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

[emath]

i get :

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /mounted-storage/home94b/sub006/sc49471-HPSH/www/maagar/LocalSettings.php
Line: 1

when i trying to access my wiki after installing the mode and did all right...

http://www.math-pl.co.il/maagar

[emath]

nvm..

[BRotondi]

Thanks for the new version and to all debuggers/helpers!

... nice that there ist such a project here

Bruno

[NoeJeko]

I'm still looking to address the MW 1.13 issues ... lack of time is catching up to me. This is not abandoned and a fix will be posted; I just cannot guarantee when.

[Veridiac]

I discovered the reason (or at least one reason) that 1.13 doesn't work - the hook used to authenticate from a session (AutoAthenticate) was removed and changed to a new one that also requires a result

The new hook is UserLoadFromSession http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual...oadFromSession

I'm going to try changing it myself to see if thats all it is *crosses fingers*

[Veridiac]

I think I have it working, in addition to modifying the hook to UserLoadFromSession, and adding &$result to the function prototype I did the following:

Changed the User::newFromName to initialize the $user object itself without replacing it... when it was replaced the calling function appeared to still have the old $user object which was giving an error.

In doing that I first load defaults, then set the name, set mFrom to name, call load, check if the user has a valid ID and if not add to the database, and then continue on.

In addition, I Found that the sysop groups weren't being removed when I removed someone from admin group so I added $user->removeGroup for both before then adding it again (or not) depending on the users vb group.

I'm not totally familiar with mediawiki's authorization process (I just installed it actually) so some of this may be redundant, or worse something could be missing....

At any rate it appears to be working if I find any problems I'll post here, I'm attaching my copy of AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php if anyone wants to use it.

Edit: Not working at this time, something is causing edit tokens (and maybe more) to not be correct during POST requests, still investigating

[BRotondi]

ey wow! Great Work!! Thanks in the name of the vb/Wiki-Community :up:
(even I cannot test it myself, since still 1.9)

Bruno

[carrlos]

Originally Posted by shikareez

From MW 1.13+ the "AutoAuthenticate" Hook is renamed to "UserLoadFromSession". So just follow all the instruction and at all, just edit the hook name to "UserLoadFromSession" at near the end of AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php.

Thanks a million shikareez!! That did the trick!!

From this point on I solemnly swear to read all posts on all pages before installing any add-on!! I actually had 1.12 installed then upgraded before installing this!!!

Edit:
Is the link in Who's Online suppose to go to a download of the opensearch_desc.php file?????



http://www.androidmodding.com/wiki

[GriZzm0]

Originally Posted by carrlos

Thanks a million shikareez!! That did the trick!!

From this point on I solemnly swear to read all posts on all pages before installing any add-on!! I actually had 1.12 installed then upgraded before installing this!!!

Edit:
Is the link in Who's Online suppose to go to a download of the opensearch_desc.php file?????



http://www.androidmodding.com/wiki

It's not like you'll download the "real" opensearch_desc.php. Your browser asks if you want to download it as the php script change the content header to xml as the output is an xml file.

[carrlos]

Originally Posted by GriZzm0

It's not like you'll download the "real" opensearch_desc.php. Your browser asks if you want to download it as the php script change the content header to xml as the output is an xml file.

So how do I remove the link or change the link to go to my wiki instead???