Creating new hacks

[Lionel]

Hi,

I have a few old hacks that I wish to port to the latest version for the guys here, using hooks as much as possible. Some tables will be altered and some new settings will be created, together with some new permissions. I looked at the current version 3.10 and it seems that if I add extra settings, it will be difficult for anyone to use as they will be embed in the links script itself and I don't see how they could import those without importing entire link script.

How do you recommend I proceed? Should I create a totally standalone product using vboptions so it then becomes importable or is there a better way to proceed?

[Brian]

Hrmm... I guess adding the settings to vBulletin and then exporting them would be the easiest method. The only other way I can really think of is that you could borrow the insert_all_phrases() and insert_setting() functions from the install file to create a simple custom installer for the hacks.