Integration with vBulletin - vbWiki Standard - vBulletin+MediaWiki integration

Update:

9/28/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC5 is now available for download. This version adds compatibility with MW 1.11.0+

5/17/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC4 is now available for download. This version is compatible with MW 1.10.0+ and vBulletin 3.6.6+

1/21/2007: vbWiki Std v1.0.2 RC3 is now available for download. This version fixes the 'session error' that used to happen on some installations of MediaWiki 1.9.x.

Description:

vbWiki Standard is the lite version of vbWiki Pro. vbWiki Standard allows the integration of vBulletin and MediaWiki user authentication.

(vbWiki Pro is a commercial product that, in addition to the functionality found in vbWiki Standard, provides full skin integration, enhanced user management, Admin CP, editing of wiki skin in vBulletin's Style Manager, among other features.)

Why should you add a wiki to your forums?

Forums are great for community building with their high level of interactivity. Successful forums have hundreds or thousand of concurrent users creating and replying to threads.

However due to this very reason the more your forums grow the more "collective knowledge" is scattered throughout the thousands (or hundreds or millions) of threads in your forums. Making it difficult for users to find and use.

A wiki is not that good at community building, but it is a great medium to centralize this 'collective knowledge'. Enabling you to create an 'ecosystem of information' (quoting pipin ) maintained and contributed by your users.

The idea behind vbWiki (both Standard and Pro) is to enable the seamless integration between these two packages (vBulletin and MediaWiki) side-by-side in your community. You (and your users and community) get the best of both worlds.

Or so the theory goes...

Features:

• Single sign-on for vBulletin and MediaWiki (users log in only once)
• Supports mapping of vBulletin usergroups to MediaWiki user roles
• Users viewing wiki pages are shown in vBulletin's "What's going on?" section (both guests and registered users)
• Supports auto-authentication, users who choose to be "remembered" are logged in upon visiting the site to both vBulletin and MediaWiki.

Installation:

These installation instructions do not apply to vbWiki Pro. Refer to vbWiki Pro installation instructions for more information.

MediaWiki and vBulletin must be installed and properly working before installing vbWiki. MediaWiki can be downloaded here.

• Create a new directory in your forums directory named vbWiki.
• Upload the content of the installation package to this new directory.
• Rename the file vbWiki_Init.php-dist to vbWiki_Init.php
• Open the file LocalSettings.php found in your MediaWiki directory in a text editor and at the very end find the following line and remove it if present:

PHP Code:

?> 


• Add the following code at the end of the file (entering the correct directory path):

PHP Code:

require_once "/absolute/path/to/your/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Init.php"; 


Troubleshooting:

• Last installation step: Click Mark as Installed..

If you run into any trouble installing vbWiki (blank page, logins not working, etc.), follow these instructions to temporarily turn on vbWiki's Diagnostic Tools.

Open vbWiki_Init.php (or vbWikiPro_Init.php) and find this line:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = false; 


And change it for this:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = true; 


Navigate to the wiki home page, and see the results.

Changes:

• 0 vBulletin files to Edit
• 1 MediaWiki file to Edit
• 10 vbWiki Files to Upload

Requirements:

• vBulletin v3.5.4 (version 3.6.x recommended)
• MediaWiki 1.6.8+ (recommended 1.7.x+).
• PHP4+

Uninstalling...

• To uninstall vbWiki Standard simply remove (or comment) the line added to LocalSettings.php.
• Optionally remove the directory vbWiki from your forums directory.

[Ransack]

Installation seems to have worked, but no users (not even Administrator) can create new pages. Pages can be edited. How does one configure the usergroups to allow new wiki page creation?

I've disabled guest editing with the following in LocalSettings.php and that seems to work:

# 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");

But no users can create new pages.

For vB integration, how does:
$wgGroupPermissions[...]
map to a vB user group?

Does it need a vB user group id?
E.g.
$wgGroupPermissions['6']

Or the vB usergroup name?
E.g.
$wgGroupPermissions['Administrator']

Confused.
Thanks for any help.

[Ransack]

^^ I gues this was just a wiki usage problem on my part. I'm not too familiar with them. I see the "create this page" link in the result of a failed search, and that works.

But I'd still like to know how to map vB usergroups to MW usergroups.

I'd like an add/edit group consisting of not just admins and mods but also some regular forum users. How do I do that?

[Jaxel]

Has anyone found a solution to this "Cookies Cleared" problem?

[Warlord]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Has anyone found a solution to this "Cookies Cleared" problem?

There's this. But it's kind of a half-ass fix really.

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by Warlord

There's this. But it's kind of a half-ass fix really.

Just tried that fix... changed NOTHING. That fix is for vbWikiPro.

[Warlord]

Well since it seems there are no coders familiar with this hack, I'll see if I can try and understand the ins and outs of it, but this is probably a little over my difficulty level so no promises.

I'd love to get this working flawlessly myself, but at the moment my server went kablooey so it might be a while before I can even poke around in there.

[Jaxel]

Anyone notice that Special:Userlogin page doesnt work?

Gives an error.

[bezking]

Hi,

I've installed this and I am not being given sysop privileges.

I've added:

PHP Code:

$g_vbWiki_Usergroup_Mapping            = array (
            6 /*Administrators*/    => "sysop",
            2 /*Registered Users */    => "editors"
    ); 


And also tried

PHP Code:

$g_vbWiki_Usergroup_Mapping            = array (
            6 /*Administrators*/    => "bureaucrat,sysop",
            2 /*Registered Users */    => "editors"
    ); 


to vbWiki_Init.php. I'm using vB3.7.2 PL 2 and MediaWiki 1.13.0

Any advice?

Thanks!

[wangyu1314]

now,i run mediawiki 1.13.0 and vbb 3.6.8,but when Testing forum integration,it dispear this wrong message,can someone help me? thx

i think this caused of SpecialUserlogin.php dir have changed,but i can't resolve it:

Warning: require_once(SpecialUserlogin.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\ampp\htdocs\bbs\vbWiki\vbWiki_Userlogin.php on line 15

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'SpecialUserlogin.php' (include_path='C:\ampp\htdocs\wiki;C:\ampp\htdocs\ wiki/includes;C:\ampp\htdocs\wiki/languages;.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\ampp\htdocs\bbs\vbWiki\vbWiki_Userlogin.php on line 15

[leonnix]

does it work with 3.7.3