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Since this thread is from vBulletin, Is it fully editable?

2.3k views · started by Datsik ·
#1
Since this thread is from vBulletin, Is it fully editable?
I'm wondering, i think this is the premium package... But is it fully editable like site icon, colors, and all that? I'm thinking about my own site...
#2
Bump 24 hrs :DDD
#3
Baditude wrote:
I'm wondering, i think this is the premium package... But is it fully editable like site icon, colors, and all that? I'm thinking about my own site...


It is. However, you need the skills to manage your own site. You need to know how to fix bugs, glitches, manage members, know who to choose as moderators etc etc.
#4
i Asked cause alot of vBulletin sites look the same.
#5
Not a whole lot of good skins out there, thus a lot of them end up picking the same ones.
#6
Can you fully customize it? l:
#7
Yes you can. You can make your own themes, edit the coding if you know how which I don't recommend. You can create new site plugins and what not. etc etc.
#8
Baditude wrote:
Can you fully customize it? l:

Uhm. Alright, I think you just don't have any idea what you're talking about.

1. vBulletin is written in PHP.
2. PHP is a programming language on the server side. Same as your login.php files. In other words, you upload the files as they are and the server runs them a certain way.

In other words, you get the source code as it is. You can edit is any way you like with some PHP skills.
Since you don't already know this, I doubt you are capable of editing it yourself and trusting someone with that is not necessarily an intelligent move.

If you meant options or whatever, then it has various options and skins, I'm sure or it probably wouldn't be as popular as it is.
#9
I think he means more the templating engine used by vBulletin rather than the PHP code itself. In any case, like others before me have already stated yes, everything on the site is completely customisable. vBulletin use a template system designed in house. It's rather simple, and personally I don't like it, but essentially you're allowed to input raw HTML in to certain blocks that are later called by the PHP files behind the site.

Customising every facet of vBulletin, while very possible, is a bit impractical - it would take a lot of time, which most of us don't have. It's far easier to keep the same look and feel of the site, and make minor changes (i.e. backgrounds, colours, etc.) and not mess with the layout.
#10
My bad. He said "fully" so i thought he meant more than the theme. I guess i assumed he meant programming because it's LG.
#11
It's good Perso.
I don't even feel like paying 250$ on a site I can make, I know PHP and everything but it'll probably turn out to be a fail.
#12
Considering that vBulletin is consists of hundreds of thousands of lines of PHP code, an integrated template, and a community with hundreds of free templates and modifications, $250 is a steal.

If you were to commission a custom piece of software identical to vBulletin you would end up paying over $100,000 easily ;)
#13
Baditude wrote:
It's good Perso.
I don't even feel like paying 250$ on a site I can make, I know PHP and everything but it'll probably turn out to be a fail.


You can find a nulled version for free.
#14
For gods sakes is every staff member here a pickle?
#15
wait....what?
#16
DeliciousBunny wrote:
For gods sakes is every staff member here a pickle?


Pickle are tasty.