Member Profile Hook Location

[dfc005]

Hey guys,

I've written a little plugin to calculate some stats about a users posting. I'd like to add these new stats to the "Statistics" tab on the members profile page. So, added the variables to the 'memberinfo_block_statistics' template but can't seem to get it to work for the life of me.

Any idea what hook I need to use for that to work? Have tried a bunch including 'member_complete' and 'profile_complete' but non seem to work.

My plugin does the right calculations as I can print out the stats from within the plugin, they just never seem to show up in my templates.

Cheers.

[Lynne]

How about member_build_blocks_start? Take a look at the member.php page and see all the hooks in there, don't just randomly pick one from the drop-down (profile hooks are from a complete different page).

[dfc005]

Hmmm, OK. The hooks on the member.php page are....

member_start
member_start_fetch_user
member_execute_start
member_build_blocks_start
member_complete

Tried all of those and no dice. As I said, I've added the variables to be outputted into the 'memberinfo_block_statistics' template. It has a template hook called 'profile_stats_first' right at the start of it which was why I was using the profile hooks.

[Bellardia]

Are you sure it's the hooks that aren't working and not the code?

[dfc005]

Righto, I put an echo in the plugin to print out the new stat. Using member_build_blocks_start, I see the stat at the top of the page but not in the Statistics tab like it should be.

So, I assume the plugin is being executed but the code I have in the template is not working then?

Here's the code quickly....

Plugin

$stats= $db->query_read("
SELECT round(sum(replycount)/count(*),2) AS average, round(sum(views)/count(*),2) AS strikerate
FROM `thread`
WHERE `forumid` != 384
AND `forumid` != 20
AND `forumid` != 375
AND `postuserid` = $userinfo[userid]
");

$stat = $db->fetch_array($stats);
$thread_average = $stat['average'];
$thread_strikerate = $stat['strikerate'];

echo $thread_average;


Template

<li><span class="shade">$vbphrase[total_posts]:</span> $prepared[posts]</li>
<li><span class="shade">$vbphrase[posts_per_day]:</span> $prepared[postsperday]</li>
<li><span class="shade">Thread Average (replies):</span> $thread_average</li>
<li><span class="shade">Thread Strike Rate (views):</span> $thread_strikerate</li>


Am I missing something?

[Lynne]

In your template, try calling it $GLOBALS[thread_average] instead.

[dfc005]

Bingo! That works wonderfully now. Cheers Lynne!