Administrative and Maintenance Tools - [ForumOps] vBulletin Development Environment

vBulletin Development Environment

vBulletin Development Environment (VDE) is a tool that allows you to build vBulletin products entirely from the filesystem. By using the filesystem, it allows you to follow best practises such as using version control, and simply working on actual files. Having to switch between browser windows and copy/paste is extremely inefficient.

This product has been updated to work with with vBulletin 3.5 and up to the latest 4.x series.

Runtime Environment

Assuming all of your files are in place, VDE checks your ./projects directory on every page load, and injects all of your projects' templates, plugins, etc. into memory and runs them as if they were natively installed into vBulletin.

Product Builder

VDE also comes with a project builder, which allows you to export your project into a standard product XML, and also any associated files with your project.

Open Source

This product is open source, and I encourage everyone who uses it to contribute back via GitHub.

Installation Instructions

Short version: upload files, import product XML. There are slightly different instructions based on whether or not you are running vBulletin 3 or 4.

Full instructions can be found at:
https://github.com/ForumOps/vBulleti...nt-Environment

I will not be posting any change logs or detailed instructions here, because they may change heavily with each version. Please refer to the GitHub page.

Disclaimer: this product was originally developed by SirAdrian / Adrian Schneider, who is part of our staff, and the primary maintainer of the product still.

[nhawk]

Nevermind, I had to enable it in the project directory.

[Adrian Schneider]

I'll push a proper update out tomorrow with the latest code, a fix for that file edit, and a few more updates to the documentation (FAQs, perhaps)...

Glad to hear you figured it out.

[Adrian Schneider]

Sorry guys, still having to update.

How many of would find this useful for style development? (if it's possible)

[Kolbi]

Are there screens?

[Adrian Schneider]

There are absolutely no interfaces anywhere, so there is nothing to screenshot.

[Blaine0002]

Adrian, just a heads up, the link in your forumops signature has an invalid thread id

also, do you think it would be possible to load options into the vbulletin admincp runtime to make sure i have textfields yesno etc set properly?

[Adrian Schneider]

Hmmm, it works for me (as guest or as member). Can you PM me the details so I can look into it?

To answer your question... no, unfortunately.

That would be a ton of work and would probably have duplicate some vBulletin code. I guess you get used to the different development style, and when something is somewhat stable, you can export it to another test site to test.

You technically can export, disable VDE, and import on the same site, but it can get a little confusing so I like to keep it separate.

I'll think about what the options are... maybe there is an easy way.

[Blaine0002]

no biggie will pm you about the broken link.

[merk_aus]

Fantastic effort Adrian,
I for a long time have wanted to get into this type of thing and so this will definately be a start. I am pretty sure it is my thing that you said would normally take 30+ hours but using this was done in the space of about 3 hours.

I have voted for motm for you.

[Blaine0002]

also, im having a problem with this since the newest update. has anything changed with the options? i see my options files being included on the page.
I have a usergroup id number set in the options, and im an additional user in that usergroup id, however

PHP Code:

$usergroups = $vbulletin->options['vbay_seller_usergroups'];
$usergroups = str_replace(" ", "", $usergroups);
$groups = explode(',',$usergroups); 


PHP Code:

is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, $groups) 


is now returning false...