Creating vB modifications for beginners

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Originally Posted by powerful_rogue

One more quick question, once you have a basic understanding of php and mysql, is it difficult combining it with vbulletin?

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.