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.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by pspcrazy

Also can you not make it case sensitive? Atm my username is Pspcrazy, and i usually type pspcrazy, but it doesn't accept it from wp. It only accepts Pspcrazy now which is wierd.

I will be applying this to the next version, but for now, open functions_vbridge.php and find this line:

	if ( !$user || ($user->user_login != strtolower$username) ) {

Replace with:

	if ( !$user || (strtolower($user->user_login) != strtolower($username)) ) {

[BigPete7978]

He just attempted it the way you stated and it is saying "Plugin does not exist". Is there something we are doing wrong here?

[Jafo232]

Umm, disable the plugin before you move it..

[b-roll]

Hello Jafo...

Thanks for your ideas on this...

I'm not seeing anything in the error log when the theme "breaks."

Everything on the page displays until the following bit of code.

		<?php
		$mbcount = 0;
		while (have_posts()) {
		
			the_post();
			 	
			if( $mbcount == 0 ) { ?>

<div class="clearfloat">
  <h4><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
    <?php the_title(); ?>
    </a> <span class="commentcount">(
    <?php comments_popup_link('0', '1', '%'); ?>
    )</span></h4>
  <?php $mbvalues = get_post_custom_values("Image");
				if (isset($mbvalues[0])) {						
				?>
  <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=/<?php
						$mbvalues = get_post_custom_values("Image"); echo $mbvalues[0]; ?>&amp;w=70&amp;h=70&amp;zc=1" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" /></a>
  <?php } ?>
  <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div>
<ul class="headlines">
<?php 
			} else { 
				?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark">
  <?php the_title(); ?>
  </a> </li>
<?php	
			}
				?>
<?php
				
			$mbcount ++;
		}
		
		if( $mbcount > 0 ) { echo "</ul>"; }
		?>
</div>
<?php } ?>

Does that help the mystery?

Thanks again,

kev

[BigPete7978]

The first time we did like you said, and installed it as a zip folder.
After that we followed the read me, uploaded the vbridge.php and functions_vbbridge.php and functions_wysiwyg2.php into the plugin directory, I didn't upload the resetvbbridge.php like the read me says.
I went in activated the plugin, went to options. I set up the options with all of the correct information. I got a test post to work in the forums. Then I went to vbridge user settings, selected registered users usergroup to be mapped to subscribers. Then went and enabled auto integrate in vbridge options.
I went to check the users for wordpress to see if users got mapped properly, and instead of taking me to the users page, it took me to a blank wordpress login box, and when I attempted to log in, it said invalid username.

Any ideas?

[Jafo232]

Did you try mapping administrators to administrators too? Usernames are case sensitive in WP until the next release of the bridge..

[Jafo232]

OK, added the following changes:

* 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

Make sure you replace ALL the files..

[vbplusme]

Hello Jafo232,

thanks for the update, much appreciated...

Michael

[b-roll]

Thanks for the update.

Unfortunately, it doesn't improve the "breaking" pages.

Any recommendation? I really like this plugin - if I can get it to work.

kev

[rcadden]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

OK, added the following changes:

* 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

Make sure you replace ALL the files..

Freakin sweet, I'll give this a go later today and report back. Thanks!