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Hi this is my first post. I'm new to mybb development.

I'm mainly a ruby on rails & node dev but have got the opportunity to work on an awesome community with mybb.

I just started building a plugin and have some questions that can't be answered in the docs or I can't find it online.

I feel posting is the best option to get help from someone who has a bunch of experience.

Anyway lol.

In my _install I call a method from a file I included which adds a template and then replaces a part of the header template with this template I created.

That works fine. I'm not sure if this is ideal so let me know. The docs say to do it that way so I did.

Now the issue i'm having is when I deactivate I want to delete that $template I added to the header.

Here's my code.

function remove_navbar_trade_link() {
  global $templates;
  eval("\$trade_nav = \"".$templates->get("header_menu_trade")."\";");
  find_replace_templatesets(
    "header",
     "#" . preg_quote($trade_nav) . "#i",
    ""
  );
}

function add_navbar_trade_link() {
  global $templates;
  eval("\$trade_nav = \"".$templates->get("header_menu_trade")."\";");
  find_replace_templatesets(
    "header",
     "#" . preg_quote('<ul class="menu top_links">'). "#i",
    "<ul class=\"menu top_links\">\n{$trade_nav}"
  );
}

This does not work and just adds a space.

Please let me know what i'm doing wrong. Any tips or advice that will help me get in the mybb dev loop quicker are greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I'm also wondering if structuring my plugin folder like this is reasonable.

-plugins folder
  -myplugin.php
  -/myplugin/
    -myplugin_pages.php
    -myplugin_templates.php

Pages file being where It would serve pages needed and create templates

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