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[Gary Mort]

That code there is for a find/replace function.

Basically, what happens is when Joomla runs the a plugin, a lot of plugins
will go and check the html that has been generated for the keystring and
then replace everything in the {} with the results of a script.

However, such plugins have to actually be triggered by an event in order to
run.  I'm guessing this is a content plugin?  Content plugins are only run
by the content component and components that have been specifically enabled
in their code to run them.

Here is a good article on various plugin magic and how to work around these
limitations:
http://www.howtojoomla.net/how-tos/development/how-to-fix-joomla-content-plugins

The SHORT summary would be to do the following:

$findSnapshot =
"{product_snapshot:id=$prod_id,showname=n,showprice=n,showdesc=n,showaddtocart=y}";

JHTML::_('content.prepare', $findSnapshot);

This should trigger the content plugins and generate the html you are
looking for.

-Gary

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Mark Simko <masimko at verizon.net> wrote:

>  I want to use a plugin in an extension. Specifically, I'm trying to use
> the virtuemart product snapshot plugin in a vmproductfinder search results
> page. I paste this into the searchresults.php file:
>
> {product_snapshot:id=<?php
> echo($prod_id);?>,showname=n,showprice=n,showdesc=n,showaddtocart=y}
>
> And I get basically the same thing (with the correct product number) in my
> results page.
>
> So, plugins are not being processed when this extension is used. The plugin
> is enabled in the plugin manager. There are no parameters that turn on
> plugin processing for this search extension.
>
> Is there anything I can do to make plugins be processed when this file is
> used to generate the output? I need this plugin to have an add to cart
> button on the page next to the search results.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Mark
>
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