Making a registration system for a website is a fairly lengthy process and securing it is difficult for a newbie. Since I would like my website to feature a forum, I was wondering, would I be able to use vBulletin's forum registration system to make user accounts that could be accessed and used for the entire website? By this I mean when a user clicks register, it links to the vBulletin registration page. When the user registers on that page, it not only registers an account for the forum but makes an account that could be used for the entire website. Is that possible? For example, I think this website does this: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/. Thanks in advance EDIT: I'll ask this on the vBulletin forum as well
Sure this can be done, many people do it. Many different ways based on your needs. I'll point out a few easy ones here... 1) Using vBulletin with a plugin / module like vBadvanced. VBA will is like portal page with some CMS functions built into it. http://www.vbadvanced.com/ see their site for demo. 2) Using WordPress bridge. WordPress would be your front end, and vbulletin would be linked to users, posts and so on. 3) Simply PHP code to call usernames on external PHP pages. Sometimes this becomes tricky based on what your doing on your external pages, but can be done. My guess with just a quick look is your example site is using a CMS system and calling data from the vBulletin tables (username / passwords). Best of luck. Mark