First Look at vBulletin 4 Template Tags

[Dax IX]

Thank you, Wayne!

This actually looks a lot easier and better than the old system, and seems more logical, too.

[syrus.xl]

vB4 as come a long way with coding. Much appreciated Wayne!

[abdobasha2004]

I think it became more complicated !

[Zaiaku]

Not all that different. Very helpful. I do like the comment options though very much.

TY

[niake]

Thank you :up:

[Reeve of shinra]

Originally Posted by bobster65

you can still use the HTML comment, but it will display when someone "views source" where as using the <vb:comment>, that comment will be stripped and not processed by the HTTP server, hence not being visible when someone views source.. make sense?

Makes sense -- off hand, anyone know if <vb:comment> show up in the html source code when vb is in debug mode?

[vietfancy]

have anybody try to use

PHP Code:

<vb:if condition="$is_member_of($bbuserinfo,6)">

do something
</vb:if> 


It's not working for me.

[Lynne]

It isn't $is_member_of, it's simply is_member_of (no $ in front).

[AndrewD]

Something to be aware of with the conditional tag.

Whereas in vb3.x, fetch_template was typically eval()'d in the scope of the function that created the template output, in vb4, the template is eval()'d inside another function. Since the conditional test refers to standard php variables rather than the vb registered template variables, this can create a situation where the variable you are testing is not in scope, so the test will always fail.

For example:

PHP Code:

function myfunc() {
    $myvar = 1;
    $templater = vB_Template::create('mytemplate');
    $templater->register(myvar', $myvar);
    print_output($templater->render());
} 


where mytemplate contains:

PHP Code:

val: {vb:raw myvar}
<vb:if condition="$myvar==1"> say again {vb:raw myvar}</vb:if> 


will only output "val: 1"

You can get round this by explicitly referring to the registered variable in the vb:if condition as follows:

PHP Code:

val: {vb:raw myvar}<br />
<vb:if condition="$this->registered['myvar']==1"> say again {vb:raw myvar}</vb:if> 


which will output "val: 1 say again 1", which is what the equivalent vb3.x template would have achieved.

[Lynne]

Thanks for posting that, Andrew. I haven't run into that problem yet, but I know I will and I'll be pulling my hair out and then I'll remember this post of yours and the world will be right again.