Don't know how you are getting on, but i did some digging in the original joomla distro today, to find out what they do. As a starting point i wanted to see how they added the admin user to the database during the install and from that it would point me to the code libraries used to do the encryption and salt generation etc. If you take a look at the installation\installer\helper.php file you will see the createAdminUser() method, and you can see the helper functions being called, namely genRandomPassword(), getCryptedPassword(). The interesting thing to note is the genRandomPassword is also used to generate the necessary random salts. These methods are found in the library located at; libraries\joomla\user\helper.php along with a couple of others used internally. without knowing the ins and outs of php, the code is pretty easy to follow, and you should be able come up with suitable code to allow vb integration with the joomla db. hope that heads you off in the right direction now. Dave Don't forget to rate messages! Find Me On: Web|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn Waving? dave.m.auld[at]googlewave.com

Ah great modified it to my liking. Much shorter and more readable :D Thank you a lot. Sorry for my late reply was back to college this week. :(

Thank you both, ill take a look into the links you have posted :)

Thanks for the reply, the tutorial looks very helpful. Just about to go read it ;)

Thank you both. I tried your hints and i got somewhere. Just was hitting a wall. The time was coming out as 00:00:00. To the last replier before me, thanks for the code, really gave me a better idea of what i needed. Thanks :D

you should also notice how proper indentation improves readability a lot. Most code editors can do that automatically for you. :) Luc Pattyn Have a look at my entry for the lean-and-mean competition; please provide comments, feedback, discussion, and don’t forget to vote for it! Thank you.

You can use ADO.NET to create database for the website, and then connect to it with the C# application. or you can do someting that call "web service" - open new ASP.NET Web service in your Visual Stduio, there, you can define methods that after you can call to then with your C#. after you finish define, go to the C# project, and then on the solution explorer->referance of the project click left mouse, click "Web referance", and look for your web service address, then you can use all the methods you defined. Gindi Bar Yahav - Web & Software developer.

Thanks for replying, i managed to get help. Thanks again, Malcom

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