Setting up a Plugin/Hook to perform this action?

[bhxtyrant]

Hey guys,Need a little help with this one.I just upgraded to vBulletin 3.5,one thing i did after rebuilding all my templates was make a custom template using the same code as the normal header template.I want to be able to use this second template on certain area's of the forums.So i was trying to figure out how i can call the new template.The default header uses $header,i would like the new template to use $downloads_header is this possible?thanks

Yes, this is possible. You can use global_start (I believe this is the correct hook name..) to eval the template. And use cache_templates to cache the template using array merge.

[bhxtyrant]

Would you mind posting an example for me?I have never created a hook plugin before so i have no idea where to begin as far as proper code to use.Thanks for your reply and help.

I trued building upon this code that someone posted on another forum.

PHP Code:

ob_start();
require("yourheader.php");
$headstuff = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean(); 


and edited to my custom needs

PHP Code:

$vbulletin->templatecache['ADV_gallery_header'];
$vba_header 


obviously this is incorrect so if anyone can help it would be appreciated

[bhxtyrant]

Just a bump for this,really need a reply on this matter or i'm stuck

[Blackhat]

I would like to know more about this as well. Thanks