forum account checker?

[-Negative-]

hey., i wanna make a form that checks if account exist in forums.. like this forum. ill type my ID and my Password on the VB forum and itll tell me if its found or not..

i dont know how to do that i dont program web things ..

[jmcilhinney]

This has got nothing to do with "web things". It's a straight up database query. You've got two values and you query the database to see if there's a record that matches.

[-Negative-]

alright. how do i do that lol

[brin351]

You use ADO.NET to execute a query against your database and return the result. Best to do some study on ADO.NET and if you get stuck you will be able to ask specific questions. try http://www.w3schools.com/ado/default.asp and look up MSDN.

[jmcilhinney]

You can follow the Database FAQ link in my signature for some local ADO.NET resources. With regards to validating credentials specifically, follow the CodeBank link in my signature and check out my thread on the topic.

[chris128]

I think the OP might be talking about querying live forums on the internet (like this one) rather than his own database - in which case studying ADO.NET is not going to help at all... is it?

[JuggaloBrotha]

I think the OP might be talking about querying live forums on the internet (like this one) rather than his own database - in which case studying ADO.NET is not going to help at all... is it?

That's how I read the OP's post.

Like if he wants to make a program to check these existing forums for an account with a name:
http://www.vbforums.com/
http://www.*************s.com/
http://www.vbulletin.com/

which are all different forums (none of them are associated with each other, as far as I know)

Am I on the right track -Negative-?

Edit: wow, they'll allow http://www.vbulletin.com/ but not www.vb dot net forums.com (the middle one, just with spaces), how childish is that??

[si_the_geek]

Edit: wow, they'll allow http://www.vbulletin.com/ but not www.vb dot net forums.com (the middle one, just with spaces), how childish is that??

If vBulletin were spammers who targeted this site, we'd censor their site name too: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=616658

While you could argue that in an ideal world the spam would be edited out manually as it is posted, nobody gets paid to do that, and I'm sure you wouldn't want to wait for every post to be manually approved.