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.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by JBMoney

Can someone tell me exactly what fields this adds to the WP database so I can manually remove them, and then try to reinstall?

That reset file doesn't help out so well. I removed the files so I can get back into my admin, ran the reset, but re-uploading the files just locks me out again. Probably because of the fields in [wp_options] but I don't want to make guesses.

Search the database for keyword "vbb" and delete all tables starting with vbb

Originally Posted by Aclikyano

how do i even edit my: myblog.wordpress.com ?

like if i have a premium theme, how can i add it onto wordpresS? please help
if some1 can do it for me id be willing to pay not too much tho!

what exactly do you mean? I dont think you can install plugins.. on wordpress.com

Originally Posted by Alexandre.R

# My Website

http://www.dboyz-interactive.com

# The error it make after installation

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /mounted-storage/home110c/sub002/sc65330-PDGZ/dboyz-interactive.com/index.php
Line: 2

Help please- I offer payment for fix on request!
Contact me by PM or at alex.rayon@live.co.uk

Thanks in advance!
~ Alex R.

Sent you PM.

Originally Posted by mmoore5553

Just wondering does this work well. All i want is to have people login the front homepage and it logs into the forum also. I do not care about commenting or anything ..just login the front page and also shows logged in forum. Please let me know results. i have read most of it and see there are some examples.

Originally Posted by poromenos

does this work with wordpress 2.8.x ?

Yes it works as it says. Works on the latest versions of both vB and WP. The logins and comments all work perfectly. Though it needs lot of customizations to make it look fully integrated. If you need to hire someone to do the job.. check my footer!

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by cammot

I have no replies to my request for help from last night. If anyone can please offer any assistance, would be most grateful. Also, an additional point - I do not see a global.php file in the directory referenced in my previous message and wondering if that might be the issue !. There was no global.php files in the installation files and wondering why and how it might be referencing this file !. I have also not done anything yet on the vB CP.

Please help.

Thanks
cammot

I have emailed you and still awaiting your reply!

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by Kelmor

Sure, here it is.

well have you enabled the comments in WP and followed all the instructions exactly?
if you did..then you shouldn't have any issues...

[Kelmor]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

well have you enabled the comments in WP and followed all the instructions exactly?
if you did..then you shouldn't have any issues...

Yea followed instructions to the letter. The post shows up in the forums, and is deleted if the post is deleted.

Comments show as closed in wordpress, not sure why.

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by Kelmor

Yea followed instructions to the letter. The post shows up in the forums, and is deleted if the post is deleted.

Comments show as closed in wordpress, not sure why.

Well if you understand the code you can make out why its saying closed. Just removed the following code and that line wont show.

delete everything from: (line 70)

PHP Code:

<?php if ( have_comments() and ($vbridge[id] == '')) : ?>

to: (line 141)

PHP Code:

</form> 


including the </div>

and then..post some replies to that post which got posted in the forum from wordpress. you will see the comments in wordpress too.

[Xencored]

Thanks dude works great :up::up:

[LegendZelda]

When I try to make a post I get the following errors

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home1/noahglas/public_html/hiddentriforce/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 108

Warning: require_once(./includes/class_dm.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home1/noahglas/public_html/hiddentriforce/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 113

This is when I Update a post, publish a post, etc.

I got everything else working. I do not want the posts to be published to my forums. I just wanted the user integration so I have the Post Articles to Forum option turned off.

What can I do to fix this?

Noah

[saf-t scissors]

Does anyone know why the resetvbbridge file doesn't work?

I screwed something up and got locked out of WP, tried to use this file to turn integration off, uploaded it to the root WP dir (same as the root dir for that host) and ran it, but nothing happens. Looking at the code, I should get a confirmation echo.

[saf-t scissors]

I was able to manually edit the db and turn the plug-in off, but that little script still doesn't work.

[futuredood]

Originally Posted by XManuX

Hello,

take a look at my previous answer about avatar & vBbridge here.

Of course it was for a former version of the bridge and some modifications have to be made to make it work, for example the query to look for into vbbridge.php is now :

PHP Code:

$sql = "select * FROM " .  TABLE_PREFIX . "post where threadid = '$results->vb_threadid' order by dateline"; 


Hi I'm currently working on installing and troubleshooting. This thing is absolutely briliant! Thank you for the mod. One question is, with all the work that you've gone through to get this to work, how come the avatars are not pulled from the vBulletin data? Isn't this a pretty easy step considering it's pulling everything else? The user comments are great, but it's a bit bland when there's a default Black and White photo for all my users