Use $foruminfo[forumid] In_Array in BBCode
 

I am trying to use the following conditional in the BBCode

<vb:if condition="in_array($foruminfo[forumid], array(1,2)) AND $bbuserinfo[userid]">

If works fine if the $bbuserinfo[userid] is used alone. However, I can't get the forumid bit to work. I have disabled post caching.

For some reason, $foruminfo[forumid] is returning 0. Well, to put it another way, in_array($foruminfo[forumid], array(0,1,2)) is true no matter which forum I am on, and in_array($foruminfo[forumid], array(1,2) is false, no matter which forum I am on. Any ideas how I can get this to work for forum ids, 1 and 2, and for all other forum ids, go to the else conditional?

I could be wrong about everything here, but .............

I don't think you can use in_array() in a conditional, so try

I don't think any of the usual variables are available in bb code, but if $bbuserinfo is available maybe I'm wrong.

You might try
$vbulletin->foruminfo[forumid] instead of $foruminfo[forumid] and likewise $vbulletin->bbuserinfo[userid], and see if that helps.

Or if those don't work, try $GLOBALS['forumid'].

I'm confused about the question because you normally can't use template tags in a bbcode, but it sounds like it's working in your case (otherwise you'd always see whatever is between the tags).

nerbert, thanks for your reply..

Yes, normally you won't have any of the usual variables in the bbcode. having said that, there is a mod available here somewhere that allows usage of those variables within the bbcode. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to use $bbuserinfo[userid] either. I'll give your suggestion a try.

I'm experimenting around and it seems you CAN use $foruminfo in conditionals but things like {vb:raw bbuserinfo.userid} don't work

Kevin, will try your code too. Again, to my point above, there's a mod available here somewhere that allows you to use template tags in a bbcode. I can't seem to find it now. So yeah, if you check my forum www.excelfox.com, you'll see that unless you are a registered user, you won't be able to see the contents of within the code tags. So yeah, it IS working with $bbuserinfo[userid], but not with the tag I mentioned in my original post.

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Alright, GLOBALS has done the trick. foruminfo doesn't seem to work. It always returns zero! Thanks a lot Kevin. Thanks for nerbert also for looking at this. Cheers mates.

I'm sure $foruminfo[forumid] is available for conditionals

In my experiment <vb:if condition="$foruminfo[forumid]>0">yes</vb:if> returns "yes". I think you just have to work around not being able to use in_array().

Strange. Though I don't know how GLOBALS and foruminfo are different, I was also under the impression that foruminfo should work. For some reason, <vb:if condition="$foruminfo[forumid]>0">yes</vb:if> doesn't work for me!!

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You sure you're testing it within the BBCODE? For the life of me, I cannot get $foruminfo[forumid] to work!!!

This is one of those questions that gets asked occasionally. Apparently $foruminfo[forumid] doesn't work everywhere, but $GLOBALS['forumid'] seems to do it. Also, you can't use any variables in a template that haven't been registered, so even if $foruminfo exists, it probably wouldn't work in your situation (I assume nerbert is testing using another template, which is why it works). $GLOBALS[] is a "superglobal" so it's available everywhere.

BTW, in_array() is allowed in a template conditional (according to the manual anyway).

This is the html I'm using for [experiment] kkk [/experiment]

I get

kkk yes $foruminfo[forumid]

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Maybe it was vB3 that didn't allow that