Using custom phrasegroups in a plugin in VB4?

[BirdOPrey5]

Been searching for this answer for a while... Quite a few old threads about this but from the VB 3.5 and 3.6 days...

Apparently you used to just add this code to init_startup hook:

$phrasegroups[] = 'groupname';

but it's not working for me ON VB 4.1.11.

I can use the phrasegroup on a custom php page by having this code near the top:

$phrasegroups = array('groupname');

Which is basically just another way of writing the same code as above- that works fine.

However neither works on init_startup.

Any ideas on this?

[Pandemikk]

Hook: global_bootstrap_init_start

global $phrasegroups;
$phrasegroups[] = 'dbtech_vbanalytics';

Sucks you have to use global, but maybe there's a better way.

[BirdOPrey5]

global_bootstrap_init_start would be better actually since $vbulletin->options is available so I could limit it to only when the mod setting that required it was enabled.

However it just isn't working.

This is what I have in global_bootstrap_init_start:

global $phrasegroups;
$phrasegroups[] = 'bop5';

And then in process_templates_complete I have this:

global $vbphrase;

echo "<pre>";
print_r ($vbphrase);
echo "</pre>";
die();

But none of the phrases from the 'bop5' group are printed out. Am I missing something?

EDIT- very weird as it is listed as an available phrasegroup in the debug info

[Pandemikk]

Dug in a bit. That will indeed add that phrasegroup to the array which ini's $vbphrase, however, for some odd reason, at that moment $vbulletin->userinfo contains elements "phrasegroup_x" full of serialized array values which are unset after $vbphrase is created. This is called in fetch_userinfo which is called includes/init.php. This all happens before that hook.

Hook: fetch_userinfo_query

PHP Code:

global $phrasegroups;
$phrasegroups[] = 'posting'; 


I honestly think there's got to be a better way. I don't like hooking into there and I don't think it would work unless you're logged in. I got sick of digging though, I'll probably come back to it later.

[BirdOPrey5]

You're right, it does work when logged in, but not for guests.

Thank you for this- I will investigate too and let you know if I come up with something.

[Pandemikk]

Actually it was as simple as:

PHP Code:

global $phrasegroups;
$phrasegroups[] = 'x'; 


Thought I added a global when I checked it out earlier. -shrugs-

Works for logged-in and guests. Phrases get fetched when they're building sessions: fetch_language_fields_sql() method.

[BirdOPrey5]

on what hook?

Right now I have

global $phrasegroups;
$phrasegroups[] = 'bop5';

on both fetch_userinfo_query and init_startup and it is working for both guests and members.


Edit- it seems I only need it on init_startup now... but I could have swotn I tried it already... oh well... many thanks.

[Pandemikk]

Just in init_startup.

Note of caution, be sure your phrasegroup is correct- or else you'll get a database error even within the ACP.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Pandemikk

Just in init_startup.

Note of caution, be sure your phrasegroup is correct- or else you'll get a database error even within the ACP.

good catch... I think I will us this just to make sure a db error in admincp can never happen...

if (defined('THIS_SCRIPT'))
{
  global $phrasegroups;
  $phrasegroups[] = 'bop5';
}

Since THIS_SCRIPT isn't defined in admin cp. :up:

[Pandemikk]

Good call. I used a test phrase and had to unset it in the method.