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HolisticEarth
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HolisticEarth HolisticEarth is offline 04-13-2006, 10:00 PM
Do you want to use vBulletin's user database with your MediaWiki? You might like this.

I have taken Kai Backman's MediaWiki authentication plugin idea, fixed coding errors, and expanded greatly on it.

Working on:
vBulletin 3.5.4 and MediaWiki 1.6.3

Features:
  • Allows you to run MediaWiki with your vBulletin user database
  • Disallows users with invalid username characters
  • Disallows users who are not part of specified usergroups
  • Sets users to sysop status in MediaWiki if they are part of a specified admin usergroup
  • Removes users from sysop status in MediaWiki if they no longer are a part of a specified admin usergroup
  • For same-database setups, allows easy installation

Possible Future Features:
These are possible features for inclusion in the how-to in the future. They have not been investigated for their feasibility, but are here to let you know they have been requested and I am thinking about them. If you know how to add the features, please let us know.
  • No-login required (automatic) integration
  • Option: User profile field points to, or has option to link to vBulletin profile
  • To register, link the user to vBulletin's registration script on the login pages

How to:
  1. Install Reynaldovb's Restrict usernames to alphanumeric and underscore plugin, and disallow both spaces and underscores
  2. Optional: On boards that already have existing users, somehow have their usernames changed so that they are only alphanumeric. This is required if you wish your users to be able to login and edit the wiki using their vBulletin username. The reason you have to do this is because MediaWiki has some Restrictions on what can go in a page title, and as usernames have to be passed as page titles, they also have to adhere to the same restrictions. If you do not change the usernames, I have included a check to not allow users to login if their username contains non-alphanumeric characters.
  3. Open your wiki/LocalSettings.php file
  4. Insert the following code at the end of the file, before the ?>:
    PHP Code:
    # vBulletin integration script
    require_once("AuthPlugin_vBulletin.php");
    // if vBulletin and MediaWiki are not installed on the same database
    // change these values to reflect your vBulletin database information
    $wgAuth = new AuthPlugin_vBulletin($wgDBserver, $wgDBuser, $wgDBpassword, $wgDBname, "vb_"); 
    If you are running vBulletin and MediaWiki in the same database, then it already uses the connection information.
    If you are not running vBulletin and MediaWiki in the same database, please change the strings to reflect your vBulletin database information.
    In either case, the last value is whatever your vBulletin table prefix is.
  5. Insert this code below the require_once( "includes/DefaultSettings.php" ); at the top of the LocalSettings.php file:
    PHP Code:
    # Disabling new user registrations
    $wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "sysop" => 1, "developer" => 1 );
    # Disabling anonymous edits
    $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
    $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;
    $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
    $wgWhitelistRead = array ("Special:Userlogin"); 
    This prevents people from registering new accounts on the wiki, requiring people to register on vBulletin. It also prevents anonymous edits. This code may only work on MediaWiki 1.5.x and above, but I am unsure.
  6. Download the AuthPlugin_vBulletin.php file and put it in your main wiki directory, ie: /wiki/AuthPlugin_vBulletin.php

Please let me know if this was helpful, or if you can expand on this code.
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Old 06-06-2006, 06:10 PM
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HolisticEarth,

To overcome the username issue, did you look in to the possibility of

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Making any links to a user's page link to their user page on vBulletin. Theoretically, this would allow people to keep their usernames intact, while not interfering with the MediaWiki namespace.
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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VBull...rs_Integration

If so, what did you think about it?
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I'm going to bump and ask the same thing.
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Here I thought summer would come and I would have time to fiddle with things :/.

I have not tried it atm ... has anyone else tried merging the two more fully to use the vB sessions instead?
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I'm not much of a coder but I can certainly test over the summer.

My forum is located in the web root, and I want to also toss my wiki into the web root. Does anyone see a problem with this?

Ideally the wiki is the landing page at www.mydomain. com. Or would I be better off dropping the wiki into a /wiki directory, or moving the forums (urgh) to /forum?

Also, has anyone tried this with vBSEO installed? Any potential .htaccess hacks required?

Thanks in advance.
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I installed this but none of my users can login. Is there a log file or something telling me why this might not be working?

Thanks!
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This is off topic but I tried to install Wiki and got this error.

Anyone know what's wrong?

include all of the lines below when reporting installation problems.

PHP 4.3.11 installed
PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title)
Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support.
PHP's memory_limit is 32M. If this is too low, installation may fail!
Have zlib support; enabling output compression.
Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching functions
GNU diff3 not found.
Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads.
Installation directory: /var/www/vhosts/mysite/httpdocs/mediawiki
Script URI path: /mediawiki
Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki.
Warning: $wgSecretKey key is insecure, generated with mt_rand(). Consider changing it manually.
Generating configuration file...

Database type: mysql
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $, expecting '}' in /var/www/vhosts/mysite/httpdocs/mediawiki/includes/Database.php on line 459
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Will this work with vB 3.6.x and MW 1.6.7?
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I'm getting the same problem

Warning: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/xxx/public_html/wiki/AuthPlugin_vBulletin.php on line 90

I've double checked the login details for the database, all are ok
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Is support for this alive?

I filled in my DB info in the mediawiki config file but no one from vbulletincan login.
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Old 07-06-2006, 04:44 AM
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I don't want to sound negative, but I dont have the time to support this ... it was a How-To because I dont have the time to make it a perfect add-on / hack / etc., and the old How-To was non-existant.

For vB 3.5.4 and MW 1.6.7, and my original installation method, my installation still works logging in and logging out. I'll try putting it in user.php instead of LocalSettings.php tomorrow and let you know how it works out...
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