$vbulletin->db is not an object

[miguel.simoes]

Hy,

I'm trying to make an outside login for the user, without the user having to be on the forum or even to be redirected inside it. But, there is a problem...

When using:

chdir('./forum/');
require_once('./global.php');

I get:

Fatal error: Call to a member function query_first() on a non-object in [path]\forum\includes\functions.php on line 1533

Fatal error: Call to a member function unlock_tables() on a non-object in [path]\forum\includes\functions.php on line 4240



So, I went to debug it with:
if(!is_object($vbulletin) die ("Not object");

and guess the result? Not Object.

When using the vbulletin normally no problem is reached, but when including any file (example: global.php or login.php) I get the same error.

What can be wrong? The things I was seeing in the forum where related with the case-sensitive issue of Linux, but in this case you can't miss it... all lowercase.

Can someone give me a hand?


Best regards,
Miguel Sim?es