Some Help/Information with vB Integration Please

[DarkScythe]

Yes, that's what I remember reading, and why the above userdata set line is checking. Where is the Javascript function though, I see no mention of it around that section of code..

I did find this in the global file

PHP Code:

 // you may define this if you don't want the password in the login box to be zapped onsubmit; good for integration
 $show['nopasswordempty'] = defined('DISABLE_PASSWORD_CLEARING') ? 1 : 0; // this nees to be an int for the templates 


Is this what I am looking for? I could also simply copied the hashed value directly over, but it would be plain MD5, which is a little iffy.. I don't think EE has any salting mechanism built in by default, so I normally hash passwords into SHA1, if I can, before putting it in there.

As for email and username, I was apparently blind - they're set a few lines down after the password. There is another field I'd like to mandate though.. is there a way to force users to have to set their birthday during registration? I do not need it to be publicly visible, or even editable afterwards by users.

Thanks again.

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Actually, from doing some more research, it seems there might be several ways of doing what I'm trying to do.. but I'm not sure of the differences between them.

At its most basic level, I'm basically re-doing what I had to do with phpBB2, that is injecting my own code into the source files to get some integration with the user tables.

However, I have also seen something about vB's plugin system which may allow me to put the code into plugins and be less invasive to the source code. (I have no idea what the difference between a plugin and a product are at the moment.. It just seems like I put my code into one of them and insert a "hook" line into the source code and it would replace that hook with whatever the linked code is.)

Lastly, vB also seems to have "datamanagers." What are these? From the manual it says they are useful for 'rapid integration of vBulletin-specific data structures and data constraints into [...] third-party applications.' I'm not entirely sure how to access this, or if it coincides with what I want to do..

If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.