Hard to be a "hacker" ?

[utw-Mephisto]

Hi,

As I really enjoy the vb board, I also enjoy some existing scripts I have running.

I know there are a few resources about creating hacks, but I have a generell question:

I know a bit PHP / HTML. What I mean with "a bit" is, I cannot create scripts from scratch, but I am able to read and understand it actually.

How hard is it now actually to create a hack based on an existing script ?

For exmaple take a look at a recent installed Upload / Download script ( http://unrealadmin.net/Uploadz/public/ ). That one is great. As you will see it does not look that great for now, but I am still working on it ..

Anyway, I want to know how hard it is to port that one into vBulletin. I have tried already to find people to do that for me but my recent experience with finding people (would pay for it) is not that great (one exception though).

So I am TRYING to bring this into vBulleting which would be great for the community as well I think ...

Any suggestions how to start ? Where to start ? Do I have to be a geek to be able to etc. ? Just asking as there a massive of templates in vb and it is hard to see where to start ....

Well, any help ... helps Even if you just see that this script would be great and easy and you are able to create this hack, I opened also a request on https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...447#post613447

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Exactly how do you want it to integrate with vB?

Edit: Reading on their board it seems that someone is already working on it.

[utw-Mephisto]

Well, actually like vbdownloads but with the features of olate ...

A navbar for the categories and also the features of the admincp of olate ...

Also important password protected downloads as I am also Beta tester were only a few people should have access to it ...

Either password protected downloads or downloads which are only accessible for a certain user group ...

[deathemperor]

you may want to look at the "Modification hints and tips" forum, it's very useful for vb newbie.