I'm interested in starting my own site eventually, and I think being able to code my own custom "hacks" would only save money for the better.

I plan on utilizing that knowledge mainly for vBulletin forum hacks and I guess coding for the actual website and blog in general would help me as well.

Question up for discussion is: What do I specifically need to look into taking courses for to get me started? (PHP, MySQL, XHTML, etc.?)


I'd greatly appreciate any type of insight you guys can offer and I'm giving my thank yous in advance.
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Only PHP/MySQL.

Actually, you need not to know PHP/MySQL to edit VB coding (it is done via the CP).

Peace,

If you plan on creating custom plugins for vBulletin, you DO need to know PHP/MySQL.

Hello friend,

Well I agree as the others, PHP and MySQL might be a good start...

I would recommend you get a basic book, dont jump into online tutorial straight, they are good ones but there is nothing like a good book which you can read in the train, bus, and yes even the bathroom ;-)

Anyway... what I would recommend the most, code code code... I have been coding for many years and there is nothing more effective than just code and code, code from the simple apps to the most stupid one, you will learn... download open source php codes read and try to reproduce...

good luck

For "hacks" you mean "addons" or "hacking" vBulletin ? :)

cheers :beer:

php(or perl if they don't explicitly offer php) and mysql will get you started. If you don't plan on being a web developer all your life, or even if you do, I'd recommend taking some java and maybe even some C or C++.

Taking any programming class is going to make learning other languages that much easier.

For starting web programming in general and thus also for vBulletin I'd just advice you to start reading some tutorials on w3schools.com (http://www.w3schools.com/). Read the HTML/XHTML ones first, shouldn't take long, then go onto the PHP/MySQL part and it should teach you the basics, then for more functions you should find enough info on php.net (http://www.php.net) and for some finetuning you can always ask on this and other programming fora. Good luck.