Manually setting Cookies / Login

[fhs2006]

probably someone of you can help me. i want vbulletin authenticate against an axternal database. this one is a very easy one, just 4 fields (username, userid, password, email).

i added a hook in login.php just below of

$vbulletin->input->clean_array_gpc()

($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('external_login_hook')) ? eval($hook) : false;

this is working fine. then after the authentication (works, too) i add the user to the vbulletin database (if auth was ok). this works, too.

$newuser =& datamanager_init('User', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY);
$newuser->set('username', $external_uid);
$newuser->set('email', 'email@email.com');
$newuser->set('password', 'somepassword');
$newuser->set('usergroupid', 2);

the email comes from external db, too, password doesnt matter, i set any random value to this.

now the problem starts, after authentication (useradding or not doesnt matter)
i have a problem with starting vb session and redirecting to the board again.

i try it with this code:

verify_authentication($vbulletin->GPC['vb_login_username'], $vbulletin->GPC['vb_login_password'], $vbulletin->GPC['cookieuser'], true);
exec_unstrike_user($vbulletin->GPC['vb_login_username']);
process_new_login($vbulletin->GPC['logintype'], $vbulletin->GPC['cookieuser'], $vbulletin->GPC['cssprefs']);
do_login_redirect();

but now, he is redirecting and says "Thank you for logging in, .", redirects (sometimes) me, but i am not logged in.

can anyone please help me how to, create the vb sessions?

would be very nice.

thanks

-andy

[ianskate]

yeah i need the same info im told by others to "just search the board" but i been searching for hours, cant find the exact info i need...