Is there a way I can use my vBulletin user table in my own application?
 

I'm trying to build an application as a supplement to my forum. I'd like to take advantage of the user base I already have. How can I easily integrate my application with the user table from vBulletin? Is there any PHP code laying around I can use for this?

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Ideally, I want to have custom pages that I have my own PHP code on that uses vBulletin's authentication/user system. So if I already have 1,000 users, they should be able to log in to this page with their existing information and do things. Those things would be saved into my own tables. I'd also like to grab their user ID from vBulletin and store that into my own tables as well.

Just include vBulletin's global.php - (basically) everything you need.

it's easier to add extensions to vbulletin instead of haking into vb's auth system to achieve the same.

Indeed, you will tap into many advantages doing the first, like calling the same header and footer with a single line of code-