vb.org Archive - Groups for Custom Templates

I was getting my templates ready to upgrade to 2.2.2 and I came up with this idea. vbLinks set it's templates as part of the default set and needed to be changed over to custom templates.

the default templates are seperated into groups, but when you make a bunch of custom templates, wouldn't it be nice to have them be grouped as well? Anyway, it was really easy.

open template.php and scroll down to the "Start Modify" section

you'll see

$only['calendar'] = 'Calendar';
$only['emailsubject'] = 'Email Subject';
etc.

they are set up like this
$only['**begining of template title**'] = '**Group Title**';

name your template something like
links_firsttemplate
links_secondtempate

then with all the other $only[*] lines add
$only['links'] = 'vbLinks';

links is the begining of all the links templates and vbLinks is the title for the group of templates

maybe later I'll make a admin cp form to add the group titles but for now just add them to template.php

just making these changes would make the new groups show up under the default templates, but to make them appear in the custom section

find

PHP Code:


		
			
    while ($template=$DB_site->fetch_array($templates)) {

      if (!$donecustom) {

        $donecustom=1;

        echo "<b>Custom templates</b>";

      }

right below it add

PHP Code:


		
			
      $under = 0;

      reset($only);

      while(list($text,$display)=each($only)) {

        if (strpos(" $template[title]", $text)==1) {

          $under = $display;

          $shortname = $text;

          break;

        }

      }



        if ($under) {

          if ($lastunder!=$under and $lastunder and $shrink) {

            echo "</ul></li>\n";

            $shrink = 0;

          }



          $lastunder = $under;

          if (!$shrink) {

            echo "<li><a name=\"".urlencode($shortname)."\"><b></a>$under Templates <a href=\"template.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=modify&expandset=$templateset[templatesetid]&group=".urlencode($shortname)."#".urlencode($shortname)."\">[expand]</a></b>\n<ul>\n";

          }

          $shrink = 1;

          if ($group!=$shortname and $group!="all") {

            continue;

          }

        } else {

          if ($shrink) {

            echo "</ul></li>\n";

          }

          $shrink = 0;

        }

(I just grabed this from the default template section)

thats it. now your custom template will be grouped as well.

whats real nice is say you added some custom templates that should be grouped with the default ones like new error message, postbit, or getinfo templates, they will not only get grouped with that group name under custom templates, but when you expand the default postbit templates, the custom postbit templates will be expanded as well.

If I missed something let me know.

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (2)bbcode_php_printable (2)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (2)pagenav_pagelink (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (10)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
Messages:

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Page Generation 0.01033 seconds
Memory Usage 1,755KB
Queries Executed 10 (?)

More Information

Template Usage:

(1)ad_footer_end
(1)ad_footer_start
(1)ad_header_end
(1)ad_header_logo
(1)ad_navbar_below
(2)bbcode_php_printable
(2)bbcode_quote_printable
(1)footer
(1)gobutton
(1)header
(1)headinclude
(6)option
(1)pagenav
(1)pagenav_curpage
(2)pagenav_pagelink
(1)post_thanks_navbar_search
(1)printthread
(10)printthreadbit
(1)spacer_close
(1)spacer_open

Phrase Groups Available:

global
postbit
showthread

Included Files:

./printthread.php
./global.php
./includes/init.php
./includes/class_core.php
./includes/config.php
./includes/functions.php
./includes/class_hook.php
./includes/modsystem_functions.php
./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php
./includes/class_bbcode.php
./includes/functions_bigthree.php

Hooks Called:

init_startup
init_startup_session_setup_start
init_startup_session_setup_complete
cache_permissions
fetch_threadinfo_query
fetch_threadinfo
fetch_foruminfo
style_fetch
cache_templates
global_start
parse_templates
global_setup_complete
printthread_start
pagenav_page
pagenav_complete
bbcode_fetch_tags
bbcode_create
bbcode_parse_start
bbcode_parse_complete_precache
bbcode_parse_complete
printthread_post
printthread_complete

Messages:

X vBulletin 3.8.12 by vBS Debug Information
Page Generation 0.01033 seconds Memory Usage 1,755KB Queries Executed 10 (?)
More Information
Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (2)bbcode_php_printable (2)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (2)pagenav_pagelink (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (10)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
Messages: