[popmyzit]

Doesnt look like he wants to share...

Does anyone want to chip in and get a final working solution to this from Magneticat that is secure? They make good products and do recommend them.

post here who is interested.

[reddyink]

After a long wait, there is light at the end of tunnel. My check is the the mail for this mod.

Originally Posted by MagnetiCat

Hello,
we are a development team that could be interested in developing this within a 21 days timeframe, or little more; we had a small chat with the developers of Pligg, and there might be a possibility of an agreement to release our product and sell it through the Pligg Pro section of the website - unless other products that fulfill your needs are released, of course!

Anyhow, I see there are many products being developed at once, so I would like to ask you the status of these projects. We develop only high quality products, so you can be assured that the product will be absolutely safe, well-coded, and very efficient. These would be the features we planned:

Integration Type
- Remote integration: the integration script can be used to integrate remote setups, with vBulletin on one side and Pligg in another. Of course, even same server setups are supported by the script using the same mechanism, but allowing remote server setups will make moving your vBulletin to another server, when needed, as easy as 1-2-3, with possibly no need to touch the integration settings.

Functionality
- Login, logout functionality from either sides: you can login and logout from Pligg or vBulletin, and you will be logged in/out in both sites/apps. This will use cookie authentication, so your vBulletin and Pligg must be on the same domain for this to work. For example, vBulletin could be at forums.yourdomain.com and pligg at pligg.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com.
- Users registers through vBulletin and are immediately able to login also in Pligg.

Installation
- XML installation on vBulletin side, possibly with just one file upload involved (to store functions instead than saving them into the products database entries).
- Possibility to cohoperate with Pligg developers to reduce as much as possible edits to their system.

Settings and Maintenance
- ACP settings on vBulletin side.
- Synchronizer script on vBulletin side. This will let you import all your users to the Pligg website through a simple and efficient tool available in the Maintenance area of vBulletin. This tool is needed only upon installation or when you need to resynchronize your websites (for example, if one of the two had crashed).
- User databases are always synchronized between the two scripts. No cheap cronjobs involved here. Any edit on vBulletin side - either performed through UserCP or Admin Control Panel - will be ported immediately to the Pligg
- These fields are synchronized: username,password,email,ban status (if possible, we need to check Pligg code for this). If you need more fields that can be found in both sides, that would be great.

Limits of such an integration would be that registrations and user maintenance would be mainly performed via vBulletin.

Please let us know what you think, what you may want to change, and in general if this seems a good thing to you. Keep in mind that once we confirm we are developing this, the product will be developed and completed within the specified timeframe, with the quality standards we are always keep in our scripts. Unfortunately all these precautions are necessary for us - with the size of our team, we want to focus on as few products as possible in order to stay true to our quality standards.

About Us
If you want some information about us, you can find some information and some feedback in this thread vBulletin Integration - Live and working! - ScriptXperts Community Forums (ours is currently the only high quality integration between ClipShare and vBulletin), you can search for some feedbacks in the vBulletin.org forums by looking for the CarlitoBrigante name in the threads, see this (unfortunately, not updated) blog vBulletin Community Forum - DirtyHarry. We will soon launch a website to offer support to our clients at MagnetiCat.com. Our team is very small, but we deliver only quality products, as you can read from some of the feedbacks. Clients we are currently working with:

Sports Card Forum - Sports Cards Community
Sports Card Alliance - Power Feeder
Website maintenance and optimization and script development (most of their recent scripts are developed by us, including the Card DB and the PowerFeeder, an exclusive script for them inspired by iDigg).

GT40s.com
Website maintenance and optimization.

Pow Wow TV
InfernalRC - Home
Bodybuilding Forum - Supplement Review - Anabolicminds.com
Some of the websites featuring our integration between vBulletin and CS.

Please note we do not want to advertise ourselves, just introducing ourselvs and asking your feedback and the one of the Pligg developers - fortunately, once our MagnetiCat.com website will be ready, we will no longer need these lengthy introductions.

If you decide to follow another route, please feel free to remove this post and
all the links in it! Thanks!

[popmyzit]

ok great anymore people?

maybe the pligg pro owners can realize that there are many users waiting for this and are willing to pay some money to get this asap.

[pipin]

Originally Posted by popmyzit

ok great anymore people?

maybe the pligg pro owners can realize that there are many users waiting for this and are willing to pay some money to get this asap.

They tried to find a vb programmer in the past, but no one showed up.

[BobdeBilder]

please keep me informed, I would certainly donate something towards this project

[popmyzit]

ok Magneticat (reddyink) has already a good record developing vbulletin bridges. Unless some one comes up with someone soon (after a year of waiting i really doubt that), then the pligg owners should really hire Carlito (reddyink).

Else we can pay him directly for development. I guess he needs us to show him we are interested. Any one else interested?

[Yankidank]

We have actively searched for a developer to no avail for this project. Magnicat spoke with me on IRC a few weeks ago and I believe he is developing it and will notify us when he finishes. Otherwise I have opened a freelance job position on the new job board.
Pligg vBulletin Integration la Pligg LLC / Pligg Job Board

EDIT:
As per a user request who subscribed to this thread for updates, I will be keeping the thread open, but only for content that share valuable information. No more bumps of any sort will be permitted. I would prefer it if you opened a fresh thread if you have a solution and link to it on this thread rather than having users dig several pages deep for the solution.

[zeropaid]

I am interested as well, I have developed a bridge for my current version of pligg, but its way outta date.

I want to update to the latest version of pligg, but fear I will have to spend hords of time re-coding everything.

I would LOVE to have a simple and easy bridge to use VB!

jorge

[MagnetiCat]

Hello all -

we had thought you were not interested anymore because you were developing a free add-on. But we are more than happy to develop the integration and sell it through the website, if you are no more developing a free integration.

Yankidank, if you can confirm me this is ok for you, we will be happy to start development and ship within the defined timeline in our post. But if you prefer to go with the freely available add-on, we'd perfectly understand as well and leave the field open to any other developer, as I can see it is probably more in line with philosophy of this great project.

We are a small development team, and maintenance of integrations can be a tricky business, as you probably know; so the integration price should cover also the maintenance costs for the period we will be actively working on the integration - that's why we cannot afford to go with the freely available option.

[popmyzit]

Yeah i dont mind paying through Pligg pro or through Magneticat or whatever.

Lets get this done asap so we can actually do some development instead of waiting.