Call TYPO3 plugin from other plugin's body

Question

I need to call typo3 plugin from other plugin's body and pass its result to template. This is pseudo-code that describes what I want to achieve doing this:

$data['###SOME_VARIABLE###'] = $someOtherPlugin->main();
$this->cObj->substituteMarkerArray($someTemplate, $data);

Is it possible?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You should use t3lib_div:makeInstance method.

There is a working example from TYPO3's "powermail" extension.

function getGeo() {
    // use geo ip if loaded
    if (t3lib_extMgm::isLoaded('geoip')) {
        require_once( t3lib_extMgm::extPath('geoip').'/pi1/class.tx_geoip_pi1.php');
        $this->media = t3lib_div::makeInstance('tx_geoip_pi1');
        if ($this->conf['geoip.']['file']) { // only if file for geoip is set
            $this->media->init($this->conf['geoip.']['file']); // Initialize the geoip Ext
            $this->GEOinfos = $this->media->getGeoIP($this->ipOverride ? $this->ipOverride : t3lib_div::getIndpEnv('REMOTE_ADDR')); // get all the infos of current user ip
        }
    }

}