Coppermine 1.2.1 / vBulletin 3.0.0 Integration

Coppermine Gallery 1.21 and vBulletin 3.0.0 Integration
Version 1.0
Compiled by SpeedStreet

I'm not the hacker for this; I am merely the guy who poured through all of the threads on vBulletin.org and the Coppermine Development Forums to come up with one definitive post about integrating vBulletin with Coppermine.

WHAT IT DOES:
At the end of this how-to, you're installations of vBulletin and Coppermine will work together off of the same login. While everyone else wants to see all sorts of integration between the two, I believe this is the first step to making those things happen.

CREDITS:
A big thanks to everyone over at Coppermine for a terrific product and the users that support and mod it on a daily basis. I am merely standing on the shoulders of giants here, folks. Also, Nanobot was the guy over there that did the vB3 Gamma bridge, so the credit for that is all his.

FILES TO EDIT (2):
/bridge/vbulletin3.inc.php (Coppermine)
/include/init.inc.php (Coppermine)

HACK REQUIREMENTS:
vBulletin 3.0.0 Installed and Running
Coppermine 1.2.1 Installed and Running
5 Minutes of your time

SUPPORT THREADS:
Coppermine Gamma Thread (original thread): http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/bo...asc&highlight=
vBulletin.org Hack Thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=488062
Coppermine vB 3.0.0 Thread: http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/bo...ic.php?p=20674

FINAL WARNINGS:

There are seem to be some issues with people integrating this with forums located on subdomains (e.g. subaruforums.speedstreet.org). Please reference the Coppermine Gamma Thread above for more info.
Please ensure that Coppermine and vBulletin cookies are NOT named the same thing.

[Aeolian]

Originally Posted by UnknownServices

Are we supposed to install Coppermine and then use the integration or install after we use the integation? If install with integration, how do I uninstall?

1. install vb
2. make necessary changes to vbulletin30.inc.php
3. install cpg

to uninstall just remove the gallery, as it does not create any table in mysql.. just uses the vb table.

[nicedreams]

I still get the login loop in 3.0.5.

I set the cookies paths both to /
I set the cookie prefix to bb as it is in vb.
I have no table prefixes in vb, so left that blank.

I can't get into admin in either vb or coppermine anymore.

UGH. What's wrong?

Jim

-- I figured out that my cookies were corrupted.

[daniboye]

Hi, i installed the intergration and the gallery seemed to be looking at the database of the forum ok, but wen i clcik to log in to the image gallery i got apage cannot be found, media.thetechaven/screenshotshttp :S:S:S nay ideas?

[smsmasters]

Ok, my forum is at http://www.smsmasters.co.uk/forum/
Copperming works when I log in from http://www.smsmasters.co.uk/downloads/
but I can't log in from the subdomain http://downloads.smsmasters.co.uk

Help please

[Rambo]

Hey,

Installed this fine =D..I installed coppermine through the script library in my cPanel, It installed into a different database than the one my forums are installed in, still works fine for me, intergrated it fine, or atleast i believe so...But my question is, when you go to Users in the Coppermine AdminCP place does it redirect you to the Vbulletin AdminCP or does it show you a list of users in the coppermine? hopefully i explained that correctly.

Also, curious if it is possible to allow only certain usergroups to be able to access the gallery? If so how?

Help would be appreciated =D.

[Bigwrenn]

I upgraded to 3.0.6 and now the integration doesn't seem to work. Anyone else having this problem?

[jlaine]

Originally Posted by Bigwrenn

I upgraded to 3.0.6 and now the integration doesn't seem to work. Anyone else having this problem?

Yeah, it wasn't working for me at first..

I was running 'VB_COOKIE_PREFIX' on the bridge empty with 3.0.1 - and with this upgrade actually had to set it to 'bb' to get it to function right.

For some reason initially I couldn't run it as 'bb' - but now it works properly.

[Aeolian]

VB 3.0.6 has not made any change to their s/w that will not make this integration of cgp work...

[Bigwrenn]

I'm kind of curious now, I upgraded my other site which has a gallery and it's fine. I made no changes to it either. www.bigdoubleurc.com is still having issues though but hopefully after some diligent code scanning I can find the culprit peice of code. Thanks for the help so far .



EDIT- DOH!!!! I finally figured it out, now I feel real stupid ! I put the wrong license number in :ermm: .

[ATLien]

Ok, something went wong. For some reason the gallery is not reading the cookies right, and when I click login it forwards me to my forum where I am already logged in.