Adding information to the display of user names (pulling from DB)

[sapphiremagus]

I'm trying to avoid using the custom fields provided by VB because ultimately this will be used in a custom plugin for my site.

Basically, I'd like to know the best way to pull data from a table (say, vb_user) and add it to the display of the user name in places like postbit and postbit_legacy.

Ostensibly I could just use PHP to pull it brute force, but I figure there's a nicer way to do it in VB.


Thanks in advance