forumbit Template - How to Get Forum ID For Use In Included Template?

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Originally Posted by kh99

Glad you got it figured out.
From includes/class_core.php, around line 4568, these variable are registered for you:
$vbulletin->userinfo (as 'bbuserinfo')
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$vbphrase
$vbcollapse
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$template_hook
There are a few other special cases, but you probably don't care about those.

Originally Posted by kh99

I didn't mention register_globals() - I don't think that's something you normally want to call directly.

GLOBALS.name seems to work to access a global even if you don't registered it. So I suppose you could say that $GLOBALS[] is also "registered" by default.

In your previous post, you kind of mentioned register_globals(). You pointed out that certain variables are registered automatically and where in the code it happens. The variables you pointed out are registered in the register_globals() function. Within that function the register_global() (no "s") function is called:
$this->register_global('vbphrase');
$this->register_global('vbcollapse');

I was using the register_global() (no "s") function incorrectly. I was thinking it made a reference to the variable available globally, but as you point out, that's what $GLOBALS does anyway.


Thanks again for the help

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For anyone reading this after us:
register_globals() is called with the purpose of registering certain variables within the scope of the particular template being rendered (they are already in the $GLOBALS array). Basically, it does a $templater->register(), but it passes the global variable by reference so that it will have the latest value when used rather than the value it held when it was registered. The final result is:

$templater->registered['vbphrase'] =& $GLOBALS['vbphrase'];

In the end, the difference between using register_globals() and not is the way you reference a variable within the template as it's being rendered.

Using register_globals():
{vb:raw vbphrase.monday}

Not using register_globals():
{vb:raw GLOBALS.vbphrase.monday}

Be Well

[kh99]

Ah, I see - that does make sense. And it probably is good for readability, if nothing else, to explicitly register the variables you use.