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.

[THETMZ]

Originally Posted by amjadz4

Works great on latest version of both WP and vB. Also works on vB 3.8.5. Install it step by step again.

funny thing, reinstalled couple of times. Did everything as written in readme.txt. Post appears on forum, but when i turn on Auto Integration On - Blank screen :-). Maybe need VB4?

[THETMZ]

I have tried on a completely different server with VB4 running.
Results with VB4, WP 2.9.2

Still no luck...(not a blank screen on WP, but fatal error instead):
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin() (previously declared in pluggable.php:166)

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[Xencored]

I miss this soo dam much for my 4.0
The Vbulletin CMS is a joke :/

[THETMZ]

OK, finally & hopefully got it working. The reason of all these errors was....Minimeta widget & TDO Mini forms...If you experience errors mentioned above - disable these plugins and have fun! It works with 3.8.5 and VB 4.0.3.

[Whitesky]

Hey need some help, massive problems..

Installed this on vB4.0.2 PL4

1) Followed instructions carefully, and when saved settings for first time in WP Admin - Settings - vBBridge Settings, got this:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/zngaming/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:153) in /home/zngaming/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 890

However, it did appear that the mod installed. Test post worked fine, stayed logged in between forum/blog.

2) Tried Logging Off from WP, and got this:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_clearcookie() in /home/zngaming/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 131

3) So.. I try to uninstall, upload resetvbbridge.php, opened and got this:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ''' (ASCII=39) state=1 in /home/zngaming/public_html/resetvbbridge.php on line 4
Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/zngaming/public_html/resetvbbridge.php
Line: 4

Any help please?

[amplifiedshock]

For those asking if this works for vBulletin 4, the answer is yes.

I currently have my vBulletin 4.0.1 and WordPress 2.9.2 bridged and working perfectly.

[THETMZ]

Hello,

resetvbbridge.php didn't work for me either, but you can undo changes (autointegration = off) manually, through phpmyadmin. Go to wp_options table and search for %vb%. It will find some results where you can manually set Autointegration to 0.

BTW: this error comes up most likely because of some plugin you are using in wordpress.

Originally Posted by Whitesky

Hey need some help, massive problems..

Installed this on vB4.0.2 PL4

1) Followed instructions carefully, and when saved settings for first time in WP Admin - Settings - vBBridge Settings, got this:



However, it did appear that the mod installed. Test post worked fine, stayed logged in between forum/blog.

2) Tried Logging Off from WP, and got this:



3) So.. I try to uninstall, upload resetvbbridge.php, opened and got this:



Any help please?

[Xencored]

lmfao not sure why people are asking for help with 4.0 + THIS IS FOR 3.8 you should get 0 support on this page meh anyway

Jafo232 how can i remove all the datebase enterys from this mod in wordpress
to cut a long story i need to get rid of the tables and reinstall

*its a very old datebase i found *

Thanks alot

[Xencored]

All fixed the Table was in Wp_options (vvb )

anyway to confirm to others this works fine with 4.0.3 if not your doing something wrong

1 vbulletin 2 wordpresses and 2 gallerys and shit load of CSS

http://www.myanimeisland.com

[DaPro]

Yea, this works fine for me. Sometimes I get a blank page logging into the dashboard, but just go back to your homepage then go back to the dash and it loads fine. Minor glitch, but eh all the vB logins work so .