User Integration: 4images Gallery 1.7.2 + vB 3.5.4

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User Integration 4images 1.7.2 / vBulletin 3.5.x
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Copyright: ? 2002 Jan Sorgalla
Integration to vBulletin 2.x by Jan Sorgalla ?
Integration to vBulletin 3.0.1 by mtha
Integration to vBulletin 3.5.0 by mtha
Constribution:
Matrixgl for re-organize the hack
d1635d for adding the fix for 3.0.1
all others for comments and suggestions
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Hack version: 3.5.0.20051117
Compatible with vB 3.5.x and 4images 1.7.2
Translated Versions:
http://www.vbhacks-germany.com/forum...ead.php?t=1969
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Features:
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- Use vBulletin's user table instead of 4images.
- Forum's members can access and upload pictures (depends on permissions)
- Forum's admin can administrate the album (unless you do the EXTRA part)
- Display Who is browsing album, in the Forum's WhoisOnline list

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Changes and modifications
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4images file to replace: 5 (sessions.php, constants.php,admin/admin_global.php,templates/default/user_loginform.html)

Query to run: 0

* If you do EXTRA part, there're few queries to run, depends on what you want to do.

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Requirements:
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- vBulletin 3.5.0 installed and working
- 4images 1.7 fresh installed and working
- 4images and vBulletin are installed to use the SAME database
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Limitations:
- This is ONLY users integration. NO template/style integration.
- This hack use default usergroup for album level, there're only 4 levels of Guest, User awaiting, User, Admin. See Extra section at the end for other solution
- I didnt look at the "cooke path" and "cookie domain" yet, so it will use the default

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Notes before you install
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1. Back up the files before you edit.

2. 4images tables and vbulletin tables have to be in the same database.

3. If you run 4images and vBulletin under different subdomains,
for example http://4images.domain.com and http://vbulletin.domain.com,
you should use the following setting for vBulletin in

"vBulletin Options -> HTTP Headers and output":

#############################
Cookie Domain = .domain.com
#############################

Dont forget the dot at the beginning, and change domain.com to your domain. If you do not do this, you might experience a login problem.

4. If you delete users, you should delete the user first over the Control Panel of 4images
and after that over the Administration Panel of vBulletin.
This is neccessary to delete/modify all user-related data from the 4images database (images, comments, usergroups).

5. Its is highly recomanded that you use integration only with fresh new installations of 4images because of the following reason:
In the 4images user-table User A has the User-ID "1".
After integration 4images will use the user-table of vBulletin.
There, the User A has the User-ID "2" and User B the User-ID "1".
All images, comments and usergroup memberships are now "owned" by User B.

6. Lot of people are getting logged out after a certain period of time. This could be fixed by changing
"Session timeout in minutes" to "0" in the 4images control panel.
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INSTALLATION (read intergrate-4image-vB35.txt for more detail)
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Step 1: Edit the included sessions.php

Step 2. Edit the included constants.php

Step 3: Upload the files in UPLOAD folder to your album directory

Step 4: Import Product product-hao_wol_locations.xml from vB 3.5.0 adminCP product manager

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LOG:

20051117: clean up code, might have some small errors fixed.
20060410: modify for 4images172
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The End .

[e7lew]

Does it works with vBulletin 3.6 BETA ?

[kai3k]

Thx mtha!

Great work!

[vBFreak]

Anyone using/tryed it with 4images 1.7.3 yet?

Thanks anyway for your good work mtha

[ocdotcom]

Allright Ill venture into these here forums and post a question. Be kind How should I link to the galleries from the forums and maintain the session info? I made a href on my navbar in VB to point over to 4images but it says Im not logged in. Im REALLY sorry if this has been answered - Im very tired and have been searching for some time. I usually find the answers I need here and thats why I dont post much. Thanks in advance!

[ocdotcom]

Making slow progress - Ive been able to determine that new users seem to work fine but existing VB users dont get "passed" over to my image gallery.

[ocdotcom]

Well now all users are working - perhaps I am plagued by the timout issues others were having? (both of my sessions timeout at 900 sec)

*edit* Yep - timeout issues for sure - I get logged out at random times - sometimes after only 2-3 minutes - sometimes there are no issues at all..

[amul]

I've had the same issues with the login system as many people here.
When I went to the 4images page it would recognize the users logged into the forum and display them on the bottom of the page, but I would not be logged into 4images itself.
Because of that it also didn't display the admin control panel link for me,
and when I went to the admin index.php file manually, it asked me to login, after which I got reverted to the forum home page and was still not logged into 4images.

I discovered that I had changed the cookie prefix when installing VB, so after I edited the configuration part in sessions.php to the correct Vbulletin cookie prefix as it is listed in your config.php file for Vbulletin, it worked great.
No more login issues and control panel link shows up.
I have the session timeout set to 1800, but I really don't think it matters much as long as both the vbulletin and 4images timeout are the same.
Hope this helps anyone.

[vBFreak]

Anyone here who has tested it with vB 3.6?

[VViper]

anyone use this with Vb3.6 and 1.7.3?

[vBFreak]

I've upgraded my board to vB 3.6 yesterday, it seems to work with vB 3.6 and 1.7.2. The sessions.php from 1.7.3 differs alot with the one used in this hack, so I don't think that this would work.

You should apply all security patches in the 4homepages forum, the developers of 4images, then your 1.7.2 install is also secured, so you can continue using 1.7.2 until mtha releases a new version.