Putting my VB and Postnuke together

[Dontom]

Hi,
I am planning to use Postnuke (http://www.postnuke.com) aside my vb-forum; to avoid double registration I need little bit of integration between both of them:

Both systems encrypt pw using md5 so there are two (or more?)possibilities:
1) hacking up postnuke to access vb's usertable or

2) copying all entries from vb's to pn's usertable and then writing a script which updates (or inserts ;-) ) pn's usertable hourly. Forwarding all access from pn's reg-system to vb's register.php and usercp.php
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1)
+ both systems access the same usertable
- changes to vb's tablestructure
- changing PN-Scripts

2)
+ easier to implement (??)
+ tablestructure in both systems remains untouched
+ PostNuke remains upgradeable
- delay when registering or changing pw (max 1h)

Any recommendations? Has anyone done this? I tend to start working for 2), what do you think?
TIA
Tom



Here both Tablestructures

VB-Usertable

CREATE TABLE user (
userid int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
usergroupid smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
username varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
password varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
email varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
styleid smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
parentemail varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
coppauser smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
homepage varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
icq varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
aim varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
yahoo varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
signature mediumtext NOT NULL,
adminemail smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
showemail smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
invisible smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
usertitle varchar(250) NOT NULL default '',
customtitle smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
joindate int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
cookieuser smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
daysprune smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
lastvisit int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
lastactivity int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
lastpost int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
posts smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
timezoneoffset varchar(4) NOT NULL default '',
emailnotification smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
buddylist mediumtext NOT NULL,
ignorelist mediumtext NOT NULL,
pmfolders mediumtext NOT NULL,
receivepm smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
emailonpm smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
pmpopup smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
avatarid smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
avatarrevision int(6) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
options smallint(6) NOT NULL default '1',
birthday date NOT NULL default '0000-00-00',
maxposts smallint(6) NOT NULL default '-1',
startofweek smallint(6) NOT NULL default '1',
ipaddress varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
referrerid int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
nosessionhash smallint(6) NOT NULL default '0',
showleftcolumn smallint(6) NOT NULL default '1',
receivebulletin smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '1',
starlevel varchar(5) NOT NULL default '0',
starimg varchar(25) NOT NULL default '0',
picture_name varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',
photodesc varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
pictime varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
updatetime varchar(30) NOT NULL default '',
inforum smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (userid),
KEY usergroupid (usergroupid),
KEY username (username),
KEY referrerid (referrerid),
KEY inforum (inforum)
) TYPE=MyISAM;


PN-Usertable
CREATE TABLE `nuke_users` (
`uid` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(60) NOT NULL default '',
`uname` varchar(25) NOT NULL default '',
`email` varchar(60) NOT NULL default '',
`femail` varchar(60) NOT NULL default '',
`url` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
`user_avatar` varchar(30) default NULL,
`user_regdate` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
`user_icq` varchar(15) default NULL,
`user_occ` varchar(100) default NULL,
`user_from` varchar(100) default NULL,
`user_intrest` varchar(150) default NULL,
`user_sig` varchar(255) default NULL,
`user_viewemail` tinyint(2) default NULL,
`user_theme` int(3) default NULL,
`user_aim` varchar(18) default NULL,
`user_yim` varchar(25) default NULL,
`user_msnm` varchar(25) default NULL,
`pass` varchar(40) NOT NULL default '',
`storynum` tinyint(4) NOT NULL default '10',
`umode` varchar(10) NOT NULL default '',
`uorder` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
`thold` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
`noscore` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
`bio` tinytext NOT NULL,
`ublockon` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
`ublock` tinytext NOT NULL,
`theme` varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
`commentmax` int(11) NOT NULL default '4096',
`counter` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`timezone_offset` float(3,1) NOT NULL default '0.0',
PRIMARY KEY (`uid`)
) TYPE=MyISAM;