Miscellaneous Hacks - vbPluginOrder

Keywords: plugin, order, hook

Description:
A simple but potentially very useful tool that allows you to set the order of execution for plugins within the same hook.

Features:

• Fully Phrased.
• Set the order of plugin execution within the same hook.

Install

1. Download the vbPluginOrder_1.2.zip file.
2. Unzip and upload the files in the upload directory to your forum root.
3. Import the product file in your admincp.
4. Set the order for your plugins if needed and desired.

Notes:
If you have Hellcat's real time page compressor installed it must be set as the first plugin in its hook after you activate plugin order.

Version 1.2

• Fixed bug causing plugin order not to run on some systems because of cookie settings

Version 1.1

• Fixed nasty sql bug where I forgot to use TABLE_PREFIX for one join. Causes a problem if you have a table prefix (obviously)

[hambil]

Originally Posted by luroca

This can be a very useful hack. I click install for future use
Is it working ok now?

Thanks

It seems to be

[jazde86]

Sorry, but the plugin makes a lot of trouble. When there are "0" in a field, then other plugins doesn't work anymore, example for that ist the "Who has visited today"-Plugin. The same with "The threadprefix"-Plugin.

I deactivated it.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by jazde86

Sorry, but the plugin makes a lot of trouble. When there are "0" in a field, then other plugins doesn't work anymore, example for that ist the "Who has visited today"-Plugin. The same with "The threadprefix"-Plugin.

I deactivated it.

Hmmmm. Could you be more specific? I tried installing two plugins in the same hook and setting the order of one to "0" and it worked fine.

[jazde86]

Plugin "Members who have visited the forum":

cache_templates -> Members who have visited (1) -> Order "0" The Plugin doesn't shown on forumhome, switch to "1" and ahh, there is it.

forumhome_start -> Members who have visited (2)


Other Plugins in cache_templates:

• Post Thank You Hack
• Top 'X' Stats by InfiniteWebby
• vB Pager 3.0.4
• VBGooglemap by StonyArc

[robert_2004]

i can't get the 'plugin order' showing up in my adminCP's left menu pane.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by robert_2004

i can't get the 'plugin order' showing up in my adminCP's left menu pane.

Hmmm. You've uploaded all the files? There is an xml file for the cpnav that has to be uploaded.

[robert_2004]

there are no files to upload on this thread mate. only the xml product.

[hambil]

Originally Posted by robert_2004

there are no files to upload on this thread mate. only the xml product.

Well, that's a problem. Now I'm wondering what the other people who install this are doing...

Give me a few minutes and I'll fix that and replace with a zip.

[Logician]

Edit : Hambil fixed the problem below in his pluggin. Thanks!


This hack causes serious problems if your board has table prefixes. If it is installed in a board where tables are prefixed, the board start producing DB errors and it won't even allow you to access admin cp and disable product. So if you dont know what you are doing, you'll get stuck in a very bad position.

Problem & Fix:

This query in the pluggin is problematic:

PHP Code:

SELECT p.*, po.`order` FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "pluginorder AS po
JOIN plugin AS p ON(p.pluginid = po.pluginid)
ORDER BY p.hookname, po.order 


It should be:

PHP Code:

SELECT p.*, po.`order` FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "pluginorder AS po
LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "plugin AS p ON(p.pluginid = po.pluginid)
ORDER BY p.hookname, po.order 


If you installed the hack and stuck with an DB error and you can't even access admin cp here is the fix for you:

Edit includes/init.php, find:

PHP Code:

if ($vbulletin->options['enablehooks'] OR defined('FORCE_HOOKS')) 


Before that add:

PHP Code:

$vbulletin->options['enablehooks'] = FALSE; 


Upload init.php.

This will cure DB error and now you can login to admin cp. Go to products and uninstall the product. Now delete the line you edit to init.php, reupload init.php and you are done.

@hambil : Sorry to post this into your thread and I appreciate your sharing your work with other vb members but I feel obligated to post this so that people won't get into trouble. It maybe a good idea to apply the fix I provided to your pluggin. Sorry again!

[Boofo]

An easier way is to add a disable hooks line to the config.php. That way you could comment it out and use it again if you had to.

PHP Code:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);