How do I declare a variable or array that is available in templates?

[richy96]

hi kh99


No not really any reason why they sould be in the footer - just that is where a previous programmer who worked on my site passed some stuff to the javascript so I blindly followed suit.. Since I had these above problems trying to do it, that is probably exactly why he ended up resorting to AJAX to get the stuff he needed! But I would like to think I could do a little better now....

I will have a play with what you suggested above, but Yeah I've been thinking about this myself too (over a beer or three which always seems to level the reasoning lol)

The stuff that I can successfully pass to the javascript comes out in the generated html like this :

<!-- END TEMPLATE: ad_footer_start -->
<div id='JUID' style='display:none;'>71</div>
<div id='JUSERNAME' style='display:none;'>Support</div>
<div id='JUSERPC' style='display:none;'>ST1</div>

And I can then use jquery (for ease of DOM navigation) to do whatever I like with the generated HTML to reformat what the end user sees without making more changes to vbulletin code/templates. Which is nice

So anything in a $array or $variable that I can 'see' in the template is easy enough to pass on to client side javascript.

So what I am thinking now is.... if I knew where these global arrays like $bbuserfield[] were declared in vbulletin, it would be pretty easy to declare my own custom array in the same way and in the same place - and it stands to reason I would then have my own custom array with the same scope as $bbuserfield to do with whatever I liked from whatever vbulletin php file I wanted to tinker with - and the output 'client side' could be modified with javascript/jquery by adding more fields to my custom global array as I need them and passing them in HTML 'hidden' text

That seems a pretty useful goal to me!

Do you know where those vbulletin global arrays come from originally?

best regards
rich