Transfering User Info

[tatalex]

We recently purchased some article publishing software and we want to be able to transfer the user's id and password from our vBulletin forum to our new article software. We want to have all user account creation done in the forum and then have that info transfer to the new software. If you could help me do this or tell me what I would have to do in order to accomplish this?

I hope this is possible,

Alex S
TAT Forum Admin

[Paul M]

vbulletin does not store the users actual password, it just stores a 32 bit hash, so there is no password you can transfer.

[tatalex]

I know that but somehow vbulletin has to take the hash and convert it back to the password for the "whats my password?" email.

Does anyone know where the code is that actually saves the user info to the table named "user"?

[Eikinskjaldi]

Originally Posted by tatalex

I know that but somehow vbulletin has to take the hash and convert it back to the password for the "whats my password?" email.

Does anyone know where the code is that actually saves the user info to the table named "user"?

No, it doesn't. Its a secure hash, that means it cannot be reverse engineered. That's what "secure hash" means. As for the code to save the user data, you will find it in register.php and some related includes.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by tatalex

I know that but somehow vbulletin has to take the hash and convert it back to the password for the "whats my password?" email.

There is no such thing in vbulletin.

I guess you mean the fortgotten password feature - this allows you to set a new password, it cannot tell you your current password.