Few general vb coding queries

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1. Check the articles section for the thread about using the vBulletin Database Class

2. No give them a no permission error. or some message:

PHP Code:

if(!$vbulletin->option['pageenable'] AND !is_member_of($vbulletin->userinfo, 6))
{ 
    print_no_permission();
} 


4. I doesn't really make much difference. I prefer to use them, but vBulletin never does in its SQL commands

6. If it is just for your own board then its up to you. Personally I keep it in a phrase so I can edit it easier, instead of editing a template I just edit a phrase. If you are release the product as a modification you should use phrases.

7. A timestamp is a number (google: "Unix Timestamp" for info about it). What you wrote there is a date/time not a timestamp. Use the TIMENOW constant to fetch the timestamp when a script is executing, insert that into your database not the date() thing. When you fetch the timestamp from the database then you use vbdate/date function.

PHP Code:

$date = vbdate('jS \of F, Y h:i:s A', $row['timestamp']);