External Registration / Database information

[ianskate]

Hello,

I've been trying to create an external registration script from a current website.

I run a website that has a registration script for posting comments, but I would like to allow the registration from that end. At the moment we only have the user name, ID, and password. The problem is when adding a new user to the database from this external site, I am bypassing the vBulletin registration process.

The end result is my user's info within the _user table is correct, however, users' posts display as though they are non-registered users (even though I hard coded the table population for them all to be Registered Users).

When viewing a user through the member list, everything appears fine. When viewing a post, the user displays like a guest user. When viewing through the admin control panel, the user names appear in the list, but ALL user data is absent, however, the data is visible within the _user table when viewing the sql tables manually through the database.

I'd like to copy the information into the forums database -- and create a user within those tables at the same time. In short, this would prevent double registering, etc, etc. Is there any method of easily creating the same information, or a small package to ease the conversion process on-the-fly as opposed to an import script?

Thank you in advance!

Also, I'm using the most recent version of vB. (3.6.8)