Assistance if possible

[ravenswood1000]

I am using vb 3.0.1 and am really having a hard time getting a vbulletin user recognized outside of vbulletin, reliably.

Trying to get the userid in this manner:

$userid = intval($_COOKIE[bbuserid]);

With that I can do some database work, but the issue is that it will not always work, with all users.

Just in case there is a caching issue, the following no-cache headers in all html:

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />

If I do a test of the userid by logging in and out as various users, there are no issues getting the correct userid.

If a friend does it he will get a userid of 0. Then go to vbulletin and it will recognize him. If he logs out and then back in, sometimes he will get his proper userid.

Any suggestions folks?

Thanks much,

ravenswood