Extending vBulletin's session management

[Antun]

Anyone out there know of a way to extend vB's session management? I want to use the vB database for other parts of the site.

Is it just a matter of copying all the various include files (globals.php, functions.php, db_mysql.php etc.) to a new location, then changing the urls in those files, and finally including globals.php on the pages I want to protect?

Thanks,

Antun

[Admin]

You can just include global.php in your PHP script.

[Antun]

Thanks Firefly

I had to create a copy of the global file (& a bunch of others) because of relative url issues.

Take care,

Antun

[Antun]

One more thing:

On the vBulletin pages, how do I make it so that the user has to log in for everything? e.g. to browse the forums?

On my variation one, I redirected the user to the necessary page, but I had to add that into my global.php script.

I don't want to mess around too much with the original files.

Take care,

Antun

[Admin]

Originally posted by Antun
I had to create a copy of the global file (& a bunch of others) because of relative url issues.
You don't need to, just do this:
chdir('/home/users/path/to/your/site');
require('./global.php');

To require registration:
if ($bbuserinfo['userid'] == 0) {
show_nopermission();
}

[yetdog11]

We have a slightly different method for doing things, including our own custom antsglobals file in each page. However, if I try requiring global.php, i get a blank page.

Sooooo my question is, what do I have to add to my antsglobals file to add the functionality that global.php brings in order to include these external pages in who's online?

Matthew Yette
matt@antsmarching.org