Displaying Login on Main Page

[MatiasCandy]

ok I have a website that has 1 main page. It is just a feeds page nothing more.

If someone posts in the forums it will show up on main page, same with blogs, support, downloads etc. it is like a bridge between our support site and our forums.

I got the support site to use the same login as the forums
Now what I would like to do is have the Forums login on a main feeder page of the website. If they are logged in then it will show the Welcome, Username You have 0 unread messages etc. Just like it does in the forums. If they are not logged in it will ask them to login.

Does anyone know a quick way to do this?

my structure is as follows

www.domain.com - Feeder page is the index.php page
www.domain.com/forums
www.domain.com/support

Thanks for your help


**Edit

I did find this
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=720724

But he never completes what he was saying to get everything to display. . I already got the login part working I just dont know how to get the display to show username.

it is a PHP page and I am sure I can use the else code but what code needs to be if logged in.