newbie question on adding tools to vbulletin

[colm]

thanks dismounted.

i've looked throught the article you suggested and setup a basic test page.

i have some more queries about the details of implementing this -
1) how would my php page access custom profile fields?

2) how would i setup a db connection and queries to a local mysql database?

3) how would i curl a url and include the results (which would include inline images) in my output?

thanks again for your excellent advise.

colm

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hi all,

one problem i've come up against is that we would like customers to be able to enter their service username and password into their profile. these are totally separate to their vb credentials.

this data would then be used to authenticate access to any tools we made available in vbulletin.

however, we wouldn't want their password displayed in plaintext to anyone and ideally it should be stored as a hash to reduce the security risk.

is this possible? if so, where would i need to start looking for information on how to do this?

thanks again for your help,

colm