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.

[Jafo232]

The error here is:

"MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away"..

So either there is a query going on that is timing out the server (disable hooks inside vbbridge.php (see code for details)) or there is an issue with your MySQL server and it may need a restart.

[AsianKid]

Thank you so much! I will donate when I have the chance to.

[skariko]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

I have updated this version to address the following issues:

* Fixed issue where media manager would break

* Fixed issue were users would not have certain capabilities

* Addressed issue where slashes would be in the title in the VB forum

I've installed this new version and it seems ROCKS!

Thanks.

[laztrix]

This plugin drives me crazy! I have been trying to integrate wordpress with vbulletin for almost 3 weeks! All the problems remains: - Error when trying to use wordpress media ( can not add images via .. ) - Post are not rendered properly to vbulletin ( images get corrupted!) - Charachter errors ( my forum uses ISO-5889-9 encoding while wordpress uses utf-8 ) I'm starting to give up, has anyone a better idea, shout!

[maipoman]

Jafo232, thank you so much for the update! No more media uploader problems! :up:

Unfortunately, my one concern still exists. For some reason, vbBridge clashes with my other plugin, Featured Content Gallery. It's a highly popular WP-plugin that creates an automated rotating image gallery of posts or pages. When vbBridge is activated, the Featured Content Gallery won't show up in Firefox. It does in IE though.

This is the code that is used to display the FCG-plugin (that FF won't read when vbBridge is on):

<?php include (ABSPATH . '/wp-content/plugins/featured-content-gallery/gallery.php'); ?>

Both of these plugins are very important to me, so I would really appreciate some help to get them both working!

[Jafo232]

I have no idea why it doesn't work with that plugin.

[John69Steph]

Originally Posted by laztrix

This plugin drives me crazy! I have been trying to integrate wordpress with vbulletin for almost 3 weeks! All the problems remains: - Error when trying to use wordpress media ( can not add images via .. ) - Post are not rendered properly to vbulletin ( images get corrupted!) - Charachter errors ( my forum uses ISO-5889-9 encoding while wordpress uses utf-8 ) I'm starting to give up, has anyone a better idea, shout!

I have the same problem

My post in wordpress is :

 
      Essai lien : <a href="http://xxx-xxx.net">xxx-xxx</a>
  
      Essai image : <img src="http://www.xxx-xxx.net/relief-bleu/misc/Ban1.png" alt="" />

And when i publish my post and write to Vbulletin, i see that :

 
      Essai lien : http://ahref>XXX-XXX
  
      Essai image : http://imgsrc alt="" />

What's problem ?

Thank's for your answer

[skymac]

Still same issues here, no changes

[rcadden]

Jafo232 - I really appreciate your work thus far, and the last few updates. However, I'm still hesitant to update to this latest version, as the previous one is working fine for me on WP2.7 and vB 3.8. My biggest issue is still scheduled posting.

For whatever reason, scheduled posts in Wordpress don't get published to the forum, and it's absolutely maddening. Can you offer any support in this arena? It's a major feature, as we previously scheduled ~80-90% of our posts on my site (http://www.symbian-guru.com, for those interested in seeing the full integration). Now, we're forced to manually publish stuff, and it's increasingly inconvenient. Thanks.

[Pirat3]

Updated latest version, only problem now I see is that when you post a URL/LINK in text format... it does not show properly on vb post.