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.

[Fallback]

How can we fix the isssue where this plugin changes the authors of wordpress posts? For example in my wordpress blog (v.2.8.4) when I turn auto integration "ON" the wordpress post authors are changed to vb users that were not set in wordpress as the actual post authors.

[cammot]

I am stuck completing the installation process. I am using vB 3.8 and Wordpress 2.8.4. I installed Wordpress in a sub-directory on the same domain where my vB is installed. I have the Wordpress up running fine and the vbridge plugin activated in wordpress. I seem to be stuck on the vbridge settings in wordpress, because I cannot successfully do a test post. I get the following message before the test post:

"cannot include /home/mydomainurl/wordpress/wp-admin/global.php. You should check your path! Turning Plugin Off"

I not sure if I am doing the path correctly. but here are the url to my vB forums:

http://mydomain/forums.php

The specific url to the actual forum where I want the posts dropped is:

http://mydomain/forumdisplay.php?f=2

I am not sure what is meant by FORUM ID from this information !. Is it the actual name of the forum or a number from the url ?. If I can sort this part out, I might make some progress with the install completion.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
cammot

[cammot]

I have no replies to my request for help from last night. If anyone can please offer any assistance, would be most grateful. Also, an additional point - I do not see a global.php file in the directory referenced in my previous message and wondering if that might be the issue !. There was no global.php files in the installation files and wondering why and how it might be referencing this file !. I have also not done anything yet on the vB CP.

Please help.

Thanks
cammot

[kontagio.us]

Hey I got this working on my site. You can see a demo here: http://kontagio.us

It messed up the flash uploader in media but the browser upload still works. Thanks for this great bridge.

[saf-t scissors]

Originally Posted by cs_angel

I also have a Problem with the bridge since yesterday.

First it Works finde. I didn't have a problem since yesterday. I did nothig before, I only want to edit a article. But when I want to edit, wordpress show me a white page. Only Quick Edit works. When I turn the plugin off, then I can edit normal.

All other section (like links, to create a article) works fine. Only the edit function und the options-permalink.php doesn't work. Has anyone an idea how I can fix this?

greetz cs_angel

Does anyone have a fix for this? Best suggestion I've seen is to use the old plugin. Haven't tried that yet myself, but it does say it's not to be used with current software versions.

Edit: Nevermind. I banged on the monitor and wiggled the cables and now it works. Not sure what I did to 'fix' it.

[Blackhat]

Is this bridge working for the latest vb and wpmu ?

Thanks

[Kelmor]

I am having trouble getting the comments working in vB.

I have copied all the code to the proper place. Comments no longer show up on wordpress but they do not show up in vb either.

advise?

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by Kelmor

I am having trouble getting the comments working in vB.

I have copied all the code to the proper place. Comments no longer show up on wordpress but they do not show up in vb either.

advise?

Can you post your comments.php file here so we can check it out?


If anyone needs to get this mod installed professionally you may contact me.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by Blackhat

Is this bridge working for the latest vb and wpmu ?

Thanks

No this does not support WPMU

[Kelmor]

Sure, here it is.