Switching the vBulletin user database

[Ecksta C]

Hi all,

I'm currently looking at a couple of discussion boards on behalf of my company. Basically we're looking to add discussion boards functionality to our existing websites.

I've recommended VB because i've used it a fair bit on my personal sites before.

I've always based my user database on the vb_user table - sensible for a site which doesn't have any users to begin with.

However, my company has several thousand users already stored in a database, off which multiple sites run, so changing the database that users' details are stored in to VB is out of the question (all of the other sites would have to have their SQL rewritten).

What I really want to do is have VB use our 'One Database' for authentication and also perform password updates and other specified profile fields on it.

The obvious problem is that VB has hardcoded SQL statements that reference the vb_user table...

Has anybody ever been in the same situation? I haven't thought it through a great deal yet as I'm hoping somebody else has already gone this process.

Any theories/ideas are appreciated!