List of variables

[yeloc]

Guys, I'm trying so hard to learn how to mod VBulletin, but I'm so overwhelmed by all the variable names and templates. I thought I remember seeing one a while back for version 2, but I could be wrong. Is there such a list because this would help me out so much.

ex

what is $bbuserinfo and what's in it?
what does forumdisplay.php do?

I'm very excited about working on my forum every night, but I'm getting frustated with hitting these walls. Thanks guys.

[NTLDR]

what is $bbuserinfo and what's in it?

Contains all the information about the user who is viewing the site, so for example here on vB.org when I'm browsing $bbuserinfo['userid'] contains 10435, my userid.

what does forumdisplay.php do?

Shows a thread/announcement listing for a specified forum and does the redirects for the forum jump.

[yeloc]

thanks. That's exactly what I'm talking about. Is there a list of all those variables and files? That would help me so much.

[NTLDR]

Not unless they have any details about them in the manual on vB.com, which I don't think they do.

[maximux1]

Not unless they have any details about them in the manual on vB.com, which I don't think they do.
so, what exactly is contained in the $bbuserinfo array? I am looking to use groupid and other things and was wondering how I could find out what all was in $bbuserinfo array.

Thank you

[eob]

I'm also on the road to writing my first hack, so I'd like to know what's involved in using global.php to grab user information. I noticed that some hacks seem to use the VBB cookie, rather than VBB itself to connect up and grab VBB user information etc, what's the deal here?

If I run code like this

include (global.php)

(list ($key,$value)) $bbuserinfo {echo $key $value}


(pseudo code) will it work, or does it get more complicated than that?

Is there a beginners guide for hackers available or what's the story there?