Coppermine 1.2.1 / vBulletin 3.0.0 Integration

Coppermine Gallery 1.21 and vBulletin 3.0.0 Integration
Version 1.0
Compiled by SpeedStreet

I'm not the hacker for this; I am merely the guy who poured through all of the threads on vBulletin.org and the Coppermine Development Forums to come up with one definitive post about integrating vBulletin with Coppermine.

WHAT IT DOES:
At the end of this how-to, you're installations of vBulletin and Coppermine will work together off of the same login. While everyone else wants to see all sorts of integration between the two, I believe this is the first step to making those things happen.

CREDITS:
A big thanks to everyone over at Coppermine for a terrific product and the users that support and mod it on a daily basis. I am merely standing on the shoulders of giants here, folks. Also, Nanobot was the guy over there that did the vB3 Gamma bridge, so the credit for that is all his.

FILES TO EDIT (2):
/bridge/vbulletin3.inc.php (Coppermine)
/include/init.inc.php (Coppermine)

HACK REQUIREMENTS:
vBulletin 3.0.0 Installed and Running
Coppermine 1.2.1 Installed and Running
5 Minutes of your time

SUPPORT THREADS:
Coppermine Gamma Thread (original thread): http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/bo...asc&highlight=
vBulletin.org Hack Thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=488062
Coppermine vB 3.0.0 Thread: http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/bo...ic.php?p=20674

FINAL WARNINGS:

There are seem to be some issues with people integrating this with forums located on subdomains (e.g. subaruforums.speedstreet.org). Please reference the Coppermine Gamma Thread above for more info.
Please ensure that Coppermine and vBulletin cookies are NOT named the same thing.

[Aeolian]

The gallery is working fine in vb 3.0.6...

[feldon23]

And after 11 months...

While everyone else wants to see all sorts of integration between the two, I believe this is the first step to making those things happen.

has not come true.

I spent (wasted) several hours today getting the headinclude, header, navbar, and footer templates to load from within Coppermine templates. I added a str_replace() which goes through and adds the correct directory names on everything so that the navbar and headers all work regardless of where coppermine is installed.

But now I am hitting the roadblock that by including global.php (and by inference, init.php), Cookies are already being defined so you cannot login to Coppermine. I don't know another sane way to get the templates.

I've thought of writing an installer that grabs the templates and re-saves them as HTML files. I've thought of trying to destroy/unset all of the variables set by global.php/init.php. I've thought of trying to grab the template some other way (looking at fetch_template() tells me that this is trickier than I am expecting).

[Aeolian]

Well actually what you are trying to do :| ...

[RetroDreams]

So does this work with 3.0.6 or not?

[MissKalunji]

Originally Posted by RetroDreams

So does this work with 3.0.6 or not?

Yep works fine with me

[Smike]

I have a session problem with vb 3.0.5...

3.0.6 fixe it ?

[ambrosious]

Quick question, when I install Coppermine, am I supposed to install it to the vbulletin db? I don't feel real good about that...

[neocorteqz]

Originally Posted by ambrosious

Quick question, when I install Coppermine, am Isupposed to install it to the vbulletin db? I don't feel real goodabout that...

It will create a separate Prefixed table. so if you should every wantto remove it, you will not have any problems. It doesn't make anychanges to the Original Forum templates in anyway.

[SpeedStreet]

Hey everyone,

When I originally made this, I thought it was going to be the start of something big...


Apparently, never expect anyone else to do something for you

Starting Monday, I will take a look at the Coppermine Integration and begin coding something much more substantial. If anyone with any coding experience is interested in adding their 2 cents, I would be more than happy to work with you.

I'll keep you all posted!

[ambrosious]

Got it running great! I am having one problem for some people. Some are reporting they cannot log out now? Should they clear the cookie cashe then log on to vb then coppermine as a fix?