Vbulletin Bridge Issue (cookie prefix in bridgemgr.php)

[Karri]

I am loving the new bridge manager to set up my bridge.  I did have one problem with it though.  I use vbulletin and the bridge manager did not give me the option to input my cookie prefix.  I didn't realize that vbulletin had even set a default cookie prefix until I read http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=9130.msg44306#msg44306 since I did not see a cookie prefix that matched the one in my config file anywhere in the admin panel.  I told the bridge manager to unhide the unused fields and saw where it does have the option for a cookie prefix but it does not let me change it.  Once I went into phpmyadmin and changed it manually the bridge worked perfectly.

[Joachim Müller]

Thanks for the report. To fix this, edit bridgemgr.php, find

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$default_bridge_data['vbulletin30'] = array(
  'full_name' => 'vBulletin 3.0',
  'short_name' => 'vbulletin30',
  'support_url' => 'http://www.vbulletin.com/',
  'license_number_default' => 'xxxxxxxx',
  'license_number_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'db_database_name_default' => 'forum',
  'db_database_name_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'db_hostname_default' => 'localhost',
  'db_hostname_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'db_username_default' => '',
  'db_username_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'db_password_default' => '',
  'db_password_used' => 'password',
  'relative_path_of_forum_from_webroot_default' => '/vbulletin3/',
  'relative_path_of_forum_from_webroot_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'user_table_default' => 'user',
  'user_table_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'session_table_default' => 'session',
  'session_table_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'group_table_default' => 'usergroup',
  'group_table_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'use_standard_groups_default' => '1',
  'use_standard_groups_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'validating_group_default' => '3',
  'validating_group_used' => 'optional',
  'guest_group_default' => '1',
  'guest_group_used' => 'optional',
  'member_group_default' => '2',
  'member_group_used' => 'optional',
  'admin_group_default' => '6',
  'admin_group_used' => 'optional',
  'create_redir_file_content' => '<?php\necho\'Hello World\';\n?>\n',
  'create_redir_file_location' => '{BBS_LOCATION}/cpg_redir.php',
  'create_redir_file_action' => 'display,write',
);and replace with

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$default_bridge_data['vbulletin30'] = array(
  'full_name' => 'vBulletin 3.0',
  'short_name' => 'vbulletin30',
  'support_url' => 'http://www.vbulletin.com/',
  'license_number_default' => 'xxxxxxxx',
  'license_number_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'db_database_name_default' => 'forum',
  'db_database_name_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'db_hostname_default' => 'localhost',
  'db_hostname_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'db_username_default' => '',
  'db_username_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'db_password_default' => '',
  'db_password_used' => 'password',
  'relative_path_of_forum_from_webroot_default' => '/vbulletin3/',
  'relative_path_of_forum_from_webroot_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'cookie_prefix_default' => 'bb',
  'cookie_prefix_used' => 'cookie,empty',
  'user_table_default' => 'user',
  'user_table_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'session_table_default' => 'session',
  'session_table_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'group_table_default' => 'usergroup',
  'group_table_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'use_standard_groups_default' => '1',
  'use_standard_groups_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty',
  'validating_group_default' => '3',
  'validating_group_used' => 'optional',
  'guest_group_default' => '1',
  'guest_group_used' => 'optional',
  'member_group_default' => '2',
  'member_group_used' => 'optional',
  'admin_group_default' => '6',
  'admin_group_used' => 'optional',
  'create_redir_file_content' => '<?php\necho\'Hello World\';\n?>\n',
  'create_redir_file_location' => '{BBS_LOCATION}/cpg_redir.php',
  'create_redir_file_action' => 'display,write',
);Then run the bridge manager once again and report if this fixes the issue.

GauGau

[Karri]

Worked perfectly.  Thanks

[jerx]

The current bridge manager does only have these settings:

// status: bridge unknown, manager unknown
$default_bridge_data['vbulletin30'] = array(
  'full_name' => 'vBulletin 3.0',
  'short_name' => 'vbulletin30',
  'support_url' => 'http://www.vbulletin.com/',
  'full_forum_url_default' => 'http://www.yoursite.com/board',
  'full_forum_url_used' => 'mandatory,not_empty,no_trailing_slash',
  'relative_path_to_config_file_default' => '../board/',
  'relative_path_to_config_file_used' => 'lookfor,includes/config.php',
  'use_post_based_groups_default' => '0',
  'use_post_based_groups_used' => 'radio,1,0',
);

Many bridge settings in the database are empty. Only these are set:
short_name
full_forum_url
relative_path_to_config_file
use_post_based_groups
use_standard_groups
recovery_logon_failures
recovery_logon_timestamp

Is everything else not needed any more?

How about the cookie setting? I think that is important and it is not stored in the vb database, but in its config file.

[Joachim Müller]

This is a very old thread on the bugs board that was marked as fixed. Hijacking this thread with an unrelated issue and asking for support here is silly and selfish. Locking.