Integration with vBulletin - vbWiki Standard - vBulletin+MediaWiki integration

Update:

9/28/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC5 is now available for download. This version adds compatibility with MW 1.11.0+

5/17/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC4 is now available for download. This version is compatible with MW 1.10.0+ and vBulletin 3.6.6+

1/21/2007: vbWiki Std v1.0.2 RC3 is now available for download. This version fixes the 'session error' that used to happen on some installations of MediaWiki 1.9.x.

Description:

vbWiki Standard is the lite version of vbWiki Pro. vbWiki Standard allows the integration of vBulletin and MediaWiki user authentication.

(vbWiki Pro is a commercial product that, in addition to the functionality found in vbWiki Standard, provides full skin integration, enhanced user management, Admin CP, editing of wiki skin in vBulletin's Style Manager, among other features.)

Why should you add a wiki to your forums?

Forums are great for community building with their high level of interactivity. Successful forums have hundreds or thousand of concurrent users creating and replying to threads.

However due to this very reason the more your forums grow the more "collective knowledge" is scattered throughout the thousands (or hundreds or millions) of threads in your forums. Making it difficult for users to find and use.

A wiki is not that good at community building, but it is a great medium to centralize this 'collective knowledge'. Enabling you to create an 'ecosystem of information' (quoting pipin ) maintained and contributed by your users.

The idea behind vbWiki (both Standard and Pro) is to enable the seamless integration between these two packages (vBulletin and MediaWiki) side-by-side in your community. You (and your users and community) get the best of both worlds.

Or so the theory goes...

Features:

• Single sign-on for vBulletin and MediaWiki (users log in only once)
• Supports mapping of vBulletin usergroups to MediaWiki user roles
• Users viewing wiki pages are shown in vBulletin's "What's going on?" section (both guests and registered users)
• Supports auto-authentication, users who choose to be "remembered" are logged in upon visiting the site to both vBulletin and MediaWiki.

Installation:

These installation instructions do not apply to vbWiki Pro. Refer to vbWiki Pro installation instructions for more information.

MediaWiki and vBulletin must be installed and properly working before installing vbWiki. MediaWiki can be downloaded here.

• Create a new directory in your forums directory named vbWiki.
• Upload the content of the installation package to this new directory.
• Rename the file vbWiki_Init.php-dist to vbWiki_Init.php
• Open the file LocalSettings.php found in your MediaWiki directory in a text editor and at the very end find the following line and remove it if present:

PHP Code:

?> 


• Add the following code at the end of the file (entering the correct directory path):

PHP Code:

require_once "/absolute/path/to/your/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Init.php"; 


Troubleshooting:

• Last installation step: Click Mark as Installed..

If you run into any trouble installing vbWiki (blank page, logins not working, etc.), follow these instructions to temporarily turn on vbWiki's Diagnostic Tools.

Open vbWiki_Init.php (or vbWikiPro_Init.php) and find this line:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = false; 


And change it for this:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = true; 


Navigate to the wiki home page, and see the results.

Changes:

• 0 vBulletin files to Edit
• 1 MediaWiki file to Edit
• 10 vbWiki Files to Upload

Requirements:

• vBulletin v3.5.4 (version 3.6.x recommended)
• MediaWiki 1.6.8+ (recommended 1.7.x+).
• PHP4+

Uninstalling...

• To uninstall vbWiki Standard simply remove (or comment) the line added to LocalSettings.php.
• Optionally remove the directory vbWiki from your forums directory.

[siriuxs]

Hi... I replace $phrasegroups = array( 'vbwiki' ); with $phrasegroups = array(); but continue to not functionally...

Tanks, and excuse me

[ElfMage]

It seems that the require_once added to LocalSettings.php was not added at the _end_ of the file. Could you verify this?

The require_once line (mentioned in the installation instructions) is to be added at the very end of the file, replacing the line that had this: ?>

Thanks.

[rfikki]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

Thanks for the PMs.

We found that Jelsoft introduced a change in vBulletin 3.6.6 which was producing an error. Please download the latest vbWiki Pro from the Premium Members Area, and let me know how it goes.

Thanks.

Thank you, now I got to play with it a bit and maybe purchase the nulook.:-)

Later.....

[siriuxs]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

It seems that the require_once added to LocalSettings.php was not added at the _end_ of the file. Could you verify this?

The require_once line (mentioned in the installation instructions) is to be added at the very end of the file, replacing the line that had this: ?>

Thanks.

I have added it... This is my file:

PHP Code:

<?php

# This file was automatically generated by the MediaWiki installer.
# If you make manual changes, please keep track in case you need to
# recreate them later.
#
# See includes/DefaultSettings.php for all configurable settings
# and their default values, but don't forget to make changes in _this_
# file, not there.

