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.

[Dannyloski]

First of all, thanks for the great Add-On, I appreciate it. I installed it and works like a champ. However, I do have some questions I am hoping the OP or someone with knowledge can answer ...

I am installing this in a Client's Site and I'm integrating his WordPress with vBulletin. My client wants the vBulletin Welcome Box to appear in the WordPress Homepage. Is that doable with this Bridge?

Basically he wants it so that when the user is logged into the Forums and he views the WordPress Homepage there is a Box in the Sidebar that says:

Welcome back, [username_here]!

He also would like me to add the Avatar of the User next to that "welcome" line - I dont know if that part is doable or not. I saw some post regarding Avatars but it was mostly for the Comments/Posts being made by users.

Either way, can anyone help me out or let me know if all of this is doable using this Add-On or at least the "Welcome" line? Thanks, any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Danny

[nerieru]

Installed and nominated =) (I won't let you add my website yet though, as I'm still in the testing stages and gotta build my theme for wordpress and vbulletin which happens to be my first time making a theme, let alone convert it to both wordperss and vbulletin :P. So it will take a while, but I'm really happy you did this mod When I get the forum up and running with wordpress you can expect a nice donation from me)

Anyways kudos for the mod

kudos,
~Nerieru

[brainfood]

Originally Posted by Ross L

Yeah that is a pain, I noticed that this morning!

Also, if you click on Authors & Users it redirects to forums/admincp/user.php and a lot of people change the name of their admincp for security reasons. Could it be made so you can define the admincp in the settings for vbbridge?

Also if there was a way of supporting user avatars from vBulletin to wordpress, that would be sweet. That way it would be easier to distinguish posters on the blog (as most people remember the avatar rather than the name).

I had the same problem with the admincp/user.php link not working. To fix this I modified line 640 of vbbridge.php:

$arg = 'admincp/user.php';

I hope this helps.

[belai123]

I want to limit the amount of the characters (text) in comments posted back to wordpress and have a read more url to the comment/post. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks

http://menopause911.com/ wordpress with bridge incorporated
http://menopause911.com/forum/ site forum

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[Celebutopia]

I keep getting the message plugin file does not exist when I try to install this. Can someone assist me please. Now i get this error as well.

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

[Tmnoonan]

New install, won't work:

Warning: main(./includes/class_dm.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/guide/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 113

I keep getting that error when I try to do my test post.

I have the forum on www.mysite.com and my blog on www.mysite.com/guide.

Fresh install of the newest version of wordpress. VB Version 3.7.0

I hard-coded in the path to my site.

[YoricksRequiem]

Great addon, almost everything is working perfect.

Working:

• Making a post on the front page also posts in the forums
• Posting comments in the forums posts appears in the Wordpress
• Logins are shared, some fidgiting is required but it seems to work.

Not Working:

• When editing a post in the wordpress, it instantly changes the author to userid 1. I have to edit it in the WP database to show the proper author

Any ideas?

[vprp]

I assume this will work if I have the Facebook connect mod installed? All I have to do is map the user?

[YoricksRequiem]

Originally Posted by Shinichi_bien

Hi,

I have problems with pending posts, so I came up with this filter in order not to lose the original author of the pending post when it's published. I don't know if it's only me who has this issue or not?

PHP Code:

add_filter('wp_dropdown_users', 'vb_post_author');

function vb_post_author($output) {
    global $post;

    $vb_post_author = get_userdata($post->post_author);
    $output = str_replace('</select>','<option value="'.$post->post_author.'" selected>'.$vb_post_author->username.'</option></select>',$output);
    echo $output;
} 


Hmm, where would I put this?

[lucalucius]

It is possible to insert automatically in Wordpress' posts a link of relative thread?

Great job
Regards