User Integration: 4images Gallery 1.7.2 + vB 3.5.4

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User Integration 4images 1.7.2 / vBulletin 3.5.x
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Copyright: ? 2002 Jan Sorgalla
Integration to vBulletin 2.x by Jan Sorgalla ?
Integration to vBulletin 3.0.1 by mtha
Integration to vBulletin 3.5.0 by mtha
Constribution:
Matrixgl for re-organize the hack
d1635d for adding the fix for 3.0.1
all others for comments and suggestions
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Hack version: 3.5.0.20051117
Compatible with vB 3.5.x and 4images 1.7.2
Translated Versions:
http://www.vbhacks-germany.com/forum...ead.php?t=1969
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Features:
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- Use vBulletin's user table instead of 4images.
- Forum's members can access and upload pictures (depends on permissions)
- Forum's admin can administrate the album (unless you do the EXTRA part)
- Display Who is browsing album, in the Forum's WhoisOnline list

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Changes and modifications
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4images file to replace: 5 (sessions.php, constants.php,admin/admin_global.php,templates/default/user_loginform.html)

Query to run: 0

* If you do EXTRA part, there're few queries to run, depends on what you want to do.

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Requirements:
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- vBulletin 3.5.0 installed and working
- 4images 1.7 fresh installed and working
- 4images and vBulletin are installed to use the SAME database
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Limitations:
- This is ONLY users integration. NO template/style integration.
- This hack use default usergroup for album level, there're only 4 levels of Guest, User awaiting, User, Admin. See Extra section at the end for other solution
- I didnt look at the "cooke path" and "cookie domain" yet, so it will use the default

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Notes before you install
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1. Back up the files before you edit.

2. 4images tables and vbulletin tables have to be in the same database.

3. If you run 4images and vBulletin under different subdomains,
for example http://4images.domain.com and http://vbulletin.domain.com,
you should use the following setting for vBulletin in

"vBulletin Options -> HTTP Headers and output":

#############################
Cookie Domain = .domain.com
#############################

Dont forget the dot at the beginning, and change domain.com to your domain. If you do not do this, you might experience a login problem.

4. If you delete users, you should delete the user first over the Control Panel of 4images
and after that over the Administration Panel of vBulletin.
This is neccessary to delete/modify all user-related data from the 4images database (images, comments, usergroups).

5. Its is highly recomanded that you use integration only with fresh new installations of 4images because of the following reason:
In the 4images user-table User A has the User-ID "1".
After integration 4images will use the user-table of vBulletin.
There, the User A has the User-ID "2" and User B the User-ID "1".
All images, comments and usergroup memberships are now "owned" by User B.

6. Lot of people are getting logged out after a certain period of time. This could be fixed by changing
"Session timeout in minutes" to "0" in the 4images control panel.
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INSTALLATION (read intergrate-4image-vB35.txt for more detail)
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Step 1: Edit the included sessions.php

Step 2. Edit the included constants.php

Step 3: Upload the files in UPLOAD folder to your album directory

Step 4: Import Product product-hao_wol_locations.xml from vB 3.5.0 adminCP product manager

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LOG:

20051117: clean up code, might have some small errors fixed.
20060410: modify for 4images172
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The End .

[nokturno]

thanks!

[GamerJunk.net]

Everytime I log in, it takes me back to the index and I am not logged in. WTF?

www.gsnforce.com/4images

[Chrissicom]

I didn't use the vB template for my 4images page because it is linked from other websites as well. My intention was that forum users gain access to the galleries automatically and the other way round, so although a lot of people only use one of both those who use both can use it with one account.

[GamerJunk.net]

So how can I log in?

[mtha]

Originally Posted by RasMasta

Everytime I log in, it takes me back to the index and I am not logged in. WTF?

www.gsnforce.com/4images

I really dont like to answer when people swearing!



you need to read the steps, and make correct modifications in the given files. I did something wrong somewhere.

[Sadie Frost]

I'm having sort of a strange problem. I had this working yesterday, but now I'm having the problem where I can't login (it takes me back to the forum home). I've checked and rechecked the directions, and I set the session timeout to 0. Has anyone had a similar problem and found a solution?

Thanks

[mtha]

Originally Posted by Sadie Frost

I'm having sort of a strange problem. I had this working yesterday, but now I'm having the problem where I can't login (it takes me back to the forum home). I've checked and rechecked the directions, and I set the session timeout to 0. Has anyone had a similar problem and found a solution?

Thanks

I set the session timeout to 0.

why 0? I dont play much with session timeout, but zero means it always timeout, isnt it?

make it a big number and see how it works

[Sadie Frost]

Maybe I misunderstood this part of the directions then?

Originally Posted by mtha

6. Lot of people are getting logged out after a certain period of time. This could be fixed by changing
"Session timeout in minutes" to "0" in the 4images control panel.

Will try setting it big then Thanks!


Edit: Hmm that didn't work so far

Edit again: Well it's working now, unfortuneately I have no idea what I did...lol

[JirQUEST]

Originally Posted by Sadie Frost

I'm having sort of a strange problem. I had this working yesterday, but now I'm having the problem where I can't login (it takes me back to the forum home). I've checked and rechecked the directions, and I set the session timeout to 0. Has anyone had a similar problem and found a solution?

Thanks

i am having the same problem too. set session timeout to 200. still got me logged out after about 15 mins of inactivity. now i cant log back in without clearing my cookies :/

[Sadie Frost]

Yep same thing is happening to me - when I first install (or reinstall as the case may be) it's fine, then the next time I try to access it I'm logged out and I can't log in again.

Clearing my cookies doesn't seem to work for me though