Integration with vBulletin - Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings

Identical to this Mod here, but now for the Vbulletin 3.8 line.

DOES NOT WORK FOR Vbulletin 4.x

This version probably no longer works for Wordpress 3.x. I have started developing this product over and have released the NEW version here:

http://www.lampwrights.com/showthread.php?t=41

This mod bridges your Vbulletin users over to Wordpress. You can also use Vbulletin as your comment engine instead of the spammy one built into Wordpress. You can display the comments inline in your post. You need not use the comment feature, if your only interested in sharing users.

You can map your Vbulletin Usergroups to Wordpress Usergroups and those users will then be recognized as registered Wordpress users.

For example, user "Joe" registers at your forum and logs in. Joe then clicks on your Wordpress page. Joe is instantly added to the Wordpress user base with the permissions you set for his usergroup. In otherwords, if a user comes over belonging to the "Registered User" group, you can select that he is placed in the Wordpress "Subscriber" usergroup.

If you change a users group from vbulletin, it will automatically change in Wordpress.

Requirements:

• DOES NOT and WILL NEVER support Wordpress MU.
• Wordpress and Vbulletin scripts must reside on the same physical server.
• Wordpress and Vbulletin must use the same domain name.
• Stable Wordpress Version greater than or equal to 2.7.
• DOES work for Vbulletin 3.7.
• Does work for vBulletin 3.8.

Limitations:

• Does not work for 4.x. Why? Because VB 4.x does not work for me. If they ever make that product worth a shit, I might support it.
• Please don't ask if it works for any BETA versions of Vbulletin. I do not know and will not convert this to the latest version of VB (whatever it is at the time you are reading this) until the version is released as non-beta.
• Does not work with XMLRPC.
• Chances are, this will not work when VB and Wordpress are located in different sub domains. I.E. forum.yoursite.com - blog.yoursite.com. Cookie issue.
• I did the best I could in determining your forums file path with the script. There may be certain script setups that cannot find the file path properly, in which case you may get errors that the script cannot find or open /config.php. If this is the case, please HARDCODE your ABSOLUTE path to the forum in vbridge.php.
  
  To do this find:
  
  

   ## If you are having path problems, uncomment this next variable and define the path
  ## NO TRAILING SLASH!
  # $vwd = '/some/path/to/your/forum';

  And uncomment the last line, and change the path to your forums path:
  
  

   ## If you are having path problems, uncomment this next variable and define the path
  ## NO TRAILING SLASH!
  $vwd = '/some/path/to/your/forum';

Common Mistakes When Installing:

• Using two different host names causes problems. If your forum URL contains www.yourdomain.com, then your wordpress blog URL MUST contain the www. part of www.yourdomain.com also. This goes for any other host name. Browsers are finnecky when it comes to cookies (as they should be).
• Editors generally EDIT, not write. In Wordpress, editors don't show up in the post author drop down. This has nothing to do with this plugin, that is Wordpress code.
• Make sure you DO NOT create a subdirectory for this plugin in the wp-content/plugins directory. Just upload it directly there..
• If you do not map users before you turn auto-integrate on, the plugin has no idea whether your allowed into the dashboard.
• If you all of a sudden can't login to the dashboard, see the above two common mistakes.
• FOLLOW the directions and make a test post first. Being in a rush and not testing will most likely turn out bad for you.

UPDATES:

Changelog is included in download, here is the most recent changes:

3/09/2009

• Added code to process scheduled posts
• Addressed code where links and images would not show up properly in VB
• Added new table called vb_forumid for scheduled posts
• Reduced redundant calls when dealing with forum excerpts

Sites Using This Plug-In:

• http://www.jeffsrecipes.com
• http://www.xboxcircle.com
• http://www.detailuniversity.com
• http://www.zeropaid.com
• http://www.daggersden.net/
• http://www.talkbronx.com/
• http://www.czeta.it
• http://www.boonvilleforum.com

(PM me if you want to add your site here)

Special Thanks:

axisoverdrive - Debugging Help, Kyraal - Paypal Donation, Kalina - Paypal Donation, Wildcard27 - Paypal Donation, Shri - Paypal Donation, pspcrazy - Paypal Donation, Tomahoochi - Paypal Donation.

If you use this plug-in, and find it useful, please support us by nominating us for Mod Of The Month (MOTM) in the top right corner of this thread, or feel free to donate.

If you do install:

Please Click Install

Brought To You By: Lampwrights.com.

[jcodemasters]

thanks, I will test now

[skariko]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Not sure what you mean here.. If the user logs into WP or VB, then they are logged into both.

Sorry you are right

I mean when that when you login into Wordpress and press "ok" you are automatically redirect to domain/wp-admin and i don't like it so much

[laztrix]

Ok, after that that error disappear.But now, I can not login with my login information altought I did not made any changes.

When I login to Vbulletin and try to reache /wp-admin it says:

You have not enougth privilage to acess this page.

[Jafo232]

WP treats usernames case sensitive, so if logging in via WP, remember that, otherwise, login to VB..

[joeymuk]

Users don't appear to be integrating..

I did the test post wordpress side and it created the thread in vb fine, though when I joined vb the user didn't come to wordpress. Also it appears that there may be a bug because after the "test" post, wordpress had "test" "test" "test".. 3 articles but only one was real and working. (don't know if it's my theme)

Btw I mapped the users in wordpress to the group and followed your steps, not sure why the users aren't going to wp. awesome to see it updated!
~Joey

P.s Would it be possible to provide a few plugins for wordpress, such as logging in, latest posts from vb, etc

P.s.s Sorry how would Insert vb into wordpress? could you add an option for that please or let me know how I can

-edit-

I'm ever so sorry, I'm stupid. I didn't think i would have to click login from the wordpress side. seems users are working fine in wp

[laztrix]

I forgot to match the usergroups thats why I couldn't login..

Now it's seems to work fine at all!

I have some dificulties to bind a forum with wordpress but I think I'll figure it out.

Thank you for bringing this super plugin!

[deepmartini]

Hi, will this work the OTHER way around? Say a user registers via Wordpress, then goes to click on vbulletin forum. Will they be transported over via the database? Will they already be logged in? How can I get this plugin to work this way too? I have a wordpress membership site that users must register and signup via. I don't want them to have to sign up again via vbulletin and have duplicate entries. I also don't want to send them to vbulletin to sign up then have them resent back to Wordpress. How can I get this to work from signup on Wordpress and pushed into vbulletin? Many thanks for you help!!! I sincerely appreciate it. Warm Regards, Robert

[deepmartini]

I forgot to mention I am using the latest version of Wordpress 2.71 and latest version of vbulletin. Thanks!

[myHybridcar.com]

Thanks for the update I can't seem to figure out what variable to use to get vBulletin login information. The old readme.txt said $vbuser, but that's not right anymore. How can I check if a user is logged in, and if so get their info?

[AzzX]

Originally Posted by deepmartini

Hi, will this work the OTHER way around? Say a user registers via Wordpress, then goes to click on vbulletin forum. Will they be transported over via the database? Will they already be logged in?

From Jafo's first post:
2/14/2009

* Rewrote most of the code to tie directly into the VB database for user authentication
* Fixed issue where asterisk would show up in posts.
* If a user exists in VB and in WP, they can now be bridged (VB user takes precedence)
* Users can now login/logout via WP or VB.
* Removed XMLRPC support, sorry all 1 users who ever requested it.
* Fixed code layout
* Rewrote instructions for inline comments.