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.

[jhightman]

if anyone has issues resetting using the 'resetvbbridge.php' file... you need to edit the file and add a ' on line 4 just inside the ")"

[MikesSite]

Is there any possible way at all to get this to work with w/ multiple domains on the same server as the primary vb database??

[saf-t scissors]

Has anyone had problems with scheduled posts getting attributed incorrectly within the forum?

I had a scheduled post go up, everything looked fine from forumdisplay, but when I clicked on the thread (showthread.php), it appeared as posted by a completely different user.

There are serious issues with the integration function as well. It seems as though the plugin assumes that wp userids = vb userids, so posts on the wordpress side get attributed to the wrong user. This is independent of the post-scheduling problem. I tried disabling the plugin, creating authors with the names I wanted to display (so they'd show as possible authors in the post edit dialog), but these names still get attributed to different users once the plugin is activated again.

I could edit the wp user db to make the userids match, but what a PITA.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by LegendZelda

When I try to make a post I get the following errors

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home1/noahglas/public_html/hiddentriforce/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 108

Warning: require_once(./includes/class_dm.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home1/noahglas/public_html/hiddentriforce/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 113

This is when I Update a post, publish a post, etc.

I got everything else working. I do not want the posts to be published to my forums. I just wanted the user integration so I have the Post Articles to Forum option turned off.

What can I do to fix this?

Noah

Check your paths in the vbridge settings. Or, manually hardcode the link in the plugin file.

Originally Posted by saf-t scissors

Does anyone know why the resetvbbridge file doesn't work?

I screwed something up and got locked out of WP, tried to use this file to turn integration off, uploaded it to the root WP dir (same as the root dir for that host) and ran it, but nothing happens. Looking at the code, I should get a confirmation echo.

Originally Posted by saf-t scissors

I was able to manually edit the db and turn the plug-in off, but that little script still doesn't work.

Uninstall it completely from your DB and re install, step by step. Should work perfectly.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by futuredood

Hi I'm currently working on installing and troubleshooting. This thing is absolutely briliant! Thank you for the mod. One question is, with all the work that you've gone through to get this to work, how come the avatars are not pulled from the vBulletin data? Isn't this a pretty easy step considering it's pulling everything else? The user comments are great, but it's a bit bland when there's a default Black and White photo for all my users

The avatars ARE pulled from vbulletin data. You need to check your paths.

Originally Posted by jhightman

if anyone has issues resetting using the 'resetvbbridge.php' file... you need to edit the file and add a ' on line 4 just inside the ")"

That file doesnt work. Use manual uninstall method for now (look previous posts). I will try to fix that file when I get time.

Originally Posted by MikesSite

Is there any possible way at all to get this to work with w/ multiple domains on the same server as the primary vb database??

No. But no harm in trying.

Originally Posted by saf-t scissors

Has anyone had problems with scheduled posts getting attributed incorrectly within the forum?

I had a scheduled post go up, everything looked fine from forumdisplay, but when I clicked on the thread (showthread.php), it appeared as posted by a completely different user.

There are serious issues with the integration function as well. It seems as though the plugin assumes that wp userids = vb userids, so posts on the wordpress side get attributed to the wrong user. This is independent of the post-scheduling problem. I tried disabling the plugin, creating authors with the names I wanted to display (so they'd show as possible authors in the post edit dialog), but these names still get attributed to different users once the plugin is activated again.

I could edit the wp user db to make the userids match, but what a PITA.

The wordpress user database is not used when this plugin is active. So make sure you have all your wordpress users registered in vbulletin.

[Zack_PSP]

I get this :

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/9/d245829514/htdocs/retroEmu/wpi/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:153) in /homepages/9/d245829514/htdocs/retroEmu/wpi/wp-includes/functions.php on line 784

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/9/d245829514/htdocs/retroEmu/wpi/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:153) in /homepages/9/d245829514/htdocs/retroEmu/wpi/wp-includes/functions.php on line 785

and just cannot get it to post to vbulletin or show posts from vbulletin in wordpress.... followed the instructions to the letter.

using wordpress 2.8 and vBulletin? Version 3.8.2

my site : www.retroemu.com

help is greatly greatly appreciated, if the author of this mod's fee isn't a rip off I would be willing to pay him to set it up properly for me.

Thanks to anyone who can offer some help

[R.Solutions]

Im getting these weird problems

PHP Code:

Warning:  Unexpected character in input:  ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /wp-content/plugins/resetvbbridge.php on line 4

Warning:  require_once(/wp-content/plugins/wp-load.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /wp-content/plugins/resetvbbridge.php on line 2

Fatal error:  require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/centexra/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-load.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in //wp-content/plugins/resetvbbridge.php on line 2 


ive tried everything, ^ this is when i try to reset it.

[saf-t scissors]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

The wordpress user database is not used when this plugin is active. So make sure you have all your wordpress users registered in vbulletin.

Is this what passes for "support" for a plugin? //Edit: Amajadz, I'm sorry. I thought you were the guy writing the plug-in. My apologies. The rest, regarding the bugs and installing this POS at your own risk still apply. //

I post several bugs, including one that turns out to be a typo on the part of the coder, and your reply is "well, it should work". Yes, it should. But it doesn't. Hence the posting of the questions and the waiting for the replies.

Whenever I get some free time, I'll have to go through the code and rewrite it.

This is a beta plugin, if that. Install at your own risk.

[820Media]

my setup is this:

Home page (wordpress 2.8) http://jetgaming.org

forums: http://forums.jetgaming.org

and its displayin this at the top:

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


anyway to fix it?

[Fallback]

Originally Posted by saf-t scissors

There are serious issues with the integration function as well. It seems as though the plugin assumes that wp userids = vb userids, so posts on the wordpress side get attributed to the wrong user. This is independent of the post-scheduling problem. I tried disabling the plugin, creating authors with the names I wanted to display (so they'd show as possible authors in the post edit dialog), but these names still get attributed to different users once the plugin is activated again.

I have had the exact same issue with this plugin but my post about this was never acknowledged. I have deactivated this until a fix or updated version that works correctly is posted.