Quality of Hacks <-> Source Code improvements

[Pseudomizer]

Hi @LL,

i would like to open a survey for the following question:

Do you think a new section for PHP/VB Code could be usefull ?

Why i am asking this ?

Because i am looking at the history of unix itself. Some users sat down and wrote some c/c++ functions and compiled them. More users joint the team and optimized their code. This continued and continued and in the end they brought the first version of linux to the market.

This could have been done by some people but due to the teamwork of all people and having the sources available to everyone the quality of the source code was improved, the performance was improved and people could focus more on enhancements rather then reinventing the wheel.

So what i am suggesting in detail is:

How about creating a new section for public free available functions/source codes for VBulletin integration. At the moment many people are struggling with things like:

- How do i convert the unix time to a readable time format ?
- How can i read out to which group a user belongs ?
- How can reduce my MySQL queries on my forumhome ?

These are typical questions which can be found in 80% of all threads for new hack developers.

All of them have one thing in common. They have a good idea and they are struggling to bring out their hack due to not knowing all the background. Due to this i would like to build a center of information with functions or code parts which are publicly available to all people.

Benefits for the end users:
- requested Hacks can be produced in a quicker time frame
- the quality of the source code will be improved because all the codes will be reviewed periodically

Benefits for the hack creators:
- new Hacks will be created faster
- the quality of the source code will be improved
- performance overheads will be reduced due to using standard code parts

Benefits for VBulletin:
- if the source code meets the appropriate quality some of the functions can be used for further releases of VBulletin
- if more hacks will be produced Vbulletin can choose between multiple hacks to integrate them into later releases

Please give me some feedback what you think about this idea. I would like to have a small discussion about this.

I personally think that this could be a big improvement for this site. But what do other people think ?

Thanks for your answers in advance.

Cheers,