WD1983

Thanks. I'm going to try and see if I can start to figure it out myself, but I'm also going to be looking into finding someone who can do it for me or help me with it.

I did mean javascript, I just didn't type it out, since I do know the difference between the two. I'm actually still interested in learning php, to an extent. I'm actually a designer and all the work I do is GUI based... meaning I'm used to using GoLive & Dreamweaver to create my web pages, and now Flash. So coding really isn't my strong suit. What I've considered doing is just hiring out a freelancer to do the coding for me, instead of going onto the IPB forums for it. I don't know what would be the best option, obviously. I would actually like to pick which would be more efficient and what would get the job done the best (not fastest).

The more I examine the code in the php files for the IP Board, the more think I might be better off just paying someone to do the mods for me. I mean, if someone wanted to do it free of charge, I wouldn't complain, but I'm not going to ask for a freebie here as I don't feel that would be fair. While I am picking up php and the oop part of it, it seems there's also some java in the script that I don't understand because I don't know even a little about java.

Thank you. The thing about the mod is that it's for a version of the software that I don't have. I believe it's for 2.x (not sure exactly which) and I'm using 3.1.4 and it's not compatible, so I can't use it on mine to even check the code in it. IP Board (as you may know) already has a reputation system, but it's much different than that of vBulletin and that's why I want that version instead. If there's any specific information about the systems that I want to make a mod for that would help guide me in the right direction, let me know and I'll post it. I'm still the beginner of beginners regarding php, so any help I can get is very much appreciated. Thanks again.

I've got a whole set of videos. The php basics, advanced php, php shopping cart, php oop (login & discussion), php tagcloud, javascript, jquery, oop php, and a few other web development tutorial videos. I've looked high and low to see if there were already these features, either already included or other mods, but unfortunately there aren't. I spent hours looking and came up with nothing, so I figured I'd teach myself enough about php & mysql to do it myself. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To clarify, the things I want to do could probably be done from scratch, I believe, I just thought maybe a reverse engineer type thing would work better, but it sounds like that might not be the case... though someone did use the vBulletin script to turn it into a mod for an earlier version of the IP Board. The reputation system and infraction system for vBulletin are much more advanced than the simple ones IP Board offers. The only other thing I want to do is to allow the size of a member's avatar to be larger as they advance up through member groups. Speaking of member groups, the IP Board doesn't even currently allow their built in reputation system to have member groups be promoted due to reaching a certain amount of reputation points like vBulletin, which is another reason I would like a mod for a rep system like vBulletin. So those are really the only mods I'm trying to make here.

First I would like to start off by saying that I know I'm new here and I'm not really a web developer. I've used GoLive & Dreamweaver to do websites before and know a fair amount of Flash, but I don't know coding at all (other than some rudimentary HTML that I learned in high school. I've gotten the videos and I've been watching them, so far I'm still in the basics of learning php. The reason I'm starting this thread is because I sought out to learn php simply to mod my IP Board database to include some features that are offered through the vBulletin software but not IP Board software. I have all the php files from both and what I really want to do is reverse engineer the files from the vBulletin and use that to create the mods for the IP Board. Essentially, what I'm asking here is what videos would be most important to learn how to do what I wish to do? I don't want to go through all of them if it's not necessary. Thank you in advance for any help I get on the matter.