Making custom templates into standard templates
 

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.

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

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 :)

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

Thanks for the info, very helpful.

you're welcome