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Hi Guys,
at the moment I am working on a plugin that connects to a external database and updates it when a user posts in a thread or creates a new thread.

This is my first plugin, so I have some questions and it would be really great if you could help me with this questions.

I try to get the username with the $user_data variable, but I cant get it to work. This is how I tried it:

//taken from the email admin on new email plugin
function storeconnecter_global_start() {
    global $mybb, $user_info, $db;

    if ($mybb->settings['storeconnecter_enable'] == 1) {
        // query user information
        $query = $db->simple_select(
            "users",
            "uid, username, email, regip, regdate, referrer",
            "uid=" . (int)$user_info['uid'] . ""
        );
        $userInfo = $db->fetch_array($query);
        
        echo "My first plugin works! Username: ".$userInfo['username'];
        
    }
}

and this is what I have got: http://d.pr/i/5S3V
Can you please tell me what I have done wrong.

If i would like to trigger a function when a new reply is made, are this two hook-points correctly ? newthread_end, newreply_end

Thanks alot for your help

Instead of $user_info use $mybb->user
So get rid of the $user_info global
And replace $user_info['uid'] with $mybb->user['uid]
Basically $mybb->user is the same as $userInfo after the query, which you can remove.

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So your code can be:

//taken from the email admin on new email plugin
function storeconnecter_global_start() {
    global $mybb;

    if ($mybb->settings['storeconnecter_enable'] == 1) {
        
        echo "My first plugin works! Username: ".$mybb->user['username'];
        
    }
}

Thanks for the info, if I have a custom row (for example a steamid row) can I access this row with
$mybb->user['steamid'] ?
Or do I need to use the query I have got in the code ?

If it's in the users table, it's in the $mybb->user array

Thanks alot for your answer.

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I have got another question:
How can I access the data that is entered in a userfield ? (mybb_userfields)
It would be great if you could help me with this question too

(2013-02-27, 09:02 PM)Euan T. Wrote: [ -> ]If it's in the users table, it's in the $mybb->user array

It really is awesome if you don't know that and someone tells you.

(2013-02-27, 09:04 PM)Arrow768 Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks alot for your answer.

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I have got another question:
How can I access the data that is entered in a userfield ? (mybb_userfields)
It would be great if you could help me with this question too

For that, you'll need to query the DB I'm afraid.

If you know the ID number of the Custom Profile Field that you can access it without a query like this:

$GLOBALS["mybb"]->user['fid5']

replace 5 with the ID # of your Custom Profile Field (find the ID by hovering in ACP)