Major Additions - Joomla for vBulletin (IMPORTANT UPDATE) - Bridge to the World's Most Popular CMS

Warning!!! An potential exploit has been found in this modification. The server that hosts vjoomla.com has been attacked several times. It is known to already be severely comprimised so at this time it is unclear whether the vulnerability lies in vJoomla, Joomla itself or the server. Until this is resolved to my satisfaction I am removing this modification. My apologies.


The modification WILL be re-released once this issue is resolved!

vJoomla is an offshoot of Joomla 1.0 that is designed to run in tandem with vbulletin. Unlike the main release it will not run without vbulletin - if you desire a CMS without a forum then use Joomla! instead. vJoomla is identical in most all regards to Joomla!

What vJoomla Does

• Provide a single session, single login interface to Joomla and vbulletin.
• Allows Joomla pages to be skinned by vbulletin's template engine.
• Maps Joomla usergroups to vbulletin usergroups.

What vJoomla Does Not Do

• It does not rewrite your templates for you - so you will need to go in currently and change relative links to images and pages to absolute links. This is most important in the style sheets and in the navbar template. This is something you need to do yourself rather than programmatically since no two sites are likely to be using the same style sheet and the same setup for these links.

Install Instructions

1. Log into your admincp
2. Close your forum
3. If your forums are at the root of your site move them elsewhere - the best location is probably /forum
4. Upload the files from the zip packages to their respective locations. There should be no overwrites.
5. Navigate to the root of your site and run the Joomla installer.
6. Go back to the admincp and install the Joomla product file
7. Now either copy the ./cpstyles, ./clientscript and ./images directory of the forum into the Joomla directory OR create symbolic links to those directories. The contents of the ./images directory of Joomla and vbulletin will need to be merged.

This is release candidate 2.

[Michael Morris]

Originally Posted by kartik786

can someone tell me if it works on 3.6.4 , so that i can have the pleasure of using this mod on my board

Development of this began on 3.6.4 and I upgraded 3.6.5 midway during development without incident, so I believe it's safe to answer yes to that question.

[akulion]

I dont use joomla but just wanted to give a few words of thanks and encouragement

Keep up the great work )

[JimmDaBimm]

Thaaank you so much for working on this hack! ive ben waiting for a free bridge over month -.- and it was so close that i pay for bbpixel. Now i will watch it growing. I dont test it yet but is it posible to bridge joomla and vb without bridge the template engines?

I will test it later local. I hope this is what i have waiting for ;D.

p.s. sorry for my bad english ^^"

[TheHeartSmasher]

Would it be possible to have the option of having this work without having to install joomla into the vbulletin database. So the two can have seperate databases, in case a problem happens with joomla or vb one or the other will still work.

[RedGTiVR6]

What he said!

That would be ideal!

[Michael Morris]

Originally Posted by JimmDaBimm

Thaaank you so much for working on this hack! ive ben waiting for a free bridge over month -.- and it was so close that i pay for bbpixel. Now i will watch it growing. I dont test it yet but is it posible to bridge joomla and vb without bridge the template engines?

I will test it later local. I hope this is what i have waiting for ;D.

p.s. sorry for my bad english ^^"

The point of this particular bridge is to append Joomla onto vbulletin, part of which involves replacing it's master template engine. If you want or need full independent templates for both sides bbpixel remains your best bet. Personally I don't want to have to manage two template libraries.

Originally Posted by TheHeartSmasher

Would it be possible to have the option of having this work without having to install joomla into the vbulletin database. So the two can have seperate databases, in case a problem happens with joomla or vb one or the other will still work.

No - the two are working off a single connection resource. This means each time the database is changed a change database command would have to be sent. Getting this to work correctly would require hacking both vbulletin and joomla's database classes and in my opinion would introduce more problems than it could solve.

[Reeve of shinra]

Also, if the user table is in the VB database adn that crashed, you would still be SOL as your joomla db wouldnt be able to find the data it needs to run. Keep backups, plenty of them.

[Michael Morris]

Originally Posted by Reeve of shinra

Also, if the user table is in the VB database adn that crashed, you would still be SOL as your joomla db wouldnt be able to find the data it needs to run. Keep backups, plenty of them.

Reeve is right - in this particular hack the joomla user table does not contain the information necessary for validating the logins. Even though a partial copy is made, the password hash isn't copied over so if the vb user database goes the whole thing goes down anyway.

[juanchi]

This mod is great, the only thing that I don't like is the way it handles the templates, and please don't get me wrong but I will prefer to use some of the templates available for joomla to skin the CMS. Michael if there could be a possibility to implement this please give it a chance, thanks.

[TheBlackPoet]

I am hoping this bridge works out because i want to intergrate joomla into my forum as well.. i am putting this thread on instant notification and wait excitedly for it to come through the other side...

when i loaded it.. it did something funky to my login.php.. but no worries...

good work though..