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.

[rcadden]

I'm glad I read the comments before giving this one a go - I'm not having any major issues with the old version and WP2.7 and vB3.8, so I think I'll sit tight for now.

Anyone who has this plugin fully working, could you test something for me? Write your post, and then schedule it to go live a few minutes later. Wait for it to go live, and check a few things:

1. The wordpress post should go up properly.
2. Did the corresponding forum thread get created?
3. Assuming you replaced your wordpress comments with the forum comments, does this show at the bottom of the wordpress post?

Thanks so much.

[remotay]

Take a look,

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9984/alladminsdw0.jpg

I can't seem to fix this problem, no matter what I do, all the accounts are shown as admin on my wordpress user page, but the page CLEARLY shows there only 4 admins on the top, but still makes everyone an admin.

I'm going back to the older version for now. Perhaps the screenie will help clear things up

[WorkerB]

Remotay, what setup are you on? I'm on WP 2.7, VB 3.8.1.

[AzzX]

Originally Posted by WorkerB

I think I am seeing what others are seeing as well:

1. visual editor strangeness
2. user list showing up with blanks
3. users showing up as Administrator in WP

Same issue here with the latest vbulletin and wordpress installs. Users are tagged as admins but definitely do not have admin access mind you.

[skariko]

Originally Posted by remotay

Take a look,

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9984/alladminsdw0.jpg

I can't seem to fix this problem, no matter what I do, all the accounts are shown as admin on my wordpress user page, but the page CLEARLY shows there only 4 admins on the top, but still makes everyone an admin.

I'm going back to the older version for now. Perhaps the screenie will help clear things up

I have the same problem of you.

[GoodOmens]

Originally Posted by skariko

I have the same problem of you.

I have this issue as well. Turning off integration reverts everything back to normal.

Anyone find a fix?

Seems to be a upgrade issue and not a new install issue.

[Mr. Mooney]

Hi,

I just installed the mod and am having some issues. First of all, when I change any settings I get this error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:132) in /home/site/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 698

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/site/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:132) in /home/site/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 699

The second issue is that when I make a post, it normally chops off a line when posting. For instance, if I post:

"Test line one

Test line two

Test line three"

The actual post will show as:

"Test line one
Test line two"

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[laztrix]

I was be able to bridge wordpress with vbulletin but there are some problems:

1. When I turn the automatic integration on, the Visual Editor ( WSIWYG ) disappear! Altought before everything was fine...

2. I'm using a translated version of Wordpress ( Turkish Language ) and some of the special character like ( ş,ğ,ç,ı ) are not shown properly.

3.Does not the bridge work with productive websites which had post, users, comments, categories before ?

For example : 500 post, 300 comments , 2000 users, 20 categories

When I try to activate wordpress with a productive website the pages goes blank. Netiher the admin panel is reacheable nor other pages...

Does it always have to be a clean installation ?

So many questions have been posted but the plugins author has not shown up yet!

I hope that he will give us feedback with all the issues that we reported volunteerly...

[Jafo232]

Hey everyone, I haven't forgotten you all, I am just swamped with work. I will get a chance this weekend to look at all your posts.

Just a quick skim through here and I see questions about wordpress users. Note, wordpress users are NOT relevant when you install the plugin and activate integration. Looking at your users in the Wordpress admincp is pointless. All user info is based off of VBULLETIN, not wordpress.

[GoodOmens]

Username is not being posted to the main page posts ... just the url to the username so I know vbridge is not empty. IE $vbridge['postusername'] doesn't seem to be doing anything.

Check out LineageJunkies.com for an example and "view source" to see that the proper url is being echo'd.

I did the code replacement to the new author code.

I also have the visual editor problem ....

Edit:

I reverted back to the old code because of the visual editor problem.