Integration with vBulletin - Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings

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 2.5.
• If your WP login name is the same as your VB username, this user will NOT be ported! If this was the case, you could lose your WP admin rights if there was an error, or if you deactivated the plugin.
• DOES work for Vbulletin 3.7.

Limitations:

• 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.
• If you delete a user, you must do so in both Wordpress and Vbulletin.
• If you are using XMLRPC to post with applications such as Windows Live Writer, you must change the password of the author in the WORDPRESS admin cp, after the user is ported over from VB. If you are not integrating users, then you do not have to.
• 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 the admin username in Vbulletin is the same as the one in Wordpress (i.e. Admin), that user will NOT be able to login to the WP dashboard.
• 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.
• When you create a test user in VB to test mapping users, the test user MUST have an email address. If a VB users email address is blank, they will not map.

UPDATES:

01/03/2007 - Fixed the unlock_tables() issue on some setups.

01/03/2007 - Fixed a bug in the script that if you used a MySQL database prefix, integration would not work. Please see this post for more information! Special thanks to axisoverdrive for giving me access to his server and letting me troubleshoot the issue!

01/05/2007 - Fixed issue where if a user saved (not published) and published later, the post would not be added to the forum.

01/05/2007 - When a post is edited, it will also be edited in the forum.

01/08/2007 - Modified slightly so when posts are edited, so are the titles (if edited).

02/07/2007 - Major modifications to new version (now 2.05). The list follows:

• Reworked the code so it uses the $vbulletin object throughout the code especially during the bridging process.
• Users are bridged whether they checked the "Remember Me" box or not.
• Removed a couple of SQL calls that became redundant.
• Addressed a bug where if a user logged out of the dashboard, it only logged them out of VB.
• Added Inline Comments capability. Comments posted to the forum (using VB for comments) will now appear at the bottom of a WP Post when viewing the post.
• Author user names can now be linked to their VB profile page if desired.
• Added option to turn off posting to forum. All this really does is remove the "Select Forum To Post To" option when writing a post. (There you go AxisOverdrive )
• The $vbulletin object should now be available in all templates and most plugins.
• Fixed a bug where deactivating any plugin would semi deactivate this plugin.
• With the reduction in SQL calls, and the removal of now unnecessary variables, speed and memory use should be improved.
• PLEASE READ THE UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS IF UPGRADING!

07/17/2007

• Fixed problem where upload iframe was a bit mangled.
• Fixed problem where users had to refresh the dashboard once after logging in.
• Fixed problem that arose from Wordpress 2.2.1 upgrade that would not allow activation.
• Fixed logout issue where users would still be logged into Wordpress.
• When a Wordpress post is deleted, so is the thread it created.
• Added option to allow thread posted from Wordpress article to be truncated, with a linkback to the article.
• Fixed issue when user re-activates plugin, and vb_threadid column already exists. Now checks for column first.
• Removed a stray VB_Init() call.
• Forums that do not allow threads will not be selectable in the drop down menu when writing a post.
• Forums are listed out in a parent/child nested pattern.
• (Note: 367 downloads of version 2.05)

11/29/07 - 3.00

• Added TABLE_PREFIX throughout the script instead of the get_option('vbb_VBPRX') call. get_option('vbb_VBPRX') is now deprecated.
• Addressed path issues by establishing $vwd first. If for some reason there are path issues on an install, the path only needs to be manually changed once, at the beginning of the script.
• Removed call to admin_db.php which seems to no longer be necessary.
• Changed all queries to the VB database to be handled by the $vbulletin object. This should facilitate multiple database configurations.
• Added limited XMLRPC support.
• Had to include a basic copy of the functions_wysiwyg.php file (functions_wysiwyg2.php) with a minor change in the sanitize_url function (now sanitize_vburl) as it conflicts with a new WP function of the same name. Otherwise, this is identical to the VB release. This was necessary to keep formatting somewhat uniform between the two.
• Removed unnecessary globals.
• Changed the global.php call so it always loads. $vbulletin should be available throughout the code (via global in functions).
• Edited some code around wysiwyg functions of VB, and conversions to vbcode.
• Added "Turn Plugin On" option.
• Fixed an issue with the forum list on the "Write Post" page. Default forum was not being auto selected in some cases.
• Modified from BETA so that the new functions_wysiwyg2.php file is loaded using the WP ABSPATH constant. Requires the plugin to stay in the plugins directory.
• Fix an error message when a post was deleted in VB, then edited in WP.

12/10/07 - 3.01

• Fixed two <? tags that should have been <?php (pointed out by Amenadiel)

03/31/08 - 3.02

• Fixed media-upload clash for new version of Wordpress (2.5).
• Added fix that will now delete threads in VB when the post is deleted in WP and not using Ajax delete.
• Added code to insert a default email address if VB users email address is blank upon bridging.

04/20/08

• Fixed a bug in user roles for the new version 2.5.1 of Wordpress.

