Integration with Wordpress

[kniveswood]

Hi, I'm interested in getting a vBulletin for an existing site of mine. But what we need is a user integration with our existing Wordpress user database.

I understand that there is a plugin available that imports VB users to WP users, and also automatically mirrors a WP user whenever a VB user visits the WP portion of the site.

But what I need is the opposite.

Importing of existing WP users into VB database, and automatically mirrors future registrations.

I understand that I might need to get my hands wet and write the bridge myself, but I wish to know if it is even possible. Are there certain constraints that make it impossible?

Thanks in advance for any assistance! :D

[SNN]

Hmm...do you mean as in sharing the database from Wordpress and using it on vBulletin's member database too?

There is a modification for this. "Complete Wordpress/Vbulletin Bridge - Share Users And Postings (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=134521&highlight=wordpress)"

[kniveswood]

Yes, that is exactly the one I described that is existing and I need the opposite of.

"This mod bridges your Vbulletin users over to Wordpress."
I need to make a mod that bridges WP to VB instead.

"...map your Vbulletin Usergroups to Wordpress Usergroups and those users will then be recognized as registered Wordpress users..."
I need this to be from WP to VB instead too.

So in short, an opposite of what that mod does. Unfortunately, our site is too developed to move to VB's registration engine at this point. :(

[Wayne Luke]

You would have to ask about this at vBulletin.org. We do not have plans for such integration. We do however have an importer that will bring all your content and users from Wordpress into vBulletin and vB Blog.

[kniveswood]

Ahh...since there is such an importer that imports WP users into VB, does that mean the possibility is there for me to code a mod that does this importing automatically?

That is all I need to know to convince my boss to purchase a license for me to try. :)

[Wayne Luke]

You could modify Wordpress to use vBulletin's datamanagers to synch the databases. There is example code in the article section of vBulletin.org.