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.

[rcadden]

Originally Posted by creativepart

As someone that moved from PHPBB to VB I don't think I'd ever do that just for the CMS in Wordpress. But that was a few years ago and maybe it's different now. Your mileage may vary.

Well, my site started as Wordpress, and I only just added vBulletin to act as a more community-friendly comments engine, so I realize I'm backwards from most folks here. I have ~2 years of content in Wordpress, so moving the ~7 months worth of vBulletin to a different platform is likely easier than moving the Wordpress over, lol.

[creativepart]

Originally Posted by rcadden

I have ~2 years of content in Wordpress, so moving the ~7 months worth of vBulletin to a different platform is likely easier than moving the Wordpress over, lol.

It's not the difficultly of moving, its the lack of features and available addons that made PHPBB so inferior to VB.

[rcadden]

In any case, I'm extremely interested in seeing this mod updated, rather than having to move stuff around - it's *so* close to working beautifully, but just needs to be updated is all.

[creativepart]

I'm 100% behind you on that. Perhaps someone will step forward and ask the original author to all them to take over. The Author hasn't posted on dot org for a few months and haven't even logged on for the past month (at this writing).

He seems to have abandoned this mod.

[creativepart]

I couldn't get the Author links working the way the Mod Author laid it out in his Readme. But, using his concept I found a way to change the Author links to link to their VB Profile, but it only applies to users that use VBSEO to rewrite member profile links to: username.html.

Here's what I did:

NOTE: since I'm running VBSEO this method applies to VBSEO users. VBSEO rewrites the member profile links on the fly. So instead of www.yourdomain/forum/members.php?u=1075 being a link to a member's profile VBSEO changes it to: www.yourdoamin/forum/members/username.html.

So, here's what I did. First I went to the various post and page php pages in my WP Style and changed the coding that said:

<p>Posted by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?> on

I changed it to:

<p>Posted by <a href='http://www.mydomain.com/forum/members/<?php the_author(); ?>.html'> <?php the_author(); ?></a> on

See the original coding in the template called "the_author_posts_link" and I've changed that to "the_author" which gives you the author's username from VB. Then you can see in my new code above that I use the "the_author" php to insert the username into the manually coded link.

If you're not using VBSEO, you'll need to find a way make the Mod Author's instructions work to pick up the member number and use that to create a userID generated link. I just couldn't get his instructions to work for me.

Again, I realize this shouldn't be necessary to do this way, but hey, it works. So I thought I'd pass it on.

Alternatively, if you can't get this to work -- a fall back workaround idea is to change "the_author_post_link" to "the_author" and you'll keep the username but lose the broken link.

[eplazai]

When I open the media Uploader i get this message "Are you sure you want to do this?".

What can i do?. Please

[Reeve of shinra]

My only continuing problem is the "Author" problem. WP expects the Admin account to be #1. But, my VB Admin account is userID=3 and there is no userID=1 in my vB. So, much of the time the "Author" is shown as blank. Well, it shows blank, but it actually has userID=1 in the post, but since there is no #1 it is blank.

I keep reading about this error but I don't have it. I don't have a user # 1 in vb either so far as I know and if I do, its deff not an admin account.

When I log in as my vb-user account (admin btw) it shows up fine on the forums.

If I log in as the wordpress admin and make a post, it shows up as my "designated alternate" in the forum. I enabled that in the WP plugin.

Vbridge Settings
VB User ID: 2857
VB Username: Slyph


BUG REPORT

When I try the quick post option in the WP-ADMIN -- it shows up on the blog but not in the forum. Using the regular posting method works fine.

[gcaptain]

Originally Posted by eplazai

When I open the media Uploader i get this message "Are you sure you want to do this?".

What can i do?. Please

The answer is way back in comment #584 of this thread.

[ashley76]

Originally Posted by gcaptain

The answer is way back in comment #584 of this thread.

Has anyone else gotten that to work? I tried but, I still get an http error when doing it...

[mabersoft]

What would i have for the setting if i had my forum & blog as a sudomain I.E.

forum.yourdomain.com
&
blog.yourdomain.com

Can you help please.