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.

[Chirag patel]

Figure it out. Sorry

[Chirag patel]

How do you turn off the user page completely for all users in wordpress so that they will not go at all to wp-admin/ at all and if they do type that then they automatically go directly to the profile page in the forum?

Also how do you make the comment box only to show up for vbulletin users (or subscribers) only?

[Chirag patel]

Originally Posted by Katman

This doesn't work for me either. Running vB 3.8 with WP 2.7.1, and all it does is go to a blank white page after I click the Publish button in WP and does not post to vB from WP..

Check the plug-in it might be still off.

[pspcrazy]

Thanks Jafo, oddly users aren't auto redirected to the forums to sign in which is much needed for me. Thanks

[Chirag patel]

Originally Posted by Fraik

Okay, I am getting a few bugs which I'd just like to report:

- In the "edit post" and "edit page" sections, the page/post authors have wrong names. However, in the post/page editing screen itself, the author names are displayed correctly.
- I am getting the same problem with parsing links as above, displaying http://ahref>forum for example.
- The media (flash) upload system doesn't work for me, it just keeps loading it infinitely.

The uploads do not work for me as well. Great plug in over all. Good job

[Chirag patel]

Redirect Loop
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

Error happens when clicking on add images on the text editor

[laztrix]

Originally Posted by AzzX

I got around this by turning on Excerpt Forum Post? and setting Characters In Exceprt: to 2000.

This may also help laztrix.

Unfortunately that did not help either.

I find out that I'm using ISO-8859-9 encoding on my forum.
I tried to change the default encoding from utf8 to ISO-8859-9 in wordpress.
But that did not help either.

http://easycaptures.com/8561614980 this is what happens.

[skariko]

Originally Posted by logiik

Has anyone tried uploading an image or any file for that matter from wordpress? If I try clicking the upload image button from the post editor, I just get a 404 page from the popup.

Going to Upload from the top bar, after uploading it just takes me to the login page.

Originally Posted by Fraik

Okay, I am getting a few bugs which I'd just like to report:

- In the "edit post" and "edit page" sections, the page/post authors have wrong names. However, in the post/page editing screen itself, the author names are displayed correctly.
- I am getting the same problem with parsing links as above, displaying http://ahref>forum for example.
- The media (flash) upload system doesn't work for me, it just keeps loading it infinitely.

Originally Posted by AzzX

Same issues here as well. Only just noticed the media upload not working - you can escape out of it by pressing escape a few times. Vbridge III from the previous release still works bar incorrect dates in the wordpress comment field so I have been using that in the meantime.

Originally Posted by Chirag patel

The uploads do not work for me as well. Great plug in over all. Good job

Same issue here.
All worked to me but yesterday i had to clear all the cache of my browsers... and now the media upload doesn't work.
With Firefox it just keeps loading it infinitely, on IE7 it give an 404 error.

Jafo, try to delete all the cache of your browser to see this issue.

[Celebutopia]

I have installed this and this is the error that I get:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin() (previously declared in /home/celeb/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php:166) in /home/celeb/public_html/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php on line 33

[Blaine0002]

Originally Posted by Blaine0002

I need a way to use existing wordpress userbase, and have them able to log into vbulletin using it. New registers can register to wordpress.

anyone try this?