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Originally Posted by Opserty

If its already connected to your vB doesn't that mean you are already including global.php from the forum directory? If so you shouldn't need to use information from the cookies and instead just check if $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] == 0 to check if they are logged in or not.

That's nice, i had no idea it was that easy.

I'm afraid i'd still like to know how this hash is calculated though. Because i know the logouthash is calculated from the cookie secret, salt and userid but i can't find out how this one is created.

The thing is that i only need the authentication part, i just need to see if they're logged in or not then i'll get the info i need from the database myself. Beucase the portal is in a totally different location from the message board on the server it would be unpractical to copy a bunch of vbulletin files there just to connect them when i could do it myself in so little code.

But now that i know that you can connect your app with vbulletin that easy i might just think about copying files over, or maybe moving the portal to the message board directories. It's just kinda complicated because the portal will be stand alone apart from the administration interface where one user will login using his vb credentials, and the comments which you will need to be logged in to use. Other than that i'll be writing huge ammounts of code that have nothing to do with vbulletin and need their own large directory structure, it would be cumbersome to have them among a bunch of vbulletin files.