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Originally Posted by pjclas

I thought vBulletin was designed with the potential to be highly integrated with an existing site, ...

Yeah, I'm not sure that's true, at least with vb3 or 4. I can't say that nothing like you want exists anywhere as a mod or external product, but the vbulletin code itself doesn't really have an api that was meant to do what you're talking about. There is documentation of an API here: https://members.vbulletin.com/api/, but as youve noticed it doesn't have an interface for everything. I think the data managers are (for some reason) meant only for writing, which is obviously nice since you don't have to understand everything that needs to be done, but when it comes to reading the information you want, it seems like you're on your own unless there happens to be an existing function.