We're in the process of starting up a fantasy-style game on the boards that I run. What I want to do is create a "What's going on"-style module to display the leaderboard in the game using the plug-ins system. The only problem is that we're storing the data for the game in a different database than the one used by vBulletin. The access information is the same (server name, username and password) - it's just a different database.
Anyone know how to make calls and queries to databases other than the vBulletin database from within the vBulletin plug-ins system that would be able to explain to me how to do it?