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.

[Lloyd32552]

I've seen that others have had this error:
After turning on the plug-in, I consistently get:

"Error 500 - Internal server error

An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later."

...but I have not seen a reply as to how to fix it. My installation is extremely vanilla - same domain for vB and WP with no custom modifications to either. vB is installed in /forum and WP at the root. No database prefix. I've applied the 755 chmod to each of the WP folders.

The only thing that I can think of that is not out-of-the-box is that I have PhotoPost installed and integrated with vB and that is all working just fine. Is there a chance that a permissions change there is keeping this bridge from working?

Any help would be appreciated as I'd like to get this going before the site goes live. I have temporarily removed this mod since it wasn't working.

Thanks,
Lloyd
vBulletin 3.8.2
WordPress 2.7.1
vbbridge 4.01.13
Hosting site: 1and1.com
MySQL 5.0

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by Lloyd32552

I've seen that others have had this error:
After turning on the plug-in, I consistently get:

"Error 500 - Internal server error

An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later."

...but I have not seen a reply as to how to fix it. My installation is extremely vanilla - same domain for vB and WP with no custom modifications to either. vB is installed in /forum and WP at the root. No database prefix. I've applied the 755 chmod to each of the WP folders.

The only thing that I can think of that is not out-of-the-box is that I have PhotoPost installed and integrated with vB and that is all working just fine. Is there a chance that a permissions change there is keeping this bridge from working?

Any help would be appreciated as I'd like to get this going before the site goes live. I have temporarily removed this mod since it wasn't working.

Thanks,
Lloyd
vBulletin 3.8.2
WordPress 2.7.1
vbbridge 4.01.13
Hosting site: 1and1.com
MySQL 5.0

You are having a conflict with other plugins. disable everything else and install this. then enable one by one..and see which one is causing it.

[Artangel]

if you turn off the forum the themes of wordpress will crash.. any idea how to fix it?

[amjadz4]

Originally Posted by Artangel

if you turn off the forum the themes of wordpress will crash.. any idea how to fix it?

Only thing I can think of is turn off the wordpress too

[rcadden]

I think a great solution to the userid issue would be to just have every post from wordpress come into vbulletin with a generic userid, like 'Front Page' or something like that - which is possible, but not if you're signed into the forum, even if you have the autointegration turned off.

It also doesn't work in scheduled posts, annoyingly.

[Lloyd32552]

I decided to start over from scratch because I could not get by the Error 500 message.
So I created new databases and installed just the newest versions of WordPress and vBulletin. No mods or plugins have been added. I created a single user in vBulletin named Integration - ID is 2.
I've created no new categories and so am just using the default category which is ID 2.
The forum url is http://nameofmysite.com/forum
The relative path is /forum
I've turned on the plugin
The site uses UTF-8
Auto-Integrate is NOT turned on.
Post articles to forum is turned on.
Excert from post is turned off.

When I try to write the test post, I see the drop-down box with the correct 'Main Forum' category and when I click Publish I get Error 500.

Does anyone have a suggestion or would someone be willing to login to my site at 1and1 and look at my setup? I can PM you the login info.

[Lloyd32552]

Just a continuation of my last post...

I am still getting Error 500, but I now see that my posts are showing up in the forum. So I guess my new questions is - should I be concerned about the Error 500?

Also, should I assume this has been a successful test and turn on Auto Integration?

[tako]

I have an exactly same problem.

That is the only one big issue I currently have with this great mod.

Originally Posted by M4GN3T

I found a bug. When a 'editor' or 'author' edit thier own post, the post gets placed under userid number one, which is in my case me myself the admin. I hope you can fix this.

[wiizard]

Since today my website isn't reachable anymore, returning the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare get_userdatabylogin() (previously declared in /var/www/wii/wp-includes/pluggable.php:166) in /var/www/wii/wp-content/plugins/functions_vbbridge.php on line 33

I had to delete the vbbridge-files manually to restore the functionality, though I can't use the integration now. Reuploading the plugin doesn't help and even the resetvbbridge.php-file returns that error.

Is there any way to get vbbridge working again?

/edit:
Okay, re-installing the plugin does actually fix the problem.
But it seems that it's only a matter of time until the error comes up again - and I have absolutely no idea what causes it. I've seen that there are some other users with the same problem, so maybe it's a bug in the script?

[amjadz4]

I am sure most of you who are having the problems are not following the instructions correctly. You will not get any error if its followed step by step. I have tried it myself and I finally got it what was causing those issues.

Anyone wanting to setup the bridge and make it work once and for all can PM me. I'll be happy to set it up for you making it worth my time.

also about the USER ID issue, as far as i know this mod is not designed for that. I hope the author will fix that in the next version so for now, there's no use talking about it, simply don't use the posting feature at all for now. If you want only users integrated that will work perfectly. (and that's what most of the people actually want!)