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 3.8.x. For vB 3.7.x, please use the MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On 3.7 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

[Been Told]

I would be willing to donate for this mod to become vB4 compatible. Any chance of that?

[ndahiya]

Hi,

I was able to get this to work in vb 4.0.0 (mediawiki 1.14) by editing AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php by adding 3 chdir commands twhere the scripts are called

<<<<<
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'wiki');
chdir ('/home/sitename/www/forums');
require_once( CWD . '/global.php');
chdir ('/home/sitename/www/forums');
require_once( CWD . '/includes/functions.php');
chdir ('/home/sitename/www/w/includes');


<<<<<
the second chdir is redundant, i think, but just to be safe.

so far working, but will see how stable it is.

ndahiya

[BRotondi]

Great! Thanks! (not tested yet, but nice to hear )

Bruno

[Dontom]

Originally Posted by RedFoxy

I've troubles with vBulletin 3.8.4 Patch Level 1 and MediaWiki 1.15.1 http://www.softairmania.it/samwiki/i...ciale:Versione

After installation, when I try to edit or insert a new page I give n error about my brouser and and an error abut my browser accent support

Same here, too, also after the latest patch with the changed salt in vb's functions.php I get the same message.

when saving an edit or adding a new page I get the 'token_suffix_mismatch' message:
=> "'''Your edit has been rejected because your client mangled the punctuation characters in the edit token.'''

Any help is appreciated!

[dotted1337]

Originally Posted by ndahiya

Hi,

I was able to get this to work in vb 4.0.0 (mediawiki 1.14) by editing AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php by adding 3 chdir commands twhere the scripts are called

<<<<<
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'wiki');
chdir ('/home/sitename/www/forums');
require_once( CWD . '/global.php');
chdir ('/home/sitename/www/forums');
require_once( CWD . '/includes/functions.php');
chdir ('/home/sitename/www/w/includes');


<<<<<
the second chdir is redundant, i think, but just to be safe.

so far working, but will see how stable it is.

ndahiya

$oldcwd = getcwd();
chdir( VB_SYSTEM_PATH );
require_once( CWD . '/global.php');
require_once( CWD . '/includes/functions.php');
chdir($oldcwd);

this way you dont have anything you need to remember to edit beyond the instructions here, if the paths change for some reason.

[BRotondi]

Confirmed, GREAT!

Add the red code after the existing black in "wiki\includes\AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php"

# INITIALIZE VBULLETIN SUBSYSTEM
if ( !defined( 'CWD' ) )
    define( 'CWD', ( VB_SYSTEM_PATH ) );

$oldcwd = getcwd();
chdir( VB_SYSTEM_PATH );
require_once( CWD . '/global.php');
require_once( CWD . '/includes/functions.php');
chdir($oldcwd);

1000 Thanks!
Bruno

[ekool]

Originally Posted by XFSImperial

The bridge seems to be working as I see my forum username on the wiki, but the wiki header and footer is covered in errors. I know the vba is vbadvanced. I'm running vba 3.1.0, are these errors version related?




Edit: One of our network admins was able to fix the problem. Evidently had to do with difference in the way php4/php5 treat the arrays and the fact that the server for this wiki install is on Litespeed and not Apache.

I'm having this issue and am unable to fix it, any ideas?

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /usr[path]/includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php on line 19

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /usr[path]/includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php on line 42

Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /usr[path]/includes/vba_cmps_include_template.php on line 50

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr[path]/includes/init.php(304) : eval()'d code on line 15



Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /usr/home/nexusone/public_html/forum/includes/class_core.php
Line: 3277

[BRotondi]

It worked fine with vBa 3.2.1 and vB 3.8.*. I don't think that's the reason for your errors...

[nitra1000]

posting here so I can find this tommorow (when I'm looking to install on VB4)

[Behzad Varedi]

Hello,

I have this error in vb4

Notice: Use of undefined constant VB_SYSTEM_PATH - assumed 'VB_SYSTEM_PATH' in /home/persianppc/domains/wiki.persianppc.com/public_html/LocalSettings.php on line 26

any Idea how can I fix it ?
I'm sure about the path I set in "LocalSettings.php"

Thanks