Site integration / API for login, pm, etc?

[will3d]

Hello,

We use IPB currently and have to use IPB SDK to integrate the message boards into our site for things such as login/logout in our site, sending private messages, retreiving user profile information, etc.

IPB SDK is a third party application that breaks every upgrade of IPB. Its a real nightmare to deal with and we are sick of it.

I am wondering if vbulletin has some way that makes it easy to integrate its users/features into an existing website and possibly even an API that doesnt require code changes for our integration on every upgrade.

Open to suggestions on how others are doing their integration as well. Really want to get out of IPB!

Thanks,
Will

[Steve Machol]

Unfortunately we do not have a built-in system to integrate non-vB member info at this time. You might want to check the vB mod site http://www.vbulletin.org to see which unofficial options are available.

[Floris]

Here is our API: http://members.vbulletin.com/api if that is of any use to you. And here's our documentation on data managers: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/data_managers

[nexialys]

for the login/session thingy across your system, the vBulletin API is so flexible that a lot of addons were built with it to suit your needs... "login on non-vbulletin pages" is an example of it... a 30 seconds installation script... download/upload like.. :)

you will have to visit http://vbulletin.org to have that kind of work though.