Integration

If you want to fiddle with authorisation stuff, you should look at check_cookie() in include/functions.php

you MD5 your passwords, unfortuneately my user system doesnt, is it possible you could tell me how to take MD5 off?

Im getting the error:
Error: Unable to fetch user information. 

Might you be able to tell me which fields, in the table, or perhaps in functions code, need to be fetched, so i can make em fetchable. heh. thank you

I changed some stuff in functions, because the index wasnt coming up anymore. now when i try to login, i get the message: wrong username and/or password.

Now, back to the MD5.
You have all passwords for the forums become MD5.
Well, when you have you script login, dont you have to state that it is MD5 or it wont be correct?
If this is true, and your code states, in the login, that it is MD5, it will search the password column for MD5, not normal.
My member system is *not* MD5; therefore, it wouldnt work? right?
If all this is correct, could you possibly tell me where the code is i need to change, so it wont read it MD5.

Thanks

Ahhh, sorry for 10000 posts, but some more info:
The script provider for my user system said i could use:
$username = $_SESSION['_amember_user];
Could i use $variables in this page? or perhaps something like:

list($cookie['_amember_user'], $cookie['_amember_pass']) = unserialize(unescape($_COOKIE[$cookie_name]));

        if (strcasecmp($cookie['_amember_user'], 'Guest'))
        {
            $result = $db->query('SELECT * FROM '.$db->prefix.'users WHERE login=\''.addslashes($cookie['_amember_user']).'\' AND pass=\''.addslashes($cookie['?watever goes here...maybe _amember_pass']).'\'') or error('Unable to fetch user information', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

Hope this is all understandable....
Thanks

Point taken. Although, I still want to try to integrate the forum to my user system, otherwise i have to pay someone to use IPB(which suxors).

I can integrate it, in time lol, i just dont understand how your forum is built.

This is probably the most confusing part,  because i dont deal with cookies often.
$cookie['password_hash'])
What exactly is password_hash?

When a user logins in at login.php, does he/she send a cookie to his/her computer, which password_hash as their password? Which i believe is correct.
The thing is, i dont understand *where* the code is that is sending the cookie with all the information.

Thanks - i will say, my ealier posts were a bit...confusing/stupid. Hopefully this one isnt too !!

Ok, but doesnt the script somewhere check the cookie's information? Like the user/pass, so he/she can stay logged in.
If thats correct, once the PHP gets the info, wouldnt it have to do a  SQL, something like this:
SQL = "SELECT * FROM members WHERE login = $cookie_username AND password = $cookie_password"
If so, i was wondering where the SQL to do this would be?