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Originally Posted by DarkScythe

Yes, that's what I remember reading, and why the above userdata set line is checking. Where is the Javascript function though, I see no mention of it around that section of code..

See the "onsubmit" attribute on the login form.

Originally Posted by DarkScythe

I did find this in the global file

PHP Code:

 // you may define this if you don't want the password in the login box to be zapped onsubmit; good for integration
 $show['nopasswordempty'] = defined('DISABLE_PASSWORD_CLEARING') ? 1 : 0; // this nees to be an int for the templates 


Is this what I am looking for? I could also simply copied the hashed value directly over, but it would be plain MD5, which is a little iffy.. I don't think EE has any salting mechanism built in by default, so I normally hash passwords into SHA1, if I can, before putting it in there.

Disabling the client-side hash would be a bad idea IMO, as then the password would be sent plain text across the "interwebz" . You could always SHA1 your MD5 hash.

Originally Posted by DarkScythe

vB also seems to have "datamanagers." What are these? From the manual it says they are useful for 'rapid integration of vBulletin-specific data structures and data constraints into [...] third-party applications.' I'm not entirely sure how to access this, or if it coincides with what I want to do..

Data managers allow you to insert data into vBulletin's system, with simple PHP function calls. See the articles section for some examples.