pulling user id from outside forums
 

so, I am looking to create a somewhat small system on my site, that involves the same users in the forums. Basically I want this features 'userbase' to be the same people in the forums.

Now, lets say my site is in the folder:
site

I also have a forums setup at site/forums/
which is where vbulletin is.

I'm trying to write a simple script in site, lets call this test.php, where it will also initialize the same session, and print that users ID if they're already logged into vbulletin.

I know lots about programming, but admit I don't know anywhere near enough about vbulletin, and if I can figure this part out the rest should be easy.

So again my test script is at:
site/test.php

Forums is at:
site/forums/

my test.php script I initially tried was
But that was giving me errors from global and init trying to do other includes at other paths that dont exist relevant to this path.

Any help is appreciated :)

The last three threads I've looked at had something to do with global.php and not doing a chdir first.

To fix the include path issues, try this:
Edit: Also, to fetch/print the userid of the current logged in user (if one is logged in):

The Articles section is a good source of information on programming in vBulletin.

worked like a charm. Thanks