First of all, I would like to emphasize that I'm not asking for handsouts or code, as much as I'm looking for a point in the right direction. I'm a phenomenal programmer but I'm new to VBulletin (at not so experienced in PHP either), so some starting pointers of how to accomplish this would be nice.
I want to, essentially, make a remote verification system for one of my software programs which is linked to the my forum. The program will send a POST with username, password, and a hardware key. The post would look similar to this:
myforum.domain/misc.php?do=verify&name=UserName&password=Password &hwlock=HardwareID
My question to the more experienced users of this software are as follows:
- What kind of "hook" would I use to add my "do=verify" to misc.php, and how would I go about doing it?
- How do I create tables in the database? (I have found tutorials on accessing data in it, just not creating tales. I'm no SQL jockey)
- Does the database class used automatically sanitize my data before putting it into the SQL command? (I would assume so but its better safe than sorry)
- How might I go about meshing all of this together?
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Hopefully its not wrong to bump this since its been 24 hours, but I need some help here!
Just got home from school so I will be looking at different mods to see if I can figure it out, but if anyone knows please help me.