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.

[bluerob]

The mod works good but now I can't upload media in wordpress. I get an error message in the popup i-frame window. How do I fix that?

Also is there a way to fix the issue of when I log out on wordpress or VB that it also logs me out on both ends? If I log out of VB, WP still shows me as logged in, and vice versa.

Thanks.

PS> now that I integrated the two software it appears all the author gravatars and and name credits have disappeared from the site. Any idea how to fix that as well?

[EagleNick]

For some reason only the articles I post on the blog are synced with the forum, having a thread created. Another administrator of the team creates a blog entry, but a thread isn't automatically created. Why?

Also, I can't find what this adds to the database. Can somebody tell me exactly where to look and what I'm looking for? I have browsed all of the tables for both my WP database and my vB database to no avail.

[AzzX]

Originally Posted by bluerob

The mod works good but now I can't upload media in wordpress. I get an error message in the popup i-frame window. How do I fix that?

I get the Wordpress login screen at this stage if using the flash uploader. Using the Browser uploader works no problems my end though.

[bluerob]

Anyone have any idea at all about the missing author credits on WP? It really sucks....

[peleh]

Originally Posted by bluerob

Anyone have any idea at all about the missing author credits on WP? It really sucks....

When this was happening with me, i solved it by doing this in all .phps that have the vbridge code. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=467
About your problem uploading pictures, try to use Browser, not Flash based upload.

Originally Posted by EagleNick

For some reason only the articles I post on the blog are synced with the forum, having a thread created. Another administrator of the team creates a blog entry, but a thread isn't automatically created. Why?

Also, I can't find what this adds to the database. Can somebody tell me exactly where to look and what I'm looking for? I have browsed all of the tables for both my WP database and my vB database to no avail.

Did you mapped the users before turning auto-integrate on?

[EagleNick]

Originally Posted by peleh

When this was happening with me, i solved it by doing this in all .phps that have the vbridge code. https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=467
About your problem uploading pictures, try to use Browser, not Flash based upload.




Did you mapped the users before turning auto-integrate on?

Yes, I mapped the users.

[kursed]

There is a problem that I'm facing with this hack as well. I've mapped a particular usergroup on vBulletin to 'Contributors' in WP.

Now, the problem is that whenever these contributors submit an article or write up for review, as soon as I (or any other administrator) chooses to publish it, the name of the author changes that to the person who authorized the publishing of the write-up.

But that's not all. If the administrator chooses to open the post, and from there publish it, the author name doesn't get affected. It only changes if you make the change from the main screen, where you can see all the posts at once.

That said, since I've not chosen to post new entries on WP to vBulletin, I believe I can't use the above mentioned code - in order to correct this problem.

Can anyone in here, help me with this issue?

[peleh]

Originally Posted by kursed

There is a problem that I'm facing with this hack as well. I've mapped a particular usergroup on vBulletin to 'Contributors' in WP.

Now, the problem is that whenever these contributors submit an article or write up for review, as soon as I (or any other administrator) chooses to publish it, the name of the author changes that to the person who authorized the publishing of the write-up.

But that's not all. If the administrator chooses to open the post, and from there publish it, the author name doesn't get affected. It only changes if you make the change from the main screen, where you can see all the posts at once.

That said, since I've not chosen to post new entries on WP to vBulletin, I believe I can't use the above mentioned code - in order to correct this problem.

Can anyone in here, help me with this issue?

I guess you can solve the problem with the person who authorize with this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=423

The only problem for me here, is that the person that "publish" keeps the credit on the vBulletin posting side. But the real autor is ok on the WP side.

[kursed]

That I already have done. But it doesn't affect this issue.

[Pirat3]

Does anyone have a problem where images that are placed in wordpress new posts are being removed/not added in forum posts? (talking about when making a new topic in wordpress not comments)