Integration with VisionGate Fusion

[toolie]

I have a client that is already committed to using VisionGate Fusion, but would like to incorporate vBulletin into that site. I have already been told that it would require custom programming to integrate the two, and now I need the technical details so I can advise my client.

Is this something that's more easily handled in a phone call? If so I'd appreciate a call from someone who can give me specific details on this problem. My profile is set to receive private messages from other users, so please advise by return private comment with a phone number.

Thanks,

Toolie

[Steve Machol]

Unfortunately this is not something we can provide official support for. You can try asking in the Pre-sales forum at the vB mod site: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/

[nexialys]

to have the exact details of the job to be done, you will have to work with both sides here... nobody will buy a softwre that size just to test if a job is possible or not... so you will have to ask VisionGate guys if the job is possible first, because they know how their system is built...

then providing details on database structure and login/session handling will be the key... vBulletin can connect to any kind of structure when it knows how to do it... a coder at vb.org may be able to teach it to connect to VisionGate...

[feldon23]

You are welcome to do the research, but private message/phone call is not something I would expect unless you are hiring someone as a consultant, which can be done at vBulletin.org.

You might want to glance at this Tutorial Index:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=99570

[toolie]

vBulletin Integration, Continued

VGF is PHP-based, but they disallow table additions to their structure because it prevents auto-updates. We can have more than one database on the server itself, but the presumtion there is that we'd have to have users log in to both VisionGate Fusion AND vBulletin separately, and we'd like to have one seamless login.

From your comments I deduce that vBulletin is PHP and MySQL based, as is VGF. Can you think of a programming reason why we can't pass credentials from one database-based application to the other seamlessly? I know VGF pretty well, it's vBulletin for which I need advice.

Thank you

Toolie

[nexialys]

it is always possible to "bridge" both login processes, so your users would not have to login twice.. this is a simple cookie management process, and usually, vBulletin is able to handle what your other software would not permit, because of flexibility...