Modding Invision Power Board Code

[Arcane Wizard]

*Regarding my own forum, not this one, don't worry : )*

I've changed the code of the "My Assistant" to have an additional link to "RPGCharEdit.php" where I want it to display (and ultimately be able to modify) some of the custom profile fields.

Now, I know that in the 'Topic View' part of the forum the variable to acces these additional fields is $author[field_1]. So where I to display the 6th custom profile field I would simply add $author[field_6] to that part of the furom code.

However, I can't figure out how to acces this variable from other files, RPGCharEdit.php in this case, can anybody help?

I figured I need something like $member = new member_id_acces_thingy_also_used_by_$author but I don't know what specifically.

[Darth Android]

well, don't forget to define $author and $ibforums as global:

[Arcane Wizard]

I could do that, but the problem lies in that I can't just include the file.

I need it to load a new page and have all the settings there, instead of having all the settings in My Assistant which is what including would do.

Maybe I need something that forces the board to load (like the javascript function redirect_to() in skin_buddy.php) my new page like it loads it's own pages instead of the browser loading it like an ordinary http link.

[Darth Android]

will the new page be in ipb (like my irc mod) or outside, just needing access to the vars?

[Arcane Wizard]

Whatever actually works.

[Darth Android]

you are missing my point. how will the page be accessed? do you want to access it with <boardurl>?act=<pagename> or a url outside of the board? if you use that act= method, then that is not much of a problem. if you store the info in the correct db, you can access it simply via $ibfourms->vars['myvar'] and then display it. I can show you how to make act= pages if you use 2.0

[Arcane Wizard]

Like I said, whatever actually works. And I don't use 2.0