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.

[InfoNirvana]

A member active in this thread will do it for a paid service
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=969

[Stephan Whelan]

InfoNirvana,

Thanks for that. I'll be honest that installing it isn't an issue - it's trying to debug problems. We've got as far as getting it all installed and posts being posted to VB, however when we set it to Auto-Integrate we get the following PHP Error reported in our logs:


Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin()

[MadsK]

Originally Posted by Stephan Whelan

InfoNirvana,

Thanks for that. I'll be honest that installing it isn't an issue - it's trying to debug problems. We've got as far as getting it all installed and posts being posted to VB, however when we set it to Auto-Integrate we get the following PHP Error reported in our logs:


Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin()

Have you installed the plugin on fresh installs of both WP and VB? Also which versions of the two are you using?

[Stephan Whelan]

I have - the wordpress install is 2.9.1 and vbulletin is 3.7.6. We've followed instructions (the only tweak we had to do was provide an absolute path to our globals.php file). Everything worked fine up until Auto-Integration.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by Stephan Whelan

InfoNirvana,

Thanks for that. I'll be honest that installing it isn't an issue - it's trying to debug problems. We've got as far as getting it all installed and posts being posted to VB, however when we set it to Auto-Integrate we get the following PHP Error reported in our logs:


Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin()

Originally Posted by Stephan Whelan

I have - the wordpress install is 2.9.1 and vbulletin is 3.7.6. We've followed instructions (the only tweak we had to do was provide an absolute path to our globals.php file). Everything worked fine up until Auto-Integration.

You get this error when you have another plugin conflicting with it. Disable all other plugins and enable just the bridge. When you have it working, then enable the others one by one. If you encounter the same error, you have found the culprit. Sorry to say but you cannot use that plugin along side the bridge due to conflict. Try finding an alternative.

[caracena]

So far I've got this working. I still have to make a good "About the Author" to go in every article in my WP while fetching everything from vB and to make my WP comments (without using the comments from the forum replies) appear with the user's avatar but I can wait for that.

My problem right now is that the bridge is making IE8 act strange. With this plugin activated, there's like a 150px width blank space to the right of my site so I have a horizontal scroll bar. If I use this bar and scroll to the right, it shows only the page background color without the 100% width background images in the top and bottom. It's like the site's CSS knows where to stop repeating images but the browser thinks that the page is wider. It doesn't happens in Firefox.

Any guesses?

Thanks!

[Quantnet]

What happens to custom usergroups from VBulletin? Do we manually add each user to Editor, Contributor usergroups in WP?
I have a few VB users I like to make Editors and how do I go about this.

[SirFalcon]

Bridge works for me.

Currently using:
WordPress 2.9.1 and vBulletin 4.0.1 (the latest version for both software)

Question:
How do you make it display a link back to Wordpress in the vBulletin forums instead of copying the entire blog article?

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by caracena

So far I've got this working. I still have to make a good "About the Author" to go in every article in my WP while fetching everything from vB and to make my WP comments (without using the comments from the forum replies) appear with the user's avatar but I can wait for that.

My problem right now is that the bridge is making IE8 act strange. With this plugin activated, there's like a 150px width blank space to the right of my site so I have a horizontal scroll bar. If I use this bar and scroll to the right, it shows only the page background color without the 100% width background images in the top and bottom. It's like the site's CSS knows where to stop repeating images but the browser thinks that the page is wider. It doesn't happens in Firefox.

Any guesses?

Thanks!

I have replied to your PM.

Originally Posted by Quantnet

What happens to custom usergroups from VBulletin? Do we manually add each user to Editor, Contributor usergroups in WP?
I have a few VB users I like to make Editors and how do I go about this.

Each vb group can be assigned to each WP group. You can choose for example VIP group in vbulletin to be editors or a group like for example Special Members to any one of the WP user groups

Originally Posted by SirFalcon

Bridge works for me.

Currently using:
WordPress 2.9.1 and vBulletin 4.0.1 (the latest version for both software)

Question:
How do you make it display a link back to Wordpress in the vBulletin forums instead of copying the entire blog article?

In vBridge settings in dashboard look for this:

Excerpt Forum Post?:
No
Yes

If Yes Above How Many Characters In Exceprt: Whole Numbers Only

If Yes Above, Enter Link Text Back To Article:

There you can have a link back to the WP article. Type in something like "Read More"

[Stephan Whelan]

Thanks amjadz4 - i'll give that a go.

Originally Posted by amjadz4

You get this error when you have another plugin conflicting with it. Disable all other plugins and enable just the bridge. When you have it working, then enable the others one by one. If you encounter the same error, you have found the culprit. Sorry to say but you cannot use that plugin along side the bridge due to conflict. Try finding an alternative.