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.

[deepmartini]

It would be great if this mod could go the other way too. Sending Wordpress users into vbulletin. Most people use Wordpress as a frontend and the vbulletin forums as just a part of the website. I don't know of any sites that use vbulletin as a front end and wordpress as just a page or part of their site.

Is it possible to make this mod, so you can select sending wordpress users into vbulletin or vbulletin into wordpress?

Wordpress users into vbulletin is what most people are looking for and the market for this mod is HUGE. I know many people who would even be willing to pay a decent amount for a mod like this, instead of having custom coding done.

Please consider making this mod or adding the functionality into this one. Many thanks!

Regards,
Robert

[mercuryyy]

First Off all Great Plugin, I'd defently Donate it i get it working.

I got 2 I issue.

The first is: I'm running a video Blog so all my Content posts look something like this:

<embed src="http://www.*****.com/stream/player.swf" width="610" height="414" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="config=http://www.******.com/flv/anime.php?id=v175135976ARE3ems"></embed>

When saving a post on wordpress it works and it's saving the post in the forums but the problem is it's not showing any HTML text at all, (Not only does my vbullten cant read HTML in post but it dosnt even show the html code from the wordpress post it comes blank)

When i use plain text is seems to be OK.

The Second issue is that i have 15,000+ Posts and i'd like them all to be published in the forum is there a sql command i can execute to do so without taking to much load out of the server.

I'v been looking for answers for the past 5 hours, but only found parshell possibilites and at older version.

I run Wordpress 2.7 and VB 3.7.3

Thanks Again

And Have a great Day.

[Mitchell Jones]

Originally Posted by deepmartini

It would be great if this mod could go the other way too. Sending Wordpress users into vbulletin. Most people use Wordpress as a frontend and the vbulletin forums as just a part of the website. I don't know of any sites that use vbulletin as a front end and wordpress as just a page or part of their site.

Is it possible to make this mod, so you can select sending wordpress users into vbulletin or vbulletin into wordpress?

Wordpress users into vbulletin is what most people are looking for and the market for this mod is HUGE. I know many people who would even be willing to pay a decent amount for a mod like this, instead of having custom coding done.

Please consider making this mod or adding the functionality into this one. Many thanks!

Regards,
Robert

I'm in the same boat as this guy, and as much as I like this plugin and appreciate the work put into it that I wouldn't have the faintest idea where to even start with, it's a bit of a negative for people who use Wordpress for their entire front end. I'm not suggesting compromising the current coding for the sake of making it work, but if anyone knows of any proper way to reverse the process so that theoretically you can close vB registration and have the front-end registration used to create an account on vB too (and Linkin Park's website does this so I know it's do-able - although that isn't Wordpress, admittedly) then I may just have to give sexual favours for the rest of my existence to the genius who can do it.

[sung]

Just installed this and for the most part it works. Test post properly posted to the forums and users are already logged in for comments in Wordpress.

However, there are some wonky things that other people have documented in this thread.

1) The following whenever a change is made:

Originally Posted by Mr. Mooney

Hi,

I just installed the mod and am having some issues. First of all, when I change any settings I get this error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:132) in /home/site/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 698

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:132) in /home/site/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 699

This shows up but the changes end up getting made.

2) Visual Editor is gone
3) Permalinks using any kind of custom structure do not work.

Look forward to seeing some fixes. Great work otherwise.

[Mr. Mooney]

Everything is working fine now except for one thing. When I make a post with multiple paragraphs, everything is posted as one paragraph. Do you know what would cause this.

Example: I post

Paragraph 1.

Paragraph 2.

It posts:

Paragraph 1. Paragraph 2.

[Reynaldovb]

Hey Jafo232:

Thanks for this nice plugin. It seems to be working except for one thing, when a post is created through WP and posted to a VB forum, the text is incorrectly posted as ISO-8859-1 while the title is posted as UTF-8.
Everything in my forum is set to UTF-8 (DB collation, tables collation, columns, the languages and the HTML Charset Set).
Only workaround i found was to change line 162 of vbbridge.php from:

PHP Code:

$_POST['content'] = fetch_censored_text(utf8_decode($_POST['content'])); 


to:

PHP Code:

$_POST['content'] = fetch_censored_text($_POST['content']); 


Any ideas why this is happening? It doesn't make sense to me that it is happening for the post content and not for the title.

Additionally, is there a way to be able to use the %author% variable in the permalink? I would like to have my permalinks set to something like: %author%/%postname%/
so users feel like they have their own little corner of the blog.

[laztrix]

Originally Posted by Reynaldovb

Hey Jafo232:

Thanks for this nice plugin. It seems to be working except for one thing, when a post is created through WP and posted to a VB forum, the text is incorrectly posted as ISO-8859-1 while the title is posted as UTF-8.
Everything in my forum is set to UTF-8 (DB collation, tables collation, columns, the languages and the HTML Charset Set).
Only workaround i found was to change line 162 of vbbridge.php from:

PHP Code:

$_POST['content'] = fetch_censored_text(utf8_decode($_POST['content'])); 


to:

PHP Code:

$_POST['content'] = fetch_censored_text($_POST['content']); 


Any ideas why this is happening? It doesn't make sense to me that it is happening for the post content and not for the title.

Additionally, is there a way to be able to use the %author% variable in the permalink? I would like to have my permalinks set to something like: %author%/%postname%/
so users feel like they have their own little corner of the blog.

I have the same issue

I need ISO-8859-9 encoding normally UTF-8 would cover that.
When I activate the plugin the content charachter set corrupts. I did the changes you did but this time the permalinks charachter corrupts.

Visual editor is gone too!

[dieslcruisrhead]

Excellent work and agreed very good plugin!

I'm having the same issues as everyone else. THe WSYG editor, the "cant publish to header" errors, and the error listed above. Otherwise it looks excellent and nice work!

I won't mind reinstalling it if a new version comes out, it is *so* easy to implement. Also, mine is following the usergroups perfectly - that aspect is working perfectly.

Much appreciated!

[Pirat3]

I am a first time user on this mod and get this error:"

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:141) in [path]/wp-includes/functions.php on line 698

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:141) in [path]/wp-includes/functions.php on line 699

However I have a question, my forum and my WP are in /public_html/ when it asks for my forum path and URL do I just use my site URL?

Also does this have any affect with the newest WP version which was released a few days ago?

[Pirat3]

Originally Posted by Mr. Mooney

Everything is working fine now except for one thing. When I make a post with multiple paragraphs, everything is posted as one paragraph. Do you know what would cause this.

Example: I post

Paragraph 1.

Paragraph 2.

It posts:

Paragraph 1. Paragraph 2.

Same problem