Showing Plugin output HELP

[datarecall]

I am trying to show the output of a plugin I made:

I want to display the variable in the search widget but it does not seem to work.

vB_Template::preRegister('vbcms_widget_searchwidget_page',array('latestposts' => $latestposts));

It however does work if I register it w/ the header

vB_Template::preRegister('header',array('test123' => $latestposts));

I cant seem to figure out why I am unable to get it to show inside the widget but I am able to display it in the header.

On another note what is the best hook to use for widgets ? Currently I am using global start

[cellarius]

The Problem is the hook you use. global_start is deprecated and no longer existant in the cms. Use global_bootstrap_complete instead.

[datarecall]

Thanks cellarius, still does not work on the home page, however the widget is also in my articles template, when I goto the articles page it works fine there.

I did an echo "Executing" to make sure the plugin is executing itself and it does execute on the homepage just does not get put into the widget. here is the code I used.
plugin_lastposts.php

<?
$date = strtotime('-30 days');
global $vbulletin;
$query = "SELECT count(threadid) as counts FROM `thread` WHERE `dateline` > $date";
$latestpostsread = $vbulletin->db->query_read($query);
$latestpostsfetch = $vbulletin->db->fetch_array($latestpostsread);
$latestposts = $latestpostsfetch['counts'];

?>

plugin code

require_once('/opt/www/riu/staging/plugin_lastposts.php');
vB_Template::preRegister('vbcms_widget_searchwidget_page',array('latestposts' => $latestposts));
var_dump($latestposts);
vB_Template::preRegister('header',array('test123' => $latestposts));

That second header one is just for testing that it gets registered for the header on the homepage.

the template code:

<div class="side-bar-box-header">
			<div id="speach-bubble">
				<span class="posts">x{vb:raw latestposts}x</span><br/>
				Threads in the last<br/>30 days
			</div>
		</div>
		<div class="side-bar-box-content">
			<p class="title">Posts: {vb:raw prepared.totalposts}</p>
			<p class="date">Threads: {vb:raw totalthreads}</p>
			<p class="post">Members Online: {vb:raw totalonline}</p>
			{vb:raw result_html}
		</div>

On maybe a related note the threads / members / Posts variables do not work either.