If you have some PHP/MySQL/Smarty/OOP knowledge then I'd sugguest to start by opening some files and reading:
includes/config.inc.php
includes/mysql.inc.php (i think is what it is) then
ubbthreads.php

and you shoudl get the jist on how things work.

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