Newbie here!
 

Hello,

Just purchased vBulletin a bit ago! I've been using Invision board for a while, but I helped admin a vbulletin site once, then later found out my friend was totally legal with it (course now the site is gone and we aren't talking anymore). I totally love the ease of use on the admin side of vbulletin, versus invision.

I hope to have many questions to keep you all busy in the near future!

:)

Welcome to vbulletin.org, trekwarfare!

vb3 is even better. (As long as you're not hacking it, that is ;))

John, am I reading this correctly? You saying vB3 is better if you're NOT hacking it?! I thought you've got over your problems and you find vB3 good to hack :p

lol. :D

I'm saying that vB3 is great, as long as you're not the people writing the hacks for it. :p
You can't deny that in certain areas, it is more difficult. (Even though I've mastered everything now. ;))

Most hackers won't have a problem. I consider myself a newbie to PHP still, and I latched onto vB3 quite quickly :).

Stop trying to make yourself sound clever, punk. ;)

I guess the biggest problem/annoyance is having to relearn the variable names, templates, etc. It's difficult to break the habit of vb2 style naming.

Templates and variables didn't change _THAT_ much, it's mostly the function names that ++++ me off...

They changed enough. The other day in #vborg, three of us didn't know what the hell we were doing with the new style system.

well of course you have to relearn the structure.
but in my eyes it's even better. a lot of old hacks can be made much easier now.

also you should try to make hacks like addons. in vb3 i feel it's much more easy to do so, and it's much easier to upgrade then :)

Wait till you see Beta 7 with the new template variable changes. :)

Most of the places there was no common naming convention in vB2. vB3 has more consistency now (fetch_, etc).

Seen them, mastered them. ;)

filburt1, you're right. Once you've learnt new the naming styles and structures, things are a lot easier because they're usually consistent throughout the entire installation.

HEHEhehehe I love to see you top hackers arguing about these things, what i want to know is, who should have the user title "Top Dog Hacker" ? :)

Iv noticed that vb dev team seem to enjoy seeing and helping you guys hack there software. So for all them winging people that say jelsoft dont care, maybe get yourself in to the IRC chan :)

LOL oh BTW :)

Welcome

I installed the beta on my system to take a look, yeah its most definitely different. I've gotten a good start on my forum using 2.3.2, so I'll wait till vb3 is final before I convert over most likely.

Thanks for the welcome and interesting arguement, lol

Am I the only person who sees trekwarfare's post count as "1"? He's posted 4 times on vb.org, twice in this thread. :\

maybe I'm only a 1/4th of the user as everyone else?

lol