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.

[Sciby]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

check PM.

I'm a bit confused about the updates to comments.php so if I could grab any Secret Squirrel knowledge from that PM, I'd appreciate it.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by Sciby

I'm a bit confused about the updates to comments.php so if I could grab any Secret Squirrel knowledge from that PM, I'd appreciate it.

I just sent him the modified comments.php as required by the mod. Check the readme file and just add those lines of code where it is asking to and replace 2 other lines as written in the readme. Then you are good to go!

[maipoman]

Hello,

I'm using the bridge plugin on a 2.8.3 version of Wordpress. Is it safe to upgrade to 2.8.4 or will the bridge quit working if I do? Any input would be appreciated.

Also, is there a solution yet, to get the avatars from vBulletin to show in the Wordpress comments?

[WouterN]

We use (a part of) this plugin on our website http://www.mobilyz.com.
I am trying to fix the flash upload issue since our editors are getting really annoyed by the issue.

If anyone has some helpful info for me (or tried to fix it themselves but dit not succeed, please let me know. In the meantime I will try to find the error and fix it. If i am able to find it I will, ofcourse, post the solution here. Any info on this matter would be appreciated.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by maipoman

Hello,

I'm using the bridge plugin on a 2.8.3 version of Wordpress. Is it safe to upgrade to 2.8.4 or will the bridge quit working if I do? Any input would be appreciated.

Also, is there a solution yet, to get the avatars from vBulletin to show in the Wordpress comments?

Yes it works on 2.8.4 also. Make sure you disable it first and then upgrade. Then enable it. Avatars are already pulled with this plugin you just need to modify the code in the right way. And make sure you dont have gravatars enabled.

[maipoman]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

Yes it works on 2.8.4 also. Make sure you disable it first and then upgrade. Then enable it. Avatars are already pulled with this plugin you just need to modify the code in the right way. And make sure you dont have gravatars enabled.

Thank you, the upgrade worked fine.

However, I have never had any luck with getting avatars and links to vB-profiles into Wordpress-posts. I try to follow the instructions, but get lost when I get to the part of "Wherever you see the code: <?php the_author() ?> You can replace that with something like..." because I don't have that code anywhere in my comments.php. I do however find value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?> but I guess that's not the same?

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by maipoman

Thank you, the upgrade worked fine.

However, I have never had any luck with getting avatars and links to vB-profiles into Wordpress-posts. I try to follow the instructions, but get lost when I get to the part of "Wherever you see the code: <?php the_author() ?> You can replace that with something like..." because I don't have that code anywhere in my comments.php. I do however find value="<?php echo $comment_author; ?> but I guess that's not the same?

Its there in the readme file:

PHP Code:

<img src="<?php echo get_option('vbb_VBURL') ?>/image.php?u=<?php echo $reply['userid'] ?>&amp;dateline=<?php echo TIMENOW ?>" alt="<?php echo $reply['username'] ?>'s Avatar" class="avatar avatar-32 photo avatar-default" width="32" height="32">

[tomsangels]

Ok, I have everything working, but I would REALLY like to change the forum user that the wordpress posts get posted under, but i have not been able to do this. I deleted all of the tables and reinstalled and it still keeps posting under the original user instead of the one I have it configured to post as.

[Xencored]

When saving users i get

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/anime/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:153) in /home/*********/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 865

Also is there a way i can get Additional Usergroups as Authors on Wordpress mate?

Thanks for this awesome Mod!! :up::up: nominated and will send you some coin after i get it working for all your awesome work

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by Animemike

When saving users i get

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/anime/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:153) in /home/*********/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 865

Also is there a way i can get Additional Usergroups as Authors on Wordpress mate?

Thanks for this awesome Mod!! :up::up: nominated and will send you some coin after i get it working for all your awesome work

That error should not appear if you have followed all steps in the readme.

As for your second question, you can create more usergroups in vB and then go to map users in WP and set them as editors.