Using another table to store user info (passwords)

[linuxguy]

Hello VBers,

Here's the situation: We have a site with thousands of members on it, with our own custom PHP / MySQL application. Obviously, all these users already have passwords and usernames.

My goal is simple: add a VB forum, and let these users access that forum with their existing accounts. VB will be a part of their overall experience.

This seems like it shouldn't be too hard, and I am an experienced PHP coder. Does anyone have some suggestions of where to start in modifying VB for this?

Thanks

Well, looking at the source code, I did this:

find forum -name \*.php -exec grep -H -i 'table_prefix . "user' {} \;

and found that the user table is being accessed directly from all over the place. I would need to change every single one of those places to use my other table as the user table. That's probably more trouble than it is worth. I think what I'll do is modify the application to simply copy its user data over into VB's user table, and also update VB's user table when passwords change, etc. Then I'll remove VB's user signup and profile modification abilities, so all signups will have to go through our existing application.

Ah, this is a bit of a pain and a hack. I'm very open to other suggestions.