New Subs.php functionality

[Joseph Fung]

Ok for all you mod writers who wanted a more powerful way to create new <yabb tag> tags.

Now, in subs.php, if you create a function yyMyFunction()  [Note: it myst start with yy] and you create a yabb tag in your template <yabb MyFunction> the header and footer functions will replace the <yabb MyFunction> tag with the output of your function.

There are several benefits to this.

Right now, to create a new tag, you have todo your porcessing, and store the results in a variable $yyMyFunction - the problem with that, is $yyMyFunction will be processed ALL THE TIME - which makes it difficult to write conditional tags, or tags which require a lot of processing.

It also allows for more modular programming, as you shouldn't have to touch the template_header or footer functions in subs.php for your mods

A final note is that the function captures the output of your program - not the return value.  So all you need to do is print or echo what you want to display - and it'll be captured and inserted at the right spot.

I'll post some examples later.

[Larry_Laffer]

Great. I made a LastReviews Extension at my board http://www.comicfan.de/forum

Now the last three reviews of my Nuke Portal are always displayed.

Do you have a list of all $public Variables? I would like to know in WHICH forum my function is called, because I do not want to display it in EACH forum.

But this yabb TAG thing is great!  

[P2D]

Yea very useful thing.

[tOAsD]

you dont even have to create a function if you don't need too complicate tag replacement.

eg i included some <yabb x> style variables, so i could use imagemaps instead of <yabb menu>

here's the code if you are interested

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// <tOAsD> added: <yabb menulink_x> style template addon, to have links for what normally is in <yabb menu>
// useful eg. for imagemaps ..
   $yymenulink_home="$scripturl";
   $yymenulink_help="$helpfile";
   $yymenulink_search="$cgi;action=search";
   $yymenulink_admin=($settings[7] == 'Administrator')?"$cgi;action=admin":"javascript:alert('you have no administrative rights.);";
   $yymenulink_gmod=($settings[7] == 'Global Moderator')?"$cgi;action=gmod":"javascript:alert(you are not a global moderator.');";
   $yymenulink_login=($username=="Guest")?"$cgi;action=login":"javascript:alert('you are already logged in.');";
   $yymenulink_register=($username=="Guest")?"$cgi;action=register":"javascript:alert('you already have registered.');";
   $yymenulink_profile=($username!="Guest" && $username)?"$cgi;action=profile;user=".urlencode($username):"javascript:alert('you are not logged in / registered');";
   $yymenulink_notification=($enable_notification)?"$cgi;action=shownotify":"javascript:alert('notifications are disabled.');";
// /<tOAsD>

insert this in Subs.php before the line

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$yymenu = "<a href=\"$scripturl\">$img[home]</a>$menusep<a href=\"$helpfile\" target=_blank>$img[help]</a>$menusep<a href=\"$cgi;action=search\">$img[search]</a>";

the usage should be kind of self-explanatory, if you dont get the clue, here is one example...

<yabb menulink_help> in your template.php will be replaced by the url to your helpfile ...

/tOAsD

[groundup]

I'll post some examples later.

lmao.. it's June 24, 2002.  Still waiting......

[David]

I'll post some examples later.

lmao.. it's June 24, 2002.  Still waiting......

lmao, it is very simple to make work.

[groundup]

twas a joke

[Jedi~]

*sigh* What am I going to do with you 2? I think I'll hand you over to Andy to deal with

[groundup]

i understand this up until the point about the variable.  Where does this variable have to be declared?  Can I have other variables inside of my function?  Can I have them printed?  Anything else I should know?

[Spaceman-Spiff]

this function is really great

to use it:
in template.php put something like:
<yabb printCoolBanner>

then anywhere in your script, example in Subs.php, write:
function yyprintCoolBanner() {
   echo "<img scr=\"coolbanner.gif\" />";
   #do other cool stuffs here;
}

[adams]

Is this the best/fastest way to include php variables in my template? I have embedded YaBBSE into a squirrelmail ( http://squirrelmail.org ) installation. This gives my webmail users a online community.

The webmail interface stores the users preferred colours in variables such as $color[9] that I would like to use when producing the YaBBSE index.php to give a uniform look.

I know that I could use <yabb color9> tag but is there a faster way to include php in my template without having to call a function?

[Anguz]

would include() work inside the yabbse functions? like:

function yyNavMenu() {
include(navigation.php);
}

I know it may sound a silly question, but since the navigation.php file will have characters that should be escaped if echoed, I don't know if it'd work properly...

[[Unknown]]

Yes, of course.

-[Unknown]

[Anguz]

great!!

I always escape espaping if possible when it's a lot of code

offtopic: is there an editor with a tool to escape symbols in code? you know, like the one to convert unusual characters to it's html equivalent, it'd be nice if you could just select a bunch of code lines and click the "escape" button hehe