external authentication

[Vaga]

Everybody told good about VB, but I've the problem of an extenal authentication.
I've allready read the previous articles about the same problem, but no answer satisfy me. I'm a programmer (PHP), so develop new lines is not a problem.

The requirement
- add a forum to the main site
- minimum/no modification to forum SW

The goal:
- disable login form
- If "my allready authenticated user" reach the forum the first time, a new "forum's user" will automagically created and set authenticated by the forum
- If "my allready authenticated user" reach the forum the n-th time, will automagically set authenticated by the forum.

The idea
- create a "simple" PHP on forum web that make all the job, set the cookie and redirect to the VB's "index.php"
- put a link to ".../simple.php" on main site

The question:
- is there any API/documentation/library/class to create a new user?
- is there any API/documentation/library/class to log-in a user (AKA create a new session on DB and send a cookie to the browser)?

TIA
Vaga

[feldon23]

There is nothing simple about synchronizing vBulletin's login/session/cookie system with an existing authentication system.

However if you are willing to write your script and use vBulletin's authentication, it's really very easy.

I believe there are now built-in systems in vB 3.5 which let you create a user.

[belak]

Has anybody found any solution on this issue? vB seem to have an API for creating new users but how do I solve the log-in process? Any ideas about how to write the API/script for this purpouse?

/M

[Marco van Herwaarden]

It is possible to use he plugin system for external authentication.

For asistence on this, please ask at www.vbulletin.org.