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[LauraS]

I use $foruminfo[title] to get the title of each forum on each page, and then use that information for a custom ad solution. After testing it, though, I realized that when you drill-down into the thread level, it picks up the name of the thread; I'd rather it just keep the name of the overall forum.

For instance, if you have "National Football League" as a forum, and then several threads within that forum: "Chicago Bears", "NY Jets", etc. - I need a way to access the forum name "National Football League" on every page, even the lower-level thread pages. Does anyone know how to do this?

[Analogpoint]

Use this:

$vbulletin->forumcache[$thread['forumid']]['title'];

Depending on what you're using this for, you might want to use 'title_clean' instead of 'title'.

[Dismounted]

Use {$vbulletin->forumcache[$thread[forumid]][title]} in templates.

[Analogpoint]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

Use {$vbulletin->forumcache[$thread[forumid]][title]} in templates.

As far as I know, the $vbulletin object is not available in templates.

[Dismounted]

It is available. Try putting {$vbulletin->userinfo[username]} in a template.

[Analogpoint]

Originally Posted by Dismounted

It is available. Try putting {$vbulletin->userinfo[username]} in a template.

I've tried it before, and never been able to get it to work. Can you give me an example of where it works?

[LauraS]

I'm able to get {$vbulletin->userinfo[username]} to return the username value, but when I try and use {$vbulletin->forumcache[$thread[forumid]][title]}, it returns nothing - it doesn't error, it just returns a null or blank value.

[Paul M]

I seem to recall that templates have some problem with multiple arrays - i.e. $var[x] will be okay, but $var[x][y] seems to fail, even though it exists. Although I thought that the use of braces fixed the problem ....

[Analogpoint]

Originally Posted by LauraS

I'm able to get {$vbulletin->userinfo[username]} to return the username value

What template did you try it in? I tried that in a few templates and nothing.

[Eikinskjaldi]

it depends on the scope within which the template was called.

$vbulletin will only be available within a function if you

global $vbulletin;

first.