Making custom templates into standard templates

[Ninth Dimension]

Hi, I've been away doing other things for a while, but I'm finally back in the vB hacking scene and already deep in a project.

This project is named vBAS and stands for 'vB Article System', basically a system which you can use to publish articles (such as reviews/tutorials/stories/whatever) within your vB system. Although I'm not 100% sure yet, this may well be due for release (vB2 only I'm sorry to say, I'm not touching vB3 for a while yet).

Anyway, I have a question that I'm hoping someone can help me with, what do I need to do in the database to make vB think a template is a standard template, and not a custom one?

I know part of it involves adding a line to admin/template.php (e.g. "$only['home'] = 'Home Page';" - as in the case of vBhome Lite). but I also know it requires a tweak to the template database, only I don't know what...

If someone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thank You.

[Xenon]

all you have to do is to make sure the templatesetid is -1
then it'S regarded as global :)

[Ninth Dimension]

That's easy enough - thanx for the tip, how does the 'revert to original template' system work then? I guess that when you edit the template it makes a new copy of it with a new 'templatesetid' id (relating to the template set?)

This is all very cleaver stuff ya know :)

[Xenon]

it will just be a global template then, so editing will just work in the current style (or you edit the global template itself while you are in debug mode)

also a warning: whenever you update vb, all global templates are overwritten

[Ninth Dimension]

Thanks for the info, very helpful.

[Xenon]

you're welcome