Integration with external DB and Session management

my current database doesnt have a userid, only username which is a primary key

- No it won't work. Having integer unique ID is a main condition.

my password field is stored as clear text..not encrypted. Can it still work?

- Yes it can. You just need to modify bb_cookie.php's function writePwd() - and probably some few other things.

my regdate is defined as VARCHAR storing only the date without time. Can it still work?

- Yes it can.

Thanks for the lightning fast reply! ....one more questions..as mention, i already have a username which is a primary key....when i try to add another auto increment id field it fails...so i guess i cant get it to integrate..is there any workaround?

All I could say that you must have a numerical auto increment field for ID. Since database handles it automatically, I don't know why it would be not possible just add this field. This is the only workaround ;-)

alter table users add user_id integer(10) not null auto_increment primary key;

oh because my username is already a primary key and hence i couldn't add user_id as another primary key...unless of course i drop the primary key that belongs to username...let me go and see if dropping it will affect any part of my code...thanks alot..really appreciate it...=D

ok..i managed to get it to work..didn't expect it to be that simple...I have tried other forums and its almost impossible to integrate any exisiting member database...Thanks minibb team for making this so easy!

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Got a quick question here I have 2 cookies from my script
1 is the user name the other is the id
it does not store the password cookie

So is it possible to drop the password side of the log in so that
it will work with the username cookie only

or as in if cookie 'username' login

It is possible, in bb_cookie.php there is a function user_logged_in() which should you need to modify to compare by the received ID and the username.