Adding a $post "call-able" template.

[carcomp]

First time poster here. I want to apologize beforehand if I have this posted in the wrong forum, but I figured it was programming related. Anyways...

I want to duplicate the FUNCTION of postbit_onlinestatus template with a new template called postbit_txtonlinestatus. I want to have my red/green/grey gif as well as some text that says "Status: OFFLINE" etc, but call-able from two different places in postbit. My Question is this...

Where is the eval for the onlinestatus template? I know its probably somewhere in the multitude of php files. I just can't find it. I figured once I found it, i could copy it and paste it, modify it to reflect my new template, and then I could call "$post[txtonlinestatus]" from the postbit template.

Hopefully someone can help. I've done a lot of searching and i'm really not coming up with much, probably b/c I don't really know what to call this kind of mod.

EDIT: I do believe this is called a template hook now, after more searching. I think i might be on the right track thinking about plugins, hooks, etc...

[shovel]

Call a hook from "postbit_display_complete" location. Within that hook, use this call..

eval('$post[txtonlinestatus]= "' . fetch_template('postbit_txtonlinestatus') . '";');

This will allow you to call $post[txtonlinestatus] from the postbit and use the template you made.

[carcomp]

Excellent!

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Ok now I wonder, how do I get the the "onlinestatus" conditional in my customtemplate? Everything I "call" is coming back 0. Do I need to globalize that variable somewhere?

[shovel]

No I wouldn't think so.