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Just wondering Predator,  do you use any vbulletin mods/hacks ? 
like Geek Article System ?
vBChat v2.3  ?
Paypal Donations for vBulletin ?

etc ...

will any hacks/mods get preferential support ?

vBulletin and Joomla! !!   hehehe i wonder when we will be able to say that!!

There goes my day off! LOL

Thanks PRedator

Guess when Joomla! 1.0 is released

Hey Predator is it possible to display latest 10 topics on the main page ?

Here is the hack at Vb.org -

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=83230

Ok Predator I'm about to install Vbulletin...Mambo is in already in case you forgot...

Now should I simply install Vbulletin using the mambo database and making sure the VB3- prefix is set or should I simply install it to it's own database and let the component do this?

From what I got from the manual I could skip the step of merging the two databases phpmyadmin if I simply install VBull into the mambo database...

I'll wait till I hear back from you before I proceed.

You must install vBulletin in the same database.

The ability to use separate databases will come in a later version.

Thanks Ken,

the reason I asked is the manual said something about combining the databases using another program...
Since I don't already have a vbulletin database I just want to be sure I can skip that step and simply install vbulletin (using the vbul installer) and change the config.php to use the mambo database...
I've backed everything up so I'm going to try it that way...

Wish me luck! LOL

Latest Threads can be shown via the mod_recent_posts module which is included. This works also with different databases, each columns can be enabled or disabled.

Well that didn't go so well...

Checked permissions, restored files 3 or 4 times...
Patching always fails on user.php of Vbull and my index.php of my termplate...
And the com doesn't recognize the login mod as instaled no matter which version (b35 or 1.x(

If someone could tell me how to manually patch these two files I'll try that...

Predator I have RC2 and how will I upgrade yo RC3 also is the latest threads thing included in RC3 or ?

Yes it is included mod_vbridge_recent_posts.zip

@Asphyx

For patching manually please follow the link:

http://www.wh-solution.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=28

Thanks Predator that helped turn on some greenies

But there was no direction on what needed to be added to my default mambo template which is still red in wrapped mode.
the only other red I have is the Mod login which appears on the uninstall section of the modules but not in the modules section itself. (strange I thought but that might be normal)


The problem I have is when I log into vbull it just sends me to the site and when I click on forum again I have to relogin...
I should just take this over to your place though if you prefer...

Patching the index.php from the theme is only needed in wrapped mode:

Must be the first line:


defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );







defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );


Due to the mod_vbridge_login is the module also published? If not it is still red.

just tried install of the component (RC3) and got this message:

Warning: copy(/home/****/public_html/forums/includes/config.php~): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/****/public_html/administrator/components/com_vbridge/install.vbridge.php on line 56
Mambo-vBulletin Bridge

This component is released under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License.
Please visit vBridge at mamboforge for updates.
Installation: successful Patch Config.php: vBulletin config.php successful patched
Upload component - Success
vbridge

This version now works out of the box with the lite modificated Mambo login module.
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So should i just continue, or should i do it again? 

Thankyou. 

Note:  When installing CHMOD Settings were:

forums/includes/config.php - 777
Components - 777

and when i looked components/com_vBridge is 755
- index.html is 644
- vbridge.php is 644

administrator/components - 777
administrator/components/com_vbridge - 755
administrator/components/com_vbridge/install.vbridge.php is 644

If you read slowly you see the filename is config.php~  means ~ at the end this is only a backup file guess the folder is not writeable, but the changes are made, so continue

thankyou. 

i am installing and asked if i want mambo or vBulletin registration - can anyone tell me the pro's and con's of using either vBulletin or Mambo registration?

i have clean mambo and vBulletin installations - ie just one admin user for each. 

thankyou. 


EDIT - DONT WORRY  -  I'LL JUST DO VBRIDGE REGISTRATION

I went to install first patch:




Then i clicked proceed and got this...




I clicked back and went to patchandler area and 'apply patch' had turned to uninstall - so i went to apply the unwrapped extension patch and got this:



I changed permsission on templates/index.php to 777 and tried again but it didnt work, so i reuploaded the template index.php again and changed permissions to 777 again and it "Failed" again. 

Any ideas anyone?

The first block is the unwrapped mode this is to install by default.

Write permission is to the file for patching and backup file, so which chmod do you have?

The second one is only an expansion for the wrapped mode to be able to work also in wrapped mode if in the config of vbridge selected but if you know you want to run this in unwrapped mode you don`t need to install this..

