setOption in plugin, placeholder not working

Hey,

I have a plugin which includes a configuration file and what it should do is set systems settings according to these configurations.

Simply looks like this:



Now, from within any snippet I can call



However, I cannot use the placeholder



Just does not work, which means it is empty. I think I did not choose the right system event to register these placeholders. Which one do I choose?

Thanks
Chris

I'd like to know the answer to this too, have had similar issues and resorted to using a snippet to output the setting:

[ [myOption]]


Calling the placeholder uncached does not make any difference:

Hey Lucas

moreover, even does not work...

Did you use a placeholder tag (rather than a system setting tag) when trying it with setPlaceholder()?



My guess is that when settings tags are parsed, the value is pulled directly from the DB, which isn't modified by setOption(), though setPlaceholder() really should work.

System/Context/User Settings are configuration and are not really meant to be modified programmatically in real time as far as the parser is concerned. The settings are set as placeholders very early in the process, but BobRay is correct, if you overwrite the setting (which is prefixed with a single +, thus the two ++'s when referencing System Settings as placeholders) with:



it should work fine, so long as it is not cached into cacheable content.

Cool idea. I hadn't thought of doing it that way, but to be clear, with OpenGeek's method:



I was suggesting this: