[HOW TO - vB4] Stylebridge vB3.8 -> vB 4.0
 

This article is for all coders, who want's a quick port of the mods into vB4.

What does this means ?
You can use you vB 3.8 templates in a vB 4.0 include the stylevars.
You need to change ALL the conditions and ALL vars.
This bridge is only for the style !

What must I do before starting ?
You need to create 2 new templates. I call 'em stylebridge.css and stylebridge_headinclude.



You can do this simply by importing the attached product (it will only create those two new templates).

• stylebridge.css
  this templates contais the new style for the templates (tcat, thead, alt1, alt2 ....)
• stylebridge_headinclude
  this is the original vB4 headinclude templates without reset-fonts.css and vbulletin.css and some other .css.

How to modify my mod (PHP) ?
Somewhere in you mod, you will find this line
The trick is now, to change the "headinclude".
Simply add below:
some Differencec/changes
If you are using class="page" inside a template, you should change it to: class="body_wrapper".
Also, there are two border classes: One for tcat and the other for thead.
Here comes an example:
Footnote:
Remember that this won't work for ALL mods.



This could be while:

• you're mod doesn't use "global.php"
• you are using vb3 and vb4 styles at the same time
• ... anything else

I've tested it with only one of my mods on a vB4 containing 4 different styles.

If you have any excitations, please let me know.
It would also be greatfully, if you gave me feedback how it works.

Regards
Coroner

EDIT: Fixed the Style when the CSS is stored as files

Another hint to get a great vb4 look is:
in the template stylebridge.css under:
.tborder, .tborder2, .tcat,. thead

add this:
and in a table set cellspacing to zero - like:
See image what you get.

It's great !!
Thank you :)

Very nice, I will try it in my new Mod. Rated 5 stars.

Yes, voted 5 stars !

Hello Coroner, congratulations for your article.
I am trying use it to update my style from 3.8 to 4.0 but I have problems with any parts of the forum, forumhome, forumdisplay, showthread..etc
I am testing it online here

Can you suggest me how to risolve these mistakes?

Thanks

interesting. informational as well. good job

Very interesting Coroner....seems like you've basically matched variables from the old vB3 CCS to the vB4 Stylevars, so that a mod relying on the old variables would instead be able to pull the correct ones from the new style system. Is that correct?

If so...is there any way you (or anyone else here for that matter) might be able to take this a step further, and make something that would allow us to automatically convert over our colour schemes from vB3 styles to the stylevars of vB4 styles? Looks like one might be able to do that simply using what you've got here, reading down stylebridge.xml as if it was a checklist, but it'd be a great relief to a low of us who have no coding skills to speak of whatever if that process could be automated. ^^;

so, what i'm getting from reading this description, is that you can take a mod made for vb 3.8, do the steps found above, and your mod will now be able to work on vb 4.0?

If thats true, could i get the gxboxlive mod to work on my vb 4.0.1 site? The author of that mod is saying he very likely wont be making the gxboxlive mod to work on the vb 4. ????

Thanks!!!!

@RollaJedi
Nope. You have to change the vars and phrases inside the templates. Also you need to change all the php scripts to vb4.

This is only the style. You can leave the 99 percent of templates (without vars and phrases).

@Mukashi:
Yes, thats absolutely correct.
You also need to implement - the two templates and the php script inside the mod.