Ive just started to learn PHP
 

:) Ive read quite a few things on that w3school website about PHP, ive learned the basics and i am starting to understand it.

I want to start making Hacks, Mods for vBulletin.

What is the best thing to start of with to make hacks/mods for vBulletin to practise and what do i need to learn to do it.

I wont release anything i make which is for practising.

So suggestions of hacks / mods which are already made / released is okay :)

I bought a nice big php/mysql book when I first started. It really helped in learning everything. Afterwards, I looked at hacks/mods and explained to myself what each line did...etc...etc..The tutorial section of vb.org for 3.5 is a great resource. So is vBulletin's API documentation at:

http://members.vbulletin.com/api

Don't forget about the vB sources themself. Try to understand what they do, and your halfway. :D

But existing hacks are also good for learning (well some of them).

Yes, now thinking of it. It would have been much better if I looked at vBulletin source...You never know what you can find in a hack's source code. :rolleyes:

viewing existing products / plugins is a good start but it doesn't mean nothing if you don't understand the code

download the PHP manual (http://www.php.net/docs.php)

Danny.VBT, Hey do you remember the name of the book :) I found a nice one on amazon for creating hacks, I might try and create a profile guestbook like you did for practising if its okay with you :)

MarcoH64, Yep i will have a look at a few hacks and study the code :) Any suggestions on which ones to start out with ?

princeton, Cheers il download it :)

Mine ofcourse. :D :D :D

PHP and MySQL Web Development
By Luke Welling, Laura Thomson

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067...books&v=glance

It's a very good book, but some of the more advanced topics (OOP and Exceptions) are PHP 5, but that notify you about that.

When I started making hacks the hardest thing to understand was how "eval" worked.

Learn how to code in php native language first ("native" is correct word?) then move to vbulletin.