[How to] Write Plug-ins/Hooks

[Opserty]

Fair enough, I don't see why that link I posted wouldn't work the same in a plugin. Just do the same but instead of writing the hook in the PHP file stick it in your plugin. No harm in trying if you haven't already done so

Did you get some kind of error or was it just not working?

[Lea Verou]

I didn't try it yet, as I didn't need it at the time (I need it today).
I'll try soon though and post what happened.

[amnesia623]

Is this tutorial current as of vb 3.6.8?

I'm looking for a plugin tutorial and wondered if this is still relavent

[Birched]

The advice by KirbyDE at the end of the main entry was BY FAR the most useful part for me, but yes, I believe it is all still relevant.

[Hubbitus]

At the beginning, thank you for the good basic guide.

But I'm not completely understudying how I can associate my hook with two or more "hookname" at once? E.g. "newreply_post_start", "newthread_post_start".

Originally Posted by Brad

<title>vB Category Icons</title>
<hookname>forumdata_start</hookname>

If I try this code:

<title>vB Category Icons</title>
<hookname>newreply_post_start</hookname>
<hookname>newthread_post_start</hookname>

I get hook, associated to "useradmin_edit_start", as I understood the first item at the list.

Is it the only way to make the fully copy of the code into a new hook and associate it with new hookname???

[Opserty]

This tutorial is old. You can add plugins through the AdminCP via the Plugin Manager.

I don't think it is possible to associate the same code to two hooks. Just copy the code over to a new plugin to create code for another hook.

[Hubbitus]

Originally Posted by Opserty

This tutorial is old. You can add plugins through the AdminCP via the Plugin Manager.

Of cause, I known. But, I'm don't known how associate the same code to two hooks in this case too.

Originally Posted by Opserty

I don't think it is possible to associate the same code to two hooks. Just copy the code over to a new plugin to create code for another hook.

If no other, "normal" way, off cause i do that. But I hope that someone will prompt more correct way.

[hobeau]

Hi, I just want to display a list of users who have posted on a thread at the top of the thread using the hook system. I'm brand new to VBulletin and was wondering if there is a good tutorial or documentation that would help. I've looked in the vb manual and it just has like 2 pages on writing plugins. Can anyone help?

[wottech]

Originally Posted by Ken Iovino

If you wanted to do this is 3.5 using hooks you can. Open showthread.php and find around line: 923-924. You should see...

PHP Code:

$hook_query_fields = $hook_query_joins = '';
($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('showthread_query')) ? eval($hook) : false; 


Under that you will see a very large query, in that query you will notice the variables, $hook_query_fields, and $hook_query_joins. Thats your ticket into this query.

You would simple go into the plugins, add new plugin and write it like so: Plugin Name is "showthread_query"

PHP Code:

$hook_query_fields = ",tablename.rowname AS newname";
$hook_query_joins = "LEFT JOIN " . TABLE_PREFIX . "tablename AS newtable ON(tablename.rowname = post.rowname)"; 


Is there a way to add WHERE and ORDER statements to this query as well, using hooks?