Hi:

I'm currently a user of vBDrupal. The only reason why I use it is because it replaces Drupal's commenting facility with vBulletin forums. For example, if I create an article in Drupal it automatically creates a thread on my forums with a link to the article. Any posts in that thread show up as comments on the story.

I find this extremely useful as my forum members often do not go to Drupal, so this is an excellent way to get them to find new posted content and encourage them to click around my Drupal site. It also encourages new users that find the Drupal site first to pop over to the forums and see what's going on over there.

I looked through the documentation and it seems like this is not an option. I'd like to humbly suggest this as a feature as I can see many instances where folks with established forums would like to direct people over to their Drupal site easier.

Thanks!

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sun’s picture

sun
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Location Karlsruhe
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Component: Miscellaneous » Code
Priority: Minor » Normal

Similar to #307328: Create forum posts from Drupal, this would be basically possible, but requires a lot of work.

Actually, I even think this issue is a duplicate of the other, but I'm not 100% sure yet.

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ZippySLC commented

I'm not sure either. That other feature request is really unclear.

In any event, the code to do it is there in vBdrupal. Obviously you'd need some sort of way of poking into the vBulletin database to create the posts, but vBdrupal is licensed under the GPL. Unless you wanted a clean room implementation of the code there's no reason to reinvent the wheel, at least in my very humble opinion.

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sun
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Location Karlsruhe
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Well, vBdrupal is a mess on its own. It achieved this feature by hacking Drupal core, which is definitely not an option for DrupalvB.

Accessing data in vB is not an issue at all. We are already pulling a lot of data from vB.

The point of the other issue is that users want a special content-type, for example "forum post", which, when submitted, creates a new thread in vBulletin. If users reply in vB, their comments are also displayed in Drupal. The same could work the other way around, i.e. when users leave a comment in Drupal, it is also posted to the corresponding thread in vB. However, all of this would be tied to a certain content-type only.

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silurius commented

I begun preparation for setting up a new site that needs to be Drupal and vBulletin. Realizing that the present feature request may take some time to develop, can someone recommend me an intermediary solution?

One idea I've considered is using a single email to kick off the content, with Drupal relying on mailhandler to generate its node and vBulletin on something equivalent to create the corresponding thread. I don't mind if the mechanism used is a little "hacky", but I do prefer to steer clear of potential forking on either side.

Thanks for creating DrupalvB, by the way.

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paxku commented

I'm also looking forward to this.

Seems like someone already did it: http://drupal.org/project/com2vb

I hope that helps.