Show votes in article header along with author, date etc

[bdam]

I know if I override content\info_block\block.php I can control a bunch of fields, and to make them appear I do something along the lines of echo JLayoutHelper::render('joomla.content.info_block.author', $displayData);

What I'm trying to do is get the article votes to appear here. it's actually a 3rd party one I'm using which just shows stars, but it's a direct replacement for the default one. I understand they are both implemented as plugins and am guessing that's why I'm having a hard time finding the actual line to invoke them. So if anyone knows what I'd need to add into this block.php to make them appear I'd really appreciate it, thanks.

[effrit]

standard vote plugin add its content before or after main content via onContentBeforeDisplay, onContentAfterDisplay events.

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\plugins\content\vote\vote.php

this string do the trick.

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$html .= ob_get_clean();

so to customize, you must store somehow ob_get_clean() data or make regular replacement it your template

for example
replace original string i mentioned to

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$params->votte = ob_get_clean();

then in article template you can do

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echo $params->votte;

[bdam]

I tried using ob_get_clean(); in block.php but it totally screwed the whole site up! I must admit I don't really understand how this is supposed to fit in.

[effrit]

logic is simple:
in
\plugins\content\vote\vote.php
you store code in $params->votte
read how ob_get_clean() works in php

and in article template you just draw it by
echo $params->votte;

[bdam]

OK thank you I have made some progress. I have seen the line which constructs the html in the source:

$html .= $this->plgContentExtraVoteStars( $this->article_id, $rating_sum, $rating_count, $article->xid, $ip );

So how do I add this instead to $params? I mean, where you just said "you store code in $params->votte" I can't get the syntax right to do that - what is the line please?

Btw I am working with the 3rd party ExtraVote now directly.

[effrit]

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$params->votte = $this->plgContentExtraVoteStars( $this->article_id, $rating_sum, $rating_count, $article->xid, $ip );

[bdam]

Hey thanks - I am so close now!
Remember I am working in bock.php.
In that file, if I do

echo $params->votte;

I get crash with undefined variable prams

But I see elsewhere in that file many refs to for example

$displayData['params']->get('show_parent_category')

So I then try

echo $displayData['params']->get('votte')

But it comes out blank however, if I do

var_dump($displayData['params']);

I see the stars - here's the end of the dump, you'll see "1 1 1 1" where I see star icons

["robots"]=> NULL ["access-view"]=> bool(true) } ["initialized":protected]=> bool(true) ["separator"]=> string(1) "." ["votte"]=> string(2106) "
51 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
" }

It looks like it has passed the html over but I just now need to know how to get it & I'm done!

[effrit]

i an not programmer so its hard for me too )
maybe

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$displayData['params']->votte;

[bdam]

Yay! It works. Thank you x 1 million. I learned a lot there. !!!