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.

[pahvi]

Hi

I have a custom theme in my WP-installation called ProPhoto2.
In this theme the comments.php that should be edited according to the readme.txt looks nothing like an original theme, and I therefore beg for your help to identify the parts that need to replaced, and with what, to have commenting in VB.

I have enclosed MY comments.php and also the readme.txt for anyone who wants to give it a try.

Thanks in advance!

/patrick

[pahvi]

Hi All!

I have tried out this mod, and it's awesome in many ways!

I didn't turn on the full integration since I didn't see any use for it, since the only thing I actually want is to make it possible for the readers of my blog to discuss selected objects in the forum. This meaning, I actually don't NEED to re-direct all comments to forum, but want to give the readers an option to discuss subjects I chose to publish in the forum.

This mod provides ALL that, in a very neat way, EXCEPT the possibility to add a small link in the bottom of every affected post - saying something like the subject, and redirecting the user to my forum.

Anyone have an idea on how to acomplish that?

/Patrick

[SABRSox]

This mod still has a userid issue. Allow me to explain it as clearly as possible, as there has been no good explanation of how to fix this issue.

I installed a vBulletin installation first, and users joined. I then added a wordpress install, and after installing everything correctly, mapped users and turned on auto-integrate.

Some time after that, there were userid issues.

I, "SABRSox" (with ID #1 on vB, and ID #2 on Wordpress [as "admin" is ID #1 on wordpress]) write a story on the blog and publish it.

When I go on to my blog, the post shows up as having been written by the guy who has ID #2 ("Zoso") on vB. Now, that's the only place there's a problem. On vB, it shows up as "SABRSox" having written the article. And when I go to edit the post in wordpress, the correct author ("SABRSox") shows up.

I'm including screen grabs so we can finally have a real discussion about this issue. It seems like there's probably a simple fix, I'm just at a loss to where it's at.

[Geek Specialtie]

I'm having a problem with comment integration.
I was using the Arthemia Wordpress theme with vbridge and everything worked great.
I changed my theme to Arthemia Premium and I can't get the comments to work.
When I change the code it breaks the layout and no comments appear.

You can see it working here.
http://www.remodelcrazy.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=19
http://www.remodelcrazy.com/

Here is my comments file for the theme, if anybody could help me with would be great.

[Geek Specialtie]

I found the difference that is breaking the layout.
A missing closing div -
So I added it (tried many locations) it fixes the layout but the comments don't work.
It says #of comments, but doesn't display them, displays 'Comments are closed.'
I can post a comment, it gets posted in wordpress comments the comment count increases but still doesn't display.

Here is the output from the standard comments page and one with the vbridge code inserted.
Hopefully this and my first post somebody can figure this out. I'm going in circles.

[Taco John]

Wow. I think I hosed my site.

I went through every step meticulously, and got my WP to post to my VB. The test post worked. I then mapped my user groups. Everything was ticking along fine. I turned on Auto-Integration. So far so good. Then I logged out of my admin account and into my vBulletin test account, and posted a test post in an article. It worked. The post showed up in Wordpress, though not in vBulletin. No big deal though, since I simply want my vBulletin users to be able to use the Wordpress front page. So I thought I'd see what happens when I click "log-out."

The screen went white. Nothing there.

I went to my Wordpress Admin panel, and clicked reload. The screen there went white too.

Hmmm... I deleted both functions.php files and then reloaded them and it restored the site. Basically, it appears that if I log out of wordpress, I crash the entire site? Or is it just a local cache thing?

Any insights?

[FitgirlWorld]

same thing just happened to me

now what? I cant even get into wordpress

[Martyn1983]

It's a shame this mod has so many issues.

I cant turn comments off. If I could, I'd quite happily leave it running, as most of my issues seem to centre round the comments. But no amount of disabling will remove them. Which is a real shame!

Might think about doing the same as other posters, removing it til it's stable

[Geek Specialtie]

The screen went white. Nothing there.

I've had this happen. Seems to be it doesn't like some page variables. When this happens look at the address in the address bar, if it's not something like yourdomain.com/wp-admin then type that in you should be right back to the dashboard. That worked for me.

[Blumy]

Whenever I attempt a test post before I turn the auto-integration on I keep getting this error

Warning: require_once(./includes/class_dm.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/pshkabo1/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 113