registerEvent

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Registers a handler to a particular event group. This method is used to attach an event handler object or function to a particular event.

Syntax

void registerEvent ( $event, $handler )

$event	string	is a string containing the name of the event to which to register the handler.
$handler	string	is a string containing the name of the function that contains the handler, or the name of an object that extends the JObserver class (i.e. a JPlugin object).

The ‘vote’ plugin calls this method as follows (this code is not called from within a function so the $mainframe object is in scope:

Example

$mainframe->registerEvent( 'onBeforeDisplayContent', 'pluginVote' );