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.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by my evil twin

I get this error too

Originally Posted by my evil twin

Well... it seems to be caused by a plugin. I disabled all plugins, then it worked great. Now i'm figuring out, which plugin caused the trouble. Probably wp-cache.

Try this tip (from experience) : Best way to install this mod is disable all current plugins and install it. When its done successfully you can activate all your plugins.

[xlcstaff]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

This is a wordpress issue. Not related to the mod.

If i disable the plugin all works perfectly, so it's related

[vbplusme]

I see this error message reported a few time but can find any resolution to it?

I am running vb in a forums/ folder and have added the absolute path to the vbbride.php file but can not get rid of this error ?

I am running another site and have the bridge installed its working perfectly with vb in the root folder?

Not a clue what I need to do now, I have deleted and reinstalled but nothing works to get rid of the following:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:154) in [path]/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 698

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:154) in [path]/wordpress/wp-includes/functions.php on line 699

[sf.nsuers]

Hi, I'm trying to use vb-mod `Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings` [https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=205388] in my forum. At this moment, I'm working locally, it works fine and perfect for our need.

I also need to use an additional wordpress plugin: http://ekushey.org/?page/web_input_manager . It helps to write in Bengali language, stores content as unicode in database. So far no problem within wordpress database.

But contents in vbulletin database are not stored as expected. Though both wordpress and vbulletin databases are set as utf8_general_ci; contents in vbulletin database are stored as Hebrew. (for example: হা হা হা.। ??•??‡মন ??†??›??‡ন? )

Can I get some support regarding this issue?

[sf.nsuers]

@vbplusme, u can get rid of this error by commenting line (vbbridge.php)

PHP Code:

echo "<div class="updated">\n" . "<p>" . "<strong>" . __('Options saved.', 'vbridge') . "</strong>" . "</p>\n" . "</div>\n"; 


i.e. the code block will show like:

PHP Code:

### Update settings.
if ($_POST['action'] == 'update_vbridge_settings') {

    foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
        update_option('vbb_' . $key, $value);    
    }
    //echo "<div class="updated">\n" . "<p>" . "<strong>" . __('Options saved.', 'vbridge') . "</strong>" . "</p>\n" . "</div>\n";

} 


[skariko]

ehrr.. i see that i have this option set to NO:

Post Articles To Forum:
No
Yes (Uses VB for comments)

..but it continues to post into the forum the article O_o

[Ozidoggy]

All installed...but now I can't log out of vBulletin or the wordpress admin.....

Anyone know why this is happening?

[TalkTemplate]

Originally Posted by sf.nsuers

@vbplusme, u can get rid of this error by commenting line (vbbridge.php)

PHP Code:

echo "<div class="updated">\n" . "<p>" . "<strong>" . __('Options saved.', 'vbridge') . "</strong>" . "</p>\n" . "</div>\n"; 


i.e. the code block will show like:

PHP Code:

### Update settings.
if ($_POST['action'] == 'update_vbridge_settings') {

    foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
        update_option('vbb_' . $key, $value);    
    }
    //echo "<div class="updated">\n" . "<p>" . "<strong>" . __('Options saved.', 'vbridge') . "</strong>" . "</p>\n" . "</div>\n";

} 


Works well mate.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by skariko

ehrr.. i see that i have this option set to NO:

Post Articles To Forum:
No
Yes (Uses VB for comments)

..but it continues to post into the forum the article O_o

Edit posts in WP and scroll down click do NOT post in forums.

[vbplusme]

Originally Posted by sf.nsuers

@vbplusme, u can get rid of this error by commenting line (vbbridge.php)

Thanks very much, I appreciate it.