Creating vB modifications for beginners

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Originally Posted by Dismounted

To be honest, vBulletin requires more than a basic understanding of PHP, as the techniques it uses are not simple to understand. For example, most (if not all) learners are taught about using echo whenever they want to send output. In vBulletin, all the required information is generated and gathered before being passed off to templates, then outputted.

This is one of the many "differences" to "basic" PHP.

Apart from various articles on this forum, are you aware of any guides, documents from vbulletin which you would recommend reading to assist in learning how vbulletin works?

Originally Posted by EnIgMa1234

Split the code up into differant parts.

if ($vbulletin->userinfo['lastactivity] > 0

is like saying If the users last activity is greater than 0 seconds

AND $vbulletin->userinfo['lastactivity'] > mktime (...............))

and the users activity is greater than the result of mktime()
then...

If your not sure what the mktime function does, look it up on php.net

Its great to see you have a big interest in coding
Just remember not to give up and keep things simple.

Thank you
Its amazing the amount of ideas you come up with and then think "Thats too difficult at this stage" so your spot on with the "Keep it simple"

Im currently working my way through the javascript book. Some parts seem simple, other parts I have to keep reading over and over. Once I feel confident with that im then going to move onto php/mysql.

I'll get there one day!