vB3 Hacking 101 Guide

[Ninth Dimension]

Hi all, sorry if this is the wrong forum, but here goes:

Has anyone written, or is anyone going to write a hacking guide for vB3?

I (like a lot of other people here I should imagine) am used to vB2, and the way that works and all it's functions (how to do queries, pull templates, etc..), but now, so far as I can see, all of that has changed and a whole bunch of new functions have been introduced.

I'm keen to jump in the hacking bandwagon and develop a new articles system add-on, as well as maybe update vBstory, but I'm not too sure where to start...

Thank you in advance.

[Ninth Dimension]

Anyone?

[Xenon]

Well there are some beginnerguidlines in the moding hints and tips forum, but a full vb3 hacking guide isn't there to my knowledge.

iirc there were plans that the devs will write up a guide about the vb3 code, but not sure

[Ninth Dimension]

TBH all I'm looking for is a very basic guideline so I know what to do, and what not to do, for example I was looking at things like
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS', 1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT', 'vbindex');
and I'm not sure what they are for...

I'm also interesting in knowing what's the best way to do queries and pull templates, I mean I can learn from some of the other hacks that have been released, but then... what's to say that the hack i'm looking at have been done in the best way?

I hope that someone does sit down and write a guide, just very basic stuff, and I can pick up the rest myself :)

[Zachery]

Check my sig, it has some nice starting points :)

[Dean C]

Ninth Dimension - in your post above you have a constant. A constant holds data in a similar way to variables.

Whereas a variable would hold date like so: $var = 'string';

A constant would use: define(VAR, 'string');

It's just another alternative data-holder really :)

[Gary King]

The crew at http://www.everythingvb.com/forumhome.php? are going to make a hacking guide soon, I believe :)

[Ninth Dimension]

Sounds good to me, thanks for the links guys, I'll be sure to check them out, with luck I'll have my article system up and running soon...

Mist, I knew what the code did, I was more interested in what it was used for within the scope of vB... but thank you for offering your help :D

[Link14716]

THIS_SCRIPT is used a lot in conditionals and stuff, very useful indeed.

NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS just stops vB from emulating register_globals = on, since it isn't needed anymore.