some table and its functions

[richy96]

You could try using PMA (PhpMyAdmin) that's what I use to look around in the vbulletin tables structure and browse the contents. It should be available on your hosts server as part of the standard hosting package, otherwise if you have a test installation of php/mysql/apache as I do on my home LAN you can create a backup of your live site and also install PMA there and mess around with the backup instead.

In fact even getting a backup of a live site to run locally is a challenge (or so I found) that will teach you a lo about vbulletin by the time you have it working!

At least you can then break things to your hearts content while you learn how it all works

AS we all as PMA, some other tools I find invaluable by the way are :

Firebug+FirePHP (php debugger) plugins for Firefox

Venkman javascript/AJAX debugger plugin for Firefox

Web developr tools (again for Firefox) I use this to view the generated html after javascriot/ajax operations

Actual Search and Replace (for finding any text references within folders full of source code file)

The first three are free - the last one is pretty cheap shareware but well worth it (to me)

I personally use Dreamweaver for my php/html/javascript editor, but also have the NetBeans IDE (which is free) but have not used it yet.

I use one PC for dreamweaver and another pc as my apache server and debugging browser

Actually I'd be quite interested to hear what other folks are using

Rich