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.

[LuisManson]

its a shame this is not updated. at least vb cms is on pair with forum...
there is no warranty on this working after every vb upgrade

[euantor]

Got this working nearly fine with vBuleltin 4/WP 3. However, when I try to visit the forum that posts are being posted to, I get an Error 500 Internal Server Error. Posts are being posted to it and I can jump to the actual post, it's just the actual forum won't load.

[MaverickEX]

Originally Posted by hayamakun

This added code allows the Wordpress front page (and probably some others that calculate comment count) to show the number of replies in the vb thread.

Note: I am using WP version 3.0.1 and VB version 3.8.6

In vbbridge.php, add to the end:

add_filter('get_comments_number', 'comments_count', 10, 2);

### Return Comment count
function comments_count($count, $postID = false) {
	global $vbulletin, $vwd;

	$wpdb =& $GLOBALS['wpdb'];
	$sql = "select vb_threadid FROM " . $GLOBALS['table_prefix'] . "posts where ID = '$postID'";
	$results = $wpdb->get_row($sql);

	$sql = "select replycount FROM " .  TABLE_PREFIX . "thread where threadid = '$results->vb_threadid'";
	$results2 = $wpdb->get_row($sql);

	return $results2->replycount;

}

That should work pretty well. Did some testing on it, seems to work fine.

Doesn't seem to work at all for me. Is there something missing here?

[RCK08]

hey looks like a great mod man, is this working, or is there a plan for a 4.0 version???, would love to use this....

[ctweb]

Originally Posted by RCK08

hey looks like a great mod man, is this working, or is there a plan for a 4.0 version???, would love to use this....

This works on vB 4.x and Wordpres 3.x..

[Aaron Freed]

I'm probably doing something incredibly stupid, but I can't figure out where I'm supposed to edit comments.php to get comment integration to work; the theme I downloaded from WordPress doesn't have the "You can start editing here" comment line. Furthermore, while posts to the WordPress show up on the forum, posts in the forum do not show up on the WordPress. This may be due to the fact that I'm not sure where to upload vbridge.php, which is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation. These are probably obvious questions answered elsewhere in the thread, but I don't have time to read forty pages before work.

[fake83]

I have this issue at the moment: sometimes the site kicks the users out and they cannot even connect to it for like 10-15minutes. Is a problem related to cookies? Anyone else experiencing the same problem?

Thank you

[fmckinnon]

Hey - I decided to discontinue this ... and now, we've got the default comments.php (from the wordpress install) loaded, and on all of our posts, we've got tons of errors as comments, like this:

Comments
3 Responses to Aaron Keyes “Blessing And Honour” – Story Behind The Song

Warning: call_user_func(twentyten_comment) [function.call-user-func]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback in /home2/twcadmin/public_html/wp-includes/comment-template.php on line 1335

Warning: call_user_func(twentyten_comment) [function.call-user-func]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback in /home2/twcadmin/public_html/wp-includes/comment-template.php on line 1335

Warning: call_user_func(twentyten_comment) [function.call-user-func]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback in /home2/twcadmin/public_html/wp-includes/comment-template.php on line 1335

These are happening on just about every article we posted (when the vbridge was turned on and comments.php modified to use vbulletin for commenting).

Is there any fix to this, or way to get rid of all those?

[eitai2001]

Hi Guys. Found the following issues with WP 3.0.1 and VB 4.0.5:
- If Auto-integration is on, and a user logs into WP admin without registering on WP itself (i.e. uses VB username), he is able to create an article, but if I edit it ... it is not possible to set his name as the author again. Also, if I do create a username for him in wordpress, and I use the Yoast Google Analytics plugin, then when I set a custom author as a variable, it shows as blank ... but only when the auto-integration is enabled.
-If I disable the auto-integration but leave the module on to creates threads for each article, then I am unable to add media to articles for some reason. I either have to disable the module or enable auto-integration to add media.

Just a heads up, I know this module is no longer supported.

[420]

My home page went down today, same problem as this guy
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=409

Has this bug been fixed in the code yet?