Major Additions - Joomla for vBulletin (IMPORTANT UPDATE) - Bridge to the World's Most Popular CMS

Warning!!! An potential exploit has been found in this modification. The server that hosts vjoomla.com has been attacked several times. It is known to already be severely comprimised so at this time it is unclear whether the vulnerability lies in vJoomla, Joomla itself or the server. Until this is resolved to my satisfaction I am removing this modification. My apologies.


The modification WILL be re-released once this issue is resolved!

vJoomla is an offshoot of Joomla 1.0 that is designed to run in tandem with vbulletin. Unlike the main release it will not run without vbulletin - if you desire a CMS without a forum then use Joomla! instead. vJoomla is identical in most all regards to Joomla!

What vJoomla Does

• Provide a single session, single login interface to Joomla and vbulletin.
• Allows Joomla pages to be skinned by vbulletin's template engine.
• Maps Joomla usergroups to vbulletin usergroups.

What vJoomla Does Not Do

• It does not rewrite your templates for you - so you will need to go in currently and change relative links to images and pages to absolute links. This is most important in the style sheets and in the navbar template. This is something you need to do yourself rather than programmatically since no two sites are likely to be using the same style sheet and the same setup for these links.

Install Instructions

1. Log into your admincp
2. Close your forum
3. If your forums are at the root of your site move them elsewhere - the best location is probably /forum
4. Upload the files from the zip packages to their respective locations. There should be no overwrites.
5. Navigate to the root of your site and run the Joomla installer.
6. Go back to the admincp and install the Joomla product file
7. Now either copy the ./cpstyles, ./clientscript and ./images directory of the forum into the Joomla directory OR create symbolic links to those directories. The contents of the ./images directory of Joomla and vbulletin will need to be merged.

This is release candidate 2.

[Quantnet]

Originally Posted by dizzy100

When i tried it on my testbed the vbulletin skins is used for joomla which looked great Navbar links will need to be encoded with full paths though or they won't work.

Would you be able to provide me with the link ? I like to see how the front page layout look using the vb templates. Thanks

[dizzy100]

Originally Posted by Quantnet.org

Would you be able to provide me with the link ? I like to see how the front page layout look using the vb templates. Thanks

Sorry it was on a local host. It skinned Joomla perfectly with my vbulletin skin but there are a few problems i feel still with the bridge.

My default Joomla had a login module on the front page that wouldn't take with my vbulletin username and password. However using the vbulletin one logs me into both systems (minor but worth remembering how the bridge is working).

Also i found some components just error out. MosDirectory for instance installed fine but mysql error'd when trying to add an entry (although removing the bridge it then performed as expected).

Seems a great start and will certainly bring a great deal to the vbulletin community. Not a huge fan of Joomla myself as i find the interface confusing but its certainly an extremely powerful system that could add huge benefits to vbulletin boards.

Kudos to the developer with his beta bridge and the clear instructions he laid down to install. I'll be keeping a close eye on this one.

[StuntFactoryX]

exciting. looking forward to this developing. would nominate mod of the century and click a donate button if this develops into somthing simple that us everyday board owners could use and maintain.

i would also like a sneek peak once sombody gets 1 running.

[cygy2k]

I have to tell you, I love Joomla and have learned to love vBulletin over the past year. You ROCK for making this mod as it's one of the most needed and useful in my opinion. If you really put some time into this, you could easily make some money off of it and/or build some awesome communities around it.

[pete_brady]

looking forward to this... been working on joomla-ing up my site & having access to vb stuff would be a big plus....

[nanaimobar]

Looks very promising, Michael. Congratulations.

I use Joomla, with iJoomla Magazine mod, as my main web site face and use vBulletin for all the grunt and security work so I am quite interested in seeing a demo site running using your bridge.

Combining the two as you have is quite a gift to the vBulletin community. Thanks.:up:

Will definitely download your bridge when it is ready for production environments.

[Michael Morris]

Just noticed the following and am posting notice in the original post.

Warning: Joomla complains about register globals emulation being on (this is the default setting). It is cited as a security risk. You MUST leave this setting on for this hack to work - however the "security risk" is non-existent as vbulletin will clean out the globals array during it's initialization.

This also means that any component or module for Joomla that requires Register Globals emulation to be turned on WILL NOT WORK! (most do not though - developers have been moving away from register globals for awhile now).

Tonight's task list is to tighten the template integration with Joomla and make some progress on mod_vJoomlaRecentThreads.

[mclark2112]

Wow, can't wait until this is fully released...

WHat about a module for having new articles create threads in vB?

[tuanluu]

Me too I will give it a try

[dvsDave]

Everytime I have to work in joomla template, I wish it was the joomla template system. Please let us know if you need funds or a test platform or anything, I really want to see this thru to fruition.