Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Template Modification System

Template Modification System
Description
This modification allows easy management of template modifications.
Hack authors can define the necessary template modifications for their products.
When exporting a product, all template modifications assigned to this product
in MASTER style will be embedded into the product XML and imported on the
end-user vBulletin installation automatically if TMS is available.
Alternatively, it is also possible to create separate XML files for template modifications.
This way, 3rd parties can provide Template-Modification XML files for existing hacks.
Hack authors can also export standard template modification instructions as
textfiles to package them with their hacks, which allows users that do not
have TMS to also install them

In case the author defined modifications do not work (eg. the user uses a custom style),
the users can easily customize the modifications for their style(s).

TMS modified templates transparently, e.g. all Templates can still be modified
manually in style manager - they will appear unchanged there.


System Requirements
This Modification requires MySQL 4.1 or higher - it does not work with MySQL 4.0!
If you use MySQL 4.1 series, MySQL 4.1.10 or higher is required
If you use MySQL 5.0 series, MySQL 5.0.3 or higher is required
TMS 1.2.0 Beta 1 or higher requires vBulletin 4.1.5 or higher

vBulletin Compatibility
Versions up to and including 1.1.5 are compatible with vBulletin 3.6.X, 3.7.X and 3.8.X
Version 1.1.5 is partly compatible with vBulletin 4.0.X and 4.1.X
Version 1.2.0 Beta 1 or higher is compatible with vBulletin 4.1.5 or higher
vBulletin 4.1.11 or higher is currently not fully supported by TMS. If you use this version please apply the following patch: tms_patch120b4.zip

Branding:
Please note that TMS puts a small branding/copyright notice in footer - see readme.txt for further details.

Version History
1.2.0 Beta 4

• Bugfix: Database error when trying to add a template modification (this bug was introduced in TMS 1.2.0 Beta 3)

1.2.0 Beta 3

• Changed: Converted hardcoded text to phrases
• New Feature: Added doubleclick for editing style variables
• Bugfix: Database error when trying to add a template modification with an existing varname to a different style
• Changed: Fixed formatting of templateedits.php
• Bugfix: Fixed erors when manually modifying a template with template modifications

1.2.0 Beta 2

• Bugfix: Fixed errors in style variable editing code

1.2.0 Beta 1

• Changed: Ported to vBulletin 4.1
• New Feature: If an error occurs while trying to compile a template this error is now being disaplayed when trying to save the template modification
• New Feature: Styles variables used in templates can be edited via AJAX from the modify template screen

1.1.5

• Fixed Bug: Fixed incorrect variable type
• New Feature: Box 'Template-Modifications' (shown on editing a template) can now be collapsed/expanded

1.1.4

• Fixed Bug: Fixed HTML error/XSS in Template Modifications Manager

1.1.3

• Fixed Bug: Added missing phrase on ACP home

1.1.1

• Fixed Bug: Fixed Error with conflicting Template Modifications when importing a product
• Fixed Bug: Removed Pre-Selection of processing mode when adding new modifications
• Fixed Bug: Fixed Bug with zlib.output_compression AND vBulletin internal gzip being both turned on
• Fixed Bug: Display search results correctly
• Fixed Bug: Added missing phrase 'varname_x_already_exists'
• New Feature: Automatically rebuild template modifications after vBulletin Upgrade

1.0.0

• Changed: Several files renamed
• Fixed Bug: Fixed incorrect handling of product ids that contain only numbers
• New Feature: Search text can be search in template when editing a Template-Modification in Style Manager
• Changed: Multiple Template-Modifications can be loaded via AJAX
• First Release on vBulletin.org

1.0.0 RC 1

• Fixed Bug: All Bugs reported for Beta 4 have been fixed
• Changed: Display of modified Templates with HTML comments has been modified
• Changed: Debug-Mode is no longer required
• New Feature: It is now possible to export/import style-specific Template-Modifications

1.0.0 Beta 4

• Fixed Bug: All Bugs reported for Beta 3 have been fixed
• Changed: Sorting in Template Modifications Manager has been changed
• New Feature: When adding or editing a Template-Modification, the Template can now be displayed and searched via AJAX
• Changed: When exporting as Text, the original instructions (eg. insert below/above) are retained
• New Feature: It is now possible to test each Template-Modification
• New Feature: Testing improved. It is now being display if a Template is OK after applying a Template Modification
• New Feature: When editing a Template, it is possible to activate/deactvate multiple Template-Modifications
• New Feature: Template-Modifications can now also be exported and tested from withing Product Manager
• New Feature: Function to display a template with all Modifications applied.
  This function can also display embedded comments to make it easier to identify changed parts

