[mdevour]

Thank you for your time, Andreas.

I've already traced program flow all the way from index.php down to construct_forum_bit()... But at that point the $forum array is being used heavily, having already been declared and assigned values. I need to see the part of the code where it's created.

I am very early in my effort to pick apart the vBulletin code base. I am beginning to be able to read PHP, though I'd be hard pressed to write it. I don't have a clue where I should begin to look, in this stack of dozens of php files, for the place where $forum is created and initialized (or modified).

Should I drop to a linux command line and grep something like '$forum = array'??? Or is there a framework for how the coders organized things that I need to know more about?

I'm trying to get to the point where I can answer questions like this for myself, so any foundational information you can see that I'm lacking, I would welcome.

Thanks again,

Mike D.