vb.org Archive - View Single Post - Writing my first plug-in/product, several newbie questions.

#3 07-05-2006, 12:31 PM

Thanks very much harmor.

I realize that this is super basic and it'd be far quicker to just do the template edit - I'm just using this as a stepping stone to get a feel for the actual process. 99% of the "modding" that I do are template edits, and I'd love to be able to release some of them as products. I think if I can get this working and learn the basics, I can build off of that to make more complex/useful bits.

Where would I actually define that variable in the plugin?

Here's what I have right now, just adding in a phrase instead of the text. I'll start looking for the variable stuff from here.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<product productid="chris777_showinvisible" active="1">
	<title>Show Invisible Users</title>
	<description>Will add a count of invisible users in WGO.</description>
	<version>1.0.0</version>
	<codes>
	</codes>
	<templates>
	</templates>
	<plugins>
		<plugin active="1">
			<title>Show Invisible Users</title>
			<hookname>forumhome_loggedinuser</hookname>
			<phpcode><![CDATA[ 
if ($totalonline (<phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase>)) 
{
$vbphrase[online_invisible] $numberinvisible;
}
]]>
</phpcode>
		</plugin>
	</plugins>
	<phrases>
	 <phrasetype name="GLOBAL" fieldname="global">
<phrase name="online_invisible">
 <![CDATA[ Invisible:
  ]]> 
  </phrase>
  </phrasetype>

	</phrases>
	<options>
	</options>
</product>

I think the most basic question I have then is, how do I go about adding what I'm looking to add directly after this text in the forumhome template?

Code:

if ($totalonline (<phrase 1="$numberregistered" 2="$numberguest">$vbphrase[x_members_and_y_guests]</phrase>))

Thanks again and I apologize for the super-basic-and-pretty-much-useless bit of code that I'm working on. I'm really looking forward to getting better at it and a couple of coders pointing me in the right direction will no doubt save me hours of API digging.

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