User DM/login class?

[Reevo]

Hiya

Regarding the HowTo for creating new users; I'll be using this functionality entirely outside of the vB enviroment, so found I had to put a few things at the top of my test script to make the example work:

define('VB_AREA', 'Testing');
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'user_testing.php');
define('CWD', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/testvb');

include_once ('testvb/includes/init.htm');
include_once ('testvb/includes/functions.htm');

Is this the right thing to do, or am I missing a trick here? Regardless, I did manage to use the example, but now have another (slightly related) question.

The site I'm working on will have a registration process for the whole site, and part of this process will include vB registration, which is now working. To complete the whole package, I'd like the user to only have to log in once, giving them access to all members' areas of the site, including vB, rather than logging in to mysite.com, then mysite.com/board/ when they want to post.

The new user DM class is great, but I have yet to find anything similar that relates to logging a user into vB. Am I just not looking in the right places? If there's no login DM class functionality yet, has anyone else managed to do this successfully?

Cheers!

Paul.