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.

[KittyMan]

Alright. I'm having a bit of trouble using this plugin. I recently upgraded to this one and it seems to create a problem when I turn on auto-integration. I followed all of the instructions and yet it still gives me weird warnings when I turn it on. I've been trying to figure it out, but I can't figure it out. Any suggestions?

The warnings I'm receiving are below.

Warning: include_once(/homepages/13/d254053766/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/13/d254053766/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 96

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening '/homepages/13/d254053766/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php5') in /homepages/13/d254053766/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 96

Warning: include_once(/homepages/13/d254053766/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php) [function.include-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/13/d254053766/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 674

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening '/homepages/13/d254053766/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php5') in /homepages/13/d254053766/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 674

[amjadz4]

You Forum relative path is wrong. either change it in settings or hardcode it in vbbridge.php

[Taringa! CS]

i need to include global.php inside wordpress, but i don't want to install all this whole plugin

any ideas? i can't make it work...

thanks in advance!

[bluerob]

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.

Thanks, that worked, but all my previous post are still missing the author credits. It only works with NEW post. I think I can live with that but now I need to know how I can get our avatars to show up on WP post. Any one have any idea?

[bluerob]

Originally Posted by AzzX

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

I need the flash loader because sometimes I have a lot of images to post and it will take way to long to upload each one individually.

Anyone have a fix on uploading with the flash uploader?

[peleh]

Originally Posted by bluerob

I need the flash loader because sometimes I have a lot of images to post and it will take way to long to upload each one individually.

Anyone have a fix on uploading with the flash uploader?

Would be nice to have this flash issue fixed...

You should consider using some gallery based upload when you have lots of pictures, like nextgen gallery, i upload almost all my pictures inside a .zip here.

[shallow bay]

I went through all the steps correctly, i could post threads to the forum from wordpress. When i hit auto-integrate i get a white screen for every one of my wordpress pages but the forums work fine and i am logged in.

any help?

[AdjaniB]

I have a question..
I have the forum with unicode: ISO-8859-1
and the wordpress with UTF-8
since i'm using spanish as my default language, but when I want to change one, so they can be the same, it all goes turnin' ugly, that's why I have it like that.. but, i'm using the comments from vbulletin so in the wordpress files it shows some weird characters like: � instead of é.

Hope you can help me, since I love this mod. (:

[glowinggal]

Originally Posted by maipoman

Jafo232, thank you so much for the update! No more media uploader problems! :up:

Unfortunately, my one concern still exists. For some reason, vbBridge clashes with my other plugin, Featured Content Gallery. It's a highly popular WP-plugin that creates an automated rotating image gallery of posts or pages. When vbBridge is activated, the Featured Content Gallery won't show up in Firefox. It does in IE though.

This is the code that is used to display the FCG-plugin (that FF won't read when vbBridge is on):

<?php include (ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/featured-content-gallery/gallery.php'); ?>

Both of these plugins are very important to me, so I would really appreciate some help to get them both working!

same trouble we found here today - my featured content gallery worked find until I installed the plug in and now doesn't show on my wordpress blog -- and same exact thing as well - shows in IE but not in firefox.

[bzdp]

Greetings, I have installed the Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge and it seemed to work well at first, sending my postings to forums and integrating my user lists. But then I noticed that my static home page, which is just a greeting, is no longer recognized as my home page. Instead, my home page is a series of posts, starting with the most recent. I really need my static home page to work as it is. Any ideas?

At first I suspected a couple of plugins I was using -- Redirection and Simple Login -- but I've deactivated these and reinstalled the Complete WP/VB Bridge, and it still has the same effect.

I lose the home page when the plug-in is turned on in the WP Dashboard, not when the files are uploaded or the plugin is activated in the WP Plugin screen. It only occurs when the plugin is "switched on." I also saw someone posted something about this being a WP bug that occurs when you allow posts to be segmented, but I've turned this off, and still no good. Hoping someone has a solution here. Thanks.