Well, if you just want to insert something you can put any variable name you want in the template and make sure it's set in a plugin (before the template is eval'ed of course). But one issue is that some templates are eval'ed in a function, so global variables aren't available unless there's a "global" statement for it in that function. I guess one solution to that is to use an existing global array that you know will be available (like $vbulletin->userinfo), but that's kind of a hack. I don't know if there's an "approved" way. There is a template_hook[] global that is already inserted at certain points in some templates, so maybe that would be a better solution, but I don't know if that's "global" everywhere a template is eval'ed or not.
If you want to delete or alter something that's already there you can do a str_replace (or whatever) on it with something like:
Code:
$vbulletin->templatecache['template_name'] = str_replace("search", "replace", $vbulletin->templatecache['template_name']);
although in some situations it can be tricky to know what to match, like we were discussing in this thread a while back:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=255738
Anyway, I hope this helps. I'm certainly not anything like the resident expert on this but I'm sure someone else will add to this or correct me if ncessary.
04-29-2011, 10:07 AM
How to use the plugin system to make template edits?
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