Adding Templates to Products
 

Hey, this is my first time i have ever peeked into vBulletin coding, and have learned a lot in the past few days. Now, i am very experienced in PHP programming, but have no knowledge of this VB products/plugin system.

I have learned how to create an install/uninstall code for my SQL stuff that needs to be done on install and uninstall. I also have created templates for each of my pages.

What i dont understand is what to do with thoes templates? I want to make it so i could call them from my php code by using
or whatever is used. I can design the template, but could someone give me a heads up on what is going on with all of these plugins and what they do and how i can add templates to my product without directly editing the xml file?

I am a newbie at all of this, so please help me out.

thanks!

To get the templates to your product, enable debug mode, create the product using the product manager, and then assign that template to the product.

Theres a more detailed article of how to do it in the article section here, as I know my description there sucked


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...hlight=product

Thanks, great find.

but

this skips over the most important part to me. What is a plugin? how do i create one? what is the purpose of having one? what is a phrase? more info on these things?

thanks!

A plugin is like a php file edit, or including a php file into vBulletin to add some sort of functionality or to display information.

A phrase is just like a language file in the sense that if you use something like $vbphrase[register] people from different languages can edit that phrase rather then ahving to manually edit the templates

You creat plugins, from the AdminCP -> Plugin Manager -> Add New Plugin

The hook locations are different locations where the plugin gets executed, for example the global_start hook will execute a plugin at the start of every page, and something like a forumdisplay_complete plugin will execute on forumdisplay pages.

I think :D

That thinking will get you every time. ;)

great so if i wanted to hook it to a php file i created (teams.php), what would i need to hookj it to? do you need to create hooks in the php file?

thanks for all your help!

A hook is a location in one of vBulletin's (or your own) PHP files. They are used by plguins to determine where the plugin PHP code will be run.