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 Stubbed

Sorry, had tried to search for "3.8" but it must have been too short. Maybe updating the first post would be a go?

Either way - Thanks!

Its 2.8 and I am not the mod author so I cannot update that post

[ViciousCode]

well the sidebar login widget i found on wordpress works but not like it suppose to, it takes to the usercp instead of the profile when you click the profile link!

[slinky]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

Yes everyone who is posting here including me are using it

Great - but my problem when I ran it was that I had an impossible time logging in the wp-admin with it enabled, unfortunately.

With regard to WPMU, have you run it just to integrate logins? I understand the problem of having a MU blog to work properly with using it to redirect posts. What would be nice is to have a sole integration for membership alone. (Jafo is a good developer... I bought some of his worldwide plugins a long time ago.)

[fmckinnon]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

Do one thing. Enable HTML in posts and try.

Hey, yeah - well if I enable HTML in the forum permissions, it parses fine ... but I was advised a few pages back that it wasn't really safe to have HTML enabled on my forums. (I see even here vbulletin.org, the HTML code is Off)

Are you talking about doing this somewhere other than forum permissions? For the life of me, I cannot find anywhere to give a usergroup permissions to post HTML in posts ... only in signatures (in User Group Settings)

I am very grateful for your help - trying to get this thing fixed tonight!

[shaqoneal]

This modification seems really cool, but I was wonderign if somebody could please answer my questions:

1. Do Wordpress and vBulletin have to be in the same mySQL database, or can we use two separate databases?

2. I was reading the readme and it says that we have to make a "test post". So what this hack is doing is making posts in Wordpress AND vBulletin at the sametime?

3. If the answer to the above is yes - is it possible to ONLY use vBulletin's user repository in Wordpress? I am not interested in having duplicate posts in WP and vB. I only want the registered user system to be shared.

Thanks.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by slinky

Great - but my problem when I ran it was that I had an impossible time logging in the wp-admin with it enabled, unfortunately.

With regard to WPMU, have you run it just to integrate logins? I understand the problem of having a MU blog to work properly with using it to redirect posts. What would be nice is to have a sole integration for membership alone. (Jafo is a good developer... I bought some of his worldwide plugins a long time ago.)

The logins only work through vb when the plugin is activated.

Originally Posted by shaqoneal

This modification seems really cool, but I was wonderign if somebody could please answer my questions:

1. Do Wordpress and vBulletin have to be in the same mySQL database, or can we use two separate databases?

2. I was reading the readme and it says that we have to make a "test post". So what this hack is doing is making posts in Wordpress AND vBulletin at the sametime?

3. If the answer to the above is yes - is it possible to ONLY use vBulletin's user repository in Wordpress? I am not interested in having duplicate posts in WP and vB. I only want the registered user system to be shared.

Thanks.

1. You can use separate.
2. Yes
3. Yes

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by fmckinnon

Hey, yeah - well if I enable HTML in the forum permissions, it parses fine ... but I was advised a few pages back that it wasn't really safe to have HTML enabled on my forums. (I see even here vbulletin.org, the HTML code is Off)

Are you talking about doing this somewhere other than forum permissions? For the life of me, I cannot find anywhere to give a usergroup permissions to post HTML in posts ... only in signatures (in User Group Settings)

I am very grateful for your help - trying to get this thing fixed tonight!

Oh sorry, I am using this mod for that, I missed it:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96926

According to RS_Jelle, as said here.

When HTML is allowed, you can post malicious code. Like iframes (which can contain virusses) and JavaScript (which can be used to obtain admin passwords).

So you create a huge XSS security leak. Only allow it if you really trust all people in that usergroup.

So this mod is what you should use. Works on the latest version too.

[fmckinnon]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

Oh sorry, I am using this mod for that, I missed it:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96926

Sweet - that's what I was looking for! Now - any clue on how to make it quit posting as userID 1 in the forums, even though I clearly have the userID and userName as a totally different user in the vbridge settings? (when I first installed this and tested it, I used #1 ... and it seems to be caching or saving that somewhere, and the changes I'm making in vbridge settings aren't overwriting it).

[amjadz4]

Only the mod author can answer that. I am not sure how he is doing that in the code. I tried to change the ID manually in the code but that made things worse. Started giving errors so I didn't bother. For me, its fine because I want user ID 1 to post to forums

Try changing it in the database in phpmyadmin.

[fmckinnon]

Hey, so, are you saying you had the same issue with the userID, if you try changing it in the vbridge settings, it doesn't work for you either?)

I suppose I could keep using id1 - it's just my personal login as the admin, and I didn't want the articles to post on my userID, because it makes it appear that I wrote the articles ... so I'd created a new userID that was an Admin, that was a generic userID, tied to the site, and not a personal identity, if that makes sense.