Altering page layout - order and content of charstats

[RaynDarren]

I'm looking to move charstats around and re-order some of the info within them on 3 specific skins only. Is it possible? if so, how?

Thanks in advance,
~Rayn

[Boris735]

If you want to change where the charstats appear in the skin, that is easy enough -- just modify the corresponding template file and move the {stats} entry where you want them to appear.

The re-ordering is more difficult.  The order of charstats is moderately hardcoded in lib/pageparts.php.  A core edit may be easier, but there is a way out that allows this to be done in a module.  Set a very low priority hook on "charstats", and then modify the global $charstats_info array to reflect the order you want.  This might be most easily done by getting a copy of it, wiping the charstats, and then re-adding them all (taking care to add the ones whose order you care about first).

As for detecting the template itself, by the time this code is called then prepare_template() should already have been called by page_header().  That means that the template name will be in $session['templatename'].


EDIT: Fixed a couple of typos.
EDIT: Put the lib/ in to make it clear where pageparts.php lives.

[RaynDarren]

Awesomeness! Thanks so much Borris!


::EDIT::

The site I'm doing these skins for has an odd set up for the ftp.. infact, it's accessed through the cpannel. I cannot find the pageparts in the root directory. The only instance of it is in the lib folder. Any idea why?

[Afkamm]

Because that's where it lives. :-)

[Boris735]

Apologies for not making that clearer; I've adjusted the earlier post to prevent confusion from anyone who sees this later.  The file in question is, indeed, lib/pageparts.php.

[RaynDarren]

Well, don't I feel silly now, thanks!

[RaynDarren]

Apologies for bringing up an old thread. Boris's suggestion of altering lib/pageparts.php did not work. Unless I did it wrong that is. This is what I did:

Original code:
addcharstat("Vital Info");
      addcharstat("Name", $u['name']);
      addcharstat("Level", "`b".$u['level'].check_temp_stat("level",1)."`b");
      if ($u['alive']) {
         addcharstat("Hitpoints", $u['hitpoints'].check_temp_stat("hitpoints",1).
                           "`0/".$u['maxhitpoints'].check_temp_stat("maxhitpoints",1));
         addcharstat("Turns", $u['turns'].check_temp_stat("turns",1));
         addcharstat("Attack", $atk.check_temp_stat("attack",1));
         addcharstat("Defense", $def.check_temp_stat("defense",1));
      } else {
         $maxsoul = $u['level'] * 5 + 50;
         addcharstat("Soulpoints", $u['soulpoints'].check_temp_stat("soulpoints",1)."`0/".$maxsoul);
         addcharstat("Torments", $u['gravefights'].check_temp_stat("gravefights",1));
         addcharstat("Psyche", 10+round(($u['level']-1)*1.5));
         addcharstat("Spirit", 10+round(($u['level']-1)*1.5));
      }
      addcharstat("Spirits", translate_inline("`b".$spirits[(int)$u['spirits']]."`b"));
      if ($u['race'] != RACE_UNKNOWN) {
         addcharstat("Race", translate_inline($u['race'],"race"));
      }else {
         addcharstat("Race", translate_inline(RACE_UNKNOWN,"race"));
      }

Modified code:
addcharstat("Vital Info");
         addcharstat("Attack", $atk.check_temp_stat("attack",1));
         addcharstat("Defense", $def.check_temp_stat("defense",1));
      if ($u['alive']) {
         addcharstat("Hitpoints", $u['hitpoints'].check_temp_stat("hitpoints",1).
                           "`0/".$u['maxhitpoints'].check_temp_stat("maxhitpoints",1));
         addcharstat("Turns", $u['turns'].check_temp_stat("turns",1));
      } else {
         $maxsoul = $u['level'] * 5 + 50;
         addcharstat("Soulpoints", $u['soulpoints'].check_temp_stat("soulpoints",1)."`0/".$maxsoul);
         addcharstat("Torments", $u['gravefights'].check_temp_stat("gravefights",1));
         addcharstat("Psyche", 10+round(($u['level']-1)*1.5));
         addcharstat("Spirit", 10+round(($u['level']-1)*1.5));
      }
      addcharstat("Name", $u['name']);
      addcharstat("Level", "`b".$u['level'].check_temp_stat("level",1)."`b");
      addcharstat("Spirits", translate_inline("`b".$spirits[(int)$u['spirits']]."`b"));
      if ($u['race'] != RACE_UNKNOWN) {
         addcharstat("Race", translate_inline($u['race'],"race"));
      }else {
         addcharstat("Race", translate_inline(RACE_UNKNOWN,"race"));
      }

The lines did not move, the template did not change. Help?

URL for viewing: http://www.dragonsofmyth.com/test/home.php?

Thanks,
~Rayn

[Boris735]

Do you have a module installed that already hooks into the charstats and reorganises them?  That seems to be the only way that your changes could be ignored like this.  The other option, of course, is that the modified file has not ended up in the right place; a possible check for that would be to add a completely new charstat and see if it shows up or not.

[RaynDarren]

Fixed! Had it in the wrong place. ~blush~.

Now, this alters all templates, is there a way to alter only selected ones?

[Boris735]

You'd have to push template-specific layout logic into code somewhere, whether you do that in lib/pageparts.php or a module.

[RaynDarren]

I haven't the faintest idea how to do that. I'm assuming it isn't as simple as pulling a pref from somewhere?

[ArthuruhtrA]

No, you have to write code on a low-priority hook to charstats that changes the order of the $charstats_info array within a conditional operating on the value of $session['templatename'] as previously stated by Boris.

[RaynDarren]

So a priority of 10 would be low enough?

Would this work:

$session ['grass'], || ['gold'], || ['darkforest']

[ArthuruhtrA]

I don't know what would be low enough. I might go a little lower just to be safe, but I doubt anything else is under 10... so 9 is probably safe.
As for that code, I'm not sure what it's supposed to do. Whatever it is, it won't do it.

[RaynDarren]

Alrighty, will try 9 then

Those are the three templates that would have the alterd charstats. I misunderstood, I thought 'templatename' was replaced with the name of the template. Since they are the same layout for charastats for those three, I'd hoped they could be called all at once.