Integration with vBulletin - vbWiki Standard - vBulletin+MediaWiki integration

Update:

9/28/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC5 is now available for download. This version adds compatibility with MW 1.11.0+

5/17/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC4 is now available for download. This version is compatible with MW 1.10.0+ and vBulletin 3.6.6+

1/21/2007: vbWiki Std v1.0.2 RC3 is now available for download. This version fixes the 'session error' that used to happen on some installations of MediaWiki 1.9.x.

Description:

vbWiki Standard is the lite version of vbWiki Pro. vbWiki Standard allows the integration of vBulletin and MediaWiki user authentication.

(vbWiki Pro is a commercial product that, in addition to the functionality found in vbWiki Standard, provides full skin integration, enhanced user management, Admin CP, editing of wiki skin in vBulletin's Style Manager, among other features.)

Why should you add a wiki to your forums?

Forums are great for community building with their high level of interactivity. Successful forums have hundreds or thousand of concurrent users creating and replying to threads.

However due to this very reason the more your forums grow the more "collective knowledge" is scattered throughout the thousands (or hundreds or millions) of threads in your forums. Making it difficult for users to find and use.

A wiki is not that good at community building, but it is a great medium to centralize this 'collective knowledge'. Enabling you to create an 'ecosystem of information' (quoting pipin ) maintained and contributed by your users.

The idea behind vbWiki (both Standard and Pro) is to enable the seamless integration between these two packages (vBulletin and MediaWiki) side-by-side in your community. You (and your users and community) get the best of both worlds.

Or so the theory goes...

Features:

• Single sign-on for vBulletin and MediaWiki (users log in only once)
• Supports mapping of vBulletin usergroups to MediaWiki user roles
• Users viewing wiki pages are shown in vBulletin's "What's going on?" section (both guests and registered users)
• Supports auto-authentication, users who choose to be "remembered" are logged in upon visiting the site to both vBulletin and MediaWiki.

Installation:

These installation instructions do not apply to vbWiki Pro. Refer to vbWiki Pro installation instructions for more information.

MediaWiki and vBulletin must be installed and properly working before installing vbWiki. MediaWiki can be downloaded here.

• Create a new directory in your forums directory named vbWiki.
• Upload the content of the installation package to this new directory.
• Rename the file vbWiki_Init.php-dist to vbWiki_Init.php
• Open the file LocalSettings.php found in your MediaWiki directory in a text editor and at the very end find the following line and remove it if present:

PHP Code:

?> 


• Add the following code at the end of the file (entering the correct directory path):

PHP Code:

require_once "/absolute/path/to/your/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Init.php"; 


Troubleshooting:

• Last installation step: Click Mark as Installed..

If you run into any trouble installing vbWiki (blank page, logins not working, etc.), follow these instructions to temporarily turn on vbWiki's Diagnostic Tools.

Open vbWiki_Init.php (or vbWikiPro_Init.php) and find this line:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = false; 


And change it for this:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = true; 


Navigate to the wiki home page, and see the results.

Changes:

• 0 vBulletin files to Edit
• 1 MediaWiki file to Edit
• 10 vbWiki Files to Upload

Requirements:

• vBulletin v3.5.4 (version 3.6.x recommended)
• MediaWiki 1.6.8+ (recommended 1.7.x+).
• PHP4+

Uninstalling...

• To uninstall vbWiki Standard simply remove (or comment) the line added to LocalSettings.php.
• Optionally remove the directory vbWiki from your forums directory.

[SmrtGyJeff]

I'm running into the same problem as a previous installer, and getting this error with the Diagnostic Tools:

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/content/t/o/c/tocnerak/html/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Tools.php
Line: 19

Anyone able to shed any light on this?

[Smitty]

Is anyone here using vBWiki Pro? It appears elfmage has abandoned it. Did some upgrades and now when editing I get "Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still doesn't work, try logging out and logging back in."

Any ideas will be appreciated.

[SoloX]

I think they are out of business. I purchased nuwiki last friday and although their email promises that download instructions will be sent in 20 minutes, its been almost 5 days I havent heard anything. I have sent a few emails in addition to posting on their forum.
So, if anyone is considering purchasing nuwiki or vbwiki pro, you might wana hold off until someone from their site shows up and signals their intent to stay in business.

[viper357]

Is there any support for this hack? I have moved to a new server and now the integration is not working anymore, my members are not automatically getting signed in, I receive this error when running diagnostic tools

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/marineaq/public_html/vbWiki/vbWiki_Tools.php
Line: 19

[petteyg359]

Anybody used this with bbPixel's jvbPlugin? Is this compatible?

[ldkaplan]

According to the Nuhit site, the developer Elfmage is MIA for personal reasons.

Are there any other VBulletin wiki integrations?

Originally Posted by viper357

Is there any support for this hack? I have moved to a new server and now the integration is not working anymore, my members are not automatically getting signed in, I receive this error when running diagnostic tools

[sub_ubi]

Anyone try this on 3.7? What about with MW 1.12?

[pete_brady]

Originally Posted by sub_ubi

Anyone try this on 3.7? What about with MW 1.12?

working fine on 3.7b5 here

[iRO Wiki]

Anyone tried getting this to work with 1.12 yet? We tried and we get the "can't send cookie, headers sent" or similar.

[Foghorn Deadhor]

If anyone knows of some up-to-date and supported integrations I'd love to know. I've been meaning to do this for my site for many months but now that I have time to really dig into it I see that the nuhit site looks exactly as it did six months ago and that there don't seem to be any new mods.

Heck, I'd be willing to put some manual work into it if I knew what I was doing, but I don't want to install unsupported mods of this complexity.