Integration with vBulletin - MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On

Overview:
This hack provides single sign-on capability for MediaWiki using your vBulletin users. You must ensure your cookie path in Admin CP is set to '/' for this to work. Also, I have not tested this if your wiki and your forums are on different subdomains - but as long as your have your cookie domain set properly it *should* work. This is not a user bridge - it is a complete single sign-on using your vBulletin user repository.

The install process has been extremely simplified in version 2.x of this product. You only have to edit LocalSettings.php, import a product, and change a setting in your Admin Control Panel. It's been completely packaged as a vBulletin product - unlike the previous hacked up version, heh. I didn't originally plan to release this so I designed it so it worked - not so it could be redistributed. I searched high and low for a functional MediaWiki bridge - almost bought NuHIT's product, and then realized it had been abandoned for over a year.

This hack no longer requires an edit to class_core.php.

I'll do my best to support it, but I can make no promises.

This thread is for discussion of this mod on vB 3.7.x. For vB 3.8.x, please use the MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On 3.8 thread

Demo of plugin in action: MyMMOGames - Multiplayer Gaming and Media Community

Also, if you use memcached - ensure you do not cache sessions. If you do, restart it at least once a week. If you don't, you'll end up with invalid session errors out of MediaWiki.

Requirements:
MediaWiki Version: 1.11.0-1.14.0
vBulletin Version: 3.6.9-3.8.2

Features:
- Provides single sign on capability between vBulletin and Mediawiki. vBulletin user repository is used
- Configurable sysop/bureaucrat groups
- Configurable disallowed user groups
- Configurable "Who's Online" display
- Counts users viewing wiki in vBulletin's "Who's Online"

Installation/Upgrade:
Please read the included "readme.txt" file in the "docs (do not upload)" folder.

Options:
Admin Control Panel->vBulletin Options->MMOG Wiki Options

Change Log:
1.0.0.0 - Sep 18, 2008
- Initial Release

1.0.3.0 - Sep 29, 2008
- Bugfix: Incorrect redirects for login/logout

2.0.0.0 - Sep 30, 2008
- Feature: Streamlined installation procedure
- Feature: Wiki path set in ACP
- Bugfix: Forum paths no longer hardcoded

2.1.0 - Oct 4, 2008
- Feature: ACP option to use MediaWiki Short URLs
- Feature: ACP option to set sysop groups
- Feature: ACP option to set bureaucrat groups
- Feature: ACP option to disallow login to certain groups
- Feature: ACP option to change WOL display text

2.2.0 - May 1, 2005
- Bugfix: Users are not logged out when logging out of the forum
- Bugfix: No longer requires modification to class_core.php
- Feature: Mediawiki 1.13.0+ supported (verified on 1.14.0 also)

If you like it, please click "mark as installed" The more people that use this, the more time I will make to try and support/update it.

Been pulling your hair out looking for this as long as I have? Nominate it for Mod of the Month =]

AuthPlugin was inspired by and modified from this existing MediaWiki Extension:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QISSingleSignOn

[nroe]

wow, thanks man

[Milchi]

Great one!

[NoeJeko]

I'm hoping that I didn't miss anything when I tried to "package" it for redistribution. If I did, just post a note here and I'll get to it ASAP.

Also, that "demo" site is a live, production site so if you must test the SSO - please do so on your user page or user talk page - not the wiki articles. Thanks!

[Webnower]

This looks great! /install

[TimberFloorAu]

This isnt something that we would use, but can appreciate the amount of work put in, well done ^5

Ozzy

[edermix]

Very good boy ..

I will test it here.

A doubt: I need to have the MediaWiki?

Thanks

[NoeJeko]

Yeah.... you definitely need MediaWiki to use this hack.

[Jaxel]

What advantage does this have over this?
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=136242

As well, I already have that other mod, would I be able to transfer over to this mod easily, if I find out that it is better?

[NoeJeko]

Supposedly, vBWikiStandard is a complete integration package; mine is not. vBWS hasn't been developed/supported for over a year by the original author and I didn't feel it made sense to use that product on my production servers; thus the reason mine was created.

In all honesty, if yours works and you can still upgrade your vB without worrying about breaking it, I'd use that. I'm not a fan of fixing things that aren't broken. I read pages and pages of problems out of that mod here and on NuHIT's forums and decided it wasn't for me.