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[fdwilk1]

I am about to purchase and install vBulletin but have a question and the folks at vBulletin suggested I come here to ask.

My site, http://www.classic-british-cars.com, offers a membership that allows members to post classified ads. Ideally, I would like to have vBulletin where all site visitors could read the forums but only members could add/reply in the forum. My system for charging for membership creates a ID/Password file. Has anyone hacked a system to allow reading of a password file to restrict access?

Thanks for any advice or help.

Doug Wilkinson

[Xenon]

well you can set the options so members can post and non members can just read, that's easy and doable with normal vb.

no such a hack isn't around as i know, but i think it should be possible to create such a hack to get password out of file instead of getting it out of the db....

[filburt1]

Or (IMHO the easier way) edit your original script to use the vB user table instead of an external source. :)

[Erwin]

There is a classified ads module for vBPortal, which is a portal system you can add on to vBulletin.

Try here:

http://www.phpportals.com