# If you customize your file layout, set $IP to the directory that contains
# the other MediaWiki files. It will be used as a base to locate files.
if( defined( 'MW_INSTALL_PATH' ) ) {
    $IP = MW_INSTALL_PATH;
} else {
    $IP = dirname( __FILE__ );
}

$path = array( $IP, "$IP/includes", "$IP/languages" );
set_include_path( implode( PATH_SEPARATOR, $path ) . PATH_SEPARATOR . get_include_path() );

require_once( "includes/DefaultSettings.php" );

# If PHP's memory limit is very low, some operations may fail.
# ini_set( 'memory_limit', '20M' );

if ( $wgCommandLineMode ) {
    if ( isset( $_SERVER ) && array_key_exists( 'REQUEST_METHOD', $_SERVER ) ) {
        die( "This script must be run from the command line\n" );
    }
}
## Uncomment this to disable output compression
# $wgDisableOutputCompression = true;

$wgSitename         = "Wiki-PcHS";

## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki;
## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this.
$wgScriptPath       = "/wiki-pchs";
$wgLogo    = "http://www.pchs.it/wiki-pchs/images/wiki-pchs.jpg";

## For more information on customizing the URLs please see:
## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL

$wgEnableEmail      = true;
$wgEnableUserEmail  = true;

$wgEmergencyContact = "xxxxxx@pchs.it";
$wgPasswordSender = "xxxxxx@pchs.it";

## For a detailed description of the following switches see
## http://meta.wikimedia.org/Enotif and http://meta.wikimedia.org/Eauthent
## There are many more options for fine tuning available see
## /includes/DefaultSettings.php
## UPO means: this is also a user preference option
$wgEnotifUserTalk = true; # UPO
$wgEnotifWatchlist = true; # UPO
$wgEmailAuthentication = true;

$wgDBtype           = "mysql";
$wgDBserver         = "localhost";
$wgDBname           = "xxxxxxxx";
$wgDBuser           = "xxxxxxxx";
$wgDBpassword       = "xxxxxxxx";
$wgDBport           = "5432";
$wgDBprefix         = "wiki_";

# MySQL table options to use during installation or update
$wgDBTableOptions   = "TYPE=InnoDB";

# Schemas for Postgres
$wgDBmwschema       = "mediawiki";
$wgDBts2schema      = "public";

# Experimental charset support for MySQL 4.1/5.0.
$wgDBmysql5 = false;

## Shared memory settings
$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_NONE;
$wgMemCachedServers = array();

## To enable image uploads, make sure the 'images' directory
## is writable, then set this to true:
$wgEnableUploads       = false;
# $wgUseImageMagick = true;
# $wgImageMagickConvertCommand = "/usr/bin/convert";

## If you want to use image uploads under safe mode,
## create the directories images/archive, images/thumb and
## images/temp, and make them all writable. Then uncomment
## this, if it's not already uncommented:
# $wgHashedUploadDirectory = false;

## If you have the appropriate support software installed
## you can enable inline LaTeX equations:
$wgUseTeX           = false;

$wgLocalInterwiki   = $wgSitename;

$wgLanguageCode = "it";

$wgProxyKey = "eaddcd444b2be0358905dcbf8c3d23de7973d247057b8d186ec5cdfb20950fe7";

## Default skin: you can change the default skin. Use the internal symbolic
## names, ie 'standard', 'nostalgia', 'cologneblue', 'monobook':
$wgDefaultSkin = 'monobook';

## For attaching licensing metadata to pages, and displaying an
## appropriate copyright notice / icon. GNU Free Documentation
## License and Creative Commons licenses are supported so far.
$wgEnableCreativeCommonsRdf = true;
$wgRightsPage = ""; # Set to the title of a wiki page that describes your license/copyright
$wgRightsUrl = "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html";
$wgRightsText = "GNU Free Documentation License 1.2";
$wgRightsIcon = "${wgScriptPath}/skins/common/images/gnu-fdl.png";
# $wgRightsCode = "gfdl"; # Not yet used

$wgDiff3 = "/usr/bin/diff3";

# When you make changes to this configuration file, this will make
# sure that cached pages are cleared.
$configdate = gmdate( 'YmdHis', @filemtime( __FILE__ ) );
$wgCacheEpoch = max( $wgCacheEpoch, $configdate );
require_once "http://www.pchs.it/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Init.php";

[ElfMage]

Thanks. Please change this line:

PHP Code:

require_once "http://www.pchs.it/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Init.php"; 


for something like this:

PHP Code:

require_once "/home/path/to/your/public_html/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Init.php"; 


The idea is that what is required is a an absolute local path to the file, it can not be a URL.

Try this and let me know.

Thanks.

[siriuxs]

Tanks. Now I have a new error

http://www.pchs.it/wiki-pchs/

[rfikki]

The XML file that comes with the download is corrupt somehow.
Can you please check it and let me know?

When viewing I get this:

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Invalid at the top level of the document. Error processing resource 'file:///F:/downloads2/mediawiki/nulook/product-nuhit_n...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>ഀ

[Iseran]

Originally Posted by siriuxs

Tanks. Now I have a new error

http://www.pchs.it/wiki-pchs/

That's exactly same error I am getting. ;/

MediaWiki 1.10 is running successfully (if I comment out vBwiki in localsettings), but the new vBwiki doesn't work with exact same error, which says "Fatal error: Call to undefined function vbwiki_get_talk_page() in /address/vbwiki/vbWiki_Hooks.php on line 109".

[antiekeradio]

can anyone confirm the newest version is working correctly with vB 3.6.7PL1 and mediawiki 1.9.X ??

i'm waiting to update vb until all my installed addons should work

[Iseran]

Found a temporary solution for error that siriuxs has:

In vBWiki-Settings.php, find:

$g_vbWiki_Redirect_Talk_Pages = true;
$g_vbWiki_Redirect_UserTalk_Pages = true;

and turn them to be false. That will fix the issue siriuxs and I had.