Thank you very much, I have been looking for this exactly before attempting my first hack. Very good read. :)

very useful, wish i knew how to start with moddifying vbulletin,

Thank you for the tips.

This is a must read far all noobs like me. I really enjoyed your article and I must say that most of us get too excited when we see an awesome hack and then rush the modding process. After 7 successful hacks, I just got my first parse error and that really flipped me out. Reverting the templates didn't work but I forgot to uninstall the plugins and then, boom, gone. I guess it pays to read threads like these.

thanx alot ..very very useful post for me ..i just started learning these things lately .

appreciated ur effort .

very nice thanks

Silly question probably but what are newbies for? :-) I am trying to add the new arcade and it is telling me to upload to chmod 0777 I think and I have no idea where to find that. I am getting a parse error when I click on arcade that is already on my forum. Also, I wasn't able to put it on all by different skins because some of the code I was needing to add to wasn't there like in the navbar.

chmod 0777 refers to the permissions on the files/folders. I'm not sure if vBulletin has something built in to allow you change that from the control panel (I'm fairly new at this also). Usually this would be done from having shell access to the site.

I have no idea about the parse error, unfortunately, so I can't comment on that... but hopefully that answers your first question. :)

must read for newbie for sure

Really Newbie Question. How do I import xml files from the server to vbulletin. Im trying to add the arcade hack to my forum, however, I am stuck at this crucial part.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=101554 <---This arcade.

I am stuck at the part where it says, "Enter the path to the Product-XML-File: ./includes/xml/product-ibproarcade.xml". I have no idea what to do with this part. Can anyone help me?