Integration with vBulletin - MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On

Overview:
This hack provides single sign-on capability for MediaWiki using your vBulletin users. You must ensure your cookie path in Admin CP is set to '/' for this to work. Also, I have not tested this if your wiki and your forums are on different subdomains - but as long as your have your cookie domain set properly it *should* work. This is not a user bridge - it is a complete single sign-on using your vBulletin user repository.

The install process has been extremely simplified in version 2.x of this product. You only have to edit LocalSettings.php, import a product, and change a setting in your Admin Control Panel. It's been completely packaged as a vBulletin product - unlike the previous hacked up version, heh. I didn't originally plan to release this so I designed it so it worked - not so it could be redistributed. I searched high and low for a functional MediaWiki bridge - almost bought NuHIT's product, and then realized it had been abandoned for over a year.

This hack no longer requires an edit to class_core.php.

I'll do my best to support it, but I can make no promises.

This thread is for discussion of this mod on vB 3.8.x. For vB 3.7.x, please use the MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On 3.7 thread

Demo of plugin in action: MyMMOGames - Multiplayer Gaming and Media Community

Also, if you use memcached - ensure you do not cache sessions. If you do, restart it at least once a week. If you don't, you'll end up with invalid session errors out of MediaWiki.

Requirements:
MediaWiki Version: 1.11.0-1.14.0
vBulletin Version: 3.6.9-3.8.2

Features:
- Provides single sign on capability between vBulletin and Mediawiki. vBulletin user repository is used
- Configurable sysop/bureaucrat groups
- Configurable disallowed user groups
- Configurable "Who's Online" display
- Counts users viewing wiki in vBulletin's "Who's Online"

Installation/Upgrade:
Please read the included "readme.txt" file in the "docs (do not upload)" folder.

Options:
Admin Control Panel->vBulletin Options->MMOG Wiki Options

Change Log:
1.0.0.0 - Sep 18, 2008
- Initial Release

1.0.3.0 - Sep 29, 2008
- Bugfix: Incorrect redirects for login/logout

2.0.0.0 - Sep 30, 2008
- Feature: Streamlined installation procedure
- Feature: Wiki path set in ACP
- Bugfix: Forum paths no longer hardcoded

2.1.0 - Oct 4, 2008
- Feature: ACP option to use MediaWiki Short URLs
- Feature: ACP option to set sysop groups
- Feature: ACP option to set bureaucrat groups
- Feature: ACP option to disallow login to certain groups
- Feature: ACP option to change WOL display text

2.2.0 - May 1, 2005
- Bugfix: Users are not logged out when logging out of the forum
- Bugfix: No longer requires modification to class_core.php
- Feature: Mediawiki 1.13.0+ supported (verified on 1.14.0 also)

If you like it, please click "mark as installed" The more people that use this, the more time I will make to try and support/update it.

Been pulling your hair out looking for this as long as I have? Nominate it for Mod of the Month =]

AuthPlugin was inspired by and modified from this existing MediaWiki Extension:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QISSingleSignOn

[BRotondi]

It seems, you did not set the path correctly

example:

define( VB_SYSTEM_PATH, '/home/path/server/forum' );

Regards, Bruno

[Behzad Varedi]

Originally Posted by BRotondi

It seems, you did not set the path correctly

example:

define( VB_SYSTEM_PATH, '/home/path/server/forum' );

Regards, Bruno

Hello,

Thank you for your attention

actually I did ! that's why I'm confused about this !

define( VB_SYSTEM_PATH, '/home/persianppc/public_html' );

any idea ?

[BRotondi]

Sorry ... no. For such cases I installed XAMPP and Netbeans. This is fine to debug a project. You could set a breakpoint on this line and see if it really is beeing executed.

your "Use of undefined constant" says, that this line never has been executet - I think, not the php-hero either . Perhaps you set the line on a wrong copy of LocalSettings.php?

...

Bruno

[Behzad Varedi]

Originally Posted by BRotondi

Sorry ... no. For such cases I installed XAMPP and Netbeans. This is fine to debug a project. You could set a breakpoint on this line and see if it really is beeing executed.

your "Use of undefined constant" says, that this line never has been executet - I think, not the php-hero either . Perhaps you set the line on a wrong copy of LocalSettings.php?

...

Bruno

Well, I'm sure that I'm using the right copy cause when I edit it and put something wrong, wiki won't come online again till I change it to what it was.

maybe it's some permission problem ?

[BRotondi]

I don't know, sorry ... "not the php-hero either" .

[apply]

I recently upgraded to vB4 and my wiki started throwing errors caused by this mod. I found a workaround that I would like to share in case others face the same issue. I fixed the problem by changing path of "require('./includes/class_bootstrap.php')" at the beginning of vB4 global.php to the full path of the class_bootstrap.php.

[BRotondi]

Interesting... Thanks for sharing! Which Versions do you use?

[Scan Cape Cod]

Thanks VERY much! I fought this for two hours until I came across your post. MUCH appreciated, and confirmed to work!

Originally Posted by apply

I recently upgraded to vB4 and my wiki started throwing errors caused by this mod. I found a workaround that I would like to share in case others face the same issue. I fixed the problem by changing path of "require('./includes/class_bootstrap.php')" at the beginning of vB4 global.php to the full path of the class_bootstrap.php.

Edit, I should mention that I'm using Mediawiki 1.15.1.

[raisun]

curious if anyone has tried this (I dont know enough about mediawiki to know where to edit this):

When a user is login and viewing wiki pages, I'd like the personal_url link for the user page to link to the forum UserCP instead of the user page on the wiki. Seems like it would be easy, I just dont know where to edit that.

[BRotondi]

Install FireBug > pick the element you want to change > Change it manually until it fits > find the code you have to change

Good luck!
Bruno

@Scan Cape Cod: Thanks for your version info! Nice to see, that it works also with 1.15!