tubedogg,

That is exactly what MultiHack does NOT do. The general ideas is a 3 or so click install process for hacks, and a database for those hacks.

If two hacks modify the same piece of code, MultiHack will not allow the modifications to pass.

Generally speaking from my own past experiences, very few hacks(from UBB anyway) tend to trip up over each other. If this isn't the case for vB, maybe MultiHack is useless for vB. However I don't think this is the case.

Give it a shot, check out the documentation and let me know what you think. That is the best thing you can do to get an idea of what it does or does not do.

Hey Troy,

This was great with UBB and will be fine for most vB hacks...
The only thing will be it will not be able to alter the database, or templates.. But It will be a usefull program non the less. Althou i still prefer to hand code everything, I would still feel safe using this program to edit the files(it can) if I was feeling lazy. :)

Well, at least it doesn't appear to be useless. =) I'm not sure how the templates work, but I might be able to do something there unless they are stored in the database as well. (I think they are if I remember correctly).

However if there is some sort of standard for an install script, it could be included within the hack, so that when the hack is installed a "installme.php" file or whatever is written out. With the post install instructions, directions there could point the end user to run this PHP installer. So that while MultiHack couldn't help with the actual installing of it, it could help in general.

This is the type of thing I need to know and help in doing(some of it anyway).

This I like. I think I will make all of my hacks MultiHack so I can easily go in and change them, etc...

Here's the thing about vBulletin: if you have a hack, chances are it will affect a query somewhere along the way. Some of them, such as the one to update options in member.php, get edited every time you hack in an option for a user. Same for when a new user registers. Another one is the creation of a new post. What this basically means then is you couldn't install two hacks that add options, which are pretty common hacks.

does it work on a unix server with apache? :confused:

It's for your local Windows computer, not apache.