How do I View Calendar and PM for Anyone?

[MikeBergman]

Well, I wouldn't think it would be that difficult, couldn't a hack just be written that if a user ID == 0 then display the calendar or allow the user to send a PM. If a PM is recieved and the user ID is 0 it tells the member that it was sent from a deleted user. Well that's fine with me, I know that because I tried just loading up phpMyAdmin and entering the PM message myself and it worked fine. I know I'd be able to write a PM program completly separate from vBulletin that would just insert the PM data into the database. I just thought someone might know a much simpler way just by editing a few lines somewhere so that user ID 0 can send a message.

If I knew vBulletin better I'm sure I could figure it out, I just started useing it a few days ago and still trying to figure out how everything works.

The calendar issue is not as big of a deal to me because I can just turn on forum viewing but turn off viewing of threads started by other members and turn off posting. They would be able to see the initial page of the forum but really not be able to do anything else.

I just thought it'd take a lot less time if someone knew what lines I could edit so user ID 0 could post PM's than it would for me to write a whole script just to post PM's to the database, that's all.

So, if there's anyone else that might have any idea or even knows of any hacks that already exist that allow you to do something like this, please let me know, I've been searching this board for a couple days now, haven't been able to find anything but maybe someone has done it and I just couldn't find it.

Thanks again,

Sincerely, - Mike Bergman