Connecting to a custom database using db_connect

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To use the existing vb structure to access the database just create a new instance of vbDatabaseMySQLi class and then call the connect method with the relevant information. See the file includes/class_core.php for details on what you need to do the above. After that you can use the standard db->query_read, db->query_write, etc. function calls.