Getting started with vBulletin development

Question

They asked me if I could program something for vBulletin. Since I never programmed something for vBulletin, I started looking for documentation and tutorials. Unfortunately, I was not very lucky.

The most promising thing I found was this , but it looks like it was auto-generated and not very useful for beginners. After some searching, I found a collection of guides on the vBulletin forums ( 3.5 / 3.6 Tutorial index ), but the forum hides all the code from non- and I don’t think I get an account without buying a vBulletin license.

Is there a way to find that what I want to do is probably more or less easy to integrate into vBulletin without buying a license?

Answer 1

vBulletin is especially difficult to code without a copy of its source. There is not enough information in the documentation so that you can confidently encode the code. More importantly, you have no way to verify your code.

I do not know about the new licenses, but I think some of the old ones may be transferred. You can get a used license at a reasonable price if the new license goes beyond your budget. If you go down this route, be careful with code changes between vB 3.7, 3.8 and 4.0.