Major Additions - Joomla for vBulletin (IMPORTANT UPDATE) - Bridge to the World's Most Popular CMS

Warning!!! An potential exploit has been found in this modification. The server that hosts vjoomla.com has been attacked several times. It is known to already be severely comprimised so at this time it is unclear whether the vulnerability lies in vJoomla, Joomla itself or the server. Until this is resolved to my satisfaction I am removing this modification. My apologies.


The modification WILL be re-released once this issue is resolved!

vJoomla is an offshoot of Joomla 1.0 that is designed to run in tandem with vbulletin. Unlike the main release it will not run without vbulletin - if you desire a CMS without a forum then use Joomla! instead. vJoomla is identical in most all regards to Joomla!

What vJoomla Does

• Provide a single session, single login interface to Joomla and vbulletin.
• Allows Joomla pages to be skinned by vbulletin's template engine.
• Maps Joomla usergroups to vbulletin usergroups.

What vJoomla Does Not Do

• It does not rewrite your templates for you - so you will need to go in currently and change relative links to images and pages to absolute links. This is most important in the style sheets and in the navbar template. This is something you need to do yourself rather than programmatically since no two sites are likely to be using the same style sheet and the same setup for these links.

Install Instructions

1. Log into your admincp
2. Close your forum
3. If your forums are at the root of your site move them elsewhere - the best location is probably /forum
4. Upload the files from the zip packages to their respective locations. There should be no overwrites.
5. Navigate to the root of your site and run the Joomla installer.
6. Go back to the admincp and install the Joomla product file
7. Now either copy the ./cpstyles, ./clientscript and ./images directory of the forum into the Joomla directory OR create symbolic links to those directories. The contents of the ./images directory of Joomla and vbulletin will need to be merged.

This is release candidate 2.

[Michael Morris]

Located a bug on my own - vJoomla needs to re-eval the header and footer after it parses the modules in case you have a module in those positions. This correction will be included on the next revision. If you wish to apply it now open vJoomla's index file and find these lines

PHP Code:

// And we're done.
eval('$navbar = "' . fetch_template('navbar') . '";'); 


Add above

PHP Code:

// Reparse header and footer to display modules they hold
eval('$header = "' . fetch_template('header') . '";');
eval('$footer = "' . fetch_template('footer') . '";'); 


[pxd]

Could anybody confirm that he has successfully installed this mod on a localhost server? I suspect there is a server config issue stopping me from setting this up...

[Michael Morris]

Originally Posted by pxd

Could anybody confirm that he has successfully installed this mod on a localhost server? I suspect there is a server config issue stopping me from setting this up...

If your doing a testbed install try installing vbulletin without a bb prefix. If it works it means the problem is I forgot to put TABLE_PREFIX in front of one of my vbulletin queries.

[pxd]

Thanks for looking into this. Unfortunately that's not the case, I have installed another fresh forum + joomla. Going to move the files to a live server and see how it goes there...

[Michael Morris]

Joomla 1.5 beta 2 is out. It seems the template system didn't come to pass from a glance at the code. I'll have to read some docs though. Whatever the case, it won't be stable till I'm guessing October, so that means this project will continue. Still, it is worth a look.

[thunder_sti]

Hey Micheal, Im am getting this error after I installed version 1 clean install.

PHP has encountered an unrecoverable error and script execution has halted.

Warning:main(/home/inc001/public_html/forum/includes/init.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory
at Line:20
in File:/home/inc001/public_html/global.php
Begin Stack trace:



Level: 1
Line: 20
File: /home/inc001/public_html/global.php
Function: require_once
Function Arguments:
Class:
Object:
Call Type:

Level: 2
Line: 189
File: /home/inc001/public_html/globals.php
Function: require_once
Function Arguments: Array ( [0] => /home/inc001/public_html/global.php )
Class:
Object:
Call Type:

Level: 3
Line: 24
File: /home/inc001/public_html/index.php
Function: require
Function Arguments: Array ( [0] => /home/inc001/public_html/globals.php )
Class:
Object:
Call Type:

Level: 4
Line: 906
File: /home/inc001/public_html/vbseo.php
Function: require
Function Arguments: Array ( [0] => /home/inc001/public_html/index.php )
Class:
Object:
Call Type:

[Rukas]

Two questions.

1. Does the forum HAVE to be located in /forum or can it be a different subfolder?

2. Can the joomla vbulletin skinning be turned off? Id like to use the current Joomla Template and a different forum template.

Thanks.

[RedefiningFate]

Michael-

I know you're a very busy person. My issue I think was overlooked on page 8 towards the top. If you have time please look at it.

Thanks

[paul_c]

Just a quick FYI:
If you add both vB and Joomla to the same database you may want to avoid giving the tables the same extension. The problem is that both products have a table named Session.

Also, be careful not to rename the admincp (and maybe the modcp) folders as is often recommended as the Joomla Control Panel link to the vB backend will not work.

Michael - been fooling around with this and seems pretty interesting though I'm running into a few issues which I think I can resolve.

[drex]

michael-

you rock. waiting patiently for a more stable version.

Boy, do I have plans for this!