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.

[Reynaldovb]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

I just looked into it.. I doubt that any time soon I could make this ready for authors names in the permalink, sorry.. I can rewrite it to included the right username, however, it is rather obfuscated in the code, all the places I would have to add filters to remove the author from the URL on the backend.

Jaffo, thank you for trying

[skariko]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

I think this is a bit outside the scope of this product. However, you can globalize the $vbulletin object once integration is on. What you do with it, well, there are no limits.

If your question is "Will you show me how to do X", then I have to say I am sorry, I have very limited time for such things.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by myHybridcar.com

Do a Google search for how to echo vBulletin phrases in PHP. Then, use them in your Wordpress templates.

Thanks, i've solved with a lot of searches on Google

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by remotay

With the plugin enabled, I can no longer upload pictures using the NextGen gallery plugin for wordpress (The #1 most popular plugin for wordpress). Anyone else having this issue?

Yeah, I cannot guarantee this thing to play nice with other Wordpress plugins. It may or may not..

[remotay]

It works with all of my plugins except NextGen gallery. The older version seemed to work fine with it. NextGen gallery is the most popular WP Plugin out there, would be great to see this looked at in future versions.

Thank you again for all your hard work on the plugin, it is appreciated!

[glowinggal]

can you still use your nextgen gallery or it just won't let you upload? did your nextgen gallery completely stop working when it was enabled? we are looking into this integration for our new site design but our new site DOES use the nextgen gallery on the home page.

[remotay]

Nextgen gallery works, but you CANNOT upload new pictures. I can create gallerys but I can't physically upload the pictures into them. This is with the latest version of the Vbulletin Bridge plugin.

[vbplusme]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Yeah, I cannot guarantee this thing to play nice with other Wordpress plugins. It may or may not..

I'd be thrilled if it just played nice with WordPress but frankly WordPress doesn't play nice with anything including itself.

I have been using this bridge since before version III and I ALWAYS have to clean up a mess that WP makes and at this point I am pretty sure its a WP quirk that makes it so that every post that the bridge makes has to be cleaned up because of how the database is stored in WP.

I just posted a very small article that was originally a post in vBulletin. When I copied it into WP the stripped ALL the formatting including line feeds so that I had to manually reformat the whole document in WP. When I posted it, I had to reformat the forum post again to put the code blocks back and strip out all the escapes that it added for double quotes.

You have my deepest respect for being able to make it work as well as it does Jafo.

Thanks for you effort.

If you have any suggestions about how to get a "standardized" post in WP and Forum, I would be really appreciative.

TIA, Michael

[logiik]

just checked my site and i'm getting this error now for some reason:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin() in /home/***/public_html/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php on line 3

[GoodOmens]

The following code in the author code does not work:

$vbridge['postusername']

If you look at the function your not returning anything called 'postusername':

$ret = Array('id' => $results->vb_threadid, 'count' => $results2[replycount], 'thread_starter' => $results2[postuserid], 'replies' => $results3, 'vb_parser' => $parser);

Am I missing something?

[GoodOmens]

Ok I've made some changes to get post authors to correctly display:

Changed in vbbridge.php

PHP Code:

$sql = "select replycount, postuserid FROM " .  TABLE_PREFIX . "thread where threadid = '$results->vb_threadid'"; 


to

PHP Code:

$sql = "select replycount, postuserid, postusername FROM " .  TABLE_PREFIX . "thread where threadid = '$results->vb_threadid'"; 


and

PHP Code:

$ret = Array('id' => $results->vb_threadid, 'count' => $results2[replycount], 'thread_starter' => $results2[postuserid], 'replies' => $results3, 'vb_parser' => $parser); 


to

PHP Code:

$ret = Array('id' => $results->vb_threadid, 'count' => $results2[replycount], 'thread_starter' => $results2[postuserid], 'replies' => $results3, 'vb_parser' => $parser, 'postusername' => $results2[postusername]); 


Then in the instructions for the Author (wordpress templates) - this was only being called once and resulted in the same author being displayed in all my posts on the main page:

Changed:

PHP Code:

if (function_exists('Comment_Handler') and $vbridge == '') { 


to

PHP Code:

if (function_exists('Comment_Handler')) { 


Also to removed the following from the comment code (redundant since a function call is already made by the author portion of the code)

PHP Code:

if (function_exists('Comment_Handler')) {

    $vbridge = Comment_Handler($post->ID);

    global $vbulletin; 
} 


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