Integration with vBulletin - vBulletin Extensions for Contentteller CMS (extended integration)

Contentteller is an open source content management system that supports the user database integration with vBulletin. The vBulletin extensions for Contentteller are a plug-in collection that tightens both vBulletin and Contentteller even more together.



The vBulletin extensions in detail:

vB Theme
This first extension can copy the color scheme of an existing vBulletin theme to a Contentteller stylesheet. This works quite well if your theme is using the default elements. Some of the custom 3rd party vBulletin themes are not fully compatible with this.

vB News
As the name indicates, this module syndicate a forum directly on your Contentteller based news pages. The module imports frequently the latest threads from a selectable forum to the Contentteller news database, so the news appears on both your forum and your front page. All replies will be displayed as comments.

Additionally, there are 11 side blocks to display content from your vBulletin forum directly on your Contentteller website:

vB Forum Menu
This is a side block that displays a list of the forums

vB Latest
This side block displays the latest threads of your vBulletin forum

vB Top
This side block will display the top threads of your vBulletin forum

vB Blog Latest
This side block shows the latest vB blog entries (requires vB blog)

vB Project Latest
This side block shows the latest issues from your vB project database (requires vB project tools)

vB Project Menu
This side block shows a list all your projects (requires vB project tools)

vB Poll
This side block will display the latest poll in your vBulletin database

vB Birthday
This side block shows today?s birthdays.

vB What?s new
This side block shows the number of posts since last visit

vB Search
A forums search box

vB Stats
This side block shows members, threads, and posts numbers of your forums

Installation:

Step 1: You need to install vBulletin 3.6/3.7/3.8 first

Step 2: Get the latest version of Contentteller. The free open source version is available over Google Code. For an installation guide see How do I install Contenteller with a Windows based machine? or How do I install Contenteller with a FTP client?

Step 3: Choose vBulletin 3.6, vBulletin 3.7, or vBulletin 3.7 in Step 12 of the installation and fill in all configuration settings of your vBulletin installation. It is important that the integration is enabled before you install the vBulletin Extensions.

Step 4: Unzip the attached zip archive and upload the content of "upload" to the directory where you have Contentteller installed.

Step 5: Login to the Contentteller admin section (/cadmin) and select Modules => Install New Module => vbextensions => Submit.

Step 6: The vB Extensions are now installed. You can configure it under vB Extensions in your Contentteller admin section.

Change log
Version 1.01 (2009-01-03)
- Fixed a few HTML entities glitches in the vB blocks
- Fixed a small typo in vbpolls.php

Version 1.0 (2009-01-01)
- Initial release

[Tianuc]

Support for UTF-8?

[Philipp]

UTF-8 should work fine

[Tianuc]

Want to support UTF-8, this is a very good product. :up:

[Philipp]

From what I can see in your screenshot, some stories will not show up correctly? I assume you have already set the website charset to UTF-8 under Manage Websites (in Contentteller admin) ?

[Tianuc]

I vbulletin is UTF-8 version - vB Chinese

1.Comment not support UTF-8
2.The database does not support UTF-8

I assume you have already set the website charset to UTF-8 under Manage Websites (in Contentteller admin) ?

yes

[rolandogomez]

Does this work with VBSEO? Thanks, rg.

[Magnumutz]

Looks like a nice product.
Hope it's going to have a nice development

[F0xy]

this looks really promising.

[Philipp]

Originally Posted by Tianuc

I vbulletin is UTF-8 version - vB Chinese

1.Comment not support UTF-8
2.The database does not support UTF-8

I will look into it. The characters on screenshot #3 seems fine?

Originally Posted by rolandogomez

Does this work with VBSEO? Thanks, rg.

Yes and no. You can install Contentteller and a vBSEO-enabled forum on the same site but you can't use vBSEO to rewrite Contentteller based pages.

In case you install both on the same site, you need to rewrite all Contentteller generated pages to /contentteller. This is already the default setting.

The entry in .htaccess should look like this:

 RewriteRule ^contentteller|contentteller/|contentteller/(.+)$ contentteller.php [L,QSA]

A better way in term of SEO is setting up a separate subdomain for either the CMS or the forum. This is the best way after both can generate XML sitemaps.