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.

[dotted1337]

Originally Posted by Raug

This is how I make correct authors show up, however I only have 2 or so people posting anything that displays so it might not be ideal.

PHP Code:

<?php 
if ($vbridge[id] > 0) {
?>
<a href="<?php echo get_option('vbb_VBURL') ?>/members.php?u=<?php echo $vbridge['thread_starter'] ?>/"><?php echo strval($vbridge['postusername']) ?></a>
<?php
    }
?>

and it should make the correct name show up with a link to their profile. I don't recall if I changed anything in the bridge files themselves, but I copied portions of the comment code and applied it elsewhere. Just paste this code whever you want the author's (thread starter's) name to show up.



I just completely skipped the comment page altogether and make any links pointing towards comments to direct to

http://mysite.com/showthread.php?t=######&goto=newpost

which I've also modified to show the number of replies to the thread as if they were comments.

Something you could share?

[RvG2]

Originally Posted by dotted1337

Something you could share?

I have used this and it works.

The only thing left I guess is the smileys are not working in WP.

[Aclikyano]

how do i even edit my: myblog.wordpress.com ?

like if i have a premium theme, how can i add it onto wordpresS? please help
if some1 can do it for me id be willing to pay not too much tho!

[XManuX]

Originally Posted by RobInjection

Also, while I have you here, is there any way to call the user's Avatar and User ID in WP? I would love to link to user profile pages within WP comments.

Hello,

take a look at my previous answer about avatar & vBbridge here.

Of course it was for a former version of the bridge and some modifications have to be made to make it work, for example the query to look for into vbbridge.php is now :

PHP Code:

$sql = "select * FROM " .  TABLE_PREFIX . "post where threadid = '$results->vb_threadid' order by dateline"; 


[sanjay369]

Originally Posted by ashley76

If only this would do the same as what this guy is using

http://www.genmay.com/frontpage/?p=vB818337

That's my site- thanks! I will be releasing this plug-in probably in October!

[Alexandre.R]

# My Website

http://www.dboyz-interactive.com

# The error it make after installation

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /mounted-storage/home110c/sub002/sc65330-PDGZ/dboyz-interactive.com/index.php
Line: 2

Help please- I offer payment for fix on request!
Contact me by PM or at alex.rayon@live.co.uk

Thanks in advance!
~ Alex R.

[mortezax]

Very Ni...ic

Install

[mmoore5553]

Just wondering does this work well. All i want is to have people login the front homepage and it logs into the forum also. I do not care about commenting or anything ..just login the front page and also shows logged in forum. Please let me know results. i have read most of it and see there are some examples.

[poromenos]

does this work with wordpress 2.8.x ?

[amjadz4]

Hi everyone! I am back for providing support to users of this mod. Please post your questions.
For starters, Yes this mod works on the latest versions: vbulletin 3.8.4 and wordpress 2.8.4