View Full Version : Ive just started to learn PHP
Jaynesh
01-23-2006, 04:01 PM
:) Ive read quite a few things on that w3school website about PHP, ive learned the basics and i am starting to understand it.
I want to start making Hacks, Mods for vBulletin.
What is the best thing to start of with to make hacks/mods for vBulletin to practise and what do i need to learn to do it.
I wont release anything i make which is for practising.
So suggestions of hacks / mods which are already made / released is okay :)
Guest190829
01-23-2006, 06:24 PM
I bought a nice big php/mysql book when I first started. It really helped in learning everything. Afterwards, I looked at hacks/mods and explained to myself what each line did...etc...etc..The tutorial section of vb.org for 3.5 is a great resource. So is vBulletin's API documentation at:
http://members.vbulletin.com/api
Marco van Herwaarden
01-23-2006, 06:32 PM
Don't forget about the vB sources themself. Try to understand what they do, and your halfway. :D
But existing hacks are also good for learning (well some of them).
Guest190829
01-23-2006, 06:48 PM
Don't forget about the vB sources themself. Try to understand what they do, and your halfway. :D
But existing hacks are also good for learning (well some of them).
Yes, now thinking of it. It would have been much better if I looked at vBulletin source...You never know what you can find in a hack's source code. :rolleyes:
Princeton
01-23-2006, 08:23 PM
viewing existing products / plugins is a good start but it doesn't mean nothing if you don't understand the code
download the PHP manual (http://www.php.net/docs.php)
Jaynesh
01-24-2006, 05:29 AM
Danny.VBT, Hey do you remember the name of the book :) I found a nice one on amazon for creating hacks, I might try and create a profile guestbook like you did for practising if its okay with you :)
MarcoH64, Yep i will have a look at a few hacks and study the code :) Any suggestions on which ones to start out with ?
princeton, Cheers il download it :)
Marco van Herwaarden
01-24-2006, 06:41 PM
MarcoH64, Yep i will have a look at a few hacks and study the code Any suggestions on which ones to start out with ?
Mine ofcourse. :D :D :D
Guest190829
01-24-2006, 09:38 PM
Danny.VBT, Hey do you remember the name of the book :) I found a nice one on amazon for creating hacks, I might try and create a profile guestbook like you did for practising if its okay with you :)
MarcoH64, Yep i will have a look at a few hacks and study the code :) Any suggestions on which ones to start out with ?
princeton, Cheers il download it :)
PHP and MySQL Web Development
[/url]By Luke Welling, Laura Thomson
[url]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0672326728/qid=1138145809/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-1649875-8537618?n=507846&s=books&v=glance (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author-exact=Luke%20Welling&rank=-relevance%2C%2Bavailability%2C-daterank/002-1649875-8537618)
It's a very good book, but some of the more advanced topics (OOP and Exceptions) are PHP 5, but that notify you about that.
harmor19
01-24-2006, 11:13 PM
When I started making hacks the hardest thing to understand was how "eval" worked.
Learn how to code in php native language first ("native" is correct word?) then move to vbulletin.
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