Version: 5.6.0, by El_Muerte
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Category: Integration with vBulletin -
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Released: 07-26-2007
Last Update: 01-11-2008
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vbDrupal is a fork of the CMS Drupal. It integrates Drupal into the forum software vBulletin.
vbDrupal is a close fork of Drupal, it has only be forked to modify some of the core files of Drupal for better interoperability. All changes made to the Drupal code will be merged with vbDrupal. Therefore a vbDrupal 5.x.y release is more or less identical to a Drupal 5.x release.
Drupal and vBulletin are tightly connected with each other, user accounts and sessions are shared between the two systems. vbDrupal tries to offer the best of both worlds. vbDrupal should be compatible with all user contributed modules and themes that can be found on the Drupal site.
Besides user and session integration vbDrupal also offers various modules to bring vBulletin content into the Drupal space.:
Latest threads/posts blocks
Import any vBulletin post as content
Use vBulletin for content comments
Latest poll block
Event and birthday blocks
Use vBulletin code for formatting in Drupal content
vbDrupal 5 makes used of the Drupal 5.x series and is only compatible with the vBulletin 3.6 series. vBulletin 3.5 users can use the vbDrupal 4.7 series.
Examples of sites using vbDrupal can be found here.
For support and latest updates please go to the vbDrupal forums
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For proper support please go to the vbDrupal forums. Also take note that this product is still beta. Try it on a test installation first (and, of course, make backups), specially when you are already using vbDrupal 4.7.
It only had some minor testing, mostly done by me.
Personally I wouldn't use the vbDrupal 5 series on a production server until it hits RC (=Release Candidate).
Of course, more people testing this software will most likely result in better software.
So report anything that isn't correct (including documentation errors) on the vbDrupal forums.
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Originally Posted by Cyburbia
How easy is updating from vBDrupal 4.*?
Upgrading from vbDrupal 4.7 should be painless, assuming you don't have any 3rd party modules and themes. If you do, you of course, should update them to Drupal 5 versions.
Upgrading from vbDrupal 4.6 should be possible, but it's not something I've tested, it's probably best to first upgrade to the latest 4.7 release.
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Originally Posted by subnet_rx
Is there supposed to be a product .xml file in the download? I may have missed it.
Starting with vbDrupal 5 there is no longer a need to manually install the product .xml, this will all be done automatically during installation/update.
But if you really need to manually (re)install the vBulletin plugins and what not, the product.xml can be found in: drupal/modules/vbcore/xml
Ok This appears to be useful but I'm a little confused on what it looks like on someone's site in a "production environment". I run a World Of Warcraft Guild site and I was thinking I might be able to use this, but my thinking is a bit foggy on it's relationship to Vbulletin. Can anyone fill in the blanks for me?
The default theme of vbDrupal uses the vBulletin template engine and tries to make it look as much like vBulletin as possible.
Examples of sites using the default theme (all currently run on 4.7, but for 'looks' nothing changes with 5): http://www.unrealadmin.org/ (this one also uses vbDrupal in the forum environment for the left side menu bar) http://www.alleria.com/ http://www.spacebuffs.com/
But of course you can also decide to use a more customized theme for the drupal side.
(non-support questions can be asked here, but preferably on the vbdrupal forums because I don't monitor this thread as much as the vbdrupal forums are monitored).
The default theme of vbDrupal uses the vBulletin template engine and tries to make it look as much like vBulletin as possible.
Examples of sites using the default theme (all currently run on 4.7, but for 'looks' nothing changes with 5): http://www.unrealadmin.org/ (this one also uses vbDrupal in the forum environment for the left side menu bar) http://www.alleria.com/ http://www.spacebuffs.com/
But of course you can also decide to use a more customized theme for the drupal side.
(non-support questions can be asked here, but preferably on the vbdrupal forums because I don't monitor this thread as much as the vbdrupal forums are monitored).
The unrealadmin.org site really almost looks like a portal, good job on that. This is running well on my system right now, and I'm working on including some plugins to improve functionality.
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07-28-2007, 06:50 AM
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