No need to go on the defensive. It was a rhetorical question.
I appreciate anyone reporting their findings, it has been helpful. Thank you.
Hmm...
Just tried it again, still works for me too.
Code:
/<xen:if is="{\$birthdays}">(.*?)<\/xen:if>/is
You won't directly see this code in your template, but what this is doing is it's saying:
Find <xen:if is="{$birthdays}"> whatever the hell is after it, up until </xen:if>
The reason it's more ideal to do it like that, is because we cannot always guarantee - as a loose example - that the contents of the birthdays block will be the same. For example, someone could use a template modification or even manual template edit to change the birthdays block to be a list of names rather than a heap of avatars.
If my template modification tries to find this:
Code:
<xen:if is="{$birthdays}">
<div class="section">
<div class="secondaryContent avatarHeap">
<h3>{xen:phrase todays_birthdays}</h3>
<ol>
<xen:foreach loop="$birthdays" value="$user">
<li><xen:avatar user="$user" size="s" text="{$user.username}" class="Tooltip" title="{$user.username}" /></li>
</xen:foreach>
</ol>
</div>
</div>
</xen:if>
And replace it (or add on to) with my block of code, I can't guarantee that birthdays block will always contain that code and can't guarantee my add-on will work in all cases. Regular expressions is one way I can solve that... Ok ok ok, it doesn't seem to be working for everyone right now but all I have to say about that is