05/08/2008

• Fixed issue where CSS was munging scrolling text box when selecting a forum during a post
• Fixed an issue where content encoding was getting screwey between WP and VP creating a lot of unintended characters (only on PHP installs where utf8_decode() exists (most)).

05/08/2008

• Fixed issue where post count of a user did not change

Sites Using This Plug-In:

• http://www.jeffsrecipes.com
• http://www.worldwidecreations.com
• http://www.xboxcircle.com
• http://www.detailuniversity.com
• http://www.daggersden.net/
• http://www.talkbronx.com/
• http://www.czeta.it

(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.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by dtdesign

Howdy,

I've got a question on this, I'm thinking of using Wordpress as my CMS for the site, as I'm fed up of my site looking like every other forum based site. So does this preclude me from using wordpress as the front end as users will have to have logged into VBulletin firstly ?

Well, not really. The only time a user would have to "login to VB" is to comment, not to view.

[thebluelizard]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Huh? That post you are referring to has nothing to do with any issue you had. If anything, it is symptomatic of the AJAX issue. If someone just called ?deactivate=true it will not deactivate anything. The redirect is issued after the plugin is is deactivated. This has however brought to my attention a fact that a drop command could be called on the vb_threadid column on any deactivate. I will address this issue later today.

I was referring to the latter part of that post about activating and and deactivating the plugin. I got the exact same duplicate column bug as that person was getting.

This may be an issue when the user is initially bridged (first time to wp from vb after the plugin is installed), but afterwords, it should be all set.

Nope, we did all our testing on someone that was already bridged before trying out the code path for users that were not bridged. The plugin gets processed after WP's session handling, so you don't have the WP cookies set on your first page view after getting the vB session set.

Also, your code requires a user to check the "Remember Me" box when logging into vB for the bridge to pick up on the login. You're checking against the bbpassword cookie, which isn't available unless that box is checked. Since not everyone checks it, that's another reason for using vB's session handler.

[malenfant]

Hi,
first of all thx, for the great plugin! I allways wanted something like that.
I have to say that I?m a noob with Wordpress and vBulletin so i hope you guys can help me a bit.

I installed the vBulletin Board 3.6.4. It works great. After that i installed Wordpress 2.0.7 (german). Now i installed the wordpress plugin till the point with the testpost.
It works - very nice :up:! So, the next point would be to map the usergroups.
But there i get an error:
WordPress database error: [Table 'datdabaseXY.usergroup' doesn't exist]
SELECT * FROM usergroup.

Does someone know what to do here?

Thank you so much
Marc

[edit]I added 2 Screenshots[/edit] Please help!

[limey]

Does this work with the latest wordpress version 2.11 Ella?

Want to know before I make a major upgrade.

[txsbmw]

I just want this to share users with vb. Is this possible. I tried reading the ReadMe file and it completly confused me. I do not want it to post comments in my forum or post any other threads for that matter, I want the comments to stay like they are now. Basically all I want it for is to share users, registration only with vb. You log into vb and you can comment and such on wordpress. When you click register in wordpress it takes you to the vb register page, when you click the username of someone who made the comment it takes you to the vb profile page of that user. Is that possible with this? And if so, how do I go about doing it?

I run vb 3.6.4 & wp 2.1

If this is not possible is there a blog type add on for vb that can be used. Here is my blog right now so you can basically see what it is being used for:
http://www.usmchangout.com/blogs

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by malenfant

So, the next point would be to map the usergroups.
But there i get an error:
WordPress database error: [Table 'datdabaseXY.usergroup' doesn't exist]
SELECT * FROM usergroup.

Does someone know what to do here?

Thank you so much
Marc

[edit]I added 2 Screenshots[/edit] Please help!

Did you set the "Database Prefix" setting correctly on the options page?

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by limey

Does this work with the latest wordpress version 2.11 Ella?

Want to know before I make a major upgrade.

Yes, it does work with Ella...

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by txsbmw

I just want this to share users with vb. Is this possible. I tried reading the ReadMe file and it completly confused me. I do not want it to post comments in my forum or post any other threads for that matter, I want the comments to stay like they are now. Basically all I want it for is to share users, registration only with vb. You log into vb and you can comment and such on wordpress. When you click register in wordpress it takes you to the vb register page, when you click the username of someone who made the comment it takes you to the vb profile page of that user. Is that possible with this? And if so, how do I go about doing it?

I run vb 3.6.4 & wp 2.1

Everything you asked can be done except linking the username to the vb profile page. That is not a feature of this plugin.

[malenfant]

Hello Jafo :-),
no, i left it blank because i didn´t know exactly what it is. Is the database prefix directly written into the database or just something like the database name?

big thx for all your work!
Marc

[Jafo232]

The database prefix is a VB setting. You can find it in your config.php file. Example:

$tableprefix = 'vb_';

This would make your prefix vb_