this help a lot thanks

Can these instructions be take a little further so the following can be done. When making a template, can that template include a variable that can be entered somewhere in the admincp? For example I want the temple to show "THIS". The only thing is I do not want to go to the template all the time and edit "THIS". Can I make a little addition to the admin CP so I can specify what "THIS" is?

Also, can all these template hooks, templates and all related to me showing "THIS" be saved in one package like a mod is so It can be uploaded to another forum easily?

Thanks

Thanks for this guide. Indeed good tutorial.

I've crossed into weird thing though (vbulletin version 3.8.2), maybe someone came aross it & can give few tips on what i could have missed - i can't get rid of "uncached template" warning eventhough I have plugin on "cache_templates" adding it to $globaltemplates[], so not sure what am i missing.

what hook are you using and whats the plugincode?
nobody can help you without that infos;)

2 plugins:
1] location: "global_start"
name: "alt_lp_template"
with followign code:
2] location: "cache_templates"
name: "Tempalte Cache"
with followign code:
and on forum i keep getting "uncached template" warning for "alternate_view".
Note this template was added to master style.

EDIT: what's more weird, i know it's cached, as later on i can access it from $vbulletin->templatecache['alternate_view']

You have to make it this way:
to cache it:
and save the content from the template into a variable:
Now you can use $varname

thanks, that solved it, wrote under cache name the var name instead... silly me :p

Excellent Post. Including my Javascript php file worked in parse_templates rather than cache_templates.

Hi Everyone,
Lets say I set some variable:

$domain = "testsub.domain.com";

from within a global_start plugin. SHOULD I be able to use this in any template??

I seem to have very mixed results. Some pages with links that contain this domain are just broken...

Any ideas?

No, some templates are called from functions/methods, so you would have to create plugins to make your variable in the scope there.

You could write your variable into $vbulletin['myvarname'] = 'foo.bar.tld'; because $vbulletin should be everywhere in the scope.

I hope you can understand what i mean