vBulletin Forum login through a form

[Brad]

Hi, I am fairly new to vb.net and I am looking for advice, tutorials and general help.

I have been asked by a friend to code him an application which will connect to his forums to allow the "VIP" members to login. Because there are different "subscriptions" when a user logs in, I would like my application to only allow to view what they have paid for. I have been looking around at different tutorials but they all seem to be for stand alone server using MySQL, now I know vBulletin uses MySQL but I have no idea what tables for my form to read from nor access when filtering the different users.

Any would would greatfully be appreaciated!

Thanks, Brad

 

[Brad]

BUMP!

I've just had an idea, Could I use MS Access to create a database containing my forms? Containing Usernames and passwords and the groups so they can only view things that I permit? I have knowledge in access but not sure if that would be the same?