SSO Integration?

[KTechOps]

Hello Everyone,

I am working on a client's site that uses VB. Their current site uses VB4 and they have hacked their code to integrate single sign on functionality with another one of their sites. They bought a new VB5 license and want to port the logic of the SSO into a plugin. Upon reading forum discussion after forum discussion, I'm led to believe this won't be possible. I'm hoping I'm wrong, any direction and/or guidance will be GREATLY appreciated.

[Zachery]

You can't just port the plugin code, there are no plugins for that stuff in 5.

Nothing will stop you from extending classes, or modifying the default vBulletin code.

[KTechOps]

Is there a list of hooks that the system supports anywhere?

[Zachery]

There are no hooks in vBulletin 5.

[KTechOps]

No hooks? Then how does the plugins/products/etc. work? When do they execute?

[ozzy47]

vB5 is a totally different style of coding, it uses classes and api.

As you can see, many developers are not making mods for vB5 because they don't like the software, and two the missing hooks system.

[KTechOps]

The client is very adamant on using VB5. So let me ask you this. Is there an IoC container or an autoloader built in? I ask this because if the coding style is OO then perhaps I could just extend the classes and use the children classes instead of the parents.

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It's very frustrating that this documentation isn't well formed. I was under the impression the whole time, that the hooks system was apart of VB5.

[ozzy47]

There is not much documentation on vB5, but here is a link that may give you some ideas, http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/blogs/joe-d/3932614-