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Originally Posted by kayak

I would like to add vbulletin to a site with an existing registration / membership system. When a new members register to the site, I would like the username and password to be automatically added to the vbulletin system so that they do not have to register to the forum as well. Whenever they login to the site's members section, I would like them to also be logged in to the forum.

Is something like that possible? Can anyone help?

I've accomplished this using the www.amember.com script and its plugin architecture - which is very similar to vB's. Basically you can write simple code that gets called on various events like register, login/logout, modify, delete, etc that does things like do inserts into multiple databases, set/reset multiple cookies so their is a single login point for each app.

I do believe you could accomplish this with vB's hooks but as I started coding a system before 3.5 was released I need other alternatives as I didn't want to hack vB's code. At least it is an alternative for you to look at and/or get ideas.

P.S. there already is a vBulletin plugin for Amember that works out of the box that will automatically add a member to vB and handle paid subscriptions as well as handle single login to amember & vB.

Best,

John