Quickedit->save => post disappears

[Birched]

I'm developing a plugin that takes a new bbcode, does an operation on the text between the tags, and then reinserts the result (storing a marker in the database along the way.)

It seems to work fine (using the hooks bbcode_parse_complete, postbit_display_complete, editpost_update_process, and newpost_process) EXCEPT for when I try it in quickedit.

The problem is that when I hit 'save' from quickedit, the post completely disappears. If I then hit reload, the new (correctly edited) information comes up.

Quickedit seems to be failing within the code at the editpost_update_process hook. The code is basically as follows:

// don't process in previews, or if the tag info isn't present in at least one of the database or the message
if ( $edit['preview'] !== 'Preview Changes' && ($postinfo['myfield'] || stripos($edit['message'], '[/mytag') !== false ))
{
  require_once(DIR . '/plugins/myplugin.php');
  $my_obj = new MyClass($postinfo['myfield'], $edit['message']);
  $my_obj->convert(); // does preg_replace and puts the result in $my_obj->text
  $edit['message'] = $my_obj->text;
  if( $my_obj->myinfo )
  {
    $dataman->setr( 'myfield', $my_obj->pack_info() );
  }
}

What am I doing wrong?

THANKS to any who can help.

Hmm... well, I'm a bit new at vBulletin, so I'd still be interested if someone feels that I'm going at this from the wrong end or something.

But this particular problem I think I've solved. I had a stray 'print' command in the 'convert' function in my php script that I had been using for debugging. This was apparently completely crippling the quickedit window.

So - problem solved. BUT if someone could tell me a good way to monitor functions within quickedit that would be great (at the moment I'm relying on print statements and the list of hooks that are output in debug mode -- clearly print statements are not going to be my friend in this.)

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Quick Edit relies on AJAX functionality and this is a PITA to debug. The problem is that the update does not load a new page (where debug info could be shown) but is asynchroneous.