So the patching is failed go into the folder /administrator/components/com_vbridge/patches/ there is a file named installed.list if the size is greater than 0 delete the content inside the file so it has size = 0


Please check your chmods

Depends on your main focus of the site, is there a big community planned i recommend vbulletin to handle the registration, has more function to avoid registration via scripts.

Part of the problem with the login mod is that it doesn't show up in the site modules so I can publish it...
Is it in the Admin modules? I'll look there...

Modules->Site Modules

I got it....

But here is what I'm getting...

Logged into Mambo but VBull still asks for login

When I log into the forum it does not accept the login but does show me the forum when redirect to forum is turned on
When it is off it simply takes me to the frontpage of the website
I suspect it's a cookie thing
cause everything is green in the com...

The installation showed me this so i thought all was fine and clicked proceed (but then i got those errors shown above):

  Type    Action    Description
1.    Execute Modification    ./forums/profile.php    Success
2.    Execute Modification    ./forums/login.php    Success
3.    Execute Modification    ./forums/register.php    Success
4.    Execute Modification    ./forums/admincp/user.php    Success



Sorry i dont understand this sentence. 



yes i want to run it in wrapped mode and yes this is selected in the config and this is why i tried to install the wrapped extension patch. 



The size is 0k, but i went to edit it in cPanel and it has this in it:

vBridgeMod_vb3.0.7_3.0.8_unwrapped|^|vBridgeMod_vb3.0.7_3.0.8_unwrapped.zip|^|Predator:com_vbridge_307_unw_11|^|1.01a
vBridgeMod_vb3.0.7_3.0.8_expansion_wrapped|^|vBridgeMod_vb3.0.7_3.0.8_expansion_wrapped.zip|^|Predator:com_vbridge_307_w_1|^|1.01b



which files need to be writeable?

Um, what should i do?  Do i need to start again?  How do i do that?

Can you give me a link?

The list files above must be writeable via chmod 755 at least



Also errors about permission here?



If both patchings are failed because of the writepermission clean the content so the installed.list has the size 0




All listed in the patchhandler

for unwrapped mode:

./forums/profile.php
./forums/login.php 
./forums/register.php
./forums/admincp/user.php

for the wrapped mode expansions:

./mambo/templates/yourtheme/index.php 
./forums/includes/functions.php
./forums/showthread.php






Only if both patchinstallation went wrong clean the installed.list made the chmod changes and try only the patches again, the rest is ok.

Sure I can...LOL

http://www.microcade.com

Changed the following:

/forums/profile.php - 777
/forums/login.php - 777
/forums/register.php - 777
/forums/admincp/user.php - 777

/templates/****/index.php - 777
/forums/includes/functions.php - 777
/forums/showthread.php - 777

And as i couldnt edit /administrator/components/com_vbridge/patches/installed.list i also changed:

/administrator/components/com_vbridge - 777
/administrator/components/com_vbridge/patches - 777
/administrator/components/com_vbridge/language - 777

and then i changed:

/administrator/components/com_vbridge/patches/installed.list - 777

and made it empty. 

Tried to apply first patch again , got "Success" on everything but when i clicked "Proceed" i got:

Warning: copy(/home/****/public_html/forums/profile.php~): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/cidmemb/public_html/administrator/components/com_vbridge/patchhandler.php on line 1143

Warning: copy(/home/****/public_html/forums/login.php~): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/****/public_html/administrator/components/com_vbridge/patchhandler.php on line 1143

Warning: copy(/home/****/public_html/forums/register.php~): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/****/public_html/administrator/components/com_vbridge/patchhandler.php on line 1143

Warning: copy(/home/****/public_html/forums/admincp/user.php~): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/****/public_html/administrator/components/com_vbridge/patchhandler.php on line 1285
Patch Manager::Extracting Patch
Extracting Patch
The Patch was installed successfully. You should now be able to use whatever functionality it adds or changes; or not be able to use functionality it removes.
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And then i tried to install wrapped extension patch and got "Failure" on my template's index.php again even though it has 777 also. 

Any ideas?


Update: 

I clicked proceed anyway on the wrapped extension patch and i got this:

Warning: copy(/home/****/public_html/forums/includes/functions.php~): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/****/public_html/administrator/components/com_vbridge/patchhandler.php on line 1143

Warning: copy(/home/****/public_html/forums/showthread.php~): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/****/public_html/administrator/components/com_vbridge/patchhandler.php on line 1285
Patch Manager::Extracting Patch
Extracting Patch
The Patch was installed successfully. You should now be able to use whatever functionality it adds or changes; or not be able to use functionality it removes.
[ Back ]

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