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So you want a product hack and do not want to do any template editing?Read this and find out how.

I will use my right click disabled hack as example.
I guess I don't need to explain what a product is , if yes read other tuts.

Firstly take your code and put it into a template.(Can't be PHP!If is php simply use plugins and hooks!)

Code:

           <templates>
        <template name="zh_nrc" templatetype="template" date="1148052896" username="Ziki" version="3.5.4"><![CDATA[
        <script language=JavaScript>

var message="$zhnrctext";
function clickIE() {if (document.all) {alert(message);return false;}}
function clickNS(e) {if 
(document.layers||(document.getElementById&&!document.all)) {
if (e.which==2||e.which==3) {alert(message);return false;}}}
if (document.layers) 
{document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);document.onmousedown=clickNS;}
else{document.onmouseup=clickNS;document.oncontextmenu=clickIE;}

</script>
]]></template>
    </templates>

So we have a template that containst a js code.Now what we do we cache the template.We have to create a plugin under the hook location cache_templates

Code:

          <plugins>
            <plugin active="1">
            <title>ZH_NRC_CACHE</title>
            <hookname>cache_templates</hookname>
            <phpcode><![CDATA[
                    
            $globaltemplates  = array_merge($globaltemplates, array('zh_nrc'));
            
            
            ]]></phpcode>
        </plugin>
</plugins>

So our template/code is cached.Now we need to look up the hook location and template where the code will be shown/executed.I will use global_start and headinclude so it will be executed on every page.(headinclude acts like the <head> tags in HTML)

Code:

              <plugin active="1">
            <title>JS_PLACEMENT</title>
            <hookname>global_start</hookname>
            <phpcode><![CDATA[        
                
            $ara = '<!-- / CSS Stylesheet -->';
$vbulletin->templatecache['headinclude'] = str_replace($ara,$ara.fetch_template('zh_nrc'),$vbulletin->templatecache['headinclude'])
;]]>
</phpcode>
        </plugin>
</plugins>

Now $ara represents a piece of code in the chosen template ['headinclude'].The rest of the code fetches the template (('zh_nrc')) and replaces $ara in headinclude with the zh_nrc template.

I suggest you pick a comment not a code for that!

Hopefully you understand it and like it

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