Vbulletin Upgrade Questions

[dcpaq2xx]

Group,

I appologize if this subject has been covered before.

When it comes to hacking or modifying your board what CAN you touch that will NOT get reverted back or changed when you do an upgrade to the next version of VB?

I understand that plugins are not affected, but what else?

I am trying to get a better understanding as to what I need to avoid doing to my board and what is ok to modify.

Would anyone be willing to shed a little more light on this subject and teach me a little more of the in's and out's of this?

Thanks

Doug

[Stormwolf]

The php files are about the only thing you have to worry about changing and with the plugin system not many hacks require file edits these days. If you upload new php files you will have to make the same changes you made in any mods.

Templates may be updated in newer version of vb, but with 3.5 it will tell you which ones have changed and you can view your old and new and see what is different.

Most plugins should carry over. There would only be issues if they change the way things work in the core vb and the plugin needs to be updated to use the new methods.

A good merging tool can help with both of these updates. I would suggest araxis merge, but most people like winmerge.

[dcpaq2xx]

Very interesting information. Thank you Stormwolf.

Does anyone else care to add to this?

I know I have made some changes to the templates in the themes and after upgrading from 3.5.1 to 3.5.2 the hack no longer worked.

It was the registration hack that fireblades uses and the default check box in remember me, both of these hacks no longer worked after upgrading.

If I can learn which hacks are affected then I will know which ones should be avoided to make upgrading easier on me.

Doug