Another plugin question

[Dean C]

I need to parse the contents of a postbit on the fly, i.e. when a page is rendered server-side. I've had a play with postbit_display_complete but preg_replace('/moo/', 'baa', $this->post['message']); will not replace the only reference of moo with baa in the post

[Chris M]

I've tried several methods and also cannot get it to do so :ermm:

Looks like you'll have to edit class_postbit

Satan

[Dean C]

Hmm strange

[Paul M]

Are you sure the preg_replace is correct ?

If you simply put something like ;

$this->post['message'] .= " # END # ";

Then it works, which suggests the preg_replace is failing to do what you expect.

[Dean C]

Interesting. Then try using this hook @ postbit_display_complete:

str_replace('moo', 'baa', $this->post['message']);

Obviously make sure your post has "moo" somewhere in it. It won't replace it... yet your example works Paul

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Better try:

PHP Code:

$this->post['message'] = str_replace('moo', 'baa', $this->post['message']); 


[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Interesting. Then try using this hook @ postbit_display_complete:

str_replace('moo', 'baa', $this->post['message']);

Obviously make sure your post has "moo" somewhere in it. It won't replace it... yet your example works Paul

Okay, I was trying to diplomatically suggest you may have the syntax wrong.

I would expect it to be ;

PHP Code:

$this->post['message'] = preg_replace('/moo/', 'baa', $this->post['message']); 


Surely you need to assign the replaced text back to the actual message variable ?

Since my test board has currently disappeared up it's own ar*e I can't prove this atm

Edit: Darn, I see Marco has beaten me to pretty much suggesting the same.

Edit 2: It does work.

[Dean C]

I'm having a real bad day it would seem Now i'm having trouble accessing the db object within this class. $GLOBALS['vbulletin']->db seems to be the only way I can access it at the moment, but even that is throwing up some unexpected behaviour with no results turned when I'm 100% positive there are.

[Andreas]

Almost (?) all vBulletin Classes take a reference of the Registry ($vbulletin) object that can be accessed as $this->registry.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Edit: Darn, I see Marco has beaten me to pretty much suggesting the same.

Lol, only by an hour and 15 minutes.

Don't worry happens to me a lot of times to. I open a lot of pages at once and read tehm when i have time. Sometimes that is 1 hour later.