right. good points. :) I myself would also not use someone elses pre-modded
source unless it was official maybe or, well, unless it was awesome
(not that mine will be lol) :P
for a n00b to start, with no experience. tbdev is definetly the best to learn on and create a tracker unique to yourself, i don't wanna take the fun or learning aspect away from people but fact is some peeps do use modded sources, whether it is just to get a tracker up and running without even being able to spell php, rather cause they know how long it takes to add all these mods and it can be daunting or they simply rip out some things they like. :)
Whatever their motives it won't be long till they will still be having to learn at least the basics of php/html/css
or be scrounging around for a coder... :P
as we all know installing tracker/adding mods does not a tracker operator make. From modded source to gazelle to vanilla tbdev to whatever, still requires lots of attention and know how or wanting to learn.
Torrentstrike is good example imo of a modded source that succeeded.
Not that i used torrentstrike much lol but.
also since i have no ambition to operate a site and spend my time happily
editing the source, there has to be a reason why I'm doing it hehe.
I'm all about sharing and learning, if my n00b coding can help someone else out along the way... well i think that's great :)
We are all just dust in the wind here. Here one minute gone the next. =]
i cant' think of any mods that wouldn't work on TB, some may need a little tweaking and it can be confusing at first since code has now been relocated
into more files
example:
global.php and some code within bittorrent.php
have now been split into their revelant files, such as:
bbcode_functions.php
bittorrent.php
config.php
html_functions.php
pager_functions.php
searchcloud_functions.php
torrenttable_functions.php
user_functions.php
makes a lot more sense this way as we only include code needed for the current page rather than including all the code on all pages.
thanks for comments
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