Datastore - How to display data?
 

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:

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

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

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?

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

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 ?

{$vbulletin->test} in the template

Ahh! Thank you so much. Works fine now.

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/showthrea...801#post770801
doesnt work anymore.

Although, Kirby's solution work fine as mentioned in Boofo's post -> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...970#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. ;)

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:
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.

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

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

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

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

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

No, use the array_merge for multiple templates. ;)

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. ;)

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/showthrea...hreadid=115116