Please help - using custom variables in template

[Leonard]

Hi,

I'm now at wits end and despite reading the tutorials/articles, I cannot figure this out. I am not new to PHP and I'm not new to developing with VBUlletin, I'm trying to port an existing mod that I created over to VB 4.x.

Specifically, I have a template "newthread". I have declared a variable "$gallery_on = true;" in a plug-in that hooks into "newthread_start".

In the template "newthread", I have put in the following if/else conditional:

<vb:if condition="$gallery_on">
Gallery is on
<vb:else />
Gallery is off
</vb:if>

When I go to newthread.php, the template ALWAYS evaluates $gallery_on as FALSE. WHY!?!?

ARGH. Help PLEASE. I know I'm just missing something so fundamental it's ridiculous.

Thanks,

Leonard

--------------- Added [DATE]1272649138[/DATE] at [TIME]1272649138[/TIME] ---------------

OMG HOURS of trying and finally figured it out. You have to register the custom variable for use in the respective template.

vB_Template::preRegister('newthread', array('gallery_on' => $gallery_on));

Is there no documentation for developers where all of this information lives? I'm sorry but I'm just so frustrated right now. Gosh.