Plugin question

[Mike]

I'm trying to make a plugin I can fill the fields up and it will show up in the mini affiliate table on home page.
Problem is that when I go to enter new values in, the old value are still there in settings. How do I get it to take new values?
(Keep in mind this is my first go at a plugin)

[Tim Camara]

Can you point me to which plugin on which forum you're talking about?

[Mike]

riccetts test site

It's my own it's called mini affiliate

[Tim Camara]

It appears you're using the wrong variables. It should be $[plugin.settings.blocks.user_site] instead of $[plugin.settings.user_site] (and same for user_mini).

[Mike]

Tim Camara
Can you look at it again I may have screwed it up! Also tell me what the blocks do.

[Tim Camara]

Blocks is just the name of your variable. Since blocks is an autoform, you can't access it like you would any other variable, it's an array. Try accessing it in a loop, rather than directly.

[Mike]

Tim Camara
Did you take look? It's no doing anything but showing the table. I change the variables in the table like you said.

[Tim Camara]

First, you can delete everything you've added to the javascript component. Those lines aren't doing anything. Second, your variables are still incorrect in your footer. You have 'block' instead of 'blocks'. If you're having trouble getting the variable string correct, you can always use the 'Insert' button on the right side. Third, you're still attempting to access the blocks variables directly. This will not work. $[plugin.settings.blocks.user_mini] does not refer to a single value. It refers to an array of values, one item for each item in your autoform. You'll notice that that variable outputs the current length of your autoform, which in this case, happens to be 1. You'll need to loop through all the entries of your autoform, printing them each out individually. You can use a {foreach} loop to do this.

[Mike]

Tim Camara
Where do I put the loop? In the footer?

[Mike]

bump

[Tim Camara]

What have you tried?

[Mike]

I tried in the footer and no results. I got rid of everything on the java. I'm trying to learn and I'm hands on really so I learn as I actually do the coding.

[Mike]

bump

[Tim Camara]

Unless I'm blind, that plugin has disappeared.

[Mike]

Sorry Tim,


<center>
<div class="container affiliate" style="width:200px"'"background-color:red" >

<div class="title-bar" ><center><h2>Affiliates</h2></center></div>
<div class="content">
<marquee onmouseover="this.stop()" onmouseout="this.start()" scrollamount="3" direction= "up" width="100px" height="50%">
<center><a href="http://healthsense.proboards.com"><img src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/94761670/mini.png"></center><br>
<center><a href="http://nicetomeet.proboards.com"><img src="http://i64./h166/toetapping/icons%20for%20FF/27aa.gif"></center><br>
<center><a href="http://interoceandesigns.com"><img src="http://vegasfoxxgfx.com/IOD/GOTS-Images/BG-Banner/GOTS-MiniBanner-3.png"></center><br>
</marquee>
</div>
</div>
</center>


Tim here's the code I want to use for my mini affiliate.
I want to know how to make the user interface variables show up in this code that I have above.
I have the concept of how the user interface works but I don't know where to put the variables after that.

Can you help?