Has this question "STUMPED" the Vbulletin programmers here?

[newdude]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

Does you main site pull the data from vBulletin's database? Or do you have two separate databases?

It appears to me that there are 2 separate databases. When the board was using PHPBB software, the usernames that appeared in the database for the main site also appeared as users in PHPBB's database of users, and vice versa. Also, if i lost my password from my main site and i clicked on "forgot your password?" on the main site's pages, the link would take me to PHPBB's password recovery form. Once that form was completed, the new password would be emailed to me by PHPbb and that new password could be used with the old username and it would work for both the main site & for phpbb. If I wanted to personalize/customize the p/word, I would do so in PHPBB's form, and, again, the newly reset p/word was valid for both sides of the site.

I just want to have the same arrangement here w/VBulletin. But, judging from the lack of response I've received to this question, it may appear that this is more difficult (if not impossible) to do than I first thought. Aren't PHPbb and Vbulletin using the same types of scripts based in PHP? So, wouldn't things work the same in Vbulletin as in PHPBB?

PLEASE HELP! At this point, the only other solution would be to return to using PHPBB--which I understand is now using the selection of an image prior to registering as a way to stop spam. This is the same thing that works in VBulletin. I abandoned PHPbb b/c of the spam problems, but now it appears they may have fixed spam with the same solution used in Vbulletin.