Integration with vBulletin - C&D Comm - Social Networking

Here is a social networking script modeled after Myspace. This is a separate script that runs by itself. I have integrated the user login's from vb so that browsing is seamless.

Please click Mark as Installed if you are using this integration.

Basic highlights of the script:
3 levels of users: Administrator, Moderator, User
Multi Language Support
VBulletin Integration
FlashChat Integration (same DB)
Customizable home page
Background Image/Sound without needing Javascript
Search by area, user particulars, etc
Private Messaging
Public/Private Profile Notices (like bulletins)
Customizable default color scheme easily
Enable/Disable ability to have local background music
Easily turn on/off modules
Simple User Administration
Several sign up verifications available
Single point of registration/login

Requirements
PHP 4.4.7+
Compiled with GD2
MySQL 4.1.x+

Installation is fairly easy. There is an installation instruction file in the zip.

You should turn off registration on the forum and remove the logout/login links. All registration through the script will create forum accounts for new users.

For profile links to work, you need to edit your .htaccess file and add the following lines

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^p_(.*) view_profile.php?urlname=$1

The script does zero modification to your vb tables and files, so if you don't like it you can just delete the cnd_* tables and files and your back to how you were before.

Live Demo
Some admin functionality was disable for the demo site. Cannot delete/ban accounts, cannot change configuration of the script.

Administrator Account
email: admin@cnd-systems.com
pass: password

Moderator Account
email: mod@cnd-systems.com
pass: password

User Account
email: user@cnd-systems.com
pass: password

Version History

1.2.3a - [Thur 10th July 2008]

Fixed typo in sync users and sync pics

v1.2.3 - [Wed 9th July 2008]

Added ability to resend authorization email
Fixed Last post first bug
Added browse all link to header
Added ability for admin to enable/disable browse all link
Fixed problem with images being hidden from friend when the hide images from all but friends privacy setting is set.
Added mood indicator (Modify Profile->Personal Info)
Added photo albums (All users have a My Photos album to start)
Added Admin ability to disable/enable mood indicator
Added Admin ability to set whether users can edit their own comments on peoples notices
Added Admin ability to set whether users can delete their own comments on peoples notices, events, etc
Added Admin ability to set whether notice owner can delete other user comments for their notices
Fixed problem with not stripping slashes from display name on some pages
Sync Users and Sync Pics option in admin area will now move images stored in the database or filesystem

v1.2.2 - [Wed 4th June 2008]

Added ability to add user as administrator (Only primary admin can add/remove administrators)
Added ability to make user/mod/admin primary admin (irreversable besides through database)
Block ability to delete user if they are moderator or admin (Must remove mod/admin permissions first)
Changed forum sync to pull in profile picture from forum if available
Added ability for admin to update users pictures with profile picture from forum
Added ability for admin to set forum/events/calender to open in new window or current
Added ability to login to forum and have session pass login to script

v1.2.1 - [Sat 10th May 2008]

Fixed band images upload when max is set to 0
Fixed user images upload when max is set to 0
Fixed group message edit error
Fixed band upload image error
All music uploads now check post_max_size and use that as limit
Added config item for image size limit
Show post_max_size limit in the admin area
Added selection of admin from forum for linking with C&D Admin account
Added ability for user to set table and body background colors
Added ability for admin to set all but profile page colors
Added ability to operate from seperate database than flashchat
Changed profile layout to try to use external, then custom then default layout
Removed auto deletion of accounts that haven't activated in 2 weeks

v1.2.0 - [Wed 9th Apr 2008]

Modified install script to use an existing forum admin
Rearranged upgrade script
Added external javascript field for profile customizing
Added admin ability to disable external javascript field
Fixed messaging scheme to use less database records

v1.1.2 - [Mon 7th Apr 2008]

Fixed approving band issue
Fixed issue with adding contacts
Fixed some issues with syncing users with forum
Added error checking for reading vbulletin database connection

v1.1.1 - [Fri 4th Apr 2008]

Fixed some issues with syncing users with forum

v1.1.0 - [Thur 3rd Apr 2008]

