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.

[fmckinnon]

Originally Posted by peleh

Hmm, on my installation here, images, text and links go just fine even with html turned off on vbulletin.

What i do here, when some code go trought and apears on the forum, like nextgen gallery, i edit the post. When i try to pass embed code, like videos, i edit with the format that vbulletin accept, wich is a link to the video.

peleh,

That's totally weird - are you sure your HTML isn't turned on in your forums admincp for that forum? Every wordpress post that went over into my forums showed the unparsed HTML code - so in the forum it would have all the <html code> showing ... img links, a href links, etc.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by sparky37

I've been fighting with this thing all day.

I've uploaded the files properly and whatnot but as soon as I enable this plugin in WP my whole webpage disappears. Nothing. Just blank pages. I have to go back to a cached page and disable the plugin in order for the webpage to work.

It seems that I'm not alone, however it also seems that I've not seen a solution posted anywhere despite finding this problem mentioned in a couple different forums?

Un-install COMPLETELY using the resetbridge file and including the tables from database. and then install it..STEP BY STEP. it will work without any errors

Originally Posted by MrFab

hello there !

thanks for this mod, so great... BUT i have a problem : I've done everything (I think so...) but when I turn on the integration, I can't login anymore to Wordpress. It seems Wordpress goes to the VB database (it doesn't recognize the "admin" login of WP), I log in with my VB admin login (Fab) and it redirects to a blank page (login.php), without setting any session :/

Do you know where it comes from ?

(sorry for my poor english )

When you have mapped users, the login only works from vbulletin. So login to the forum first and then visit /wp-admin ... you will be logged in automatically.

The WP users table becomes useless.

[MrFab]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

When you have mapped users, the login only works from vbulletin. So login to the forum first and then visit /wp-admin ... you will be logged in automatically.

The WP users table becomes useless.

Thanks for your answer.
I'm logged in to the forum, it works perfectly with VB but the wp-admin doesn't log me in and when I try : blank page on login.php - and no session is created on wordpress :/

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by fmckinnon

peleh,

That's totally weird - are you sure your HTML isn't turned on in your forums admincp for that forum? Every wordpress post that went over into my forums showed the unparsed HTML code - so in the forum it would have all the <html code> showing ... img links, a href links, etc.

What seems to be the problem? HTML does work from wordpress to vbulletin. Make sure the encoding is same and if it doesnt work, just re install it. Or if you need a hand and some of my quality time, PM me

Originally Posted by MrFab

Thanks for your answer.
I'm logged in to the forum, it works perfectly with VB but the wp-admin doesn't log me in and when I try : blank page on login.php - and no session is created on wordpress :/

re-install it buddy, thats the only way to fix it. uninstall it completely...and that means COMPLETELY (including DB tables)

[fmckinnon]

amjadz4 - are you saying that HTML that is present in the WordPress posts should go over into the forums and parse correctly, EVEN IF THE FORUM PERMISSIONS HAVE HTML SET TO "NO"?

How do you completely uninstall, and start over?

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by fmckinnon

amjadz4 - are you saying that HTML that is present in the WordPress posts should go over into the forums and parse correctly, EVEN IF THE FORUM PERMISSIONS HAVE HTML SET TO "NO"?

How do you completely uninstall, and start over?

Yes even if its set to NO. the HTML permissions are overridden as per the poster's usergroup. So if he is an admin for example and has HTML allowed in its usergroups setting, the post can have HTML. the forum's persmission wont have anything to do with it then!

To completely uninstall this mod follow this:

1. disable plugin ( doesnt matter if u dont ) and delete all uploaded plugin files.
2. open up phpmyadmin or any database management tool on your server.
3. in the WP database click on search and type in: vbb_ and select inside wp_options ( you will probably find around 27 matches )
4. delete all tables beginning with vbb_ - make note of this as there will be some tables NOT beginning with vbb_ do not delete those!
5. in the column find the "option_name" as active_plugins ... click on edit.
6. search for a line similar to this: i:5;s:12:"vbbridge.php"; ( the numbers may be different ) and delete it.

That's all. Plugin removed completely. You can re-install it now and make sure you follow EVERY LINE of the README. If you do not make a mistake you wont have a problem!

[slinky]

Has anyone been using this just for registrations? All I want to do is simply get vbulletin registrations and Wordpress to match up, username and password, as well as changing. I thought of using this plugin but don't know of anyone using it. I have WP MU and I was able to get it working on a prior version, integration of login info only, don't care about the posts.

I was also looking at amember but it's very expensive and some parts seemed very awkward and I wondered if they even worked. Plus it's encoded, not a good thing.

[fmckinnon]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

Yes even if its set to NO. the HTML permissions are overridden as per the poster's usergroup. So if he is an admin for example and has HTML allowed in its usergroups setting, the post can have HTML. the forum's persmission wont have anything to do with it then!

Ah, OK - that explains it ... I am NOT using the auto-integration, nor am I sharing users - I have the auto turned OFF ... I only wanted it for:
1 - post the article into the forum
2 - use vbulletin as comments

What I can do is go into my usergroups for my UserID in Vbulletin (or the userID that the bridge is set to post as) and make sure HTML is turned "on" for them, though it's off in the forums. I'll try that - thanks for your great help.

[poromenos]

does this work with the latest wordpress version 2.8?

[fmckinnon]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

So if he is an admin for example and has HTML allowed in its usergroups setting, the post can have HTML. the forum's persmission wont have anything to do with it then!

Hey -
OK - help me out here - because when I go into User Group Settings, the only option for HTML on a User Group (ie. Admins) is to allow it in their SIGNATURE. I'm not finding a setting that says to allow HTML in forum posts ... am I totally missing it?