Incorporating vBulletin within a Mobile App

[bravura]

Hello,

We have a mobile app and would like to incorporate the vBulletin posts within our existing app. Can we do this? Is there any APIs which will be helpful ?

Thanks
debashis

[tbworld]

Originally Posted by bravura

Can we do this?

I never know how to answer that question. It can be done. The company I work for has incorporated vbulletin in our company app. We only incorporated the parts of vbulletin we were interested in as we wanted it very specialized.

Originally Posted by bravura

Is there any APIs which will be helpful ?

vBulletin Mobile API
http://www.vbulletin.com/vbcms/conte...334-mobile-api

vBulletin Source
/includes/api/

[ozzy47]

This is not a article, it's a question.

[bravura]

Originally Posted by tbworld

I never know how to answer that question. It can be done. The company I work for has incorporated vbulletin in our company app. We only incorporated the parts of vbulletin we were interested in as we wanted it very specialized.


vBulletin Mobile API
http://www.vbulletin.com/vbcms/conte...334-mobile-api

vBulletin Source
/includes/api/

Thank you for your responce.
Now i am stuck with an error "invalid_api_signature " while trying to login.
I am doing the Integration using C#.
I called api_init and i got the apiversion, apiaccesstoken, vbulletinversion, apiclientid and secret.
Then i called login_login and passed apiclientid, apiversion, apiaccesstoken and api_sig as query string. I have passed vb_login_username and vb_login_md5password as content.

Please see the below C# code for creating the api_sig and for creating a http post request.

/////// C# Code /////////////////////////////

apiVersion = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(apiVersion);
apiAccessToken = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(apiAccessToken);
vBulletinVersion = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(vBulletinVersion);
apiClientId = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(apiClientId);
secret = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(secret);
apiKey = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(apiKey);

using(MD5 md5Hash = MD5.Create())
{
md5Password = GetMD5Hash(md5Hash, password);
}

string login_string = "api_m=login_login" + "&vb_login_username=" + userName + "&vb_login_md5password=" + md5Password;

using (MD5 md5Hash = MD5.Create())
{
api_sig = GetMD5Hash(md5Hash, login_string + apiAccessToken + apiClientId + secret + apiKey);
api_sig = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(api_sig);
}

String login_request = "vb_login_username=" + userName + "&vb_login_md5password=" + md5Password + "&cookieuser=true";

String request = "?api_c=" + apiClientId + "&api_v=" + apiVersion + "&api_m=login_login" + "&api_s=" + apiAccessToken + "&api_sig=" + api_sig;
url = url + request;
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);

req.Method = "POST";
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
req.ContentLength = login_request.Length;
CookieContainer a = new CookieContainer();
req.CookieContainer = a;
System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false; // prevents 417 error
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(req.GetRequestStream(), System.Text.Encoding.ASCII))
{
writer.Write(login_request);
}

response = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
//cookie = reader.ReadToEnd();
JavaScriptSerializer js = new JavaScriptSerializer();
jsonResp = js.Deserialize<Dictionary<string, object>>(reader.ReadToEnd());
}



Please help me on this. If it is wrong can you please give me some sample code for creating api_sig in C#. I have implemented this code in C# for creating api_sig by looking at one of the posts where the code was in PHP. Below is the link which i took as a reference for creating the api_sig.


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=2321926%20





Thanks