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 3.7.x. For vB 3.8.x, please use the MediaWiki/vBulletin Single Sign-On 3.8 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

[Shawn385]

Strange, I made the neccessary adjustments as mentioned in that post eg :

//$wgHooks['UserLogoutComplete'][] = 'QISSingleSignOnUserLogout';
$wgHooks['UserLoadFromSession'][] = 'vBSSOAutoAuth';
$wgHooks['UserLoginForm'][] = 'vBLoginForm';
$wgHooks['PersonalUrls'][] = 'set_personal_urls';

The strangest thing is...I did login and Wiki did show my name as being logged in, and then today when I opened it back up I couldn't log back in again, neiother can anyone else.

Above is the snipppet from the AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php

EDIT :

So I downgraded to MW 1.12.3 reinstalled this plugin...still getting the same thing, I login just fine, but WIKI doesn't show me as logged in. And I changed UserLoadFromSession back to AutoAuthenticate...

[oninuva]

So how do I fix this?

Fatal error: Call to a member function getID() on a non-object in /home/sitename/public_html/wiki/includes/AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php on line 315

[Varsh]

Did you take a look at how I did it all? If I recall I got that till I changed a few settings suggested before. My fix is a few posts back.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Shawn385

Strange, I made the neccessary adjustments as mentioned in that post eg :

//$wgHooks['UserLogoutComplete'][] = 'QISSingleSignOnUserLogout';
$wgHooks['UserLoadFromSession'][] = 'vBSSOAutoAuth';
$wgHooks['UserLoginForm'][] = 'vBLoginForm';
$wgHooks['PersonalUrls'][] = 'set_personal_urls';

The strangest thing is...I did login and Wiki did show my name as being logged in, and then today when I opened it back up I couldn't log back in again, neiother can anyone else.

Above is the snipppet from the AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php

EDIT :

So I downgraded to MW 1.12.3 reinstalled this plugin...still getting the same thing, I login just fine, but WIKI doesn't show me as logged in. And I changed UserLoadFromSession back to AutoAuthenticate...

I'll post this again, but this is what fixed this in my case. Note that I did not "downgrade" as you did.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...81#post1673281

[tylneyt]

metalguy639 you are my hero
Thank you

[oninuva]

Originally Posted by Varsh

Did you take a look at how I did it all? If I recall I got that till I changed a few settings suggested before. My fix is a few posts back.

Yes I did try doing those changes, still have error, I tried replacing a file with the file the posted on page 8 saying that it fixed it giving him a new AuthPlugin file.

After I replaced the file with the fix on post 8, he received this error;

Database error

A database query syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:

(SQL query hidden)

from within function "User::addToDatabase". MySQL returned error "1062: Duplicate entry 'Sourc[e]x' for key 2 (localhost)".

I would look at the databases but I dunno which one it is referring to. He only gets this error when he tries to login, so he can browse the wiki if he logs out.

[petchat]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...81#post1673281

Working great on 3.8 using this method!

Cheers DJ

[metalguy639]

Originally Posted by tylneyt

metalguy639 you are my hero
Thank you

no prob man.

[raisun]

I've got this mostly working on VB 3.7.3 / MW 13.3 as long as I disable another pluggin that I use. When I turn the other plugin on (GARS), I cannot get to the wiki and get this error:

Warning: require_once(./geek/gars/includes/gars_ignition.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/global.php(360) : eval()'d code on line 41

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required './geek/gars/includes/gars_ignition.php' (include_path='/home/mouseinf/public_html/info/wiki:/home/mouseinf/public_html/info/wiki/includes:/home/mouseinf/public_html/info/wiki/languages:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/mouseinf/public_html/forums/global.php(360) : eval()'d code on line 41

From what I can tell, it looks like its looking in the wiki's include path for this file. So, I tried adding $VB_SYSTEM_PATH to the path in LocalSettings.php, but that doesn't seem to fix it. Any thoughts?

Thanks a lot!!

[Varsh]

Change require_once( "$IP/includes/AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php" ); to require_once( "/home/mouseinf/public_html/forums/includes/AuthPlugin_vBSSO.php" ); in your LocalSettings.php file.