dumps me back to usercp.php.

Edit: I was able to fix this issue. It was actually being caused by a plugin in vbulletin that was supposed to pull in the Wordpress header/footer.

Assuming I can fix the above problems, is there a way to have Wordpress create threads in a different forum depending on the category?

[Rohan95]

Originally Posted by FBChris

Does anyone have this mod running with Vbulletin 4.0 forum?

I have it on vBulletin 4.0.

[TomOfSweden]

I'm trying to install the Wordpress bridge. I've followed it to the letter installing all the values required. And I reach this part:

You MUST write a test post in Wordpress and make sure it is posting to the forum you select. If the post does post fine to VBULLETIN, then you have done everything right (so far). DO NOT TURN ON INTEGRATION UNTIL YOU CAN MAKE A TEST POST.

I try to create an article. I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read() on a non-object in /home2/bdsmwrit/public_html/stories/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 869

If I log in again and look for the article it is posted just fine.

If I create an article from the control panel I get the following error message, but the article does not get posted.

Warning: require_once(./includes/class_dm.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/bdsmwrit/public_html/stories/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line113

I've gone over this for two days straight now. I can't see what I'm doing wrong, and I haven't seen the same error message anywhere else.

If there's anybody who has an inkling of what's gone wrong, please help me.
-Tom

[ePressDNA]

Dear Developer,

When this bridge will be available for vBulletin 4 and WordPress 3? We are all eagerly waiting for you to update this MOD.

Thank you & Regards

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by ePressDNA

Dear Developer,

When this bridge will be available for vBulletin 4 and WordPress 3? We are all eagerly waiting for you to update this MOD.

Thank you & Regards

The bridge works on vBulletin 4 and WordPress 3.0 Beta without any issues. It should also work on later versions as long as the schema doesn't change and nothing else conflicts.

[ePressDNA]

It is a great MOD. Just need one final touch. Idea is great but I noticed that whenever we ban users white page is displayed to him. Sometimes even after loggin in WP Admin it redirects you to Forum. Author cannot edit their bio and first name or last name etc. Anyways, thank you for developing such great plugin. Best of luck

[TomOfSweden]

Does nobody know what is wrong with my install?

[amitash]

Thanks a lot.. Working Great!