Adding extra fields to user table
 

Is it ok to add some extra fields to the user table or will I regret this later (expecially if we upgrade to vbulletin5)?

Parts of our website use vbulletin for authentication and we would like to keep track of some other bits of data which would seem logical to keep with the vbulletin user data but I don't want to do something that we may regret later. We currently use vbulletin 4.

Thanks much for any advice.

You may add to the user table. It's suggest making sure the field is very unique though. For instance, if it's supposed to be "authenticationid", then put a unique prefix in front of it, like "raven_authenticationid" so that there is no chance of the field perhaps being added at a later date with the same name.