Please help with getting to know vB code all over again

[cbiweb]

I agree, Wayne Luke

In Omnibus thanks for the helpful explanation.

Everyone else: Thanks for all the ideas and suggestions. I won't be bored, lol....

[cbiweb]

I missed that one, what's up with that? PM me if you prefer....

[cbiweb]

While examining the HTML, PHP, JavaScript, etc., of vB's architecture, I'm stumped on a particular aspect of how it's all assembled to create a page. For this post I'll use the example of ACP > Settings...

[cbiweb]

Thank you!

[cbiweb]

I'm still developing a site, so I'm the only member, otherwise I'd test what I'm about to ask.

I'd like to have something shown to user ID 1, 34, and 256. I know the conditional for a single...

[cbiweb]

Thank you!...

[cbiweb]

I asked for help with this at .org but no one is responding. Hopefully someone here can help. I haven't done any coding nor working with the vB software for ten years, so I've forgotten a lot of stuff....

[cbiweb]

Oh, is that all? LOL.

Thanks, Wayne. Looks like a good side project in my spare time. Fortunately I have a good bit of it.

[cbiweb]

What exactly would it take to make it work with PHP 7.4.x? Not asking you to do it for me, just wondering what parts of PHP or vB code would I need to target?...

[cbiweb]

Thank you, Mark. That should effectively stop his plans for that, lol....

[cbiweb]

He runs a site where you can create a forum that becomes your space, complete with independent ACP though somewhat limited. I suppose he's thinking that people might like having the appearance of running...

[cbiweb]

A client of mine runs a rather large vB4 community, and he wants to make each forum a subdomain. Is that even possible? If so, how would I go about making that happen?

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I misspoke, this reply is useless. lol

[cbiweb]

No problem, I only needed to know what I was dealing with. Now I know....

Thanks....

[cbiweb]

I'm working on a 4.2.5 site for someone, and they sent me this db error. I've never seen anything like this, with regex AND saying it's from vB2! 😮

Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?...