Create New User [MySQL]

[eob]

Greetings,

Like most boards, I'm being plagued by good old fashioned spambots, even with the best efforts of a few well chosen hacks, manual approval of new members and ReCaptcha.

Luckily, I run a car site with a couple of thousand cars stored, all of which have multiple pictures, and their colour, so, it's very easy for me to build an Asirra style (http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=asirra&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fum%2Fredmond%2Fprojects%2Fasirra%2F&ei=6bu-TryjMs2AhQfT6fyaBA&usg=AFQjCNF_Z9Ovs42mZ8ntmHq4FYcrRDuuxQ) hack for my site based on "Click On The Red Car To Register" type questioning.

I doubt they'll bother write a custom spambot for just one site :)

However, I also intend building my own user registration page, which just creates a new user in the VBulletin database via good old fashioned MySQL commands.

Is this documented anywhere? Ie. Is it just a matter of creating a single new entry in the users table or is it more complex?

If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears :D

Go team! :)

[kh99]

You can use the user datamanager to handle the details. If I were going to do it I'd probably just use the existing code as a guide. In admincp/user.php there's the code that adds a user when you do it from the admincp (starts around line 285).