PHP Login System that Integrates into IPB Forum?

[Jamesking56]

How can I make a Login System that Integrates into IPB Forum?Is there a way to do that? :)I couldn't find any on the internet... Please Help i'm stumped!

[h4xnoodle]

If you can tap into the databases IPB uses and pull the user information from there, then probably. The only issue I can see so far is: it could be too complex, the passwords will be hashed so you'll have to experiment (or look in the code) to find how to hash them the same way on login.It's probably possible. I have not done it myself, but I'm thinking you can just pull info from the database.

[justsomeguy]

How can I make a Login System that Integrates into IPB Forum?

That sort of depends what you mean by "integrate". If you want someone to type in their IPB username and password and you check if it's correct, then you'll want to study the login code for IPB to see what they do when someone logs in. They will set certain session or cookie variables that you'll need to set also if you want the user to be logged in to IPB. If you only want to check if the info is correct but not necessarily log them into IPB then you'll just need to figure out which fields in the database are used by login and what you need to do to get the same data like h4xnoodle mentioned.