building VB into a database driven site

[jpfour23]

Hello,

I'm very interested in VB, but I already have a site that is database driven including members that login to view content on the site. Is there an easy way to use VB with my current site & members? For example:

I would love to modify VB (as easily as possible) so that anyone who registers at my site with my registration script can access the forums and post under the username they registered on my script. Is this possible? That is, without tearing apart VB? If so, is there anyone out there right now who has done this?

THANKS!
jp

[Wayne Luke]

It is possible. Many of our customers have done it in the past and many will do it in the future. The amount of work involved depends on your needs and your current program though so we cannot estimate about that. Go over to www.vbulletin.org where people will be more able to help with the details of this.

[jpfour23]

Since I just thought about this.... Let me know what you think.

In your opinion, would it be easy to set the forum as a "public" forum... or whatever terminology you all use, so that anyone can post without registering--but when they go to post or reply where it would normally give them the option to enter a name or username have the field query the current session username and automatically log the post as with the session stored username?

Make sense? Do you think this would be fairly easy?

jp

[mccollin]

Since I just thought about this.... Let me know what you think.

In your opinion, would it be easy to set the forum as a "public" forum... or whatever terminology you all use, so that anyone can post without registering--but when they go to post or reply where it would normally give them the option to enter a name or username have the field query the current session username and automatically log the post as with the session stored username?

Make sense? Do you think this would be fairly easy?

jp


Have you considered the reverse of your thinking? Why not write an import script to preload the userids, passwords, names, etc. into vBulletin, then let vBulletin drive your content. I have found vBulletin, along with something like vbIndex to be a very powerful combination.