vB-Template & Variable: Structure/Hierarchy

[suryoyena]

Hello everybody,

I use since one year vBulletin and I like it much. Now I want to make
a complete new redesign to relaunch our website with new functions.

Till today I still don't understand vBulletin certainly, so I hope that we
can collect in this thread everything, that could be usefull for many
beginner in development.

So, I think the following things are many many important, because you
spend every time a lot of time with the search engine without a sensible
result:

a) A general hierarchy of the templates!
----| Which template comes first, which next?
----| In which template you can setting up what..? (obtain to general things)
----| etc.

b) Which (global) variables you can use in vBulletin?
----| $var_name --> output ; A complete list would be nice
----| How you can create own global variables?

I would be glad if someone is interested in that too, so we can collect
those things. I think that are very important things, which are nuisance
to everyone of us (I think so...).

What do you mean? I would begin, but that's the problem, why I post it :)

Who wants make the first step?

Greets, Chris

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I suggest you start by turning (a development board) in debug mode. You will get a list of each template used on a page. Then have a look at the sources of those templates.