Accessing user data outside of VB
 

Hi,

I am currently access VB user data outside of the forum software by including global.php

These are the variables I am referencing:

$vbuserid = $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'];
$vbusername = $vbulletin->userinfo['username'];
$vbpmtotal = $vbulletin->userinfo['pmtotal'];
$vbpmunread = $vbulletin->userinfo['pmunread'];
$vblogouthash = $vbuserid > 0 ? $vbulletin->userinfo['logouthash'] : "";

My questions is, is there a lighter way to do this. It seems that reading in the entire global.php isn't necessary for what I need. Also, I am running into a problem where a session_start() in the /forum/includes/facebook/facebook.php is interfering with my files outside of VB, so I'd like to just grab the $vbulletin->userinfo and cut out all the other stuff.

Any suggestions?

You can try just getting init.php instead of global.php. It may work fine.

SWEET!! That worked, and is so much lighter weight.

The only thing I needed to add on was to define VB_AREA before including init.php
define('VB_AREA', 'Forum');

Thanks!