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.

[MadsK]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

This is already done by default if the plugin is installed successfully.

Thanks. It works. But avatars do not though. I already have the avatar of the user shown in the log in box, if logged in. How could i go about and put this avatar into the comments? It seems i cannot edit the wp_list_comments thing.

Your help is appreciated.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by MadsK

Thanks. It works. But avatars do not though. I already have the avatar of the user shown in the log in box, if logged in. How could i go about and put this avatar into the comments? It seems i cannot edit the wp_list_comments thing.

Your help is appreciated.

If you see in the read me file, the file edits which you have to do. In it find this code:

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">

This is what does the avatars. It should work if the paths are correct.

[MadsK]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

If you see in the read me file, the file edits which you have to do. In it find this code:

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">

This is what does the avatars. It should work if the paths are correct.

Thanks,

But to be able to link to the avatar i would have to have vbb_VBURL defined right? And what about the $reply - does it need some prework before it works? I've tried inserting the code directly into my functions.php as this is how i define my comments.php, but it just shows an image of vbulletin logo and thats it.


EDIT: Actually it seems everything is working except the usersid is not fetched. When i view the image, i get the correct url:

/forum/image.php?u=&dateline=1258362456

but as you can see it is missing the u=?????.

So how do i get it to fetch that correctly?

2nd EDIT:

I think i actually got it. I played around a bit and came up with the following (If anyone else should want to use it):

img src="<?php echo get_option('vbb_VBURL') ?>/image.php?u=<?php $user = get_userdata($comment->user_id);
echo $user->ID; ?>&amp;dateline=<?php echo TIMENOW ?>" alt="Avatar" class="avatar avatar-32 photo avatar-default" width="80" height="80">

[kambiz]

Is there any update or new release for upcoming VB4 ?!

[MadsK]

Originally Posted by kambiz

Is there any update or new release for upcoming VB4 ?!

I've just set up a testing environment with the latest wordpress version and VB4, and it works perfectly . So I'm guessing not much needs to be done for it to be officially released for VB4, when it comes out.

[Goomzee]

anyone knows how to make this blog bridge

below is my blog
http://www.mknexusonline.com/blog
and below is my forum url
http://www.mknexusonline.com/forum

[Pirat3]

Does anyone know how to make it so if posts on WP are made my diffrent person, it doesnt show up as admin/user1? Or what do I edit to change user=1 to user=xxxx?

[AntonyF]

Hi everyone. I have a question. I have vbulletins and wordpress on different URLs. Same server. I see the requirements are they be on the same domain.

Will it just not work at all on different domains -- or is it just they have to login on both (if it's the latter, I can live with that).

Thanks

[rjnsmith]

Hi,

I have a problem whereby the author of a post in Wordpress is displaying incorrectly, for example:

A user with a VB id 12 writes a post in Wordpress,
his WP user id is 52

However it is displaying the author of the post as VB id 52, when it should be VB id 12, but it is using his Wordpress ID for some reason?

Any ideas?

[Louis Phong]

My site: http://blog.domain.com
My forum: http://forum.domain.com
How can i install with the above informations???
Please help me