Difference Between Plugin and Other Please?

[Reeve of shinra]

Originally Posted by CupraSi

Could somebody tell me the difference between the various hacks please?

Could somebody with little experience add a plugin and will you need to edit when there is a vb upgrade?

Many thanks

To keep it simple:

Products - are a collection of plugins, templates and phrases. Some products have thier own php files which need to be updated to your server.

Plugins - are snippets of code that "hook" into the default vbulletin files to add or change certain functionality.

These types of mods usually don't edit the core vbulletin files which makes upgrading easy as you just need to upload the new files over the old ones. You just need to do it one folder at a time so you dont over write the files that you uploaded with a certain modification.