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.

[AK47 Nemesis]

Originally Posted by Michael Morris

Try

ALTER TABLE `user` ADD `joomla_registered` TINYINT( 1 ) NOT NULL

That works, but now if i go to my forums homepage it doesn't show anything (vBAdvanced). When i disable the product it shows everything again.

[Michael Morris]

That's odd.

Anyway, I'll be purchasing my own vbulletin license and launching vjoomla.com this weekend to both demo this addon and give more comprehensive support than can be done in a single thread. (I can post code here since I'm listed as technical advisor for 4 different licensed vb sites - but they aren't mine own ).

[scotch12]

Just to let you know that this will be a very good package, keep up the good work. Can't believe no one did that before. Thanks Michael for the time invest in this project

BTW, any plan to make it compatible with the Joomla CB ?

[Michael Morris]

I have rechristened this project "Joomla for vBulletin" which is more descriptive and added the logo, however the shorter "vJoomla" nickname will continue to be used. This product has moved beyond being a mere bridge and though it is largely compatible with Joomla it needs to be regarded, for the most part as it's own branch.

The goal however is as Joomla 1.5 allows for more powerful manipulation of the core functionality without hacking the code (and therefore the diversion) from standard Joomla can be reduced. The goal of this project will remain staying as close to Joomla as possible without compromising vBulletin code at all and only compromising Joomla code when absolutely necessary.

Over the weekend I will be launching the vJoomla website. In addition to providing support for vJoomla I will be providing some crossover help for coders interested in coding modules and components for Joomla in general and vJoomla in particular. This includes a detailed mapping out of exactly what I did to Joomla's standard code and why.

This project will be managed and licensed subject to the same terms of it's parent - the Gnu Public License.

[RedGTiVR6]

This is really good news.

It seems that bbPixel has dissapeared.

Their page is down now, which is entirely dissapointing considering we've just paid the $20 for the product about a month ago...

I'm very interested in this, even more so now...

If I had the ability to install a test board for our page (I'm not the admin with the say-so powers) I'd help test this...perhaps I can work on getting that done...

[Michael Morris]

Tonight's project goals --

1. Get the vJoomla site up and running. I'll continue to watch this site, but the forum will provide a working example of the module. For now the site will be my online dev example.
2. If I have enough time after that I'll be releasing version .1.3. It will include the login module among other fixes.

[zincpony]

would the joomla user database and the vbulletin user database be cross used as you logg into the site you can use it and the mods and admin will have extra privileges in the joombla article / news post

[Michael Morris]

Sort of. vJoomla doesn't use the Joomla table for authentication at all - it authenticates off the vbulletin object. This means only one list of users with one set of log ins are all that are needed for both sides of a site.

Now I'm still cleaning things up, but for those of you that have been holding out for a demo of this product, here we go

http://www.joomla.com

[Michael Morris]

Version 0.1.3 is out. The debug code has been removed (it was generating more mail than I can hope to sort through - luckily I linked it to a throwaway email account). Those worried about security though can rest easier. A minor bug in the product_jos.xml has also been removed.

[InfoNirvana]

Re: bbpixel.

BBpixel transfer to new hosting
Posted by koudanshi - 05-23-07 04:05 - 0 comments - Read 5 times - make a comment
Hello all,

We're please to inform all of you that we will transfer BBpixel to new hosting provider. The current one can not handle the resource and we switch to another provider.

The time to do will be in range 23-May - 26-May.

Please go back again if you have any problem access our site.

Michael has clearly stated that bbpixel and vJoomla are different solutions with different goals. Some vB users might want to use bbpixel.

vJoomla.com looks good. So very cool to see the native Joomla! install with vB templates.