Few questions before i purchase a license...

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Hi, im creating an interactive sports website that requires site registration/membership. I really dont want to have to have my members sign up additionally for a vbulletin account.

So...questions:

1) If a person signs up for an account and uses my account approval methods (email auth,etc), can i automatically create their vbulletin account with the same info they provided including password? I suppose its just a matter of manual sql Insert statement(s) into the vbulletin mysql database.

Id basically disable vbulletin login, and enforce they log into my site before posting, as they have access to other features from this.


2) There will be a section in my website with articles, and it each article will have an associated thread in the forum. Id like to add a preview of the thread posts on the article page with a format like:

|Post #|Posted.By..|........ Post.....................|

| 1......|username1 | ################ |
| 2......|username2 | ################ |
| x......|usernamex | ################ |


Basically id like to query my vbulletin database for these specific threads, and obtain post#, username, and the message parsed to remove the quotes and only display X number of characters. All of the post previews would have links back to the forum, nobody can actually post from my preview.

Sorry tihs got long winded, i guess those are my main 2 questions, im thinking as logn as i have access to the database backend of vbulletin i should have no problems achieving this.


thanks for any help.

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My site uses php/mysql as well if that helps...