Search and Replace

[hockyfan]

Hi,

got a quick ques, I'm new to this whole skinning system and i was wondering, the search option in the template area of the admin cp, how do i specify what template set i want to search and replace strings for? Cause there's no option and I have 3 template sets, and when i do do a search and replace it takes the wrong one. I need to do it like this cause the thing i need to replace is there in lotsa template files and would take ages to replace.....anyone got any ideas?

thnx in advance

[filburt1]

You can't without hacking.

[hockyfan]

oh hmmmm is there an existing hack that fixes this then? Or is there another way of replacing a string in all the templates without havin to manually go thru all of them? Thnx

[Tony G]

Search at vBulletin.org for any hacks, best place to ask is there.

[hockyfan]

k will do thnx

[hockyfan]

hmmmm, i've posted a msg there and it's been a day now and there's no response.......this seems like a very basic feature....and if there's no way around it i must say that vB lacks some of the most logical things :P.....anyone any idea how i can otherwise modify the templates without doing each replacement manually?

Thnx

[filburt1]

You can run a query (search MySQL's docs for the REPLACE function).

[hockyfan]

ok yea i'll try that, but what baffles me is how do people make skins if the search and replace function can't be confiured for a particular skin set? I mean, do people go thru each and every template and edit them manually then?

[filburt1]

Nobody uses the Search and Replace because it's too dangerous to mess up.

[hockyfan]

oh...ok so what is used then? How do u go about replicating a change consistenly thru all of the templates..?

[filburt1]

You just get it right the first time or use a single style set...