Integration with vBulletin - Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings

Identical to this Mod here, but now for the Vbulletin 3.8 line.

DOES NOT WORK FOR Vbulletin 4.x

This version probably no longer works for Wordpress 3.x. I have started developing this product over and have released the NEW version here:

http://www.lampwrights.com/showthread.php?t=41

This mod bridges your Vbulletin users over to Wordpress. You can also use Vbulletin as your comment engine instead of the spammy one built into Wordpress. You can display the comments inline in your post. You need not use the comment feature, if your only interested in sharing users.

You can map your Vbulletin Usergroups to Wordpress Usergroups and those users will then be recognized as registered Wordpress users.

For example, user "Joe" registers at your forum and logs in. Joe then clicks on your Wordpress page. Joe is instantly added to the Wordpress user base with the permissions you set for his usergroup. In otherwords, if a user comes over belonging to the "Registered User" group, you can select that he is placed in the Wordpress "Subscriber" usergroup.

If you change a users group from vbulletin, it will automatically change in Wordpress.

Requirements:

• DOES NOT and WILL NEVER support Wordpress MU.
• Wordpress and Vbulletin scripts must reside on the same physical server.
• Wordpress and Vbulletin must use the same domain name.
• Stable Wordpress Version greater than or equal to 2.7.
• DOES work for Vbulletin 3.7.
• Does work for vBulletin 3.8.

Limitations:

• Does not work for 4.x. Why? Because VB 4.x does not work for me. If they ever make that product worth a shit, I might support it.
• Please don't ask if it works for any BETA versions of Vbulletin. I do not know and will not convert this to the latest version of VB (whatever it is at the time you are reading this) until the version is released as non-beta.
• Does not work with XMLRPC.
• Chances are, this will not work when VB and Wordpress are located in different sub domains. I.E. forum.yoursite.com - blog.yoursite.com. Cookie issue.
• I did the best I could in determining your forums file path with the script. There may be certain script setups that cannot find the file path properly, in which case you may get errors that the script cannot find or open /config.php. If this is the case, please HARDCODE your ABSOLUTE path to the forum in vbridge.php.
  
  To do this find:
  
  

   ## If you are having path problems, uncomment this next variable and define the path
  ## NO TRAILING SLASH!
  # $vwd = '/some/path/to/your/forum';

  And uncomment the last line, and change the path to your forums path:
  
  

   ## If you are having path problems, uncomment this next variable and define the path
  ## NO TRAILING SLASH!
  $vwd = '/some/path/to/your/forum';

Common Mistakes When Installing:

• Using two different host names causes problems. If your forum URL contains www.yourdomain.com, then your wordpress blog URL MUST contain the www. part of www.yourdomain.com also. This goes for any other host name. Browsers are finnecky when it comes to cookies (as they should be).
• Editors generally EDIT, not write. In Wordpress, editors don't show up in the post author drop down. This has nothing to do with this plugin, that is Wordpress code.
• Make sure you DO NOT create a subdirectory for this plugin in the wp-content/plugins directory. Just upload it directly there..
• If you do not map users before you turn auto-integrate on, the plugin has no idea whether your allowed into the dashboard.
• If you all of a sudden can't login to the dashboard, see the above two common mistakes.
• FOLLOW the directions and make a test post first. Being in a rush and not testing will most likely turn out bad for you.

UPDATES:

Changelog is included in download, here is the most recent changes:

3/09/2009

• Added code to process scheduled posts
• Addressed code where links and images would not show up properly in VB
• Added new table called vb_forumid for scheduled posts
• Reduced redundant calls when dealing with forum excerpts

Sites Using This Plug-In:

• http://www.jeffsrecipes.com
• http://www.xboxcircle.com
• http://www.detailuniversity.com
• http://www.zeropaid.com
• http://www.daggersden.net/
• http://www.talkbronx.com/
• http://www.czeta.it
• http://www.boonvilleforum.com

(PM me if you want to add your site here)

Special Thanks:

axisoverdrive - Debugging Help, Kyraal - Paypal Donation, Kalina - Paypal Donation, Wildcard27 - Paypal Donation, Shri - Paypal Donation, pspcrazy - Paypal Donation, Tomahoochi - Paypal Donation.

