allow spider(s) to login to forum

[H@K@N]

Hi @ll,

on my Forums, only registered User can see the Forums and Threads.
In this case the Spiders cannot join the Forum ...

Before i came to vb3, i had wbb2 and there was a hack, (googlebot-hack), where the bots could login automatically and spiders the Forum.

Is there a possiblity in vb3 to make a similar hack ?

the code was as follows :

/* get host */
$googlebot_userid=4711; 
$remote_host=gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
if(@preg_match("/(.*)googlebot\.com/i", $remote_host)){
	$wbbuserdata['userid']=$googlebot_userid;
	$db->unbuffered_query("UPDATE bb".$n."_sessions SET userid = '".$googlebot_userid."' WHERE sessionhash = '$sid'",1);
	$wbbuserdata=getwbbuserdata($googlebot_userid,"userid",1);

th@nks