Before buying vBulletin I have an age old question

[upirate]

I am designing a system. I need a capability to where when users log on to my system, they no longer would need to log on to vbulletin.

1) How easy is it to adapt my code to match vbBulletins login ?
2). If I need to add a few more colums to the user database, will that mess things up ?



I know this question has been asked many times but there is no clearcut answer.


thankyou for your responses in advance.

[Chris M]

Firstly, what system are you using that you would need to integrate into vBulletin? There may already be modifications or tutorials that would do or show you how to do the required changes...

Secondly, adding extra fields to the user table should not cause any mess-ups - It is recommended that if you are going to alter the default vBulletin user table, that you use a prefix or some other way of ensuring that in future versions of vBulletin you don't get clashes between your fields and the possible new user table fields that may be added...

For example, creating a field called "option1" may cause issues if the next version of vBulletin also has a field called "option1" - Therefore by calling your field "site_option1" you avoid clashes

Chris

[upirate]

Chris,
thank you for your reply.

I am writing software for a custom web app. So im pretty sure there is no existent software that can help me.

Now Im assuming that VB sets up cookies etc. Do you know of any resource that I can follow to pretty much emulate a VB login ?

So that when someone logs onto my system, they are automatically recognized by VB ?

thank u again

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Assuming that both the homepage and vBulletin will be on the same domain, then it should not be too difficult to do this.

We have an Articles section that will explain the basics of such an intergration available to our licensed customers.

[Ziki]

vBulletin can use both cookies and database.Sessions is the key to success