[Brad]

Checking with the templates has its benifits in some cases, lets say I created some new functions to be used to display differing html inside forums depending on what the forumid is.

So lets asume I have two functions i've inserted into functions.php:

PHP Code:

// returns list of forumid's
fetch_forumids()
{
       $forumids = '1,2,3';
       return $forumids;
}

// Match current forumid to list of ids
match_forums($forumid)
{
    eval('$var = in_array($forumid, array(' . fetch_forumids() . '));');
    return $var;
} 


So with these functions I wan't to code my template like this:

<if conditional="match_forums($forumid)">
// do special forum display here
<else />
// do normal forum display here
</if>

With filtering on I have to edit this block in adminfunctions_template.php everytime I want to use a new function in the templates:

PHP Code:

 $safe_functions = array(
            // logical stuff
            0 => 'and',              // logical and
            1 => 'or',               // logical or
            2 => 'xor',              // logical xor

            // built-in variable checking functions
            'in_array',              // used for checking
            'is_array',              // used for checking
            'is_numeric',            // used for checking
            'isset',                 // used for checking
            'empty',                 // used for checking
            'defined',               // used for checking
            'array',                 // used for checking

            // vBulletin-defined functions
            'can_moderate',          // obvious one
            'can_moderate_calendar', // another obvious one
            'exec_switch_bg',        // harmless function that we use sometimes
            'is_browser',            // function to detect browser and versions
            'is_member_of',          // function to check if $user is member of $usergroupid
        ); 


If you are like me your code is changing all the time, keeping this block up to date in the development phase gets old fast