vBulletin SOAP API

sorry for my bad english


Changes:

v. 1.0.7
Bugfix in the updateUser function
added getOnlineUsers() function, to get the list of the logged in users

v. 1.0.6
updateUser uand deleteUser updated, now is posible to call it with userid or other field from user table
getStats() funktion added, to get forum stats


v. 1.0.5
Added updateUser, deleteUser to update user data ( email/password, username )
or delete user

v. 1.0.4
Added doActivateSession function to let vbulletin accept sessionid

v. 1.0.3
functions to get userdata and postdata are now done
postmessage returns as formated html

v. 1.0.2
added support for vbulletin "session"
the server can now send all needed cookies, to the client, last 2 optional:
(PREFIXsessionhash/lastvisit/lastactivity/(userid/password))

v. 1.0.1
rename login funtion to doLogin
add placeholder for getUser/setUser, getPost/setPost, getThread/setThread functions
change URL in the WSDL file to relative URL




this is a beta version !!

what this hack do:

this hack provide a soap api to access vbulletin functions over internet
( for example: ebay, amazon or google have they webservices api to access is over soap )

this hack has at the moment this functions

1. login to vbulletin
you must give username and password, as response you get userid and password as md5 ( with salt ) hash

so that you can set vbulletin cookie on your application

2.
a. last X post from the forum
b. last X post from the forum, which the user ( which is loged in, see 1. ) can see

3. manipulate a user, get user information , create users or delete then

4.
get forum statistics from vbulletin ( Sponsored by 1Agency (www.1agency.de) )
you will get new user, max threads/posts and some other stuff as result

5.
get all logged in users in vbulletin


what can you do with this hack ?

you can make common login with your application ( written in PHP/ASP(.NET)/JAVA/C or any language which supports SOAP calls ( for example mozilla firefox ^^)).
to make common login, you must set vbulletin cookie, see 1.

or you can write firefox extension to get last 10 thread from your forum, with threads that you can see

or synchronise users from your application and vbulletin ( this feauture is on development )

other planced feautures are:
write comment
write thread
get thread ( with all comments )


whis SOAP-SERVER is written in PHP5 with SOAP - extension
so that you need to be php5 and soap extension installed on your server
( all new destributions provides php5 and soap extensions as rpm packages )

it is posible to write this server in php4 oder php5 without soap extension ( with nuSOAP or PEAR::SOAP ) but this is not planed at the time, sorry
php
Clients can be written in Java, ASP or PHP, with all language which supports soap
so that you can make common login between an ASP or JSP CMS and Vbulletin


how to install

unpack the package, move the "soap" folder in your forum root
and install the product with product installer

to test the functionality i have included some test files in /soap/examples

you must change the url and username/password and the key in this files


later i will make some examples for typo3/joomla/xoops to access and login into vbulletin

i will accept every help and feedback to make this extension better

updated example is in the "soap" folder

[jsodeman]

Thanks for the response. That's a shame about the lack of interest, maybe people don't understand the usefulness of a SOAP APi. Anyway, I found the setUser function for adding users.

Right now I've got a problem with sessions and doLogin. The SOAP client is getting a session which is logged in, but then the user gets a second session which isn't logged in. Any ideas?

[jsodeman]

As a note, the "print_r($threadinfo);" is still in the posted files under getPost. Caused me a load of problems til I hunted it down.

[cyberbeggar]

Is there anything like compatible for v 3.6.5 ?

[leonsio]

Originally Posted by cyberbeggar

Is there anything like compatible for v 3.6.5 ?

should work with some changes

[Disi]

Useing vB 3.6.3

PHP Code:

[message:protected] => looks like we got no XML document

$connect= new SoapClient('http://forum.domain.tdl/soap/server.php?wsdl');

$params=array(  'key'           =>      'thekey',
                           'password'      =>      'test',
                           'username'      =>      'test'
                                );

    $result=$connect->getLastPosts(20);
    print_r($result); 


Any idea?

[leonsio]

look in the error-log from your webserver

[Disi]

No errors, everythings seems to be fine. there are only new entries in the access log

web - - [16/Jul/2007:12:52:02 +0200] "GET /soap/server.php?wsdl HTTP/1.0" 200 20123 "-" "-"

p57a4ffd5.dip.t-dialin.net - - [16/Jul/2007:12:52:02 +0200] "GET /index.php HTTP/1.1" 200 2433 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4"

web - - [16/Jul/2007:12:52:02 +0200] "POST /soap/server.php HTTP/1.1" 200 1657 "-" "PHP-SOAP/5.2.0-8+etch7"

[treelovinhippie]

Does this work for v3.6.8?

There are about 3 of these APIs, and it's exactly what I'm after but none of them seem to work for the latest version sadly

[JEllis]

Originally Posted by Disi

Useing vB 3.6.3

PHP Code:

[message:protected] => looks like we got no XML document

$connect= new SoapClient('http://forum.domain.tdl/soap/server.php?wsdl');

$params=array(  'key'           =>      'thekey',
                           'password'      =>      'test',
                           'username'      =>      'test'
                                );

    $result=$connect->getLastPosts(20);
    print_r($result); 


Any idea?

Any luck solving this "looks like we got no XML document" error? I'm getting it - using 3.6.2.

[vhalexxs]

[24-Nov-2007 00:01:37] PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function unlock_tables() on a non-object "path-"\functions.php on line 5218

using 3.6.8, same as looks like we got no XML document error, any work around?

thanks