Very easy question - for someone who knows :-)
 

I have added a field ['newfield_id'] onto the threads table and can happily save data to it from the 'newpost_complete' hook/plugin.

My problem is i cant work out how to retrieve the data using the data manager:

I want to assign the value in the ['newfield_id'] field to the var $newfield for the current thread (attached to showthread_start hook)

Heres what I have so far:

$thread =& datamanager_init('Thread', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_SILENT, 'threadpost');
if ($type == 'thread')
{
$thread->set_existing($dataman->thread);
}
else
{
$thread->set_existing($threadinfo);
}
// this is my problem line - tried allsort and clearly this doesnt work
$newfield=$thread->$existing['newfield_id'];

Any any appreciated.
Terry

sorted - although I guess not very elegant.

$postdm =& datamanager_init('Post', $vbulletin, ERRTYPE_ARRAY, 'threadpost');

$threadarray = $vbulletin->db->query_read("
SELECT newfield_id
FROM thread
WHERE threadid = ".$threadid." limit 1");
while($thread = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($threadarray))
{
$newfield = $thread['newfield_id'];
}