[Brad]

Originally Posted by sturdevk

Hey, Brad,
Thank you very much for long, detailed explanation and advice, it did help me a lot. I did think vBulletin is the model of PHP programming, so I pretty much dug deep and tried to customize it.
will check those sites for PHP reference.

No problem.

BTW I hope you didn't take my comment about vBulletin to mean it has "bad code" in the source. vBulletin just suffers from the same problem a lot of php applications have; It was originally put together when php was just becoming popular and because Jelsoft has a large customer base certain things in the source code have always been done a certain way to avoid breaking backwards compatibility and existing sites that use the software.

Version 4 will come out at some point and it's supposed to be a total re-write of the source. It will also be the first version of the source code that does not have support for php version 4. Meaning the new version of vBulletin will be able to take full advantage of the new OOP features in php 5 (php 4 had OOP features but it was far from true OOP).