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

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Pavlus

It doesn`t work for 3.7.3 for newest mediawiki even if i change authoanthenticate hook and other stuff.

Yes it does, as I have both. But you have to search the most recent posts of this thread to see what was done to make it work.

[katriders]

I upgraded my VB install to 3.8.1 last night, and now I get the following error message when trying to load the wiki

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STATIC, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in *Edited*/public_html/wiki/includes/AutoLoader.php on line 10

I went back and verified that all my other settings were correct per the install instructions... it was up and running great before the upgrade of vBulletin.

Any ideas on where I can look to track down the problem? I'm running mediaWiki version 1.13.3.

[Pavlus]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Yes it does, as I have both. But you have to search the most recent posts of this thread to see what was done to make it work.

I have done everything i read any post from this topic two times. Is there any possibility that in php.ini some function is disabled to transfer session information from sites? Maybe this is the reason that its not working?

[katriders]

Disregard my message. I just found out that my host changed how they do the order of precedence when loading a page.... and php5 is lower on the list than html.

Doh!

[ericdesmontagne]

Hello i have planned to replace deprecated vbwiki pro by this mod... but...
is it compatible with vb 3.8 ?
is it possible to have 2 mediawiki installed and linked to the vb forum as actually in my configuration ?

Thanks for your help.:up:

[Wakey]

I use this Facebook Connect mod.

Anyone else use it and know how to integrate the facebook connect login with this hack

[OneShot]

Originally Posted by ericdesmontagne

Hello i have planned to replace deprecated vbwiki pro by this mod... but...
is it compatible with vb 3.8 ?
is it possible to have 2 mediawiki installed and linked to the vb forum as actually in my configuration ?

Thanks for your help.:up:

That would interest me as well because I'm in the same predicament (i.e. I have two wikis running with the same vB Forum).

[ericdesmontagne]

I have a white page with 3.8... anybody have the solution for this ?

[ericdesmontagne]

It is probably due to my version of WIKI (1.13.4) and vb (3.8)

[ericdesmontagne]

Originally Posted by ndahiya

I already have vbWiki Pro running, but as the product is no longer supported, suspect will have to move away from it soon. the best that runs with is vb3.8 and Mediawiki 1.11

How does installing this product (replacing vbWiki pro) change things ? TIA.

I think no...
I have uninstalled vbwiki pro, and trying to install this mod... but still not working as you can read hereabove...