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.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by Fraik

Just one problem thus far. I use excerpts for my forum comment posting and for some reason the link looks like this:

http://www.middleearthcenter.com/unc...ed/%postname%/

It gets the category right, but it doesn't have the right URL for the post name

Hmm, could you do a quick test and see if that happens when you have permalinks off?

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by joeymuk

Ah, I'm pretty new to vb.

I've found the global.php file, do I just add "$vbulletin;" to it somewhere? If you could provide me with steps I'd really appreciate. (I've never been so lost) lol

In Wordpress, once you have auto-integrated, if you want to use the $vbulletin object, it should be available to you just about anywhere, but you will probably have to globalize the object first:

global $vbulletin;

echo "Welcome " . $vbulletin->userinfo['username'];

[joeymuk]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

In Wordpress, once you have auto-integrated, if you want to use the $vbulletin object, it should be available to you just about anywhere, but you will probably have to globalize the object first:

global $vbulletin;

echo "Welcome " . $vbulletin->userinfo['username'];

I think I'm confusing you.

What I mean is how would I achieve this? http://www.poetryartonline.com/forums/ I know this ipb and the two systems are diffrent but with subdreamer it integrates the forum into the sd skin, I'm wondering how I can do the same but with your script. Have my VB forum displayed inside the wordpress theme?

[Fraik]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Hmm, could you do a quick test and see if that happens when you have permalinks off?

It works fine with permalinks off. Perhaps its because I use a custom permalink structure?

/%category%/%postname%/

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by Fraik

It works fine with permalinks off. Perhaps its because I use a custom permalink structure?

/%category%/%postname%/

I will try to get some time tonight to look at this. I will let you know what I find.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by joeymuk

I think I'm confusing you.

What I mean is how would I achieve this? http://www.poetryartonline.com/forums/ I know this ipb and the two systems are diffrent but with subdreamer it integrates the forum into the sd skin, I'm wondering how I can do the same but with your script. Have my VB forum displayed inside the wordpress theme?

Yeah, most likely that is a custom mod. These are things outside of the scope of this plugin. Basically from what I see though, they are just making it LOOK like it is inside, but the code is custom.

[remotay]

Great plugin, one serious problem. I upgraded from your previous release, and BAM all of a sudden my admin account does not exist. All of the Accounts made on vbulletin exist, but NOT my previous admin account. Infact, I had three wordpress admin accounts, all of which did not work.

Upon deleting the Vbbridge.php file, it now works again. Before I re-enable, I would love some input from the developer. I have the users mapped so Administrators on the forum are NOT administrators on Wordpress. I Want to have seperate admin accounts on both.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by remotay

Great plugin, one serious problem. I upgraded from your previous release, and BAM all of a sudden my admin account does not exist. All of the Accounts made on vbulletin exist, but NOT my previous admin account. Infact, I had three wordpress admin accounts, all of which did not work.

Upon deleting the Vbbridge.php file, it now works again. Before I re-enable, I would love some input from the developer. I have the users mapped so Administrators on the forum are NOT administrators on Wordpress. I Want to have seperate admin accounts on both.

Yeah, once you switch integration on, it bypasses all of the Wordpress user and authentication processes, so if you want separate admin accounts, then you will have to leave integration off.

[remotay]

I don't plan on using the Vbulletin comments, or posting my Wordpress posts on Vbulletin, so if I turn integration off, Will I still be able to share users? That's the primary thing I want from the plugin.

Thank you for the quick reply.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by remotay

I don't plan on using the Vbulletin comments, or posting my Wordpress posts on Vbulletin, so if I turn integration off, Will I still be able to share users? That's the primary thing I want from the plugin.

Thank you for the quick reply.

Integration has to be on to share users (that is what integration is ). In other words, you can't share just SOME users. It is either all or nothing.

I suppose if you edit it a bit you could have it turn the plugin off for certain users from certain IP addresses or other such criteria, but I have not included such code to date.