Need help and guidance [multi questions]

[NTLDR]

VB_AREA is the constant defined to let you know what 'area' of vB your in:

AdminCP: Admin CP;
ModCP: Mod CP;
Forum: Anything in the root or anything that requires the roots global.php
Install: The installer for vB3
Upgrade: The upgrade system for vB3

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by NTLDR

VB_AREA is the constant defined to let you know what 'area' of vB your in:

AdminCP: Admin CP;
ModCP: Mod CP;
Forum: Anything in the root or anything that requires the roots global.php
Install: The installer for vB3
Upgrade: The upgrade system for vB3

so is that sorta how locations are defined in vB3 ?

[MindTrix]

Me thinks NTLDR is way to brainy

[NTLDR]

Originally Posted by Faranth

so is that sorta how locations are defined in vB3 ?

I don't think its used in many places, but allows to easy selection of code based on where the user is, take alook at print_cp_login() in adminfunctions.php for an example, it selects the CP title, and what stuff to display based on the value of VB_AREA. Its also used when sending out DB errors IIRC.

Originally Posted by MindTrix

Me thinks NTLDR is way to brainy

*lmao* Thanks

[MindTrix]

Wow this debug mode is crazy!! It's like vBulletin on drugs or something, well to me anyway

So im guessing this should help me with things now?

[NTLDR]

Yes it should help you out and quite alot of 'extra' stuff is enabled/visible when debug is on. Note that debug mode can be dangerous and does pose a security threat. If you have it enabled on a public board install Xenons hack so its only switched on for yourself

[MindTrix]

Mines a mess about board at the moment so

I cant quite grasp how it helps me lol, but im sure i will eventually.

[NTLDR]

OK, some cool debug stuff

Look at the bottom of each forum page, you'll see a drop down list, this contains all sorts of stuff thats added to it as PHP executes the code. Under this is a 'template usage' box, this shows all the templates that the page you are on has used, and how many times, if you see bold red ones then these are uncached templates (which is bad generally) and have caused extra queries which can normally be avoided.

Add ?showqueries=1 or ?explain=1 onto any URL and it gives an output of all the queries that have run on that page and how long each one took. Very usefull for finding sluggish queries that slow down the page load time.

The settings stuff as explained before.

And probably a bunch of other usefull things that I've forgotten

[MindTrix]

Maybe you should write a tutorial/list then The info you just told me sounds interesting. I thought the debug was just for the admin control panel Thats the only place i looked!