Drupal modules on forum pages?

[Jeff Hester]

I haven't implemented vbdrupal yet, but wanted to know if I can created a layout that incorporates an extra "column" either on the left or right of my forum that includes Drupal modules.

[tamarian]

No. This will require customization on the vBulletin side.

[myetalk]

I haven't implemented vbdrupal yet, but wanted to know if I can created a layout that incorporates an extra "column" either on the left or right of my forum that includes Drupal modules.
ah, yeah, never tried it yet, this would be pretty hard to do I think...

[GrantHorizons]

Seems to me this is something a lot of people would want - I certainly do! It is a REQUIREMENT to get my site running properly.

If anyone has any insight, or would like to make some money and has expertise in this area, or has a theme or SOMETHING to plug into vBulletin, I'd love to hear from you!

Grant

[elmuerte]

I've looked into it for a bit. The problem is that besides vbulletin also the whole drupal backend has to be loaded. This could introduce quite some overhead.

Anyway, I've made a test plugin for vbulletin to load the sideblocks. I haven't fully tested it tho.

Attached is a seperate vBulletin plugin that will load the blocks if it's enabled.
Note: you will have to set the path to the drupal system dir and set the "load blocks" to yes.
When this is done properly the loaded block (the generated HTML code by drupal) will be available to all templates with the variables:
$drupal_blocks[left]
$drupal_blocks[right]
You will have to manually adjust the templates where you want the blocks to appear.

This plugin is experimental so please test it for us. If it doesn't have any side effects we might include it with the official distribution.
For my test site the generated memory overhead is about 100kb (up to 10% of an average vbulletin page)

Note: only links are updated to point to the correct drupal location. As for the rest you should make sure the style classes used by the side blocks are also available from within vbulletin.

Edit: fixed loading of the plugin in in cases where drupal was already loaded (e.g. in the non-forum part).

Edit 2: the drupal blocks are not available in the following scripts:
newreply.php
newthread.php
editpost.php
newattachment.php
attachment.php
postings.php
private.php
profile.php
This is due to a drupal and vbulletin conflict

[GrantHorizons]

Cool -I'll have a look at that - thanks for letting me know! And please keep us posted on changes / updates. This is a VERY important feature for me.

thanks, Grant

[elmuerte]

made a small update to fix the links, this is pretty much as far as I'm going to take this plugin for now. First have to know how 'stable' this plugin.

[elmuerte]

updated the plugin, the drupal pages where broken because of this plugin

[elmuerte]

hmm... ok, there seem to be a few couple of issues with duplicate function names, I'm not sure if this can be fixed without any serious code modifications to drupal

[GrantHorizons]

Elmuerte, please keep us posted - good luck with the problem!

Grant

[elmuerte]

Updated plugin here: http://www.vbdrupal.org/forum/showpost.php?p=525&postcount=5

So far I've only found one obscuring function. So a minor fix in drupal might be possible, or keep the current method of excluding certain vbulletin scripts.

[Eric013]

Hi,

I have errors after upload this produit:


Warning: chdir(): No such file or directory (errno 2) in /global.php(340) : eval()'d code on line 31

Warning: Unknown(includes/bootstrap.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /global.php(340) : eval()'d code on line 41

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening 'includes/bootstrap.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php-4.4.0/lib/php') in /global.php(340) : eval()'d code on line 41

Warning: Unknown(includes/common.inc): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /global.php(340) : eval()'d code on line 42

Warning: (null)(): Failed opening 'includes/common.inc' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/local/php-4.4.0/lib/php') in /global.php(340) : eval()'d code on line 42

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: theme() in /home/cmsfr/web/www/vb3/global.php(340) : eval()'d code on line 44


Help me please, how do i put vbulletin in drupal ?

Sorry i am a french :o
Thanks you.

[peach]

is this code safe to use yet? doesn't it like double the databse calls on a Vb page when you load the drupal blocks and core?