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Finding the right hook(s) for plugin(s) in vBulletin 5.2.0

I am currently adding advertisements to a forum and I want to place an advertisement after every 5 posts in a thread. To do this I have to write a custom plug-in.

I used to have a similar custom plug-in in a vBulletin 3.8.5 forum which I wanted to use as a reference. I noticed that the hooks have changed over the years. At this point my problem is that I don't know what hook I have to use for my plug-in, as the hooks of 3.8.5 don't correspond to those of 5.2.0 anymore.

I'd like to ask you which hook I have to use for my plug-in. And in general, where to find documentation about hooks and their functionality for future reference.

Where can I find this?

Thanks in advance. :)

Hooks have just been re-implemented in vb5. There are only two in 5.2.0 and they are pretty much for testing. The hook system is in it infancy on vb5.

I would add a template hook in the conversation display templates to accomplish what you're trying to do. The only problem with that is the modification won't survivr an upgrade and will need to be re-added which is really not that big of a deal. I have several on my site that I do it on every upgrade.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Replicant (Post 2566534)

I would add a template hook in the conversation display templates to accomplish what you're trying to do.

Hello,

Thanks for your reaction.
I've managed to display my plug-ins custom template below the reaction to a topic form using the conversation_below_entry hook location.

Now I want to display it inbetween the posts, so what I want to do is fetch the number of the posts in the topic, and place my custom template after every 5. Is it possible to write a custom hook location for this?

From the VB5 manual

{vb:hook}

Code:

{vb:hook} is used for including templates hooks in current template.



Parameter Position        Parameter Name        Type        Required        Description

1        hook        string        Yes        The name of the template hook

Code:

{vb:hook test}

There is also {vb:php} available which provides for a limited amount of php functions in you template code.

Code:

{vb:php}

{vb:php} is used to run allowed php functions during the execution of a template.



Parameter Position        Parameter Name        Type        Required        Description

1        function name        string        Yes        The name of the function

2...∞        string[, ...]        compiable code        No        Arguments of the function

Code:

{vb:set test, {vb:php implode, ',', {vb:raw variable}}}

PHP Equivalent:

<?php 



$test = implode(',', $variable);

Allowed functions:

implode()

explode()

array_merge()

array_intersect()

array_intersect_key()

array_keys()

array_push()

array_pop()

array_shift()

array_unshift()

array_unique()

array()

current()

str_repeat()

str_pad()

strip_tags()

strtolower()

strtoupper()

trim()

substr()

vbstrtolower()

For more info on the VB5 template syntax, go here.

This is too funny. -->> {vb:php}

Thanks, I've got all the information I need now.

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (2)bbcode_code_printable (1)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (5)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
Messages:

Phrase Groups Available:

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.01046 seconds Memory Usage 1,725KB Queries Executed 10 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (2)bbcode_code_printable (1)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (5)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
Messages: