Featured Post from Don Kuramura
We are excited to announce the release the new Beta 4 versions of vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite and vBulletin 4.0 Forum. If you have an active vBulletin license, you can download your copy of Beta 4 from the vBulletin Members Area at:
http://members.vbulletin.com .
Beta 4 fixes more than 140 bugs since the release of Beta 3 last week. Thank you everyone who has filed bugs in our bug tracker. If you find a new bug, please continue to file bugs here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?projectid=6
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Featured Post from IBxAnders
Tutorial written by Pritesh Shah & Michael Anders
So you've finally got your hands on the shiny new vBulletin4 and you are ready to upgrade your forum. But wait! Before you upgrade – how do you test to make sure everything will work? This guide will show you how to create a vBulletin4 “Test” environment without breaking your “Live” forum.
Important Notes:
As always, please proceed at your own risk. While some of the general steps and advice are applicable to
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Featured Post from David IB
Custom Templates
If you create custom vBulletin based files that utilize custom created templates within your forum installation, there are a few tricks to get them to work with vBulletin 4. Prior to vBulletin 4, you were able to use the following code to get vBulletin to evaluate the custom template for your script.
eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('myCustomTemplate') . '");');
With vBulletin 4, the same thing can be accomplished with the following
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Featured Post from David IB
Prior to vBulletin 4, you could reference your plugin variables within the templates without any extra necessary work. Say you wanted print out the words "This is my plugin" within the template header. The following code (with the correct plugin Hook Location) would allow you to do that.
$myplugin_output = "This is my plugin";
$myplugin_output would then be referenced within the appropriate template.
With vBulletin 4, a little extra work is necessary
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