Added Image Verification to Signup
Added ability to post youtube videos
Added ability to operate from seperate database than vbulletin
Added dubugging mode
Added better error handling
Added ability to have new users be assigned to specific forum group
Added ability to have disabled users be moved to specific forum group
Added ability for admin to delete accounts on C&D or Forum or Both
Added ability for admin to use forum calendar instead of C&D for events
Added basic Install Instructions

v.1.0.3 - [Thur 27st Mar 2008]
Added ability to show profile links without htaccess modification (not user friendly links)
Fixed creation of record in New Members list

v.1.0.2 - [Thur 27st Mar 2008]
Fix sync users for special characters in vbulletin
Added ability to sync users by vbulletin group
Modified placement of Sync Users popup

v1.0.1 - [Mon 24st Mar 2008]
Fixed country value in the search qualification
Fixed chat display name error on account edit if chat is not installed
Fixed wrong email subject on account activation page
Fixed case sensitivity for vbulletin queries

No database changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 so you only need to swap files.

v1.0.0 - [Fri 21st Mar 2008]
Initial release

[KURTZ]

wow that's a huge integration ... congrats, great job!

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Yes, profiles can be customized. It has groups, friends, albums and much more. It doesn't have the myspace mp3 player.

So you can edit what your profile's background image and colors are when other users view it?
I didn't know you could do that.
Like I said, I haven't played with 3.7 much. It's just an integration between a myspace type script and vb. Might not be used much by the vb community once 3.7 goes final, but it's there hehe

[therogueforums]

Well, I think it's a very nice, and huge, add-on. Good work! I'll be watching this thread.

[Gersfan]

I'm confused,

Is this a VB Product? How does it work with my VB Board ?

Congrats though on doing the script!

[Dylanblitz]

It is not a VB product. It is a stand alone script that I coded and integrated with VB. So if you don't like, or want to use, the social networking part of VB then my script is an alternative.

[kleinschwanz]

hmmm, did I get something wrong? after installing it to a subdirectory of my forums a complete own site opened, that didn't know me and wouldn't let me in... and it shows in a complete different style... how the heck did you implement it to vBulltein? do I have to upload the files into the root directory of vBulletin instead into an own directory?

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by kleinschwanz

hmmm, did I get something wrong? after installing it to a subdirectory of my forums a complete own site opened, that didn't know me and wouldn't let me in... and it shows in a complete different style... how the heck did you implement it to vBulltein? do I have to upload the files into the root directory of vBulletin instead into an own directory?

My script is a separate entity, it's a stand alone script that integrates with vb. The style is not shared.
It does not have to be in the vb directory, and really, it shouldn't be since a few files share the same name and will overwrite each other.
Putting the script in it's own directory is preferred. On the last page of the install it asked you to enter a username, email address and password. That is the email and password you login with. After you login you can configure the script to connect to vb and then you can import the vb users into my script.

[King Fly]

when i go to set variables to use Vbulletin as forums i get this error:

Warning: main(forums/includes/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/k/i/n/kingfly008/html/comm/incfiles/vars.php on line 17

Warning: main(forums/includes/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/k/i/n/kingfly008/html/comm/incfiles/vars.php on line 17

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'forums/includes/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/content/k/i/n/kingfly008/html/comm/incfiles/vars.php on line 17

how do i fix that??

also when i go to approve bands...i get a page that opens and says MYSql Error

[trackpads]

Damn, This is some very nice work. The groups are better than the vb social groups already.

Great Work!

[Dylanblitz]

Originally Posted by King Fly

when i go to set variables to use Vbulletin as forums i get this error:


Warning: main(forums/includes/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/k/i/n/kingfly008/html/comm/incfiles/vars.php on line 17

Warning: main(forums/includes/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/k/i/n/kingfly008/html/comm/incfiles/vars.php on line 17

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'forums/includes/config.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/content/k/i/n/kingfly008/html/comm/incfiles/vars.php on line 17

how do i fix that??

also when i go to approve bands...i get a page that opens and says MYSql Error

It means that the path isn't set right to the forum. Where is the script in relation to the forum?