Pushing your variables to vBulletin 4 templates

[David IB]

<style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } A:link { so-language: zxx } --> </style> Prior to vBulletin 4, you could reference your plugin variables within the templates without any extra necessary work. Say you wanted print out the words "This is my plugin" within the template header. The following code (with the correct plugin Hook Location) would allow you to do that.

$myplugin_output = "This is my plugin";

$myplugin_output would then be referenced within the appropriate template.

With vBulletin 4, a little extra work is necessary to get your custom text to appear within your forum. You must now reference which templates you want to push these variables to or vBulletin will ignore them completely.

If you wanted to reference this variable within the template header, you would need to include the following somewhere within my plugin code after the variable was set.

vB_Template:reRegister('header',array('myplugin_output' => $myplugin_output));

If you wanted to push this variable to multiple templates, you would need to include multiple versions of this line within your plugin. For example, if you wanted to push this variable to your FORUMHOME template in addition to header, you would need to add the following lines to your plugin code.

vB_Template:reRegister('header',array('myplugin_output' => $myplugin_output));
vB_Template:reRegister('FORUMHOME',array('myplugin_output' => $myplugin_output));

If you wanted to reference multiple variables within one template, you would just add to the existing array.

vB_Template:reRegister('header',array(
'myplugin_output' => $myplugin_output,
'myplugin_output' => $myplugin_output2,
'myplugin_output' => $myplugin_output3,
);

Back to Part One: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/entry...etin-templates

[scarex80]

Hi Sam, try to use "global_bootstrap_init_start" hook. I've a similar problem, I've solved in this way.

On the other hand, I've a question:

vB_Template::preRegister('header',array('myplugin_  output' => $myplugin_output));
vB_Template::preRegister('FORUMHOME',array('myplug  in_output' => $myplugin_output))

Is there a way to preRegister a var on all templates with a single call?

[s810car]

I think it may be possible with a loop call in your plugin, I'm going to be trying this for a couple variables in my code

// global $db;   <--only if necessary in your custom code

/* Work in progress code to pull only the templates you have cached for assigning the variable */ 
$templatearray = array_merge($globaltemplates, $actiontemplates);
$templatearray = implode(",",$templatearray);
$get_templates = $db->query_read("SELECT title from template WHERE title IN ('$templatearray')");

while ($get_template = $db->fetch_array($get_templates)) 
{
 vB_Template::preRegister($get_template['title'],array(
   'myplugin_output' => $myplugin_output,
    'myplugin_output' => $myplugin_output2,
    'myplugin_output' => $myplugin_output3,
);
}

Well basically something like that, I haven't tested it yet so not sure how well it would work, but in theory it should loop through each of the templates called in the page and preregister the variables to them.

[arvid]

As it seems to me you cannot use templates to generate the content for your preregistered variables since the templates haven't loaded yet. This is really annoying since creating complex layouts without templates gets really ugly fast. Does anyone have a solution for me for this?

I could parse the template later in the execution, cache it and then read the from the cache when I want to preRegister the variable or simply insert the template-code in the template where I want it (not in its own template). But none of those solutions appeal to me.