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Is there a way to pull out the value of a specific custom field when creating a custom template?

Thanks!

Thanks.  I'm not seeing how to access the template from the hook_civicrm_pageRun() hook.  The only argument provided to the function is $page, which has the following properties according to a print_r:

CRM_Event_Page_EventInfo Object
(
    [_name:protected] => CRM_Event_Page_EventInfo
    [_title:protected] => Event Information
    [_mode:protected] => null
    [_embedded:protected] =>
    [_print:protected] =>
    [_id] => 2
)


Thanks.  Also, is there a way to add plugins to CiviCRM's Smarty instance without dumping them in the Smarty plugins dir in Core?

For the future reference of others, here's a way to add a custom plugin directory without modifying any core code:

function yourmodule_civicrm_pageRun(&$page) {
$template = $page->getTemplate();
array_push($template->plugins_dir, 'path/to/custom/plugin/directory');
}

It's really not that exciting -- just a site that I'm building around someone else's excellent design, rather than trying to design around the software's default output.  It's also going to be maintained day-to-day by NGO staff who have low computer proficiency.

So, for instance, I need to display the event subtitle in a different font from the venue name and a different font than the description, and I don't trust the staff to consistently format those in a WYSIWYG editor, so I'm creating separate custom fields for them and have to pull each one separately and apply different markup to them.

Then we have a list of committee members, to be displayed in 4 columns, but the easiest way for the staff to input them is as a single chunk of text, one name per line.  I wrangled Smarty into splitting this up by line into a single array, but splitting the array into pieces and outputting them separately is something it can't do with the markup we need, unless I use a plugin.

I'm actually surprised some of these use cases don't come up more frequently.

EDIT: I've written this up briefly here -- don't know if it's in a good place.