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Why vBulletin .htaccess file contains these repeated statements?

Hi, Please check the attached code. RewriteEngine on # If you are having problems or are using VirtualDocumentRoot, uncomment this line and set it to your vBulletin directory. # RewriteBase /forum/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^.*$ - [N...

Getting number of online users from vBulletin

I'm redesigning the template for a Wordpress based site which is bridged with a vBulletin forum. How can I can I get the number of online users as they are shown on the forum's pages so that I can insert them in another page? Is there some sort of API to interact with? ...

Integrate vBulletin into a wordpress page (only frontend)

I have a simple wordpress website but the customer wants a vbulletin forum with the same look into the website. the same look is just a matter of editing the css files and layout files. but how can i put the vbulletin into a wordpress page? ...

nginx + vbulletin cookie problem

Hello. I installed a forum vbulletin 3.8.4 .. When trying to load my apache is not set cookie 'userid' and 'password'. Although other cookie 'bblastactivity', 'bblastvisit', 'bbsessionhash' sets .. Help please ...

How to log in to a vbulletin forum with C#?

Hi, I'm trying to log into a vbulletin forum. I got this far: private string login(string url, string username, string password) { string values = "vb_login_username={0}&vb_login_password={1}" values += "&securitytoken=guest&cookieuser=checked&do=login"; values = string.Format(values, username, password); HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWeb...

How to display external database data in VBulletin 4 Forums Custom PHP Block?

Hi guys! I want to display data feed from an external database in a sidebar in the forums section. PHP Block Code : $host = 'db.123.net'; $dbUser = 'db49'; $dbPass = 'iReVbY'; $db = 'db6578h8'; mysql_connect("$host", "$dbUser", "$dbPass") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("$db") or die(mysql_error()); ob_start(); $result = mysql_...

Simulate login action to VBulletin using C#

Hi, I trying to write a program (C#) that can login and create new thread into VBulletin forums. I tried 2 way: 1) Use HttpWebRequest : Login is done. However creating new thread is fail. This is posting code: public static void CreateNewThread(string url,string fId, string title, string message, string tag) { url += "newt...

Login to both CakePHP and vbulletin

Hi, I'm looking to get a single sign on set-up between a cakePHP (1.3) app and a vBulletin (4.0.2) forum. I've managed to get so far with it, i.e I've been able to get Auth to use the vB user table to let people login, and that works pretty well - the issue now is getting the two different systems to share a session so that users can pa...

How to integrate vBulletin auth with my site?

Hello, I need to use vBulletin auth system on the rest of my site. Does vB has any APIs for that? Im expecting to find something like that: if($vBulletin->isAuthenticated()) { // user authenticated } In case of vB does not have such API, is there any other ways to check if user is authenticated? ...

vBulletin BBCode on external page.

Hello, I integrated my vBulletin with custom front page. I'm wondering, how could I use vBulletin BBcode on that page (I'm displaying some posts there). Any suggestions? ...

CakePHP htaccess modification to allow vBulletin

Hi, I'm looking to set-up a vBulletin install next to a CakePHP install. I was planning on just popping the the vB folder into webroot, but when accessing the folder in my browser, it loses the short URL (i.e. it goes from .com/community to .com/app/webroot/community) Because of this I wanted to put the vB folder into the root of the di...

IE8 doctype changing

I am currently using an XHTML 1.0 transitional doctype on my vBulletin website. The page in question is PHP. The source (view source) of this page verifies that the XHTML 1.0 transitional doctype is on the page. Upon downloading (File > Save As) the page in IE8, I realized that my doctype had been replaced with an HTML 4.0 transitiona...

vBulletin Nightmare

I am creating a vBulletin forum community called: We Hypnosis - Hypnosis Hypnotherapy Hypnotist Hypnotism We purchased the vBulletin version 4.0 CMS and the SEO plugin. Im used to designing and building templates for drupal, wordpress and joomla. All of which have great documentation and many tutorials built by the community. But vBu...

What script is vBulletin using for their manual?

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/ Are they using a custom design or is that a script? If it's custom, is there something similar to it that I could use to document my software? ...

CakePHP how to share session with Vbulletin

how to put folder of vbulletin and modify .htaccess file in cake PHP in purpose use them in same session ? if it possible, plz help me by post the way to put the folder vbulletin in order request access from localhost/forum or localhost/app_name/forum? I am tried to install vbullentin in webroot and modify .htaccess. It can access from...

allow posting of visitor message by guests to member profiles in vbulletin

I want to allow posting of visitor message by guests to anyone's profile. Can anyone please help? Is there any query for that? ...

How transaction level isolation affects performace in autocommit mode in MySQL?

Hello. I have a VBulletin 4.x forum running on my server. Some forum tables were converted into InnoDB for performance reasons according to this instruction. Forum itself does not use transactions (no START TRANSACTION or BEGIN WORK in source code) at all and InnoDB tables are used just to prevent tables from locking on UPDATE queries. ...

Can't select database table even though the code is right

I am trying to display a list of my vbulliten threads on a non-vbulliten portion of my site. However I can't select the vbulliten database: <?php $host = "localhost"; $user = "my username"; $pass = "my password"; $dbname = "tableprefix_forum"; mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die ("Could not connect to database server."); m...

Sharing a session between vBulletin forum and status.net microblogging platform

Hello, I need to integrate vBulletin 4.0.3 Publishing Suite with status.net microblogging platform. The first thing I need to do is make these 2 to share 1 session so a user logged in vBulletin forums will also be logged in to status.net and vice versa. I have installed different vBulletin components under different subdomains: forum...

Parse vBulletin's BB Code in PHP

I would like a function that parses BB Code from vBulletin into a standard HTML markup. Without using the PEAR library or the PECL extension, because I don't want to fuss with PEAR or have to depend on being able to install a PECL extension on every instance of this application. The goal is zero dependencies. It would be fine if I could...