Good desciption of vbulletin operation

[Campos]

I tried for an hour to find out where vbulletin stores the banned email accounts, but did not find it either in the db or any flat or php files. Guess I'll get out the old grep man page and try to figure out how to use the command to search through the files.

I nice description of how vbulletin works would be great to educate people wishing to make modifications on how it does things and where it stores information. Sounds like a heck of a lot of work to put together though. If anybody knows of a good description of the whole system, please let me know.

[Steve Machol]

Campos, please go to this (http://www.vbulletin.com/members/vbulletin.org.php) page and enter your username, to show you are licensed. (you will need to use your customer number and password to access that page)
Thank you.

[Sparkz]

You can always start by DL'ing the database diagrams from the vb.com members area

[Campos]

SMachol,

I went to the page you mentioned and showed I am licensed. I also went to the vb.com members area, but I'm at a loss to decipher what "DL'ing" the data base means. I've looked at the tables via "decribe" but still can't find out where VB stores the banned email addresses.

Does anybody know where VB stores these? I would very much appreciate any advice. I've got to write a script to transfer a couple thousand users from a custom board data base over to VB and would love to find a description of where to put the information (i.e. tables, specifically where the banned email addresses go at the moment).

Thanks

[Steve Machol]

Thanks!

'DL-ing' the database means 'downloading the database'. And the banned email addresses are stored in the setting table in the database. In an unhacked db this will be settingid=92 and varname=banemail.

[Sparkz]

I was referring to the database layout which can be downloaded in PDF form from the members area at vb.com