use vBullentin user login for rest of website?

[chrisj8221]

Searched for an existing post but no luck so sorry if this has already been answered and I just missed it.

I am working on a website and will have a vBullentin forum eventually. I would like to be able to use the user database with vBullentin for the rest of my site. I would assume this is possible, just code in the location of user table with the rest of your user auth. code

does this sound right and is there a place where I can find the layout of the vBullentin user table prior to purchase?

Thanks for your replys

chris

[Hellcat]

Yes, this is very much possible and I do that on my own site a lot as well.

You can query the user table of you vB installation for the username and the password and compare it to what ppl entered on your own login form.

The password is stored as a MD5 hash in the database, so you'd have to compare the hash of the entered password to the hash stored in the DB, instead of the actual passwords (security reasons).

What you also could do is to read the (session) cookie vB sets on the peoples local computer at process that in your own PHPs, so once logged in to vB your visitors would automatically be logged in to the rest of your site.

Yet another option would be to actually use the vB backend functions in your own scripts, that saves a lot of work

[chrisj8221]

using the vbullentin code as the signup form was what I was thinking. sounds like it may be pretty simple so thanks for the answer and i will probably post later on when I get into specifics of the task.

THANKS AGAIN

chris