Plugins are held inside Swift by-reference and you can get a reference to that plugin yourself by using the getPlugin() method. When you load a plugin into Swift you need to give it a name. You use that name to retreive a reference to it. This comes in particularly useful when you want to run methods in a plugin at runtime.
$swift->attachPlugin(new Swift_Plugin_Example(), "Example"); //do some other stuff if you want $swift->send( ... ); //Do something with the plugin $swift->getPlugin("Example")->doSomething();
NOTE: In PHP4 you cannot call a method from an object returned from a function/method directly. In this case you first need to assign the plugin instance to a variable. It’s critical that you use the reference operator here otherwise the return plugin instance will be a copy of the original and any changes you make to it will not be seen inside Swift.
//Do something with the plugin $plugin =& $swift->getPlugin("Example"); $plugin->doSomething();