Single Sign On?

[MikeTodd]

How easy/tough is it to do a single sign on system with vBulletin? Having worked with SMF and phpBB before, it's dead simple with those, but everything I've researched for vBulletin makes it seem like this is very complex. I'm hoping that's wrong though.

Here's what I'm wanting to do: I have a custom-coded chat community site that currently uses phpBB as the forum, and login database. The rest of the site uses the forum's login system, by using a simple include to see if someone is logged into the forum and using the forum's user data if so. In phpBB the code is a little longer, but with SMF the code is a one-line include to do this.

Does something similar exist with vBulletin? I love vBulletin in general, and would be more than willing to buy a license for it, but this is a must-have for my site. (Also on my wishlist would be a plugin install/upgrade system, Wordpress has.)

[Marco van Herwaarden]

This has been done many times and, if your site is in PHP, should not be too difficult to do.

It will require a few lines of coding in most cases.

[MikeTodd]

That's very heartening to hear! Do you have any links to code samples, Marco? I wasn't able to find those, but perhaps my search powers are lacking.

Edit: As a note, I'm just wanting to verify how easy/complex it is, since I couldn't find any examples of how to do so. I want to be 100% sure of what I'm getting into before I put down such a chunk of change.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Sorry but code blocks are not viewable by unlicensed users on our site.

[mbtshoes2011]

The rest of the site uses the forum's login system, by using a simple include to see if someone is logged into the forum and using the forum's user data if so. In phpBB the code is a little longer, but with SMF the code is a one-line include to do this.

[toonysnn]

I'm not entirely sure how your code works, but as far as vBulletin goes, it's as easy as including a file and checking if a member is signed on, or a guest. ($show['member'] would help greatly in this situation.)

If you happen to purchase vBulletin, I (amongst many others) should be able to help you accomplish what you need, and the numerous amount of articles here should help as well. I assume by "The rest of the site uses the forum's login," you mean you redirect some sort of login URL to the forum dedicated login page? (seeing as SMF and such have those)

[rjkendall]

I've searched and searched and I can't find these 'few lines of code' examples mentioned above. I have a site setup (and vBulletin purchased) and I just want to get this single-sign-on implemented so my client can call the project completed and pay my final invoice. Where can I find an actual example of a single-sign-on?