Before you start hacking up vBulletin, you should know your way around phpMyAdmin:

http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/

Under the listing of your tables it has a textarea box where you can paste in the CREATE TABLE code. That is the easiest way without having to learn telnet.

i looked for phpmyadmin.php and didnt find it....or do i not even have that...im just learning this, im a web/graphic designer, not programmer...

Who i love it
now i can install it cause the vb2.0 is out
thx very much guy :)

i finished all the rest....if setting up a table is too confusing maybe can someone do that part for me..i already did all the rest

Setting up a table is not that confusing. Trying to give you the steps to telnet and run mysql instead might be confusing. Downloading phpmyadmin is easy:

http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/

Go there, download the zip, unzip, upload to a new phpmyadmin directory. Password this directory with .htaccess. There must be posts around here somewhere teaching you how to install phpmyadmin.

Once you have done this it will be your window into all of the database, you will wonder how you got along without it. Sorry my hacks do not install themselves, I believe you should be able to run phpmyadmin before hacking up vBulletin.

I was a designer first too, now I'm a hack programmer.. I'm sure you can learn it. Good luck.

ps. welcome, jojo

THNX MAN..I APPRECIATE IT ALOT..umm i actually dled it while i was waiting and uploaded it, but the config file is kinda confusing..like the one for the bulletin is easy, iot asks your database name password..like 3 things..but the phpadmin config has like 30 different things i dont kno what to put where.. i keep getting an error everytime

Moderator Logs REFRESH - CLEAR ALL LOGS - Max: 10 25 100 all
There seems to have been a slight problem with the database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

any ideas?

You must post the actual message, not just vB's stock error message. View the source of that page or the email and copy and paste one of those here.

I'm having a problem with the forumid variable.
Like it aint storing it in the table so when i look at the logs there is no forum names.
I am not the only one suffering this as there is a picture on another post where the forum names are missing.

I am new to all this so i am playing to see what i can learn but everything looks OK.

Thnx for the hack dude :)