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.

[wiizard]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

I am sure most of you who are having the problems are not following the instructions correctly. You will not get any error if its followed step by step. I have tried it myself and I finally got it what was causing those issues.

Well, the plugin worked without problems for several days, until all of a sudden the error occured.

The only modification I did is to connect the avatars and usernames of the wordpress-comment-system with the vBulletin's user-IDs.

It's working fine right now, but god knows how long.

[Shinichi_bien]

Hi,

I have problems with pending posts, so I came up with this filter in order not to lose the original author of the pending post when it's published. I don't know if it's only me who has this issue or not?

PHP Code:

add_filter('wp_dropdown_users', 'vb_post_author');

function vb_post_author($output) {
    global $post;

    $vb_post_author = get_userdata($post->post_author);
    $output = str_replace('</select>','<option value="'.$post->post_author.'" selected>'.$vb_post_author->username.'</option></select>',$output);
    echo $output;
} 


[ph03nIX]

I came across something I thought I'd point out.
When auto-integration is on everything works fine but when I turn it off I cannot get to Media Upload, it just says “Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again.”

Not a big deal really just thought I'd point it out.

Great mod either way, I am loving it so far. :up:

[metalguy639]

No matter what I do I get a blank page after trying to make a post. I've tried all the configurations etc and nothing seems to work. I edited the vbbridge.php file to placed the path to my vbulletin board, I've tried switching the settings on the bridge. I made sure the bridge was turned on. When its turned off wordpress work just fine. I switched the settings from using UTF to not using it, always the same thing a blank page after I click the "Submit" button in wordpress to post the article. I do not want to integrate users into my wordpress but I would like to have my blog posts show up on the forum with out having to copy and paste them into the forums. I'm running vbulletin 3.8.1 & Wordpress 2.7.1. Please help.

[N-0p3rz]

I seem to be having trouble with compatibility.

The plugin works fine, but when I activate the plugin (and I'm sure it'd be any other plugin that calls for the same function) Role Scoper, one or the other will cause the site to return in error.

This is because both call for wp_set_current_user.

Any way to possibly fix this?

[Fraik]

You need to edit the URL and path to match that of your forums

[lange]

Originally Posted by 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?

Same here.

[rcadden]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

also about the USER ID issue, as far as i know this mod is not designed for that. I hope the author will fix that in the next version so for now, there's no use talking about it, simply don't use the posting feature at all for now. If you want only users integrated that will work perfectly. (and that's what most of the people actually want!)

That's not entirely accurate - there are a few of us who don't need the user integration at all, but who use this plugin solely for the ability to bridge posts from Wordpress over to vBulletin. For us, it's crucial.

Actually, I wonder if it would 'fix' things if I deleted all of my Wordpress users, aside from the admins/authors? I don't particularly need for my readers to have Wordpress accounts (in fact, I would prefer they not, for security reasons). Would that hose things?

[rcadden]

I've got $50 for the first person who can provide a fix for the user ID issue with scheduled posts. If it's the dev, great. If it's someone else, great.

[rcadden]

Originally Posted by Shinichi_bien

Hi,

I have problems with pending posts, so I came up with this filter in order not to lose the original author of the pending post when it's published. I don't know if it's only me who has this issue or not?

PHP Code:

add_filter('wp_dropdown_users', 'vb_post_author');

function vb_post_author($output) {
    global $post;

    $vb_post_author = get_userdata($post->post_author);
    $output = str_replace('</select>','<option value="'.$post->post_author.'" selected>'.$vb_post_author->username.'</option></select>',$output);
    echo $output;
} 


Can you tell me where exactly you added this filter?