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.

[misticjeff]

hate to do it gang, sorry mods....

bump........

Need Help! reference previous post ^^^^^^


Edit: I figured out the problem... too many cookie prefixes defined, had to comment one out.

[Quelyn]

Thanks for that post, the cookie thing did it for me

[Rahzel_hx]

so confused what does it do? >_<

[misticjeff]

Probably not the correct place to post this but here goes....

I have Coppermine 1.3.0 running with vBAdvanced and vBulletin 3.0.3 and Coppermine does a TERRIFIC job of acting as a download module.

Coppermine supports .wmv, .zip, .rar and other file formats, so i've setup seperate albums for each download I wish to have.

Take a look here:

http://www.misticriver.net/photos/

[AshAbed]

Ok I'm having some trouble getting this to work
http://wecometoplay.com/coppermine/
I've installed coppermine and vBulletin was already installed, I uploaded the vbulletin3.inc.php into the coppermine main directory... now what do I do after that exactly?

[misticjeff]

More than I could explain here but take a look at the users manual at the bottom where it discusses integration. I followed it step by step and it worked fine.

http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/manual.php

[Billspaintball]

Well Im stuck in the same stupid login loop that has affected so many others

Change your cookie prefix in coppermine to what you have your vb cookie prefix set to. That should do the trick.

How can we find what our vb cookie prefix is?
Its not listed in "Cookies and HTTP Header Options" in the admin cp.

Ive also had a look in config.php as someone suggested, but I did not have any reference to cookies in there either.

[Quelyn]

Originally Posted by AshAbed

Ok I'm having some trouble getting this to work
http://wecometoplay.com/coppermine/
I've installed coppermine and vBulletin was already installed, I uploaded the vbulletin3.inc.php into the coppermine main directory... now what do I do after that exactly?

The latest version of Coppermine has a bridge folder with all the necessary files. You just need to follow the instructions that come with it in a text file and change your settings in the bridge file. Then you have to uncomment the bridge in an init file. I would get the newest CPG and run it that way. Also make sure you check the folder your forums are using for cookies (as detailed below) and correlate it with the one for CPG

Finding your cookie prefix for VBulletin. Open up your Config.php from your includes file and lines 183 to 188 should look like this:

// Prefix that all vBulletin cookies will have

// For example

$cookieprefix = 'bb';

That's the same prefix you should use on line 45 in the bridge file (included with the latest CPG)

define('VB_COOKIE_PREFIX', 'bb');  // Cookie Prefix, not supported by vBulletin 2

It's typically BB, but there's a chance it's something else..

[tnguy3n]

this is weird. I got it worked on my RC4, but ain't no longer working ever since I upgrade to Gold & 3.0.3. anyone has the same problem?

[seangworld]

i am running cpg 1.3.2 and vb 3.0.2 and it's running GREAT.
http://www.dabombcrew.com

[mattster2002]

I've got cpg 1.3.2 and vb 3.0.3 cant seem to get it intergrated, I've checked all my cookie settings flopped and changed them and still not working. This is so frustrating.

The problem is, the user appears to login and logout fine in vbulletin, but on coppermine it doesnt change, still has the same not logged in page

[Deimos]

It integrates aok, but i can't upload images via the User mode, but I can via the Admin mode?
I've checked permissions and they all seem ok... :/

[mhobelsb]

same for me. i have a vbulletin 3.0.3 running and installed coppermine 1.3.2. After the changes (followed the instructions) if i point to the galerie i am not logged in. if i klick on the login in the galerie i am redirekted to the forum. But no matter if i log in there, in the galerie i am still not logged in.

also changed the cookie prefix. not working here...

[Mattius]

Im trying 3.0.3 and 1.3.2....the latest coppermine, and i get the logout errors and i cant upload images as admin or user...

Anyone else have any success, ive tried every combination i can think off.

[Bigwrenn]

Everyone who is having a login problem or upload permission problem try this. Go to your admincp and in the vbulletin options menu click on the cookies and HTTP header options. Set your your cookie domain up like this: ".yourdomainname.com" and make sure your path to save cookies is "/". Of course don't use the quotation marks and insert your domain name where it says "yourdomainname" and after you have everything setup save it . Then go to the config setup in coppermine and down near the bottom you'll see cookies settings. There is a input box labeled "Path of the cookies used by the script" in that box make sure it has this: "/".

Next open up your vbulletin30.inc.php file and make sure you have everything entered corrctly. In the init.inc.php file make sure you have the vbulletin30.inc.php uncommented. After doing all of this make sure you clear out your cache and clean your cookies of your machine. Then when you return to your site make sure you first sign in at the vbulletin side of things first. Then go to your coppermine gallery and check that all your albums have the "Visitors can upload files" checked in the properties of each album. After that you should be good to go and I hope this helps.

Bigwrenn

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