Cross referencing plug-ins.

[Matt Jason H]

Any chance we could see this in later versions?

So you could use the {plugin} tag of a plug in in another plug in?

[Ted]

This is possible now, though it's sort of a hack. Smarty is pretty, well, smart.

Say you want to, I dunno, take the output from News and feed it into a custom plugin you wrote. You can do something like this:

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{capture assign=myoutput}{cms_module module='news'}{/capture}
{myplugin param=$myoutput}

Basically, this takes everything between the capture tags and puts it into the $myoutput variable. Then, you just feed this into your plugin as a parameter. Pretty simple, though sometimes it doesn't work right. We haven't tracked down why yet.