Coppermine 1.2.1 / vBulletin 3.0.0 Integration

Coppermine Gallery 1.21 and vBulletin 3.0.0 Integration
Version 1.0
Compiled by SpeedStreet

I'm not the hacker for this; I am merely the guy who poured through all of the threads on vBulletin.org and the Coppermine Development Forums to come up with one definitive post about integrating vBulletin with Coppermine.

WHAT IT DOES:
At the end of this how-to, you're installations of vBulletin and Coppermine will work together off of the same login. While everyone else wants to see all sorts of integration between the two, I believe this is the first step to making those things happen.

CREDITS:
A big thanks to everyone over at Coppermine for a terrific product and the users that support and mod it on a daily basis. I am merely standing on the shoulders of giants here, folks. Also, Nanobot was the guy over there that did the vB3 Gamma bridge, so the credit for that is all his.

FILES TO EDIT (2):
/bridge/vbulletin3.inc.php (Coppermine)
/include/init.inc.php (Coppermine)

HACK REQUIREMENTS:
vBulletin 3.0.0 Installed and Running
Coppermine 1.2.1 Installed and Running
5 Minutes of your time

SUPPORT THREADS:
Coppermine Gamma Thread (original thread): http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/bo...asc&highlight=
vBulletin.org Hack Thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=488062
Coppermine vB 3.0.0 Thread: http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/bo...ic.php?p=20674

FINAL WARNINGS:

There are seem to be some issues with people integrating this with forums located on subdomains (e.g. subaruforums.speedstreet.org). Please reference the Coppermine Gamma Thread above for more info.
Please ensure that Coppermine and vBulletin cookies are NOT named the same thing.

[ap0c]

Originally Posted by SpeedStreet

That's correct, ap0c! The existing hack that is on coppermine's website is exactly the same.

This thread was merely a composite of the little fixes and tweaks on their site, plus the addition of an easy to use howto for those coming to coppermine for the first time.

good to know, thanks, I have to help upgrade someone else's board

[rocket98]

Hi SpeedStreet,

I tried to integrate CPG1.2.1 with VBGold. I don't have a standard database name had to use what my ISP provided. I do have a running gallery but received "Fatal error: There was an error while processing a database query".

I'm not sure what info you want to see to help.

I replaced the section here with my database name and remove the slashes,

// define('UDB_INTEGRATION', 'mydbname');

Is that correct?

Thanks
rocket98

** addition

I may have solved my own issue on this line in vbulletin3.inc.php

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
// Nothing to edit below this line
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------- //
// Prefix and names for the database tables
define('VB_TABLE_PREFIX', ''); // Leave empty, not supported by vBulletin 2.3

I simply added my database prefix and it seems to work. If I click login I get back to vbadvanced homepage where i don't yet have a link to head back to the gallery. Is that correct behaviour. Possible login/logout message in the gallery can just be removed and a link placed there for access back and forth to home page and elsewhere.

Thanks

[???`S?LV?R???`]

when i go to users on the coppermine gallery page its not showing my vb board users on it, i know i must of messed up on one of the steps. anyone have any idea which one i might of messed up on or left out?

[SpeedStreet]

Originally Posted by ???`S?LV?R???`

when i go to users on the coppermine gallery page its not showing my vb board users on it, i know i must of messed up on one of the steps. anyone have any idea which one i might of messed up on or left out?

Nothing.

It does not port the user database from one onto the other. It simply links the two together, and tosses out the Coppermine userdb.

[???`S?LV?R???`]

lol makes sense now, by the way... itll only let registered people on my forums post pics or view this right?

[surfhog]

Help for a newbie please, I have both vbulletin gold and coppermine 1.21 installed and I thought I had installed this intergration modification as well?

I have the gallery working and it appears by looking at my db that I have only one db, so I am assuming that i have installed coppermine intergrated with vbulletin. I have edited the files as per this modification

Now after all that, I have to login seperately for vbulletin and coppermine Am I to assume that I have not installed coppermine correctly?

Please and thank you

[Reeve of shinra]

Coppermine should be installed to the vb database. When you log in to coppermine and click on user profile, does it take you to your forums userprofile page?

If it is, then you probably need to change the name of the cookie coppermine is using. If it isn't, then you likely need to re-check the edits you made to the intergration files.

**edit, I am work so I cant log in to my forums database but I believe one of the tables coppermine sets up is labelled as albums. You could check yoru forums db to see if thats in there as a way of double checking that coppermine was installed to the right db.

[surfhog]

thanks very much Reeve of shinra
it appears that i have not integrated coppermine correctly, because when i hit user profile, it goes to coppermine and not vbulletin.

don't ask me how i messed up, the db is as one, but obviously i make a mistake

so back to the drawing board for me lol

thanks again

[???`S?LV?R???`]

im getting this at the top of the page "Warning: Wrong parameter count for define() in /home/silver/public_html/gallery/bridge/vbulletin3.inc.php on line 37"

[fasteddie]

I got the integration part to work just fine, but I'm confused as to why only admins or mods can upload pictures on my board right now. The admin interface is not too friendly with coppermine