New to vBulletin and PHP - what is the lifecycle of a request?

[HootinHoller]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

What I would do, is look at the HTML for something I think will be unique to that template, such as:

Then you can edit the HTML as you desire, and click "Save" or "Save and Reload." Then go to your forum, and see if the changes you made work as you want.

Well I was being a little more ambitious than that. In following the steps in your post, I dropped into debug mode, created a product, copied the template we use found with your technique, and made a new one for the product.

I don't think I need options yet, and did not add a settings group.

I added some plugin code for the product and template and hooked it to the search_start hook.

I tried exporting it, but I only get a pretty much empty xml file in a download dialog.

I see no files to be bundled on the filesystem of the server.

I also have no clue as to how to add the product into the navigation, I would like to put it into the what's new tab submenu.

I really appreciate your time Mark, thank you.