vB3 Hacking 101 Guide
 

Hi all, sorry if this is the wrong forum, but here goes:

Has anyone written, or is anyone going to write a hacking guide for vB3?

I (like a lot of other people here I should imagine) am used to vB2, and the way that works and all it's functions (how to do queries, pull templates, etc..), but now, so far as I can see, all of that has changed and a whole bunch of new functions have been introduced.

I'm keen to jump in the hacking bandwagon and develop a new articles system add-on, as well as maybe update vBstory, but I'm not too sure where to start...

Thank you in advance.

Anyone?

Well there are some beginnerguidlines in the moding hints and tips forum, but a full vb3 hacking guide isn't there to my knowledge.

iirc there were plans that the devs will write up a guide about the vb3 code, but not sure

TBH all I'm looking for is a very basic guideline so I know what to do, and what not to do, for example I was looking at things like
and I'm not sure what they are for...

I'm also interesting in knowing what's the best way to do queries and pull templates, I mean I can learn from some of the other hacks that have been released, but then... what's to say that the hack i'm looking at have been done in the best way?

I hope that someone does sit down and write a guide, just very basic stuff, and I can pick up the rest myself :)

Check my sig, it has some nice starting points :)

Ninth Dimension - in your post above you have a constant. A constant holds data in a similar way to variables.

Whereas a variable would hold date like so: $var = 'string';

A constant would use: define(VAR, 'string');

It's just another alternative data-holder really :)

The crew at http://www.everythingvb.com/forumhome.php? are going to make a hacking guide soon, I believe :)

Sounds good to me, thanks for the links guys, I'll be sure to check them out, with luck I'll have my article system up and running soon...

Mist, I knew what the code did, I was more interested in what it was used for within the scope of vB... but thank you for offering your help :D

THIS_SCRIPT is used a lot in conditionals and stuff, very useful indeed.

NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS just stops vB from emulating register_globals = on, since it isn't needed anymore.