Do you use a "test" board to test your hacks out first?

[Xenon]

not enough? ^^

[Ryangel]

lol thats plenty! :knockedout:

[Link14716]

I don't use a testboard. I just pop them on my regular board and ask myself if I am feeling luck

[imageconstrux]

Bump - here's a n00b question - how can I go about setting up a test board? My site has grown enough in membership and content that I don't want to roll the dice like I used to with my hacks.

[Xenon]

look into the general modification hints, there is a big thread by Teck about it

[Cassidy]

I use one test board for everything. If i screw something up i try to fix it or a start all over again. It doesn't really bother me but i know no coding what-so-ever. I just guess it as i go along and it works ^^;

[Gary King]

Test board on localhost

[Erwin]

Originally Posted by NTLDR

I have a few Dev/Test boards, unfortunatly I don't tend to test all the hacks and record which ones I have installed properly and use, this will change when vB3 is here, I'm going to do things properly then

I've been doing this for 6 months now- I have a text file documenting each PHP file change. The upgrade from RC1 to RC2 took me only 15 minutes on a fairly heavily hacked forums. The time consuming thing now is the bloody template changes!

[MGM]

how do you do that Erwin???

I have about 3 test boards locally and 3 online for my other admin to test things out

I used to just install hacks on my live board, but now I setup a few test boards to make sure everything runs properly before adding it to my live board

MGM out

[imageconstrux]

MGM for your online test boards - did you just install vB into a dif't, unused domain you had lying around, then import all the hacks from the live board to the test board?