Integration with vBulletin - MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On

Overview:
This hack provides single sign-on capability for MediaWiki using your vBulletin users. You must ensure your cookie path in Admin CP is set to '/' for this to work. Also, I have not tested this if your wiki and your forums are on different subdomains - but as long as your have your cookie domain set properly it *should* work. This is not a user bridge - it is a complete single sign-on using your vBulletin user repository.

The install process has been extremely simplified in version 2.x of this product. You only have to edit LocalSettings.php, import a product, and change a setting in your Admin Control Panel. It's been completely packaged as a vBulletin product - unlike the previous hacked up version, heh. I didn't originally plan to release this so I designed it so it worked - not so it could be redistributed. I searched high and low for a functional MediaWiki bridge - almost bought NuHIT's product, and then realized it had been abandoned for over a year.

This hack no longer requires an edit to class_core.php.

I'll do my best to support it, but I can make no promises.

This thread is for discussion of this mod on vB 3.8.x. For vB 3.7.x, please use the MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On 3.7 thread

Demo of plugin in action: MyMMOGames - Multiplayer Gaming and Media Community

Also, if you use memcached - ensure you do not cache sessions. If you do, restart it at least once a week. If you don't, you'll end up with invalid session errors out of MediaWiki.

Requirements:
MediaWiki Version: 1.11.0-1.14.0
vBulletin Version: 3.6.9-3.8.2

Features:
- Provides single sign on capability between vBulletin and Mediawiki. vBulletin user repository is used
- Configurable sysop/bureaucrat groups
- Configurable disallowed user groups
- Configurable "Who's Online" display
- Counts users viewing wiki in vBulletin's "Who's Online"

Installation/Upgrade:
Please read the included "readme.txt" file in the "docs (do not upload)" folder.

Options:
Admin Control Panel->vBulletin Options->MMOG Wiki Options

Change Log:
1.0.0.0 - Sep 18, 2008
- Initial Release

1.0.3.0 - Sep 29, 2008
- Bugfix: Incorrect redirects for login/logout

2.0.0.0 - Sep 30, 2008
- Feature: Streamlined installation procedure
- Feature: Wiki path set in ACP
- Bugfix: Forum paths no longer hardcoded

2.1.0 - Oct 4, 2008
- Feature: ACP option to use MediaWiki Short URLs
- Feature: ACP option to set sysop groups
- Feature: ACP option to set bureaucrat groups
- Feature: ACP option to disallow login to certain groups
- Feature: ACP option to change WOL display text

2.2.0 - May 1, 2005
- Bugfix: Users are not logged out when logging out of the forum
- Bugfix: No longer requires modification to class_core.php
- Feature: Mediawiki 1.13.0+ supported (verified on 1.14.0 also)

If you like it, please click "mark as installed" The more people that use this, the more time I will make to try and support/update it.

Been pulling your hair out looking for this as long as I have? Nominate it for Mod of the Month =]

AuthPlugin was inspired by and modified from this existing MediaWiki Extension:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QISSingleSignOn

[iamacyborg]

I updated my version of Mediawiki and it's since stopped running. I can create a Mediawiki account fine, the redirect to forum login just isn't working.

/edit
And it's now working after reinstalling the product. That was odd.

[Coleccromos]

Originally Posted by iamacyborg

I updated my version of Mediawiki and it's since stopped running. I can create a Mediawiki account fine, the redirect to forum login just isn't working.

/edit
And it's now working after reinstalling the product. That was odd.

Beautiful and very nice design.

Could you comment on how to apply the design of the forum to the wiki?

[iamacyborg]

Thank you, though I can't really take the credit for it.
It's mostly a modification I found here (link), though I had to make some changes to the template for it to be fixed width, rather than fluid. Also, it doesn't validate, so it'll need some work if you care about that kind of thing.
Very handy though if you want a nice looking conversion.

[AfterWorldForum]

Just as a FYI, the CWD errors can be solved by editing the vB global.php.

Replace:

define('CWD', (($getcwd = getcwd()) ? $getcwd : '.'));

with

if (!defined('CWD'))
{
	define('CWD', (($getcwd = getcwd()) ? $getcwd : '.'));
}

Still lost on how to solve the VB_SYSTEM_PATH one, though.

[Coleccromos]

Originally Posted by AfterWorldForum

Just as a FYI, the CWD errors can be solved by editing the vB global.php.

Replace:

define('CWD', (($getcwd = getcwd()) ? $getcwd : '.'));

with

if (!defined('CWD'))
{
    define('CWD', (($getcwd = getcwd()) ? $getcwd : '.'));
}

Still lost on how to solve the VB_SYSTEM_PATH one, though.

Wonderful!

Thank you very much for the solution.

In another problem such as I, it is difficult to understand!

Continue to investigate

[aciurczak]

Originally Posted by iamacyborg

I updated my version of Mediawiki and it's since stopped running. I can create a Mediawiki account fine, the redirect to forum login just isn't working.

/edit
And it's now working after reinstalling the product. That was odd.

I'm still having the same issue. Was working fine with 1.15.1, updated to 1.15.3, and now the login on the MW side doesn't work, always says login failure. If the user is logged in already via the forum, that login does carry over successfully to the wiki side and everything works fine. vB 3.8.5, MW 1.15.3, PHP 5.3.2, mysql 5.1.47.

[iamacyborg]

Have you tried uninstalling the product on the vBulletin side and then reinstalling it?

[aciurczak]

I reinstalled it with overwrite enabled, and that didn't change the behavior. I hadn't tried uninstalling it and then reinstalling it; I will give it a shot tonight.

[mazazangy]

thanks

[Rean]

based on readme.txt file:
everything is okay until.. i wrote "php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off" at .htaccess file.

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