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.

[AzzX]

Originally Posted by AzzX

I just noticed I have lost the Visual editor in Wordpress with the plugin enabled, disabling the plugin it comes back. See attached image.
I have tried disabling all my other plugins to find a conflict but couldn't find an issue.

The user list in Wordpress shows up as blank invalid users though the bridge is working fine using a vb admin. Is this OK?

Thanks.

If I upload vbbridge.php from the previous bridge vbbridgeIII the wysiwyg visual editor is fine and users are displayed properly in wp-admin. I have also tried the default Wordpress theme to see if this was an issue.

[Shaliza]

I'm way too scared to upgrade now, lol. I got this working perfectly from the 3.7 post before!

[laztrix]

Originally Posted by AzzX

If I upload vbbridge.php from the previous bridge vbbridgeIII the wysiwyg visual editor is fine and users are displayed properly in wp-admin. I have also tried the default Wordpress theme to see if this was an issue.

I had the same issue when I set up the bridge.

So I tried something else:

I configured a working blog of mine that already has posts, comments and users for the blog that I want to bridge with Vbulletin.

As soon as I activate the bridge all the pages went blank!

I had to delete the plugin files to get it normal again. But this time when I upload the same files, wordpress goes blank.

Can anyone help me out with that !

[wmlvb]

great mod. will difidnitly look into this more

Can you tell me is there a wordpress addon that not just RSS feed titles, but actually puts Characters of most recent post from certain forums.

[skariko]

Do you know how can i have the link to logout with VBulletin link, using global $vbulletin?

[Fraik]

I am having a serious problem with the upgrade from the old to the new version. All of the old accounts that I had given a role have different names in the admin area. However people can log-in with their old permissions fine. It just doesn't seem to have their name right in several areas.

In the users listing, all my users have a role of "administrator" in the "ALL" tab. However, there are only 8 administrators in the "Administrator" role-tab. These administrators do have the wrong names though.

I was thinking perhaps I should delete all wordpress accounts save for a root admin account I can use? Then re-activate the plugin and re-map all the users?

Also the WYSIWYG editor is disabled for some reason.

[laztrix]

Originally Posted by Fraik

Also the WYSIWYG editor is disabled for some reason.

That was the same deal with my installation.Another user did report the same issue.
I think that wouldn't be a coincidence.

[skariko]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Yes, you can. Make sure $vbulletin is global (global $vbulletin then:

<img src="<?php echo get_option('vbb_VBURL') ?>/image.php?u=<?php echo $reply['userid'] ?>&amp;dateline=<?php echo TIMENOW ?>" alt="<?php echo $reply['username'] ?>'s Avatar" class="avatar avatar-32 photo avatar-default" width="32" height="32">

Or if you mean the article AUTHORS avatar:

<img src="<?php echo get_option('vbb_VBURL') ?>/image.php?u=<?php echo $vbridge[thread_starter] ?>&amp;dateline=<?php echo TIMENOW ?>" alt="<?php echo $vbridge['postusername'] ?>'s Avatar" class="avatar avatar-32 photo avatar-default" width="32" height="32">

I tried this but the link that i have is:

http://www.czeta.it/forum//image.php...ine=1234825805

without the number of the user. (it takes all the other variables like vbb_VBURL and other so i think that there's somthing wrong on user_id)

edit: i've solved it making this:

<img src="<?php echo get_option('vbb_VBURL') ?>image.php?u=<?php echo $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] ?>&amp;dateline=<?php echo TIMENOW ?>" alt="<?php echo $reply['username'] ?>'s Avatar" class="avatar avatar-32 photo avatar-default" width="32" height="32"

i don't know if it is right.. but it works to me :P

[Shana]

Originally Posted by Jafo232

Unfortunately, the Wordpress engine is not built that way. If you read a couple posts back, I show you how to disable the settings.

Could you please explain how we would disable and enable the plugin with the settings reset? I can't find it.

[AzzX]

Originally Posted by Shana

Could you please explain how we would disable and enable the plugin with the settings reset? I can't find it.

I think Jafo was looking into doing a script that does this.
I just renamed the vbbridge.php file and deleted the plugin references in the wordpress database via phpmyadmin.