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 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?

Check the relative path. Also make sure you are not logged into the wordpress dashboard. The login works from the forum ONLY. If you are logged into both separately, you may get the white screen sometimes. At least that's what I have noticed.

1. make sure your users are mapped correctly.
2. Log out from both completely.
3. log into the forum as admin.
4. visit /wp-admin from the same window.
5. turn on auto integrate.

give it a try.

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?

Originally Posted by peleh

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.

a simple alternative till a fix is posted would be using an external image host where you can upload multiple images. you can even get a free image upload script for your website or better still use picasa! (also saves you bandwidth)

Originally Posted by 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 ?.

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

In the vbridge plugin settings select this option to:
Does your forum use Unicode (UTF-8): No

does that help?

Originally Posted by 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.

I was having the same problem at first while installing it for some clients. unfortunately I could not find anything which was causing this. So i decided to use a theme which has options to choose the type of front page you need. that suited perfectly. you can get some of them from elegantthemes.com or perhaps...use a plugin that creates separate pages for homepage.

[AdjaniB]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

In the vbridge plugin settings select this option to:
Does your forum use Unicode (UTF-8): No

does that help?

I forgot to say that, I already had that option selected as no and it still looked weird. =(

[amjadz4]

try changing the code manually in the header.. in both forum and blog...

[AdjaniB]

I've tried changing both in forum&blog in UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 and I still have the error of the accents..

[KittyMan]

Thanks for the help. It was something obv stupid on my end.

I have another question though. I am using vb for my comments on wordpress and did everything correctly as stated in the readme file, but I was wondering if there was a way to limit the number of comments shown. I'm sure it's a simple fix, but I'm not brilliant at understanding the lines of code to fix it on my own. Can it be done to limit it to say, 10 posts before not showing any more?

[Sunflower2007]

I don't like this mod
This mod has embedded script that hogs your server bandwidth i do not recommend you using it.:down:

[kursed]

I'm using a mod which shows a list of authors posting on WP. And as it seems, it cant find any other author except for the userid: 1 of vBulletin.

I'm seriously getting tired of this mod's inability to correctly merge users of the two systems together. =/

[WouterN]

Hi Kursed, that is because your users in WP are actually not in the WP usertable.
You need to fetch the unique userid's from the posts table and compare those userids with your vb userbase. That way you will get the posters on your site.

[WouterN]

Ok, here is a working solution for the folks that get this error:

PHP Code:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin() (previously declared in /var/www/domain.com/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php:166) in /var/www/domain.com/html/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php on line 33 


Put this in your vbbridge.php file (can be at the top):

PHP Code:

update_option('vbb_VBPLUGION', 1); 


After you have refreshed your site you can comment that line out again.

Hope this helps! It worked for me.

[kursed]

Originally Posted by WouterN

Hi Kursed, that is because your users in WP are actually not in the WP usertable.
You need to fetch the unique userid's from the posts table and compare those userids with your vb userbase. That way you will get the posters on your site.

How can I do this? Can you elaborate on it, please?