Customize plugin view

phalc0nline

Hi!
Please give link for topic or code example how to change correctly plugin view?

hgtonight

Welcome to the community!

Are you looking to override a current plugin's view, or are you creating a plugin and you want to know how to create a custom view?

phalc0nline

@hgtonight said:
Welcome to the community!

Are you looking to override a current plugin's view, or are you creating a plugin and you want to know how to create a custom view?

I'm looking for how override a current plugins view. I know what I can change plugin view in /plugins/pluginName, but it's wrong way. Can you give me an advice?

R_J

Overriding a plugins view is not possible in most cases. There are different ways a view is fetched but one common way is to specify the path to the file. In such cases you wouldn't be simply able to change anything without changing the plugins source.
Although I'm quite sure @hgtonight knows a magic trick to achieve it nevertheless... (maybe by implementing your own FetchViewLocation)

I'd advice you to either make a better suggestion to the plugin author if you have an improvement or to copy the plugin from folder "OldPluginName" to "OldPluginNamePlus" "OldPluginNameMine" or "OldPluginName2" or "NewPluginName" or whatever.
Do a case sensitive search for "OldPluginName", "oldpluginname" and maybe also "oldPluginName" and replace them with the corresponding "NewPluginName", "newpluginname", "newPluginName". Rename all files regarding to the name change. Change the description and give credit to the original plugin and that's it.

But if you tell us what plugin you are talking about you can be sure to get more detailed advice.

phalc0nline

plugin name "Online Now".

hgtonight

Online now does not use a view for it's module. Modules should use views if possible.

You will have to fork and edit it how you want. You need to edit the OnlineNowModule::ToString() method. You can find it in /plugins/OnlineNow/class.onlinenowmodule.php.

Unless @R_J can come up with some novel idea.

x00

Many of my plugins allow this, if you are contributing back to a plugin this is typically the code that I use.

    public function ThemeView($View){
        $ThemeViewLoc = CombinePaths(array(
            PATH_THEMES, Gdn::Controller()->Theme, 'views', $this->GetPluginFolder()
        ));

        if(file_exists($ThemeViewLoc.DS.$View.'.php')){
            $View=$ThemeViewLoc.DS.$View.'.php';
        }else{
            $View=$this->GetView($View.'.php');
        }

        return $View;
    }

so under theme the override would be views/plugins/PluginName/viewname.php

use

$Sender->View = $this->ThemeView('viewname');
$Sender->Render();