User database to WP database

[BAMitsBRAD]

Well, hello there.

First of all, I love eclipse and how 'custom' you can make it. Anyway here is my question.

On Crystalshire, your Register button leads you to the forum register webpage. So from that I am guessing your users are stored in a database outside from the server itself (MySQL maybe?)

I want to do the same kind of thing, but with users on my wordpress ran site (http://theholostudios.co.uk). I was woundering:

1 - Is it possible, if so…
2 - How?

Any answer is appreciated, even if it is 'OMG YOU NOOB THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE!!!' . Well, kinda...

[Aranshada]

It is possible to interface a VB6 program to a database because the language was designed (as Robin keeps pointing out) as a RAD database frontend. Granted, I've never considered interfacing it with MySQL, a quick google search reveals [http://paulbradley.tv/37/](http://paulbradley.tv/37/) as a quick and dirty (and I do mean dirty) look into getting started.

Another possibility is that it stores them in a flat file database, just like the rest of the data on the server.

As for pulling users from a wordpress site, I've never dealt with the site so I have no idea if you could pull the users from that database. Even then, there's the issue of pulling all of their passwords so you can transfer them. As for having the server connect directly to the wordpress database, that's probably not going to happen for obvious security reasons. People don't like giving random people database access. It goes against the tenements of good database administration.

tl;dr It's possible to access a database from VB6 (that's what it was designed for). It's also possible to use the web scripts (or compiled cgi binaries) to take the registration info and save it directly to a flat file like the server traditionally used, in which case there would be no need for the server to access a database because it could just open some regular files and read the data from there.