[Lynne]

Originally Posted by YannZeRookie

And this precisely illustrates my point: where is the conversation variable described? If it's an array or an object, what are its fields? In which PHP code are they initialized?...

That is when I go searching in the files for the template name to see where it is rendered. Then, you can see the variable registered for use in the template and see all the code above there that defines the variable. But, searching for the template names is sometimes a bit tricky in vB5 (I wish I could smack whoever thought it was a good idea to write the code this way!). If I search for "conversationstarter_threadview" I find that the template name actually comes up in the template "widget_conversationdisplay". So then I search on "conversationdisplay" and get nowhere. And I'm out of time to continue on this (gotta run!), but you can see that finding the right word to search on to find where it gets defined is just darned tricky (read as "is just a fr*gging nightmare!!!").