Integration with vBulletin - vbWiki Standard - vBulletin+MediaWiki integration

Update:

9/28/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC5 is now available for download. This version adds compatibility with MW 1.11.0+

5/17/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC4 is now available for download. This version is compatible with MW 1.10.0+ and vBulletin 3.6.6+

1/21/2007: vbWiki Std v1.0.2 RC3 is now available for download. This version fixes the 'session error' that used to happen on some installations of MediaWiki 1.9.x.

Description:

vbWiki Standard is the lite version of vbWiki Pro. vbWiki Standard allows the integration of vBulletin and MediaWiki user authentication.

(vbWiki Pro is a commercial product that, in addition to the functionality found in vbWiki Standard, provides full skin integration, enhanced user management, Admin CP, editing of wiki skin in vBulletin's Style Manager, among other features.)

Why should you add a wiki to your forums?

Forums are great for community building with their high level of interactivity. Successful forums have hundreds or thousand of concurrent users creating and replying to threads.

However due to this very reason the more your forums grow the more "collective knowledge" is scattered throughout the thousands (or hundreds or millions) of threads in your forums. Making it difficult for users to find and use.

A wiki is not that good at community building, but it is a great medium to centralize this 'collective knowledge'. Enabling you to create an 'ecosystem of information' (quoting pipin ) maintained and contributed by your users.

The idea behind vbWiki (both Standard and Pro) is to enable the seamless integration between these two packages (vBulletin and MediaWiki) side-by-side in your community. You (and your users and community) get the best of both worlds.

Or so the theory goes...

Features:

• Single sign-on for vBulletin and MediaWiki (users log in only once)
• Supports mapping of vBulletin usergroups to MediaWiki user roles
• Users viewing wiki pages are shown in vBulletin's "What's going on?" section (both guests and registered users)
• Supports auto-authentication, users who choose to be "remembered" are logged in upon visiting the site to both vBulletin and MediaWiki.

Installation:

These installation instructions do not apply to vbWiki Pro. Refer to vbWiki Pro installation instructions for more information.

MediaWiki and vBulletin must be installed and properly working before installing vbWiki. MediaWiki can be downloaded here.

• Create a new directory in your forums directory named vbWiki.
• Upload the content of the installation package to this new directory.
• Rename the file vbWiki_Init.php-dist to vbWiki_Init.php
• Open the file LocalSettings.php found in your MediaWiki directory in a text editor and at the very end find the following line and remove it if present:

PHP Code:

?> 


• Add the following code at the end of the file (entering the correct directory path):

PHP Code:

require_once "/absolute/path/to/your/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Init.php"; 


Troubleshooting:

• Last installation step: Click Mark as Installed..

If you run into any trouble installing vbWiki (blank page, logins not working, etc.), follow these instructions to temporarily turn on vbWiki's Diagnostic Tools.

Open vbWiki_Init.php (or vbWikiPro_Init.php) and find this line:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = false; 


And change it for this:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = true; 


Navigate to the wiki home page, and see the results.

Changes:

• 0 vBulletin files to Edit
• 1 MediaWiki file to Edit
• 10 vbWiki Files to Upload

Requirements:

• vBulletin v3.5.4 (version 3.6.x recommended)
• MediaWiki 1.6.8+ (recommended 1.7.x+).
• PHP4+

Uninstalling...

• To uninstall vbWiki Standard simply remove (or comment) the line added to LocalSettings.php.
• Optionally remove the directory vbWiki from your forums directory.

[BRotondi]

As much as I read, it won't... look at MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On

Greetings
Bruno

[rwoscott]

First of all, versions are
MediaWiki: 1.10.1
PHP: 5.2.8 (cgi)
MySQL: 5.0.67-community
vbWiki (version 1.3 RC5)
VB 3.6.5

The auto login to the wiki works fine on IE8, but not on Firefox 3.
It does not lof me in at all in FF.
I'm pretty sure it used to work, been a while wince I updated it from home of FF, I guess.

Any ideas why this might be?

[murekhalir]

does this work for 3.7?

[Giangy94]

i think this caused of SpecialUserlogin.php dir have changed,but i can't resolve it:

Replace:

PHP Code:

require_once( "SpecialUserlogin.php" ); 


with:

PHP Code:

require_once( "specials/SpecialUserlogin.php" ); 


However the login system doesn't work very well, if I Log into forum in the wiki there is my name, there is the link of my user control panel but when I write pages it says me I'm not logged in the wiki...this with vBulletin 3.8.3

[adoxtater]

Anyone know how to get the Pro version?? I tried to click the link in the developers description to go buy it but it's a dead link. Is the Pro version not available any longer? I'd love to have MediaWiki integration into my vBulletin 3.8.1 forum if possible.

[chriske]

Me 2...

[voidmind]

Yeah everything is dead now to get mediawiki integration.

[FreshFroot]

Yeah the site has been dead for awhile now.

What's odd, is the Elfmage disappeared from his website about a year ago.

However, I just noticed he logged into his account about 2 months ago here. So I guess he's still alive... since everyone at the support forums was thinking he might be dead? No word from a coder in 2 years scares people....

[MattGraal]

I get this, any suggestions?

Warning: require_once([path]/library) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Resource temporarily unavailable in [path]/library/LocalSettings.php on line 127

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/npulsere/public_html/library' (include_path='/home/npulsere/public_html/library:/home/npulsere/public_html/library/includes:/home/npulsere/public_html/library/languages:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/npulsere/public_html/library/LocalSettings.php on line 127

[gibgib]

Can anyone tell me the code mods needed in class_core.php or wherever it was to get this integrating again?
I recently upgraded to vB 3.8 & must have overwritten something. Just getting a blank page now in media wiki (just like the nuhits site!).
I'm using Pro BTW.

Has anyone rolled over from Nuhits to this - MMOG Wiki ?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=213102