vBulletin 1

[Marco van Herwaarden]

vBulletin has always been written in PHP.

[harmor19]

Originally Posted by Marco van Herwaarden

vBulletin has always been written in PHP.

The later versions of vBulletin used there own objects such as $DB_SITE or $db to connect to mysql. Did vBulletin 1 just use "mysql_query()" as opposed to "$db->mysql_read()"?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I really don't know. But even with vB 3.6 these internal functions will call mysql_read() etc in the end.

[Chris M]

The best person to ask about that would be John or James

Chris

[Marco van Herwaarden]

In vBulletin 1:

PHP Code:

$foruminfo=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT title,description,categoryid,active,daysprune,titleimage,forumtemplate,forumbittemplate,newthreadimage,headertemplate,useadvheader,footertemplate,useadvfooter,rulestemplate,allowbbcode,allowimages,allowhtml,allowsmilies FROM forum WHERE forumid=$forumid"); 


In vB Lite:

PHP Code:

$foruminfo=$DB_site->query_first("SELECT title,description,active FROM forum WHERE forumid=$forumid"); 


[harmor19]

By the standards of the time the code was written who's coding is more impressive, John's or Kier and the other developers?
When John wrote version 1 I'm sure there weren't any tutorials on the web or that many people he can ask for help.

[Chris M]

When you do a comparison between a current version of something and a much older version of something, simply saying one or the other is better is ignorance of the effort, time and difficulty involved with creating the first and the current versions...

In my opinion, neither Kier's nor John's coding is more impressive, they are both equally as valuable and incredible

Chris

[Zachariah]

VB1Lite was an upgrade from Post-it stick ups on my fridge.

- and they do not get lost !!!

[Joe Gronlund]

Originally Posted by Zachariah

VB1Lite was an upgrade from Post-it stick ups on my fridge.

Classic