Importing users from another platform

[dvanwijk]

Hi,
I want to be able to import users from an osCommerce database into a vBulletin database. I have vB version 3.5.4. I have looked at the code in osCommerce and they use a 'salt' to generate md5 passwords but it is in the following format.

////
// This funstion validates a plain text password with an
// encrpyted password
function tep_validate_password($plain, $encrypted) {
if (tep_not_null($plain) && tep_not_null($encrypted)) {
// split apart the hash / salt
$stack = explode(':', $encrypted);

if (sizeof($stack) != 2) return false;

if (md5($stack[1] . $plain) == $stack[0]) {
return true;
}
}

return false;
}

////
// This function makes a new password from a plaintext password.
function tep_encrypt_password($plain) {
$password = '';

for ($i=0; $i<10; $i++) {
$password .= tep_rand();
}

$salt = substr(md5($password), 0, 2);

$password = md5($salt . $plain) . ':' . $salt;

return $password;
}

$password is the password entered by the user when they register.

My questions are;

I know that I cannot extract the actual password from osCommerce and import them into vB, but if a user was to login at my site when I have vB setup and after validating the password through osCommerce, how can I then insert that password suitable for vB into the vB users table?
How can I syncronize both systems to keep both the vBulletin and osCommerce platforms up to date as regards user registrations?


I don't expect anyone to write it for me as I know enouhg PHP to get into trouble, but maybe if I could get an outline of the process that needs to take place and maybe a guide to which file I can modify.

I would appreciate anyone's input.

Regards,
Dan

[dvanwijk]

Can anyone help me please???

[Brandon Sheley]

there is an importing tool avalible, in the members area ;)

[dvanwijk]

Thanks Loco.M,
I am a newbie with vBulletin so I am guessing I need the Impex tool.

I want to be able to keep both platforms (osCommerce and vBulletin) up to date with user registrations (syncronized I guess). Does the Impex tool have this feature? If not, what can I do to work around it?

Thanks very much for your help.

Cheers,
Dan

[dvanwijk]

Can anyone answer my questions above?

Thanks,
Dan