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.

[RyanC]

There are a number of people willing to pay up for a new developer to take over... I'm certainly one of them.

[Shadawg]

Its definitely a database selection error. I rewrote one of our theme pages to call ourdatabase.wp_ratings and it worked. I am trying to track down what exactly is overriding the WP database selection. I am working on this for a customer but i think i might pick it up if it truly has been dropped by the current author.

[John Stone]

I thought I'd post my solution in the hopes that it will help someone else.

I found this plugin, which allows WP users to authenticate from an external database:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...uthentication/

I had to modify the source code to deal with vB's salted MD5 hashes, but apart from that it did the trick.

On the plugin config page select "Other" for the Password encryption method, then put this in for the Hash code:

$password2 = md5(md5($password) . $salt);

Then you'll just need to modify the plugin source code so it can grab the salt from the vB DB. Just search for case "Other" and replace what's there with this code:

        
case "Other" :             
           $query = "SELECT salt FROM " . get_option('ext_db_table') . " WHERE " . get_option('ext_db_namefield') . " = '$username'";
           $result = db_functions($driver,"query",$resource,$query);
           $row = db_functions($driver,"fetch",$result,"");
           $salt = $row["salt"];           
           eval(get_option('ext_db_other_enc'));
           break;

Hope this helps.

[earthome]

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_clearcookie() in /home/name/domains/abc.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 131

vbb IS 3.84 PL2 wp is 3.03

[earthome]

Originally Posted by earthome

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_clearcookie() in /home/name/domains/abc.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 131

vbb IS 3.84 PL2 wp is 3.03

In vbbridge.php, find wp_clearcookie()

change to

wp_set_auth_cookie( $user_id, $remember, $secure);

[earthome]

author

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[JamieLee2k]

I was getting errors during install but thats all sorted, I am confused about something simple:

Whats the difference between VB User ID, VB Username & VB Forum ID during setup? and do I need to fill them all in?

[JamieLee2k]

So I am having this new problem when I install it online.

Soon as I turn on integration it kicks me out and I get a blank page, if I do the same thing using localhost it's fine.

The only way I can get it working is to go into WP_Options and delete all the vbb files, any idea's

[Edgespeeder06]

so in order for this to definitely work the blog and forum have to be on the same domain?

I'm trying to get my www.NJStangers.org forum linked with my Wordpress domain www.NJStangers.net to auto post but just from the sections that are public.

Does it being on different domains make it too complicated or will this version work with it?

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by Edgespeeder06

so in order for this to definitely work the blog and forum have to be on the same domain?

I'm trying to get my www.NJStangers.org forum linked with my Wordpress domain www.NJStangers.net to auto post but just from the sections that are public.

Does it being on different domains make it too complicated or will this version work with it?

Should be on the same domain!