VBulletin Programming 101?

[Dead Eddie]

Originally Posted by YannZeRookie

Thanks for the fast response, I really appreciate it!

Yes, I can see the conversation={vb:raw conversation} in the template. This is the sort of guess work I've been doing.

And this precisely illustrates my point: where is the conversation variable described? If it's an array or an object, what are its fields? In which PHP code are they initialized?...

Which template?

The variables are passed in from a number of different sources (sigh). The Frontend Controller (includes/vb5/frontend/controller ... since I can never find it), The API via direct call (vb/api), or a parent template i.e. widget/widget_activitystream:

{vb:template {vb:raw activityStreamTemplateName}, conversation={vb:raw node.content}, reportActivity=1, showChannelInfo=1}

Yes. It's a mess.