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

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 2.5.
• If your WP login name is the same as your VB username, this user will NOT be ported! If this was the case, you could lose your WP admin rights if there was an error, or if you deactivated the plugin.
• DOES work for Vbulletin 3.7.

Limitations:

• 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.
• If you delete a user, you must do so in both Wordpress and Vbulletin.
• If you are using XMLRPC to post with applications such as Windows Live Writer, you must change the password of the author in the WORDPRESS admin cp, after the user is ported over from VB. If you are not integrating users, then you do not have to.
• 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 the admin username in Vbulletin is the same as the one in Wordpress (i.e. Admin), that user will NOT be able to login to the WP dashboard.
• 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.
• When you create a test user in VB to test mapping users, the test user MUST have an email address. If a VB users email address is blank, they will not map.

UPDATES:

01/03/2007 - Fixed the unlock_tables() issue on some setups.

01/03/2007 - Fixed a bug in the script that if you used a MySQL database prefix, integration would not work. Please see this post for more information! Special thanks to axisoverdrive for giving me access to his server and letting me troubleshoot the issue!

01/05/2007 - Fixed issue where if a user saved (not published) and published later, the post would not be added to the forum.

01/05/2007 - When a post is edited, it will also be edited in the forum.

01/08/2007 - Modified slightly so when posts are edited, so are the titles (if edited).

02/07/2007 - Major modifications to new version (now 2.05). The list follows:

• Reworked the code so it uses the $vbulletin object throughout the code especially during the bridging process.
• Users are bridged whether they checked the "Remember Me" box or not.
• Removed a couple of SQL calls that became redundant.
• Addressed a bug where if a user logged out of the dashboard, it only logged them out of VB.
• Added Inline Comments capability. Comments posted to the forum (using VB for comments) will now appear at the bottom of a WP Post when viewing the post.
• Author user names can now be linked to their VB profile page if desired.
• Added option to turn off posting to forum. All this really does is remove the "Select Forum To Post To" option when writing a post. (There you go AxisOverdrive )
• The $vbulletin object should now be available in all templates and most plugins.
• Fixed a bug where deactivating any plugin would semi deactivate this plugin.
• With the reduction in SQL calls, and the removal of now unnecessary variables, speed and memory use should be improved.
• PLEASE READ THE UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS IF UPGRADING!

07/17/2007

• Fixed problem where upload iframe was a bit mangled.
• Fixed problem where users had to refresh the dashboard once after logging in.
• Fixed problem that arose from Wordpress 2.2.1 upgrade that would not allow activation.
• Fixed logout issue where users would still be logged into Wordpress.
• When a Wordpress post is deleted, so is the thread it created.
• Added option to allow thread posted from Wordpress article to be truncated, with a linkback to the article.
• Fixed issue when user re-activates plugin, and vb_threadid column already exists. Now checks for column first.
• Removed a stray VB_Init() call.
• Forums that do not allow threads will not be selectable in the drop down menu when writing a post.
• Forums are listed out in a parent/child nested pattern.
• (Note: 367 downloads of version 2.05)

11/29/07 - 3.00

• Added TABLE_PREFIX throughout the script instead of the get_option('vbb_VBPRX') call. get_option('vbb_VBPRX') is now deprecated.
• Addressed path issues by establishing $vwd first. If for some reason there are path issues on an install, the path only needs to be manually changed once, at the beginning of the script.
• Removed call to admin_db.php which seems to no longer be necessary.
• Changed all queries to the VB database to be handled by the $vbulletin object. This should facilitate multiple database configurations.
• Added limited XMLRPC support.
• Had to include a basic copy of the functions_wysiwyg.php file (functions_wysiwyg2.php) with a minor change in the sanitize_url function (now sanitize_vburl) as it conflicts with a new WP function of the same name. Otherwise, this is identical to the VB release. This was necessary to keep formatting somewhat uniform between the two.
• Removed unnecessary globals.
• Changed the global.php call so it always loads. $vbulletin should be available throughout the code (via global in functions).
• Edited some code around wysiwyg functions of VB, and conversions to vbcode.
• Added "Turn Plugin On" option.
• Fixed an issue with the forum list on the "Write Post" page. Default forum was not being auto selected in some cases.
• Modified from BETA so that the new functions_wysiwyg2.php file is loaded using the WP ABSPATH constant. Requires the plugin to stay in the plugins directory.
• Fix an error message when a post was deleted in VB, then edited in WP.

12/10/07 - 3.01

• Fixed two <? tags that should have been <?php (pointed out by Amenadiel)

03/31/08 - 3.02

• Fixed media-upload clash for new version of Wordpress (2.5).
• Added fix that will now delete threads in VB when the post is deleted in WP and not using Ajax delete.
• Added code to insert a default email address if VB users email address is blank upon bridging.

