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.

[Pirat3]

anyone know why images postesd in WP dont trasnlate properly over to the forums

[wicked80]

Originally Posted by Pirat3

anyone know why images postesd in WP dont trasnlate properly over to the forums

Did you tried amjad's fix where he told to enable html in your vbulletin forum where the WP posts are being copied ?

[AustinKalb]

Help - not working.

Here's what I did.

1) put functions_vbbridge.php, functions_wysiwyg2.php, and vbbridge.php into the wp-contents/plugins directory.
2) set vb user id and vb user name to guest, forum ID to Comments, forum to http://wpvbtest.dnsalias.com/forums, relative path to /forums, plugin on, utf-8 yes, auto-integrate no, post articles to forum yes, excerpt forum post no.
3) created user guest in vb, created forum Comments
4) did not map any user groups in Users vbridge settings
5) posted on wordpress - found nothing in comments forum
6) created and logged on with new username in vb, went to wordpress page, tried to log in with same credentials, nothing. checked wp - user not there.

Is this correct? I expected the post to show up in vb, and the user to show up in wp. Neithet happened. No errors anywhere that I could see.

Thanks!
Austin

[matt4]

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/ferrari/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge4.01.13/vbbridge.php on line 40

I get that error. Can someone assist me?

Thanks

[nando99]

Originally Posted by undeadloktar

For those of you getting the login blank page for Wordpress go to VB Options on your board and change the cookie setting to / has to be / for it to work. Pulled my hair out over the issue and now it works.

So i'm getting the blank page.... but i'm not sure what you're saying to do...

[mcasteel]

In the install instructions after activating the product in the Wordpress Plugin section, it says YOU MUST go to the options page before you do anything else. Should this Option Page be listed under the Installed plugins? I'm having trouble finding the Option Page Link. I am using Wordpress 2.8.2. Do I need to use an older WP version? Thanks.

[creativepart]

Originally Posted by mcasteel

In the install instructions after activating the product in the Wordpress Plugin section, it says YOU MUST go to the options page before you do anything else. Should this Option Page be listed under the Installed plugins? I'm having trouble finding the Option Page Link. I am using Wordpress 2.8.2. Do I need to use an older WP version? Thanks.

You'll have two VB Settings to setup. The main one is under "Settings" and the other is under "Users".

But the one you're looking for during the set up is under Settings section of the WP Admin.

[creativepart]

Originally Posted by wicked80

OK, I saw lot's of posts asking for login/logout/avatar etc for wordpress and I needed the same and couldn't find one and so I coded one with my limited php knowledge here it is for you guys...

Wicked80 this is great! But I can't get the Avatar to show up. I found a problem with the alt text in the avatar coding and fixed that -- but I cannot get the avatars to show up with the current coding you have.

I looked at the mod that you used to create this coding and found the following known bug: Will not display Avatars correctly if they are kept in the file system (database avatars are fine)

I'm guessing this is why avatars doesn't show when I use this. All the rest of the items in this addition work great, however.

I found this fix in the mod you used https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=27 But I haven't been able to make this work.

Can you help with this?
PS. I'm using a PHP Widget that lets you put PHP code in a widget just like you can put HTML in a Text widget. It's called Samisaren PHP Widget. This works great for inserting it into a sidebar without having to hard code the template.

[Suiko Jin]

I am trying to use the resetvbbridge.php to reset everything but it isn't working. I uploaded my wordpress directly into the public_html, but when I try to activate the resetvbbridge.php file it gives me this error.

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@website.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Any ideas?

And additionally I am doing this because after installing, whenever I try to login to my Wordpress admin it says "You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page."

[Martyn1983]

Installed...but getting this when trying to post a comment via WP

Warning: call_user_func_array() [function.call-user-func-array]: First argument is expected to be a valid callback, 'sanitize_url' was given in /home/martyn83/public_html/games/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 166

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at [path]/includes/class_core.php:3277) in /home/martyn83/public_html/games/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850