Possible to authenticate elsewhere on webpage?
 

Is it possible to use the vbulletin login elsewhere on a webpage for authentication? Say for instance I have a photo gallery that I want to have people login to see, is there a way I can stick the vbulletin username/password prompt on a login page for the gallery and have it check against the vbulletin database but not log into the forums?

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Yes, you can use the vB login stuff on another area of the site, however since it's the same login, it will log them into the forums.

Ok, since that won't work. Is it possible to have vbulletin during the registration proccess insert the username/password into another table but without the encryption? Basically just dump the plain username/password. Or, is it possible to make a simple login/password box in php and have it reference the username/password table in the vbulletin database and authenticate against that?

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The plain password never gets sent from the client to the server. It is already hashed on the clientside.

To make what you want would seriously reduce vB's security level.

ok well what about my other option, make my own username/password cgi form, but is there a way to have it authenicate against the vb database? or is that what you were talking about?

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Yes, everythig is possible, but it would reduce the level of security.

Well let's just pretend I'm not worried about security...

How would I go about doing this?

I want to make my own user/password login php page, and have it authenticate against the vb database. I really don't know howto do that, can someone give me some help.