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Top Forums Web Development vBulletin: The Secret to Developing vB Plugins Post 302463944 by Neo on Monday 18th of October 2010 11:34:34 PM

10-19-2010

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vBulletin: The Secret to Developing vB Plugins

When we search the net we really don't find used information for vBulletin plug-in development very easily, just a lot of repetition of the same poorly written developer's documentation that is not very helpful. After years of frustration with trying to understand the sparse documentation on developing vBulletin plug-ins, I have finally made some headway and thought I would share some "dirty little vB secrets".

First of all, one of the most important parts of developing a vB plug-in is creating options and settings. and you can search in your vB control panel for months and never find how to do it. That is because to create settings you must edit the config.php file and add the following line:

Code:

$config['Misc']['debug'] = true;

Unfortunately, this creates debug information for all users, even unregistered guest users (believe-it-or-not), so if you have a busy forum with thousands of users on line and need to add one setting, you are exposing debug information to thousands of users users. The solution, however, is simply:

Code:

if($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] =='YOUR.IP.ADDR.HERE')
$config['Misc']['debug'] = true;

Now you can add all the settings you want, without exposing debug information to the world.

In my next post on this topic, I'll share with you the next vB plug-in developer's secret, how to easily use the settings you can now easily create.

Neo

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

libgmodule-2.0

libglib-2.0.3(3)					 Introduction to Library Functions					  libglib-2.0.3(3)

NAME

       libglib-2.0,  libgmodule-2.0,  libgthread-2.0 - general purpose utility library, GLib support for dynamic plug-ins, GLib support for thread
       abstraction

DESCRIPTION

       GLib is a general-purpose utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, a	main  loop
       abstraction, and so on.

       libgmodule-2.0 provides a portable method of dynamically loading plug-ins or shared object modules.

       libgthread-2.0  provides a thread abstraction which includes threads, different mutex methods, conditions, and thread private data. It also
       provides different useful patterns such as thread pools.

       To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version of the package.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so GNOME general purpose shared library

       /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.GLib dynamic plug-in shared library

       /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.GLib thread abstraction shared library

       /usr/share/gtk-doc/html Location of developer documentation

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-base-libs  SUNWg-  |
       |			     |nome-base-libs-64 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       glib-genmarshal(1), libgobject-2.0(3), glib-gettextize(3), glib-mkenums(3)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    31 Aug 2004 						  libglib-2.0.3(3)