04/20/08

• Fixed a bug in user roles for the new version 2.5.1 of Wordpress.

05/08/2008

• Fixed issue where CSS was munging scrolling text box when selecting a forum during a post
• Fixed an issue where content encoding was getting screwey between WP and VP creating a lot of unintended characters (only on PHP installs where utf8_decode() exists (most)).

05/08/2008

• Fixed issue where post count of a user did not change

Sites Using This Plug-In:

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

(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.

[pericolosogr]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

That is not correct. You can use it. The only time it would matter is if the blog was at blog.yourdomain.com and your forum was at forum.yourdomain.com for example.

so i can use this mode
thanks a lot

[pericolosogr]

which are exactly the index.php single.php page.php i have to edit so that i can use vb for comments?

very nice mod, thanx a lot

[Jafo232]

They are your wordpress template files, depending on your template.

[V3RT1G0]

is there a reason why posts dont get recorded when i post through wordpress? like the post is there but itll still say i have 0 posts...

[Flight_Teacher]

Thanks for the help. I had the URL screwed up. Fixed now. This plugin is working great.

Is there a way to show recent forum "posts" on the "blog" ? How would I call that up in Wordpress??

Thanks.

[djr]

I can't for the life of me getting this mod to work. I have installed everything correctly (I'm by no means a vB n00b, been dealing with vB since vB2.0), I've configured all the options and I changed all $vwd's and relative paths to absolute ones where necessary (my server has safe_mode and open_basedir to ON).

When I go to post_new in WP as instructed for the first test I get either errors or I see no forumlist. I see the error messages when I leave this line untouched:

require_once($vwd . '/includes/functions_misc.php');

The errors are:

Warning: vb_post_form(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/includes/functions_misc.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/mydomainname/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/mydomainname/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 466

(and two other inclusion errors). It looks like the $vwd variable is empty at this point.

If I change the require_once function to use the full absolute file path, then the inclusion errors dissappear, but I see no forums in the forumlist. In this case the page source gives me this error:

Fatal error:  Call to undefined function:  fetch_foruminfo() in /var/www/vhosts/iphoneclub.nl/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 478

This function is only defined in functions.php (and by quick glance not in functions_misc.php). When I try to include functions.php instead of functions_misc.php WP throws me an error "Cannot redeclare is_valid_email".

Setup:

• vB 3.6.8 (stock install)
• WordPress 2.2
• Latest vBBridge plugin
• WordPress and vB on same domain (/ and /forum)
• Same database with different prefixes

Any help is HIGHLY appreciated, as I would love to get this to work and currently am holding off opening the new forums.

Thanks!

[V3RT1G0]

yea i cant get it to work either... i checked my vb this morning and the mod bearly started working after 24 hours... for some reason it took a long time to update post counts... but i still cant get it to work properly... first the posts arent counted as i said before but i dont get how to set the settings up... because your readme isnt very clear since it just says to put the ID for an unregistered user (am i supposed to make a user called guest or sumtin and supply that ID?) i just dont get it... a better readme would help a lot of people out... thanks. sorry if i didnt put it in words that make sense but its hard to explain lol

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by djr

This function is only defined in functions.php (and by quick glance not in functions_misc.php). When I try to include functions.php instead of functions_misc.php WP throws me an error "Cannot redeclare is_valid_email".

Not sure what you are editing here, but I think you need to use include_once, not include.

[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by V3RT1G0

yea i cant get it to work either... i checked my vb this morning and the mod bearly started working after 24 hours... for some reason it took a long time to update post counts... but i still cant get it to work properly... first the posts arent counted as i said before but i dont get how to set the settings up... because your readme isnt very clear since it just says to put the ID for an unregistered user (am i supposed to make a user called guest or sumtin and supply that ID?) i just dont get it... a better readme would help a lot of people out... thanks. sorry if i didnt put it in words that make sense but its hard to explain lol

It doesn't say put the ID of an unregistered user, that would make no sense. I think this illustrates that you are not reading the readme, you are quickly glancing it over. The readme states:

VB User ID: This is the userid comment threads will be started with if the author is not registered with VB.

In other words, if a WORDPRESS user writes an article but is not registered with VB, enter an ID of someone who IS registered so VB knows who to post the article as.

[djr]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Not sure what you are editing here, but I think you need to use include_once, not include.

Sorry, I meant require_once per the default vbbridge.php. It doesn't matter though .. if I leave the orginal line 466 intact (require_once .. functions_misc.php) I get the error as posted in my previous post and the forumlist is blank. I'd love to make this work, as this mod is exactly what I need.

I'm available thru MSN/Skype (chat) or whatever IM suits you if you'd like to research in detail.