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How to display pm notifications in a custom template?

Hi,

I've registered a custom template to include inside the header template with

Code:

{vb:raw mytemplate}

. It works... the

Code:

<vb:if condition="$show['member']">

condition inside mytemplate works, too. But

Code:

<vb:if condition="$notifications_total">

doesn't.

So if I put this code in mytemplate -

Code:

<vb:if condition="$notifications_total"><div>there are notifications</div>

<vb:else /><div>no notifications here</div>

</vb:if>

I always see 'no notifications here'.

The exact same code in the header template works as expected.

Does anyone know a solution for this?

You will need to register the variable $notifications_total for use in your custom template.

Cellarius wrote a really good article that you may be interested in - [vB4] Rendering templates and registering variables - a short guide

Hi Lynne! Thanks for the swift response.

I've just been reading through that thread, and I'm really glad to find you're still posting here.

I found this example code there:

Code:

$templater = vB_Template::create('memberbar_member_basic');

$memberbar_member_basic = $templater->render();

vB_Template::preRegister('navbar', array('notifications_menubits' => $notifications_menubits));

vB_Template::preRegister('navbar', array('memberbar_member_basic' => $memberbar_member_basic));

vB_Template::preRegister('navbar', array('notifications_menubits' => $notifications_menubits));

...looks like exactly what I want to do, displaying notifications in a custom template, though the op mentions it has a mistake and doesn't say what the mistake is (besides perhaps the duplicated line)...

So I took my existing plugin...

Code:

$templater = vB_Template::create('ubermenu');

$ubermenu = $templater->render();

vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('ubermenu' => $ubermenu));

and tried adding to it -

Code:

$templater = vB_Template::create('ubermenu');

$ubermenu = $templater->render();

vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('notifications_menubits' => $notifications_menubits));

vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('notifications_total' => $notifications_total));

vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('ubermenu' => $ubermenu));

No luck. Then thought this made no sense, since notifications already work in the header, it's the 'ubermenu' template that needs to know about them, so tried

Code:

vB_Template::preRegister('ubermenu', array('notifications_total' => $notifications_total));

etc instead, both in that plugin and in a separate one. Still no luck. :confused:

Help?

First, you may combine the 3 lines:

PHP Code:


		
			
vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('notifications_menubits' => $notifications_menubits));
vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('notifications_total' => $notifications_total));
vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('ubermenu' => $ubermenu));

as follows:

PHP Code:


		
			
vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('notifications_menubits' => $notifications_menubits, 'notifications_total' => $notifications_total, 'ubermenu' => $ubermenu));

However, I am thinking this is more along the lines of what you want to do:

PHP Code:


		
			
$templater = vB_Template::create('ubermenu');
    $templater->register('notifications_menubits', $notifications_menubits);
    $templater->register('notifications_total', $notifications_total);
$ubermenu = $templater->render();
vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('ubermenu' => $ubermenu));

This way you are registering the two variables your "ubermenu" template needs to render its output correctly, and then you can register that output (stored in $ubermenu) for use in the header template. :)

Thank you.

I'm sure you're right.

**EDIT**

Er, let me just delete everything I wrote before I found the stray ' in the code :o . I still haven't got it working, but I'll post a better update after I've tested a few more things.

--------------- Added [DATE]1461490554[/DATE] at [TIME]1461490554[/TIME] ---------------

Sorry to say that this -

Code:

$templater = vB_Template::create('ubermenu');

        $templater->register('notifications_menubits', $notifications_menubits);

        $templater->register('notifications_total', $notifications_total);

$ubermenu = $templater->render();

vB_Template::preRegister('header', array('ubermenu' => $ubermenu));

- definitely doesn’t work.

I replaced my whole ubermenu template with the original notifications code, and finally with

Code:

<div><vb:if condition="$notifications_total">There are notifications<vb:else />Yes, we have no notifications</vb:if>

<ul>{vb:raw notifications_menubits}</ul></div>

It always displays the 'no notifications' option (and I'm logged in, and have loads of notifications, which show up fine in the default skin), and doesn't display the notifications_menubits at all. IOW, the presence or absence of those two 'register' lines in the plugin makes no difference to the result.

What hook location are you using for your plugin?

parse_templates

(I tried 'global_start' first, but the template didn't appear at all.)

Try "global_setup_complete"...:)

Nope - template disappears altogether again.

Okay, here's my workaround:

The "mytemplate" template:

HTML Code:

<div>

        <vb:if condition="$notifications_total">

                there are notifications

        <vb:else />

                no notifications here

        </vb:if>

</div>

The plugin, hooked at "process_templates_complete":

PHP Code:


		
			
$templater = vB_Template::create('mytemplate');

    $templater->register('notifications_menubits', $notifications_menubits);

    $templater->register('notifications_total', $notifications_total);

$ubermenu = $templater->render();



$header = str_replace('{ubermenu}', $ubermenu, $header);

Now, in your "header" template, put the string "{ubermenu}" wherever you want the rendering of "mytemplate" to appear. :)

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