If you use this plug-in, and find it useful, please support us by nominating us for Mod Of The Month (MOTM) in the top right corner of this thread, or feel free to donate.

If you do install:

Please Click Install

Brought To You By: Lampwrights.com.

[puregraf]

under users > vbridge users settings i am getting this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/site/public_html/art/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 475

can someone please help?

[puregraf]

^^ i searched for a fix and did not find anything, there was 2 other people that got this problem but none posted a solution

can someone please help

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by puregraf

^^ i searched for a fix and did not find anything, there was 2 other people that got this problem but none posted a solution

can someone please help

It seems you did not follow the instructions carefully line by line. This happens when the mod isnt correctly installed. Try re installing it. Remove it COMPLETELY first...even the tables in the database.

[Turbine]

I just installed this plugin as described in the readme file, but when I am posting a comment on wp it doesn't appear in vbulletin. I double checked the settings everything seems correct and no error appears. Do you have any idea whats wrong?

I am using Vbulletin 3.8.1 and Wordpress 2.7

Thanks for your help!

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by Turbine

I just installed this plugin as described in the readme file, but when I am posting a comment on wp it doesn't appear in vbulletin. I double checked the settings everything seems correct and no error appears. Do you have any idea whats wrong?

I am using Vbulletin 3.8.1 and Wordpress 2.7

Thanks for your help!

This is not what the mod does. It does the opposite. It disables the wp comments once turned on and installed. If you do the comments modification from the readme, it replaced wp's comments with vbulletin posts. So when you reply to the post in vbulletin..it will appear in wordpress.
Hope that helps!

[dieslcruisrhead]

Hi there,
This is the guy using it on www.hazardassembly.com


The only bug that is annoying for me is when the original blog poster edits their file it reverts the user ID to "admin" instead of who posted it. It is really annoying as I have several bloggers mapped over from vbulletin.

Thank you,
Andre

[Omega.Rav]

Hi everyone, just installed this plugin on my wordpress 2.7.1 but I'm having problems with the "upload/insert" image while writing-editing posts (If I disable the plugin, everything is fine, so I'm assuming it's a vBridge problem). Basically, whenever I click on the "add image" button, a blank screen appears into the "Add Image" popup with this phrase "Are you sure you want to do this?" and a link "Rerty". If I click on "retry" I am sent back to the "modify article" page.

Any suggestion?

[tuRiver]

Hi!

I've got this plugin installed, but i can't login. When i try to make it using http://cs.taringa.net/wp-login.php nothing happens, it reloads the page and the url changes to wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fcs.taringa.net% 2Fwp-admin%2F

I can login using the vbulletin, on wordpress the only thing i've get it's the login page

any ideas?

thanks in advance

[xlcstaff]

The mod works fine, but now i would to put in my sidebar the latest comments...how can i make it?
All plugins i try to put don't work...i think that the code for the comments is changed with the bridge

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by tuRiver

Hi!

I've got this plugin installed, but i can't login. When i try to make it using http://cs.taringa.net/wp-login.php nothing happens, it reloads the page and the url changes to wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fcs.taringa.net% 2Fwp-admin%2F

I can login using the vbulletin, on wordpress the only thing i've get it's the login page

any ideas?

thanks in advance

Check your VB Bridge options again, you may have misspelled the URL.

Originally Posted by xlcstaff

The mod works fine, but now i would to put in my sidebar the latest comments...how can i make it?
All plugins i try to put don't work...i think that the code for the comments is changed with the bridge

No need for a plugin to do this. Simply enable the RSS Feeds widget which is there by default in wordpress and put the link of vB feeds in it. That's what I do

The RSS feed will not work if you haven't activated RSS External synidcation on your forum. To do this, on your forums admincp, go to vBulletin Options->External Data Provider and check 'Yes' on Enable RSS Syncidcation.