Coppermine 1.2.1 / vBulletin 3.0.0 Integration

Coppermine Gallery 1.21 and vBulletin 3.0.0 Integration
Version 1.0
Compiled by SpeedStreet

I'm not the hacker for this; I am merely the guy who poured through all of the threads on vBulletin.org and the Coppermine Development Forums to come up with one definitive post about integrating vBulletin with Coppermine.

WHAT IT DOES:
At the end of this how-to, you're installations of vBulletin and Coppermine will work together off of the same login. While everyone else wants to see all sorts of integration between the two, I believe this is the first step to making those things happen.

CREDITS:
A big thanks to everyone over at Coppermine for a terrific product and the users that support and mod it on a daily basis. I am merely standing on the shoulders of giants here, folks. Also, Nanobot was the guy over there that did the vB3 Gamma bridge, so the credit for that is all his.

FILES TO EDIT (2):
/bridge/vbulletin3.inc.php (Coppermine)
/include/init.inc.php (Coppermine)

HACK REQUIREMENTS:
vBulletin 3.0.0 Installed and Running
Coppermine 1.2.1 Installed and Running
5 Minutes of your time

SUPPORT THREADS:
Coppermine Gamma Thread (original thread): http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/bo...asc&highlight=
vBulletin.org Hack Thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=488062
Coppermine vB 3.0.0 Thread: http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/bo...ic.php?p=20674

FINAL WARNINGS:

There are seem to be some issues with people integrating this with forums located on subdomains (e.g. subaruforums.speedstreet.org). Please reference the Coppermine Gamma Thread above for more info.
Please ensure that Coppermine and vBulletin cookies are NOT named the same thing.

[Cloudrunner]

Okay, before I step all over anyone else's toes I need to know, is anyone working on a full integration between these two?

If not I would like to spearhead one, as I will be doing it as of tonight for my forums as copperhead is exactly what I've been looking for for a long time for my site.

If I do not receive a response by Friday I will assume that there is no one doing it, and I will start on it.

[Bigwrenn]

I think there might be a couple of people working on this allready. I vaguely remember seeing something about it on here in the last couple of days! As of right now I'm working on doing this but I'm fairly new to vb and php so it will take me some time to do it. If I have any breakthru's in the next couple of days I will post them so hopefully it will help other's wanting to do this also.
-Bigwrenn

[J.C.]

will this work with Coppermine 3 beta 4 and ofcourse vbulletin 3.0.1? Thanks!

[ap0c]

Originally Posted by Cloudrunner

Okay, before I step all over anyone else's toes I need to know, is anyone working on a full integration between these two?

If not I would like to spearhead one, as I will be doing it as of tonight for my forums as copperhead is exactly what I've been looking for for a long time for my site.

If I do not receive a response by Friday I will assume that there is no one doing it, and I will start on it.

if speedstreet doesnt respond, go for it!

[Ian Gratton]

Hi There,

I am trying to integrate coppermine 1.3.0 beta4 into my vBulleting 3.01 installation.

So far so good - I have followed all the instructions for configuring the bridge and authentication is working fine - when I click the login button it authenticates me against my vbulletin details and then I appear logged on as that user in coppermine.

This leads me to believe that all the linkages between the two are working perfectly.

Prior to integrating the two solutions I created sample albums (both as an admin and regular user) and I could upload pictures perfectly (or at least after messing about with directory permissions).

Now the two are integrated I get a strange error when I click the upload file link in coppermine. Instead of getting the page asking me to browse files or enter URLs I get valid page back - but instead of including the form - the page contains a table whose heading is 'Error'

The message centered in the table is

Invalid action for form creation.

Anyone have any ideas ?

A few more bits of info.

IIS 6.0 on Win 2003 server
manual PHP 4.3.6 running via ISAPI filter with GD2 extension enabled.

I am certain somebody will know how to fix this - my users are very eager to upload.

Kind Regards

Ian.

[badpacket]

thanks cloudrunner! that fixed my problem, but i'm having the logout issue also :/

hopefully you'll find something *if I figure it out i'll be sure to let you all know*

[gfxmods]

errer, not 100% il try to fix myself but im posting so if you know you can help

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'bridge/vbulletin3.inc.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/gfxmodsc/public_html/copper/include/init.inc.php on line 149

[gfxmods]

ok i fixed that my ftp just didnt put it under bridge, only thing is when im in i clicked admin mode and instead i got the vb admin area, any help?

also now when i click log in so i can log in as the original admin instead i click login it uses this url

http://gfxmods.com/copper/login.php?referer=copper

and it goes to my boards front page :tired:

[Drowned]

Worked perfectly... best hack yet... some of you people having trouble with members uploading pictures, try editing the album properties and choose YES to upload pictures... this a whole different thing from editing the user group permission... you have to do both...

BTW, any ideas how to integrate the navbar?

[xfaethorx]

ok big problem...

coppermine 1.2.1
vbulletin 3.0.1

coppermine is installed vb is up and running (has been for ages) coppermine is installed into vbulletin database.

I click on the login i get redirected to the forum , so I made the hack change as describe a page back..I still get the same problem.

If i try to do anything coppermine tells me that I don't have any rights but the intergration seems ok..

thing is I don't know enough about the new vb or coppermine to work out whats up.