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Originally Posted by kh99

You probably need to preRegister the variables to the template you're using. In the code on that page there are calls to vB_Template:reRegister() for FORUMHOME and navbar, but you need to change it (or add calls) to register to your template.

I created a new template called "ajax_chat_widget" and added the HTML code to that:

				<h3 class="blocksubhead"><img src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_misc}/users_online.png" alt="Users In Chat" />{vb:raw num_chatting} Users In Chat</h3>
				<div>
					<p>{vb:raw chat_userlist}</p>
				</div>

I had created the plug-in as instructed:

PHP Code:

global $vbulletin;   

$results = $vbulletin->db->query_read_slave("SELECT userName FROM ajax_chat_online");   
while ($row = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($results))   
    $chat_userlist[] = $row['userName'];   
if (is_array($chat_userlist))  
{  
    $chat_userlist = implode(', ', $chat_userlist);   
    $vbulletin->db->free_result($results);   
}  
else  
{  
    // set $chat_userlist to a "no one chatting" message if you want, or leave blank.
    $chat_userlist = '';  
}  
vB_Template::preRegister('FORUMHOME', array('chat_userlist' => $chat_userlist)); 


And added a second preRegister:

PHP Code:

vB_Template::preRegister('ajax_chat_widget', array('chat_userlist' => $chat_userlist)); 


I then created the Static HTML Widget and have it configured to use the template "ajax_chat_widget", and in the HTML code box I add "a". If I leave it blank the widget isn't displayed at all.

The widget now appears, but only says "Users in Chat". Looking at the code it should show the number of users (i.e. 2 Users in Chat) as well as list their names, but it doesn't.

Thoughts?