Ive just started to learn PHP

[Jaynesh]

Ive read quite a few things on that w3school website about PHP, ive learned the basics and i am starting to understand it.

I want to start making Hacks, Mods for vBulletin.

What is the best thing to start of with to make hacks/mods for vBulletin to practise and what do i need to learn to do it.

I wont release anything i make which is for practising.

So suggestions of hacks / mods which are already made / released is okay

I bought a nice big php/mysql book when I first started. It really helped in learning everything. Afterwards, I looked at hacks/mods and explained to myself what each line did...etc...etc..The tutorial section of vb.org for 3.5 is a great resource. So is vBulletin's API documentation at:

http://members.vbulletin.com/api

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Don't forget about the vB sources themself. Try to understand what they do, and your halfway.

But existing hacks are also good for learning (well some of them).

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

Don't forget about the vB sources themself. Try to understand what they do, and your halfway.

But existing hacks are also good for learning (well some of them).

Yes, now thinking of it. It would have been much better if I looked at vBulletin source...You never know what you can find in a hack's source code.

[Princeton]

viewing existing products / plugins is a good start but it doesn't mean nothing if you don't understand the code

download the PHP manual (http://www.php.net/docs.php)

[Jaynesh]

Danny.VBT, Hey do you remember the name of the book I found a nice one on amazon for creating hacks, I might try and create a profile guestbook like you did for practising if its okay with you

MarcoH64, Yep i will have a look at a few hacks and study the code Any suggestions on which ones to start out with ?

princeton, Cheers il download it

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by Jaynesh

MarcoH64, Yep i will have a look at a few hacks and study the code Any suggestions on which ones to start out with ?

Mine ofcourse.

Originally Posted by Jaynesh

Danny.VBT, Hey do you remember the name of the book I found a nice one on amazon for creating hacks, I might try and create a profile guestbook like you did for practising if its okay with you

MarcoH64, Yep i will have a look at a few hacks and study the code Any suggestions on which ones to start out with ?

princeton, Cheers il download it

PHP and MySQL Web Development
By Luke Welling, Laura Thomson

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067...books&v=glance

It's a very good book, but some of the more advanced topics (OOP and Exceptions) are PHP 5, but that notify you about that.

[harmor19]

When I started making hacks the hardest thing to understand was how "eval" worked.

Learn how to code in php native language first ("native" is correct word?) then move to vbulletin.