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I've created a nice website that is using a php and mysql driven backend for all the content. What I want to do is allow members (registered via forum) to be able to submit content, articles etc, to me via a form they can fill out.

My question is how do I check to see if they have a cookie from the forum already, so they don't need to login twice. Also, couldn't I just query the users table in the forum DB to let them login and submit an article to me?

Could I use pre-existing vBB code to check the cookies instead of inventing the wheels twice? If so which page(s) has the code to verify this?

I'm fairly new to php (learning on my own for 2 months), for the passwords how do you encrpyt + decrypt them?

By doing this I'm hoping to create more of a members type site, and no I don't want to use PHP nuke or anything like that, I want to create my own custom solution.

Check out my site at www.ramprage.com