Connecting to outside Database Topic is solved

[paulconsulting]

I am looking for a way to use an outside user registration for a Joomla! project. Currently the website is operational and has been using an outside company to manage their user data.

What I am looking to do is pull from the outside company’s Membership Software data (which i don't see as the main problem) and then hides or show menus in the Joomla! project based on the privileges of the user.

The problem is that I don’t know where to place the code (main index.php???) or how to gain access to the Joomla! menus to hide or show them once I get the user data.

If I can do this without messing with the core functionality of Joomla! I would prefer that.

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

[Rogue4ngel]

I don't know if you have to mess with the core functionality, but there is some information about connecting to an external db here:
http://dev.joomla.org/component/option, ... _database/

Not sure if it will help.