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.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by ghealy44

OK, i will try it tonight!. By copy the code you mean from within the actual header.php right? I have been trying to just include it.

thanks for the reply man!

No, that will not work unless you have both blog and forum in the same folder and a call to include wp-blog-header. Its pretty complicated that way. So if you want a simple solution, just open a page in the blog and view its source in html then copy the required code, both from header and footer if necessary.

happy to help!

[ghealy44]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

No, that will not work unless you have both blog and forum in the same folder and a call to include wp-blog-header. Its pretty complicated that way. So if you want a simple solution, just open a page in the blog and view its source in html then copy the required code, both from header and footer if necessary.

happy to help!

ok, i will check it out with firebug man. thanks for the help!

[rob01]

someone knows why users don't get ported or shared between vb and wp?

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by rob01

someone knows why users don't get ported or shared between vb and wp?

They do get ported and shared. Users from vb are ported into WP. So once a user is logged in vb...they have access to all features in WP. (like comments etc)

[jmpa]

Please, please, please consider using XMLRPC?

Making it work on each member own blog would make it really much more useful!

[PlayersBay]

The plugin is installed on my site, but when we try to get the current logged in user in wordpress the user_level variable is empty?

This is the code, just for reference:
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();

Who can help out?

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by PlayersBay

The plugin is installed on my site, but when we try to get the current logged in user in wordpress the user_level variable is empty?

This is the code, just for reference:
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();

Who can help out?

Use this in your WP template:

PHP Code:

<?php global $user_ID, $user_identity, $user_level ?>
<?php echo $user_identity ?>

it should work! tested by me.

[PlayersBay]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

Use this in your WP template:

PHP Code:

<?php global $user_ID, $user_identity, $user_level ?>
<?php echo $user_identity ?>

it should work! tested by me.

Did not solve the issue

[MadsK]

Will this mod be updated to work with vBulletin 4.0?

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by PlayersBay

Did not solve the issue

That means something is wrong with the integration. I tested it several times. Once logged in the user will display on the wordpress site with this code. Try putting it on the index page.

Or try this perhaps:

PHP Code:

 <div id="top">
                <div class="logo"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></div>

                <?php global $user_ID, $user_identity, $user_level ?>
                <?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?>
                <!-- If users logged in, display the navigation: -->
                <!-- logout -->
                <ul class="login">
                    <li class="left">&nbsp;</li>
                    <li>Hello <a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-admin/profile.php"><?php echo $user_identity ?></a></li>
                    <li>|</li>
                    <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-admin/">Dashboard</a></li>
                    <li>|</li>
                    <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-login.php?action=logout&amp;redirect_to=<?php echo urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ?>">Log Out</a></li>
                </ul> <!-- / logout -->

                <?php elseif (get_option('users_can_register')) : ?>
                <!-- ... else, display navigation below: -->
                <!-- login -->
                <ul class="login">
                    <li class="left">&nbsp;</li>
                    <li>Hello Guest!</li>
                    <li>|</li>
                    <li><a id="open" href="#">Log In</a></li>
                </ul> <!-- / login -->

                <?php endif ?>

            </div> <!-- / top -->

For those wondering what this code is... It is to display The login info of the user logged in on your wordpress template.