3rd Party Access To My Forum/Database
 

I have one of my moderators who is really great at creating customised add-ons for my site. Now it's getting to the point where we'd like to link the add-ons to user info in the forum.

Things like verifying their password or reading/writting some data into a custom field.

I don't really have a problem with giving him access but I'd prefer it be done through his own seperate directory (on the same host).

My 3 main concerns for doing it this roundabout way is so that only I can actually hack/change/modify vB pages. (important to me because I like to document my changes AND that I want to do all such hacks myself so that I know they will be things I can redo myself if I ever have to upgrade and re-do the scripts when he's not availlable).

Is there any way for his php scripts to simply call a few 'includes' to actual vB php pages for his scripts to have access? Or is the only way to give him direct access to the database through my host's CPanel?

Include global.php :)

That's all? :)

ok ... thanks! :)