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.

[skinny]

Originally Posted by 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

Have you configured all the user groups?

[SpeedStreet]

Originally Posted by skinny

Have you configured all the user groups?

Interesting. My Admins cannot create their own user galleries

I'm still trying to work out the kinks of this hack...there is apparently more than integration.

[ap0c]

Originally Posted by SpeedStreet

Interesting. My Admins cannot create their own user galleries

I'm still trying to work out the kinks of this hack...there is apparently more than integration.

random quote of yours

I figured out why I didnt have to update any files in coppermine, (the init, or bridge file.) I use f5hosting.com , nanobot released a vbulletin.inc.php file on there after rc1 was released. Why the gamma version is still being used on coppermine is probably an oversite. http://www.f5hosting.com/forums/show...?t=1351&page=1

[SpeedStreet]

Originally Posted by ap0c

random quote of yours

I figured out why I didnt have to update any files in coppermine, (the init, or bridge file.) I use f5hosting.com , nanobot released a vbulletin.inc.php file on there after rc1 was released. Why the gamma version is still being used on coppermine is probably an oversite. http://www.f5hosting.com/forums/show...?t=1351&page=1

Yeah It's time to focus on good, pure innocent hacks versus the drudgery of that "other" conversation I've been talking legalese in.

Is Nanobot ok with the hack being released here? I couldn't find contact information, and GauGau from Coppermine loved the condensed how-to.

[deathemperor]

this is a very wrong forum, this is Integration with vBulletin 2, you should ask mods to move this to Integration with vBulletin 3.
May I know how many MB the Coppermine cost the database in a fresh installation ?

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

Heh I think ill uninstall this and wait on it til more of these problems have been worked out..

[Nanobot]

Originally Posted by SpeedStreet

Yeah It's time to focus on good, pure innocent hacks versus the drudgery of that "other" conversation I've been talking legalese in.

Is Nanobot ok with the hack being released here? I couldn't find contact information, and GauGau from Coppermine loved the condensed how-to.

I have no problem with the hack being release here, I did not do it myself as I do not really have the time to support it.

[Sasuke_]

I modified the bridge to work just perfect with vbulletin RC4.

[SpeedStreet]

Originally Posted by Sasuke_

I modified the bridge to work just perfect with vbulletin RC4.

Sasuke,

This hack is for vB3 Gold. Please refrain from posting legacy hacks for outdated Release Candidates.

AE Silver AE,

This hack has the kinks worked out of it....any minor little glitch has to deal with Coppermine. The hack provides the exact effect it is supposed to have.

[OGT]

Originally Posted by SpeedStreet

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.

when I click on the users link, it goes to a 404. the file usermgr.php is there though, so I assume one of the includes is borked? I am expecting to see a userlist similar to the group list i see when I click on groups in the admin bar.

I also am now having troubles adding albums as an admin. a test user had it work great.

I think there are still some cookie issues too... here is my setup and the symptoms:

vbull location is www.mysite.com/forums
vbull cookie prefix is vbull
path to save is /
domain to effect is blank

coppermine location is www.mysite.com/jdgallery
cookie name is cpg11d (prefix = name?)
path is /

When users go to board, they are logged in, everything works great. When they go to gallery, it says they are logged out. If they refresh the page they are shown as logged in. When administrating the board, it seems like everything will go fine, then after the third or fourth save theres a permission denied error and i need to go back tot he site and then return back to the gallery and refresh to show up as logged in again to continue administrating.

I also have the issue with admins no longer being able toa dministrate. At first, all was working well, then when I tried to make some albums, I lost all admin priviledges.

Hope we can get this worked out, it seems like its really close to at elast having full user/group integration, which is what I think is most important. CSS and style integration will come with time I'm sure.