[Sean S]

Originally Posted by CSS59

I want to be able to do some advanced hacking to my vbulletins. Is it hard to get?
Where can I learn this stuff? Any good books?

Thank you for the help

CSS59, I'm almost in the same situation as yours. So far I have tried books from sitepoint and mostly tutorials from different websites. I also looked at some tuts at php.net, but only to a certain level their tutorials are understandable for beginners, or at least that's what I thought.

One other thing I could recommend is that if you have a server, set up a test vb forum in a directory called "testvb" and just experiment, or just setup a server on your own comp.

Right now I'm testing out to see how I can pull out the latest submitted photo by a user to his/her profile along with a thumbnail.

As for books, I could recommend you sitepoint because that's the place I bought my own book from, however, there are many other good books which I'm trying to buy within the next month.

Also this website is really good to learn the basics from, as it explains everything along with examples, http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp

good luck.