Hooks and templates

[bpr]

Hi there,

I got a basic question: How can I create my own hooks in templates and php files ?

And another question: How can I use them?

I wanted to add something to my home page in the cms.

Basically I wanted to add a slider function to it, or lets say, firstly just the template.

So what I did was as follows:
1. Add own template in default style:
called 'content_slider' and put my html code in

2. added product:
Add-On: CMS
Hook: init_start
Title: content_slider
Priority: 5
Code

PHP Code:

$template_hook['cms_content_slider'] .= vB_Template::create('content_slider')->render(); 


active: Yes

3. I edited the template:vbcms_page
and put this code inside:

{vb:raw template_hook.cms_content_slider}

The result was:
Everything is vice versa and my page looks very arabic... no offense .... but it actually changed to RTL!!!! I was really confused.

Maybe somebody could help me out how to add template hooks and php hooks

[Lynne]

You probably didn't change the CSS at all and so everything went wonky.

[bpr]

Ok guys,

I got a damn serious problem at the moment.

I tried something else so what I did was adding this code to the plugin:

PHP Code:

$templater = vB_Template::create('content_slider');
$template_hook['cms_content_slider'] = print_output($templater->render()); 


After that my website crashed....

The $content_slider template was successfully loaded and it is visible on a nice white blank page ...
the admincp also doesnt work anymore, because there is just a white page.


What I did after was logging into my phpmyadmin, tablelugins
fetch the one with my plugin and changed the php code, as well as i set activated to 0.

Still blank........

Anykind of help would be apprechiated a lot!

Vb4.0.3
Debug Mod on


//EDIT

DB Backup saved my a** however, I am really interested what that problem caused

[Lynne]

Next time you need to turn your plugins off in order to get into the admincp, do it through the config.php file
Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit config.php and add this line right under <?php

PHP Code:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); 


print_output is what you do if it's the very last template for the page. It spits it out and then stops doing anything else.