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.

[hayamakun]

This added code allows the Wordpress front page (and probably some others that calculate comment count) to show the number of replies in the vb thread.

Note: I am using WP version 3.0.1 and VB version 3.8.6

In vbbridge.php, add to the end:

add_filter('get_comments_number', 'comments_count', 10, 2);

### Return Comment count
function comments_count($count, $postID = false) {
	global $vbulletin, $vwd;

	$wpdb =& $GLOBALS['wpdb'];
	$sql = "select vb_threadid FROM " . $GLOBALS['table_prefix'] . "posts where ID = '$postID'";
	$results = $wpdb->get_row($sql);

	$sql = "select replycount FROM " .  TABLE_PREFIX . "thread where threadid = '$results->vb_threadid'";
	$results2 = $wpdb->get_row($sql);

	return $results2->replycount;

}

That should work pretty well. Did some testing on it, seems to work fine.

[eitai2001]

Hi There.

I just want to find out. After the install, is it normal that the following areas in the Wordpress Admin cannot be access (Lead to a 404 error):
wp-admin/users.php
wp-admin/user-new.php

(Running WP 3.01, VB 4.05 )

Regards

Itai

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by eitai2001

Hi There.

I just want to find out. After the install, is it normal that the following areas in the Wordpress Admin cannot be access (Lead to a 404 error):
wp-admin/users.php
wp-admin/user-new.php

(Running WP 3.01, VB 4.05 )

Regards

Itai

Yes its normal. Users are taken from vB database and not WP.

[eitai2001]

So if they login in wordpress are they automatically logged in VB and visa versa?

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by eitai2001

So if they login in wordpress are they automatically logged in VB and visa versa?

No, login only works via vB. If they login in vB they will automatically login in wordpress. That's why its posted here and not on wp.org.

[eitai2001]

Oh ok, thanks ... I thought it was both ways ... still a very useful plugin.

[cagbaazee]

Will it work with Vbulletin version 4.05 and wordpress 3.1

Need review before i install it. Thanks

[eitai2001]

Works just fine for me ... and that's what I'm using.

[cagbaazee]

can someone post example of these... My wordpress site is

http://gurusecret.info

and my vbulletin forum is

http://gurusecret.info/vbforum

Define the following options:

VB User ID:
VB Username:
VB Forum ID:
Forum URL:
Forum Relative Path:
Database Prefix:
Turn Plugin On:
Does your forum use Unicode (UTF-8):


Thanks for yr help....

[eitai2001]

There is a set of instructions that tells you exactly what you need to fill in, which I followed.

VB User ID: (The computer ID of the default username you want to use i.e. 1)
VB Username: (The actual username of the default username you want to use i.e. admin)
VB Forum ID: (The computer ID of the forum you want to place the thread i.e. for General Discussions, yours could be 6?)
Forum Url: http://gurusecret.info/vbforum
Forum Relative Path: /vbforum
Database Prefix: You need to check the actual database ... i.e. vb_