How do I pass a custom field to a hook (Invision Power Board [ipb] / PHP)
- by Julian Young
A long shot but here's hoping someone has some experience coding PHP hooks for Invisions Power Board forum.
I'm attempting to code a status addition and the PHP works fine on it's own, it's the passing of the IPB's reference to my hook that is the issue.
I.E. You setup a custom field in your forum for MSN Username, then from within a skin / template hook you pass the custom field to the hook and then use your PHP code to check on the status.
Here is the IPB skin code I am hooking into on Global-userInfoPane...
<if test="authorcfields:|:$author['custom_fields'] != """>
<foreach loop="customFieldsOuter:$author['custom_fields'] as $group => $data">
<foreach loop="customFields:$author['custom_fields'][ $group ] as $field">
<if test="$field != ''">
<li>
{$field}
</li>
</if>
</foreach>
</foreach>
</if>
Although I could easily add my own skin hook here.
i.e.
<if test="myHookHere:|:1===1"></if>
Literally all I need is a single custom field entry from here passed to my hook. If I query every member when the hook is run then that will result in many extra sql queries per page view. All I want to do is pass that specific custom field to the hook...
i.e. myHookHere( $customfield['msn_username'] )
Is this possible? How do you reference the customfield? Can I execute pure PHP from here?
Appreciate anyone that can help! I tried the official invision forums but not had much luck.
