Custom page

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I have a custom page outside of the forums that I want to use the vbulletin session / login with. I followed the directions at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=98009 and it seems to be somewhat working, however, even though i am logged into the forums it always returns a userId of 0 and acts as if I am not logged in.

PHP Code:

<?php
chdir('/home/path/to/forums'); 
require_once('./global.php');
if (!is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 6,7,5,9,23) ||
    is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 8)) 
{ 
         print_no_permission();     
}

I am using nodejs so am using port 3000 on my site. I have the php processor working, just can't seem to get the vbulletin session.

What am I doing wrong?