Integration with vBulletin - vbDrupal 5

vbDrupal is a fork of the CMS Drupal. It integrates Drupal into the forum software vBulletin.
vbDrupal is a close fork of Drupal, it has only be forked to modify some of the core files of Drupal for better interoperability. All changes made to the Drupal code will be merged with vbDrupal. Therefore a vbDrupal 5.x.y release is more or less identical to a Drupal 5.x release.

Drupal and vBulletin are tightly connected with each other, user accounts and sessions are shared between the two systems. vbDrupal tries to offer the best of both worlds. vbDrupal should be compatible with all user contributed modules and themes that can be found on the Drupal site.

Besides user and session integration vbDrupal also offers various modules to bring vBulletin content into the Drupal space.:

• Latest threads/posts blocks
• Import any vBulletin post as content
• Use vBulletin for content comments
• Latest poll block
• Event and birthday blocks
• Use vBulletin code for formatting in Drupal content

vbDrupal 5 makes used of the Drupal 5.x series and is only compatible with the vBulletin 3.6 series. vBulletin 3.5 users can use the vbDrupal 4.7 series.

Examples of sites using vbDrupal can be found here.

For support and latest updates please go to the vbDrupal forums

[subnet_rx]

Thanks for this release.

[El_Muerte]

Well, there were a few annoying bugs in the last RC release. So here is a second release candidate. No new features, just bug fixes and performance improvements.

[Adam21]

Got it.Thanks for this mod!

[Fabsboards]

Is there any way to get vbdrupal to work with vBadvanced CMS?

I have two sets of nav bars! How do I eliminate one of them?

http://www.fabsboards.com/portal to see what I mean.

[ssslippy]

Vbadvanced and Vbdrupal are both CMS systems. I would not recomend running the both.

[subnet_rx]

I started playing around with a few templates and other Drupal addons. Everything I've tried works with this addon and it seems to function just like Drupal with the addition of of a few modules that integrate it with the forum. Really nice.

[El_Muerte]

Version 5.2.0 has been released, the first non-beta, non-RC release.


Change log

• some sessionid in url changes
• registered vBulletin pages as a $_REQUEST['q'] value. This way blocks will
  be properly filters. All vBulletin pages register itself as:
  <forum>/[script name]
  where [script name] is the name of the script, for example:
  <forum>/showthread
• fixed some issues with drupal bootstrapping and vBulletin's AJAX
• fixed &quot; in created threads by comment_vb
• updated .htaccess_new to not add a 2 weeks epiration to php files
  please update you .htaccess file according to these changes

[goddess_dix]

Thank you! The latest release is running very smoothly for me and I appreciate all the hard work that's evident.

[VIPER-MAN]

I recently uninstalled vbDrupal 4.7 (using VBulletins Manage Plugins within the AdminCP) -- if I installed this, would I follow the same instructions as a fresh installation? Or as an update? Does using the "uninstall" revert the DB changes that occured on the original installation?

[El_Muerte]

if you uninstalled vbDrupal 4.7 all tables should have been removed, so it would be a clean install.
anyway, it should be more or less failsafe, the installer will notify you when it already detects an installed vbDrupal (even if it's a previous release).