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I managed to get passed my specific issue (not the general question though), by going about it a different way.

My main problem was that i had profile field categories on my page, but they werent ajax editable (except in about me), but i wanted them separate.

I managed to change the code to allow this, but the issue was that there werent any hooks that would allow me to change this without modifying vb code. I needed to change the prepare_output function in ProfileFields.

I solved this by adding the following code to the member_build_blocks_start hook:

PHP Code:

class vb_ProfileBlock_ProfileFields2 extends vB_ProfileBlock_ProfileFields
{
    function prepare_output($id = '', $options = array()) 
   {
         // new code
   }
} 


Then re-running the profile block code to inherit the new class instead:

PHP Code:

foreach ($profileblock->locations AS $profilecategoryid => $location)
{
    if ($location)
    {
        $blocklist["profile_cat$profilecategoryid"] = array(
            'class'         => 'ProfileFields2', 


So my main problem was solved. Starting to get the hang of this too which is good, as i'm generally not a php coder.