1.0.0 Beta 3

• Fixed Bug: All Bugs reported for Beta 2 have been fixed
• New Feature: Simplified adding Template-Modifications by allowing to select how to handle replacement text (eg. replace or insert above/below)
• New Feature: Each Template-Modification can now be disabled
• Changed: Testing Template-Modifications has been reworked:
  Column ordering can now be set through vBulletin Options; column headers are clickable to sort results
  Output has been separated by styles
  It is now possible to test only selcted products
• New Feature: TMS now integrates with 'Style Manager' and 'Product Manager'
• New Feature: The language can be selected when exporting Template-Modifications
• New Feature: Weh TMS gets deactivated, all Template-Modifications will be deactivated too
• New Feature: Display of Template-Modifications while editing a Template in Style Manager has been improved:
  It is now being display if a Template-Modification could be applied
  Template-Modifications can be edited via AJAX

1.0.0 Beta 2
First public Beta

[Delphiprogrammi]

Originally Posted by ragtek

[ot]ja, gibt es!sobald das neue offizielle deutsche hackboard online geht, "bin ich mir sicher"/(wissen kann mans ja nie) das andreas den dort auch wieder reinstellt[/ot]

english only in here

[Centrix]

These days the readme says "in navbar, search:" but for all the templates I had so far it was not found in Navbar, but Header....

I think this mod is good for new people

[Elenna]

This sounds like a god-send, thanks ever so much!

Just one teeny question... when I do an upgrade, and the templates are not upgraded, would it be best-practice to revert those templates (to get the official updates) and then have TMS do its thing? I'm sure that this is a very newbie question, but I've never done a vBulletin upgrade before, and would love to take this mod through its paces and give an upgrade a try!

[AzzidReign]

Here's what I've done. I've taken a look at all my template modifications and compared them to the default template. Figure out where the edits go, and add them to TMS, but keep them disabled. If you are doing this for your whole skin, then what I did was copied the skin so that I can have a new and old skin, reverted all the templates on the new, closed the board, enabled all the TMS edits, then checked to see if the edits were working properly on the board. If they are, open your board with the "new" skin as your default and disable the old skin.

[Magnumutz]

Question: I used TMS to modify the templates for vBCredits... and i was unsatisfied on how it edited, and now i want to delete the modifications on the templates, but it won't remove them. WHAT do i do?

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by Delphiprogrammi

also read readme.txt there is some info that migt become usefull ...

Yes, I emailed andreas to inquire for options to get rid of the branding, but got no reply at all.

[ringleader]

Originally Posted by Magnumutz

Question: I used TMS to modify the templates for vBCredits... and i was unsatisfied on how it edited, and now i want to delete the modifications on the templates, but it won't remove them. WHAT do i do?

Revert the template edit in the TMS admin screen.
This will stop the edit set through TMS being carried out.

[evesve]

Originally Posted by ringleader

Just to let you know, it's working for me with mySQL v4.0.26-standard.

The only thing is I keep getting this error:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1984105 bytes) in [MyPath]/includes/adminfunctions_templateedits.php on line 970

I'll put up with having to come up with workarounds for this to keep this fantastic mod, however!

Andreas,

Originally Posted by Delphiprogrammi

That error has nothing todo with tms that's caused by your PHP configuration increase your memory limit in php.ini (root access requirerd or you can't do this)

Originally Posted by ringleader

Ah grand so. I'll try that.

It just keeps coming up in relation to TMS, like when adding/editing modifications in certain templates:

Updating Template-Modifications for Stye 'MASTER' and its Child-Styles ...

    * MASTER ... (Templateedit-IDs)
      Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1984105 bytes) in [mypath]/includes/adminfunctions_templateedits.php on line 970

I have same error...only together with TMS.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 20971520 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 24617813 bytes) in /hsphere/local/home/xxxxx/xxxxxx.xx/vbforum/includes/adminfunctions_templateedits.php on line 970

Where can I find how to do? Do I have to contact the Webserver support? (I cant find any php.ini)


If I try yo uninstall TSM what happans to my modification (OK, I have only one, ibproarcade)

[Alfa1]

Ah, that's where it comes from. I keep getting the same error as well. I never had that before I installed TMS.
I have lots of modifications, lots of members, lots of traffic. So I should have seen this before if it wasn't caused by TMS.

[JokeAss]

This mod is really a gift from heaven..

Whenever I install a mod, instaed of changing the templates, I make a set of template mods. Upgrades propably go beautifully