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.

[Vb-Hispano]

Originally Posted by Acido

I Have It Running in a vbulletin Powered page, so users in coppermine are showed in Who's On Line locations

Take a look if you want.

http://www.webconferencia.net/foros/galeria.php?

Since you have done it?

Nota: veo que eres espa?ol? como lo has integrado?

Thanks, o Gracias :laugh:

[flee2]

Originally Posted by ohgeetee

when I click on the users link, it goes to a 404. the file usermgr.php is there though, so I assume one of the includes is borked? I am expecting to see a userlist similar to the group list i see when I click on groups in the admin bar.

I also am now having troubles adding albums as an admin. a test user had it work great.

I think there are still some cookie issues too... here is my setup and the symptoms:

vbull location is www.mysite.com/forums
vbull cookie prefix is vbull
path to save is /
domain to effect is blank

coppermine location is www.mysite.com/jdgallery
cookie name is cpg11d (prefix = name?)
path is /

When users go to board, they are logged in, everything works great. When they go to gallery, it says they are logged out. If they refresh the page they are shown as logged in. When administrating the board, it seems like everything will go fine, then after the third or fourth save theres a permission denied error and i need to go back tot he site and then return back to the gallery and refresh to show up as logged in again to continue administrating.

I also have the issue with admins no longer being able toa dministrate. At first, all was working well, then when I tried to make some albums, I lost all admin priviledges.

Hope we can get this worked out, it seems like its really close to at elast having full user/group integration, which is what I think is most important. CSS and style integration will come with time I'm sure.

I have exactly the same problem.. I log to the forum and all is ok, i change to gallery, and figures that i logged out.. but i press refresh and still logged out.. i solve by this way.. i log into vb3, i go to gallery, and shows me logged out, enter the options of IE6 SP1, delete all cokies, and SHOWS ME LOGGED IN as ADMIN... this is a really ugly bug.. what manner i can solve this?

In spanish:

como comente mas arriba, yo logoneo en el vb3, cambio a la galeria y me figura deslogoneado, voy a las opciones de internet explorer, borro los cookies, y me aparece logoneado con el usuario del vbulletin 3, y como administrador ( mi usuario es admin). Hay alguna manera de resolver esto?

[SaN-DeeP]

does this hacks WORKS perfect with VB 3.0 GOLD. please reply.

[Acido]

Originally Posted by Vb-Hispano

Since you have done it?

Nota: veo que eres espa?ol? como lo has integrado?

Thanks, o Gracias :laugh:

well, the bridge to vbulletin is pretty simple to use. All what i made was create a vbulletin powered page with a IFRAME pointed to the coppermine gallery.

You can create you vbulletin powered page, following the instruction on this thread:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=62164

If you want, i can give you my template for the gallery pages. Just send me a PM.

Saludos!

[GamerzWorld]

Followed all steps but when i went back to install it said there was an install.lock and to delete if i wanted to use. So i deleted but now its offering to install whole thing again. I install it using Fanrastico

[PVO_Dave]

Works for the users, but not for the Admins? Everytime we try to upload we get: Sorry there is no album where you are allowed to upload pictures

WTF is going on?

Have checked and Admin has the same rights as the Registered users and have tried switching to user mode!

Help!

Dave.

[OGT]

all of us are having this issue as far as i know dave

[BoNfiRe]

*Installed* hmmmm *uninstalled* lol

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally Posted by ohgeetee

all of us are having this issue as far as i know dave

Works fine on my customer site...

[chas_h]

My integration of Vb-3 and Coppermine survived the upgrade from Gold to VB3.01, but there is one small issue left to fix. When I log out from the gallery there is a VB error, it requires an extra click to log off. This was happening on my forums too after the upgrade but I fixed it with help from this thread at the VB community forum;

See this thread here.

Is there anyway that someone can work this fix into the bridge file for Coppermine? I don't know enough about php to attemp that myself.

Tia,
Chas.