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

[Finrod]

Hello,

had someone found a solution for the Fatal Error with vB 3.6.8?
This API would be ideal to solve our problems without this Error

Please let me know if someone has a workaround or similar?

Regards,
smag

Edit://

Found a solution for the Fatal Error to get into the next Error ;-)

replace the $db and $this->db with some other name, for example $db_soap and $this->db_soap and you will get rid of this error.

But afterwards you get an error which will tell you that you call the method query_slave_first() on a non-object.

There is also an obscure assignment in the constructor, $vbulletin = $this; but at the beginning of the constructor $vbulletin was made global ??.

Any Ideas someone ?

[aussiev8]

This is awsome, I haven't written a php app in a few months! Its all ruby on rails for me, I was hoping something like this came out! I'm going to start doing some really funky ror shit on my board!!!

[gdll]

would this work using nusoap ? or the functions addapted to it?

[Briskoda]

Originally Posted by aussiev8

This is awsome, I haven't written a php app in a few months! Its all ruby on rails for me, I was hoping something like this came out! I'm going to start doing some really funky ror shit on my board!!!

Likewise, I'm looking to create a club/members area on the back of subscriptions. php coding hat is very rusty, RoR is not I'm just toying with which direction to push / pull data.

Current thinking is push paid subscription to notify RoR app of new sign up, send them a pm with instructions to complete the membership/club side of the application.

But still assembling the pieces, then I can sit down with some clear head space to try and make something work

[Way2IT]

how do i install this thing with the 'product installer' - what's that? thanks

[Way2IT]

Does this script work with vb 3.6.8? Can someone please tell me how to install it correctly?

I get this message in visual studio

The document at the url http://www.someserver.com/forum/soap/server.php?wsdl was not recognized as a known document type.
The error message from each known type may help you fix the problem:
- Report from 'DISCO Document' is 'Discovery document at the URL http://www.someserver.com/forum/soap/server.php?wsdl

[aussiev8]

bah this sucks.. it doesn't work! uninstalled..

requests time back

[Way2IT]

can someone please tell me how to install this. I can't get it to work.

[Way2IT]

does this script work if you try to communicate with it from an .net application?

[Way2IT]

product-soapapi.xml what is it for?