Integration with vBulletin - vBulletin Extensions for Contentteller CMS (extended integration)

Contentteller is an open source content management system that supports the user database integration with vBulletin. The vBulletin extensions for Contentteller are a plug-in collection that tightens both vBulletin and Contentteller even more together.



The vBulletin extensions in detail:

vB Theme
This first extension can copy the color scheme of an existing vBulletin theme to a Contentteller stylesheet. This works quite well if your theme is using the default elements. Some of the custom 3rd party vBulletin themes are not fully compatible with this.

vB News
As the name indicates, this module syndicate a forum directly on your Contentteller based news pages. The module imports frequently the latest threads from a selectable forum to the Contentteller news database, so the news appears on both your forum and your front page. All replies will be displayed as comments.

Additionally, there are 11 side blocks to display content from your vBulletin forum directly on your Contentteller website:

vB Forum Menu
This is a side block that displays a list of the forums

vB Latest
This side block displays the latest threads of your vBulletin forum

vB Top
This side block will display the top threads of your vBulletin forum

vB Blog Latest
This side block shows the latest vB blog entries (requires vB blog)

vB Project Latest
This side block shows the latest issues from your vB project database (requires vB project tools)

vB Project Menu
This side block shows a list all your projects (requires vB project tools)

vB Poll
This side block will display the latest poll in your vBulletin database

vB Birthday
This side block shows today?s birthdays.

vB What?s new
This side block shows the number of posts since last visit

vB Search
A forums search box

vB Stats
This side block shows members, threads, and posts numbers of your forums

Installation:

Step 1: You need to install vBulletin 3.6/3.7/3.8 first

Step 2: Get the latest version of Contentteller. The free open source version is available over Google Code. For an installation guide see How do I install Contenteller with a Windows based machine? or How do I install Contenteller with a FTP client?

Step 3: Choose vBulletin 3.6, vBulletin 3.7, or vBulletin 3.7 in Step 12 of the installation and fill in all configuration settings of your vBulletin installation. It is important that the integration is enabled before you install the vBulletin Extensions.

Step 4: Unzip the attached zip archive and upload the content of "upload" to the directory where you have Contentteller installed.

Step 5: Login to the Contentteller admin section (/cadmin) and select Modules => Install New Module => vbextensions => Submit.

Step 6: The vB Extensions are now installed. You can configure it under vB Extensions in your Contentteller admin section.

Change log
Version 1.01 (2009-01-03)
- Fixed a few HTML entities glitches in the vB blocks
- Fixed a small typo in vbpolls.php

Version 1.0 (2009-01-01)
- Initial release

[Daniel_HBK]

it's like vBadvanced Portal but it's very good

[M4GN3T]

Damn looks nice, gonna take a look at this bro

[oninuva]

Okay I installed it, you can see it here..

www.ModdingFiles.com/en

[Philipp]

I just updated the ZIP to fix issues with HTML entities in the side blocks and a typo in vbpolls.php

Support for the Chinese language will take a little longer after there are a few issues that need to be addressed.

[M4GN3T]

it can't read my database cuz it auto adds .forum at the database name, how to fix?

[Philipp]

Where did this happen? What is the exact error message?

[Wolf42]

Thank you Philipp! Just updated to version 1.01.

Just an idea for the next version: include prefixes (if possible).

[M4GN3T]

Originally Posted by Philipp

Where did this happen? What is the exact error message?

PHP Code:

The MySQL database of the vBulletin installation has encountered the following problem:
The MySQL database server has returned 1146: Table 'databases_website[B].forum[/B]' doesn't exist while executing SELECT forumid, title FROM forum WHERE parentid = '-1'

SELECT forumid, title FROM forum WHERE parentid = '-1'

Please try it in a few minutes again. We apologise for any inconvenience. 


The '.forum' part was added by the script itself, how can i change this?

[Philipp]

That's odd. It shouldn't add anything to the database name.

You can change the forum database name in the Contentteller admin section under:
Main => Manage Websites => Edit => Forum database name (optional)

[M4GN3T]

Originally Posted by Philipp

That's odd. It shouldn't add anything to the database name.

You can change the forum database name in the Contentteller admin section under:
Main => Manage Websites => Edit => Forum database name (optional)

There it shows the normal database name look:

Forum database name (optional):
databases_website