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.

[AustinKalb]

I am using Vbulletin Blog with vBulletin and WordPress (there is a method to my madness, I assure you).

I was simply posting wordpress blog posts to my forum, no user sharing or comment engine stuff.

I had to enable hooks for VBlog to work, then I get a blank screen on Wordpress home.

I never did turn on "Integration".

Ideas?

Thanks
Austin

[Blumy]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

If by subforums you mean, sub DOMAINS, then it is a cookie issue. Basically the cookie needs to be available to the domain.

As for everyone else, I wont be developing this plugin again for probably another month.

Okay thanks. I meant subdomains I just worded it wrong.

[n96search]

Recently while configuring vbbridge4.01.13 on my wordpress 2.8.2 i got errror

Error i got after clicking Vbridge User Settings link :"Fatal error: Call to a member function query_read() on a non-object in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\"server path"\wp-content\plugins\vbbridge.php on line 475"

at line 475 code is : " $fs = $vbulletin->db->query_read($sql); "

I remain stuck here for atleast 3 days then i install new new blog and reconfigured it again and found that in Vbbridge settings i havn't turned on the plugin.

This time i found that while posting when i click on Upload/Insert to upload image and insert it in the blog post giving error

"Are you sure you want to do this?

Please try again."

Then i deactivate the the plugin and found it working . Dont know is the plugin compatibility problem of the plugin or what?

I also have selected " Turn Auto-Integrate On:" to NO as turning it on it logged me out of the wordpress dashboard.

I am using
wordpress 2.8.2
vbulletin 3.8.2
vbbridge vbbridge4.01.13

[ashley76]

Has anyone figured out a way to fix the flash upload problem yet?

[Stubbed]

What flash upload problem?

I have this software installed and I can upload with flash fine. 99% of the time flash uploads are blocked by mod_security in apache.

[SABRSox]

What about the userid issue referenced in this post:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=714

[Geek Specialtie]

Yep the flash upload quit working for me too when I activated the vbridge.
The browser upload does the job though.

[bcole]

Slight problem experienced upon installation. Sorry if this has already been covered. I'm getting the following error message, and regrettably know jack about what the problem is/how to fix it.

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/applesou/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 40

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/applesou/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:40) in /home/applesou/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 784

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/applesou/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php:40) in /home/applesou/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 785

Which also creates this problem on my wordpress homepage:

Warning: chdir() [function.chdir]: No such file or directory (errno 2) in /home/applesou/public_html/wp-content/plugins/vbbridge.php on line 40
cannot include /home/applesou/public_html/global.php. You should check your path! Turning Plugin Off

[Taco John]

I would love to use this mod, but for some reason it seriously impacts my bloggers ability to post images in the blog. I appreciate the effort, but it looks like the development on this one is arrested at this point, and it's not even a stable mod.

Good luck to everyone. Hope to hear noise on this one again someday.

*clicking uninstall*

[peleh]

The only problem that still bugs me is about "collaborators and authors"

Let me explain, when a collaborator submit some "news" post, the editor sees it, modifies it, and them, when he click "Post", the wordpress side works correctly, showing the collaborator name as the real author, but, in vbulletin side, it shows the editor's name.

Now, another thing. Those of you that want an easy way to login/logout from the Wordpress side, just use this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sidebar-login/ , works pretty well with vbridge.