Datastore - How to display data?

[Aurous]

Hello

I am facing a problem and cant seem to grab the general idea of how datastore caching works in vBulletin 3.5.x.

I created a new row in datastore:


title data
radiocache info that updates every few minutes via cron file.


Now this data is to be displayed in Index.php and basically here's where the problem starts. In 3.0.x version I just edited init.php and added radiocache in "$specialtemplates" and used $datastore[radiocache] in template to display the data. But now, I am a bit confused with how things work in vb 3.5.0

I searched around but didnt find enough information to solve my problem. I am not very good with php/mysql. Here's what I tried so far:

I edited index.php and added radiocache to the $specialtemplates array. How do I go about it from there? Any help will be much appreciated. I am sure this will also help other coders who are interested in datastore.

Just so you know, I am using vB 3.5.4.

Thanks.

Aurous

[Adrian Schneider]

In 3.5, datastore goes to: $vbulletin->fieldName... so in your case $vbulletin->radiocache.

[Aurous]

I already tried that, but it doesnt display anything. No results on the page whatsoever, while the data is obviously there in the table. Also added 'radiocache' in index.php :

$specialtemplates = array(
'userstats',
'birthdaycache',
'maxloggedin',
'iconcache',
'eventcache',
'mailqueue',
'radiocache'
);

Am I missing anything else here?

[Adrian Schneider]

$vbulletin->anything won't work in templates unless you enclose it in braces ( {}s ). What do you have stored there?

[Aurous]

Well right now I just have "test" (without quotes) and nothing shows. I tried "{test}" and that didnt help either. Can you please test this out and see if its working for u? Anything to work in functions_databuild.php ?

[Adrian Schneider]

{$vbulletin->test} in the template

[Aurous]

Ahh! Thank you so much. Works fine now.

[Aurous]

Quick question:

Is there any work around for $specialtemplates yet? Basically any work around to NOT edit .php file that is. BTW, this method -> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=770801#post770801
doesnt work anymore.

Although, Kirby's solution work fine as mentioned in Boofo's post -> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=771970#post771970

Any workaround yet?

[Boofo]

Quick question:

Is there any work around for $specialtemplates yet? Basically any work around to NOT edit .php file that is. BTW, this method -> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=770801#post770801
doesnt work anymore.

Although, Kirby's solution work fine as mentioned in Boofo's post -> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=771970#post771970

Any workaround yet?

Nope, that's the only way to do it for now. But since the config.php doesn't get overwritten on an upgrade, no need to re-edit the file. ;)

And they both do still work, by the way. I am using it both ways in my config.php. ;)

[Aurous]

Hmm, that is sad! Any word from vBulletin regarding this? I mean on one hand they want to promote plugins and on other they have a system where you cant really live without a file edit. Although config.php isnt a big issue here, but why edit anything to begin with?

I tried editing config.php as follows:

if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'index')
{
$specialtemplates[] = 'item';
}

but it didnt show anything in the index page. Then I just edited the $specialtemplate array in index.php manually, added 'item' and it worked fine.

[Boofo]

Here's what I use and it works perfectly. ;)

if(THIS_SCRIPT == 'index')
{
global $specialtemplates;
$specialtemplates = array_merge($specialtemplates, array('boofocounter','averagevelocity','topvelocit y','wol_spiders'));
}

You need the global part. Yours is for a single template also.

[Aurous]

Oh ya, I forgot about declaring global variable. This works too for single template.


if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'index')
{
global $specialtemplates;
$specialtemplates[] = 'item';
}


hmm we can use this for multiple templates too I believe:

$specialtemplates[] = 'item1';
$specialtemplates[] = 'item2';
etc.

[Boofo]

Oh ya, I forgot about declaring global variable. This works too for single template.


if (THIS_SCRIPT == 'index')
{
global $specialtemplates;
$specialtemplates[] = 'item';
}


hmm we can use this for multiple templates too I believe:

$specialtemplates[] = 'item1';
$specialtemplates[] = 'item2';
etc.

No, use the array_merge for multiple templates. ;)

[Aurous]

Ok. Thanks for all the info :) I am starting to like datastore!

[Boofo]

Ok. Thanks for all the info :) I am starting to like datastore!

Remember, the datastore is your friend. ;)

I try to use it whenever I can. We just did a forumhome counter for my site that uses the datastore and saves on an unessessary query. It uses 1 query to update the datastore and no query to pull the info from the datstore. It works great. ;)

[Aurous]

Yup, I just helped a user on vB by changing his hack by storing data in datastore instead of a text file. Works great.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?threadid=115116