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 reimic

what i have to change when i want to show only the last 50 comments in wordpress?

Not sure what you meant by that....If I'm right..do you want show 50 forum posts of an article as wordpress comments?

[tuRiver]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

Check your VB Bridge options again, you may have misspelled the URL.

Settings are fine... i have doubled checked but i can't make it work

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by tuRiver

Settings are fine... i have doubled checked but i can't make it work

delete the mod and its files and start over.
make sure you also delete all tables it creates in the database. usually starting from vbb

[dieslcruisrhead]

Originally Posted by rcadden

So basically, those of us using the latest version are waiting for the following bugs to be fixed:

1. image uploader - still shows an error

2. Wordpress UserID is matched with vBulletin UserID, instead of matching the username. This causes mis-matches, which is an issue specifically for publishing new posts.

Anything else?

To the dev - how much would you need to have donated to fix these faster? I recognize that you're doing this in your spare time, but is there a way we could buy more of your spare time for these bugs?

Thanks for this, seems about right on...

[reimic]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

Not sure what you meant by that....If I'm right..do you want show 50 forum posts of an article as wordpress comments?

no. in my wordpress blog i use the vbulletin to show the comments under the blog post. and the problem is that there are all comments of the forum post. and so i only want that that the last 50 forum posts (comments in wordpress) shown up in wordpress article.

btw: the autor thing is a really big problem. i use the mapping tool but the autor shows not up in wordpress. there stands nothing. also when i want to edit a post in wordpress, there is no autor. when i disable the mapping tool, the autor shows correctly but the image uploader doesnt work..

i want to donate for you that you keep up the good work!

[tako]

I don't know the same thing is causing my problem but when I try to edit published post, only users from WP's side are listed on author dropdown list. Is it only me, or anyone has the same problem?

Originally Posted by rcadden

2. Wordpress UserID is matched with vBulletin UserID, instead of matching the username. This causes mis-matches, which is an issue specifically for publishing new posts.

[reimic]

if i use permalinks the smilie from the forum wont show up correctly .. is there a solution?

[M4GN3T]

Im getting the following error while making a new post:

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in [path]/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 108

Warning: require_once(./includes/class_dm.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 113

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './includes/class_dm.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/ps3-sense.nl/www/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 113

Please help

[Lowestoft Life]

I have this installed using VB 3.8.2 and WP 2.7.1. The test post worked fine, however when replies to the test post are made on VB they are not showing as comments on my Wordpress site, which I believe they should be doing unless I have misread something?

Comments made on the Wordpress side are not transmitted as replies to the post on the forum either, so i'm not sure which way round this is supposed to work.

Also before installing the hack I had just 1 member on VB (me) but quite a few on WP. I notice mapping users has not created forum accounts for the WP members automatically - are they expected to create seporate accounts for VB?

[M4GN3T]

Originally Posted by M4GN3T

Im getting the following error while making a new post:

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in [path]/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 108

Warning: require_once(./includes/class_dm.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 113

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './includes/class_dm.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/ps3-sense.nl/www/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 113

Please help

Forgot to mention, my setup is as follow:

vB User iD: 1
Forumid iD: 14
Forum url: http://mysite.com
Forum relative path: /
Database prefix: ps3
Forum Unicode UTF8