What function in vB 3.7.0 can I hack right before the page is output?
 

I recently upgraded an old 2.3.0 board to the latest 3.7.0.

I am now trying to recreate some of my old hacks.

In the old code, there was a function named dooutput(...) (in admin/functions.php) that essentially was the last thing called before the php-prepared HTML was spit out to the browser page. I was using a hack inside this function to parse the finished HTML and substitute some words for other words for a specific purpose.

Can anyone tell me where the corresponding function would be in 3.7? I'm not having much success in finding it, everything is so different now....

Use one of the global hook locations in a plugin.

Thanks for the reply, but that doesn't really mean anything to me. I'm coming from having programmed and hacked 2.3. Where would I find the info that would let me understand your answer?

I'd suggest you have a look at this.

OK, I read about plug-ins and products - that looks cool and well thought out - congrats. ;-) Much better than hacking around with the code.

So how do I find out where the hooks are - is there a list of where they appear? Do I just manually browse all of the source files (that could be quite time-consuming), and try to figure out what the functions they appear in are doing, or is there some more organized approach, like a list? As I mentioned, I'd like to find one that will allow me to search and replace the formatted HTML before it is spit out to the browser page and displayed - something sort of at the end of the whole procedure of displaying a forum page. Thanks!

Most hooks are logically named, so its relatively easy to guess at where they're located. ie. newpost_process, forumhome_start, global_complete, etc.

In answer to your question, I would look at the global_complete hook to run your function.