CB Auto Actions

If not even null is output then your action probably isn't firing. It also depends on the trigger used. Trying to output in the middle of a operation is going to do nothing (for example if you try to output during login, it will never be seen). Try an on after profile display trigger or some other display based trigger that can actually show something.

1. How am I supposed to access a variable from a triggers function? I want to access it, manipulate it and return it.

You can't modify a trigger variable by reference. You can substitute in a trigger variable using [var1-10] as explained in the description and above.

2. How am I supposed to use substitutions within PHP code?

I've already explained this. Please read my above replies carefully. You use them as strings.

You can see this usage working perfectly fine below.

Action:

Result:

krileon wrote: If not even null is output then your action probably isn't firing. It also depends on the trigger used. Trying to output in the middle of a operation is going to do nothing (for example if you try to output during login, it will never be seen). Try an on after profile display trigger or some other display based trigger that can actually show something.

1. How am I supposed to access a variable from a triggers function? I want to access it, manipulate it and return it.

You can't modify a trigger variable by reference. You can substitute in a trigger variable using [var1-10] as explained in the description and above.

2. How am I supposed to use substitutions within PHP code?

I've already explained this. Please read my above replies carefully. You use them as strings.

You can see this usage working perfectly fine below.

Action:

Result:

Actually I am using the onBeforeDisplayUsersList trigger. And I have set it up exactly like in your picture.
However the output I get is: Code Action: [username]

So it is still not working. As code I have:

I don't know what to tell you then. It works fine in all my tests. Maybe you've something conflicting. Enable debug mode and maximum error reporting in Joomla global configuration and see if any fatal errors are occurring during your test. Try double quotes instead of single quotes and see if that makes any difference (shouldn't).

And here is my output on a fresh Joomla 2.14. installation witb CB 1.9. Something is not right.







You can see that the user is logged in and still it does not display his name by using substitution.

This entire time I though you were using the same trigger as me, which displays on profile and not userlist. Sorry for the confusion!

That's working entirely as expected for that trigger. That trigger does not have a user object. Set "User" to "User" and it'll work as it'll force the user object to the viewing user.

But when I am using [var4] as substitution it is not working either. When I put [var4] instead of [username] isn´t it supposed to output the variable?