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.

[remotay]

Another small issue, even though i was told to ignore the 'users' area of wordpress.

All of my post's authors show as random users on the forum! I tried logging into one of my users accounts to see if they can edit MY wordpress posts as it showed them as admin, but thankfully, they can't. It still bothers me that I see THEM as the authors of MY wordpress posts. I disabled the show author portion of my posts, but it would be nice for this small issue to be worked out. I'd be happy to donate to the author of this plugin when it gets tweaked a bit more.

I Do appreciate all the hard work put into this plugin, and I understand this isn't your 'job', so I don't expect immediate results. Vbulletin is such a great piece of software, only because of the coders who put their time, effort and energy into making great plugins. In that regard, Thank you Jafo232 =).

[myHybridcar.com]

Originally Posted by dieslcruisrhead

FYI though I am still getting an error. When I save under Settings > vBridge settings it kicks out this error. Otherwise it seems to be working excellently...

Don't worry about that if everything else works fine. The control panel is probably just not able to lay a cookie?it won't break your blog or forum (It's still a bug but nothing to stress over.)

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by Reynaldovb

Thank you for your reply. I meant the permalink issue which still persists, you know the one where Wordpress doesnt have any value to assign to the %author% variable in the permalink. Right now it is populated with an empty value.

That is because technically, the authors name is blank.. I will look into this when I get some time to see what can be done about it.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by aparatchik

no idea if this is possible, but it would be cool to be able to assign a forum ID for each individual WP post. I don't necessarily want to drop them all in the same forum...

You should see a drop down list of forums when you make your post in wordpress (scroll down)...

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by remotay

All of my post's authors show as random users on the forum! I tried logging into one of my users accounts to see if they can edit MY wordpress posts as it showed them as admin, but thankfully, they can't. It still bothers me that I see THEM as the authors of MY wordpress posts. I disabled the show author portion of my posts, but it would be nice for this small issue to be worked out. I'd be happy to donate to the author of this plugin when it gets tweaked a bit more.

Did you see in the readme about how to replace "the_author()"?

[skariko]

Hello, it is possible to take ALL the variables?
How can i do to take the variables to see on Wordpress this (taked from VBulletin variables)?

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is it possible?

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

That is because technically, the authors name is blank.. I will look into this when I get some time to see what can be done about it.

I just looked into it.. I doubt that any time soon I could make this ready for authors names in the permalink, sorry.. I can rewrite it to included the right username, however, it is rather obfuscated in the code, all the places I would have to add filters to remove the author from the URL on the backend.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by skariko

Hello, it is possible to take ALL the variables?
How can i do to take the variables to see on Wordpress this (taked from VBulletin variables)?

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is it possible?

I think this is a bit outside the scope of this product. However, you can globalize the $vbulletin object once integration is on. What you do with it, well, there are no limits.

If your question is "Will you show me how to do X", then I have to say I am sorry, I have very limited time for such things.

[myHybridcar.com]

Originally Posted by skariko

Hello, it is possible to take ALL the variables?
How can i do to take the variables to see on Wordpress this (taked from VBulletin variables)?

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is it possible?

Do a Google search for how to echo vBulletin phrases in PHP. Then, use them in your Wordpress templates.

[remotay]

With the plugin enabled, I can no longer upload pictures using the NextGen gallery plugin for wordpress (The #1 most popular plugin for wordpress). Anyone else having this issue?