As I said previously, very good hack, another idea is to allow organized plugin / phrase modification from the file system. Maybe we can cooperate in developing this into a multi-purpose system?

this modification is not for the average joe, its for developers and people who know what it does without having to have had it explained.

Sorry, I missed this reply.

I have another version in development which has another level of abstraction to handle different 'items' (templates, phrases, etc.)

You can take that over if you'd like - I have it in my SVN repos. somewhere. I usually develop things just enough to suit my needs and then I'm swamped with work and don't progress it until months later.

See my repeated requests in the Private Coders Forum for a Private Coders Mods section. ;)

-- hugh

Well, I'm fairly savvy when it comes to these types of things and I find it absolutely confusing. I've followed what little directions there are... and I can't get it to generate the files. I never get errors, but it doesn't work either.

I'd be more than happy to join in on some joint dev work. I know Adrian is tired of me bugging him to add more features ...

-- hugh

How does one go about exporting vbulletin's templates to the filesystem with the CVS version? As it seems to be missing since the name change.

Also, does one set up a watch folder before starting to create a new product? Or after? Or do I have to do some process to output the templates to the filesystem?

Ummm... where does the folder need to be? in your forum root or includes?

does it import automagically?

I'm not the "average joe" thank you very much. I am a developer, I just don't develop vbulletin addons, etc 24/7. If this is supposed to be some sort of tool for the elite they way make it available to the public? Besides the so-called developers you speak of had to learn about how to use it at some point, right? How about sharing the love and share some info with some part time vbulletin developers?

Please? :D

Jim