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Originally Posted by sola

Question from a man who wants to eat his cake and have it too.
VB3 Gold.
I would like to make VBA my home.
I have vague ideas of PHP, so I try not to mess up my script's code.
Can you tell me how much an installation of VBA will change my VB code?
And in future, would I have to do anything unusual to upgrade VB now that VBA would be a part of it?
Really, how much does VBA change the default VB?

Thanks.

sola, anytime you install a hack, you should keep the .txt file that came with it, and ALWAYS comment the code out that your are replacing, and comment the sections of code you add. when you comment, come up with a search term so that you can easily find all file mods.

for instance, when you install vbadvanced, and it tells you to edit a .php file, and says find this: and replace with this:

instead of replacing, simply comment it out using // HACK VBADVANCED REMOVE
and before your added code put // HACK VBADVANCED START and at the end put // HACK VBADVANCED END

do the same for template mods, and now anytime you want to remove a hack, just refer to the txt file that you saved from the hack, go into each modified file and search for your string, and uncomment out what needs to be uncommented.

as far as how much vbadvanced changes your forums, id say basically not at all. its more of an addition rather than a major change. following the instructions step by step carefully resulted in a very easy installation IMO, witht he only minor bug being a clear.gif issue they have already resolved i think, and a missed image path name.

when you upgrade vb, its basically a amtter of doing the upgrade,t hen reapplying the vbadvanced changes that were effected. when i changed from rc4 to vb3gold, i did the vb3gold install, then went back into the vbadvanced install and had the news issue fixed in 15 minutes. i am not a coder, but i do pay attention to detail, and i can follow if statements and the logic behind the code, and their wording and layout seemed very easy to me.

Also, the VBAdvanced homepage as well as this thread ahd all of the instructions on how to do this within a day of vb3gold being released.