The Best method to do this? (not sure of the term)
 

i apologize for the rather.. poor title, but i am fairly clueless as to what the correct term is for what i'm thinking about.

that would be what is the best method to link a gallery, vbulletin, and your normal webpages into a single login? i believe is some command user thing, i really can't remember >_< i understand bridging between two things being fairly simple, but i mean a site-wide bridge, merging everything together nice and neatly.

if someone could give the correct term aswell, i could place my question down more appropriately aswell haha -.-

thanks :P

You'll need software that is either premade and supports a single login between them such as vBulletin + a few gallery modifications like photopost, photoplog or whatever other ones are available.

Or create a shared login system between an exisiting gallery software such as Coppermine and vBulletin, but i'm not sure its that easy or else i'd be done by now :D

hehe, actually coppermine is the gallery script i refer to ;) i just recall there is some specialized 'bridging' method for connecting more then say a forums to a gallery. perhaps it would be done by bridging those two, then extending the login part of the bridge to the site using vbulletin (as it is far more advanced vs coppermine for such things) as i have seen done with phpbb. if you understand my rambling haha :)