Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Fix-it: Template Edition

A common method of defacing vBulletin sites is to edit the parsed template html directly via the database. It makes it harder for administrators to find the issue, and can be a pain in the ass to cleanup if you're not familiar with working with the database.

This tool will make it easier to clean your defaced site.

What it does:
Checks all of the templates in the database:
- Makes a new compiled version from the uncompiled template.
- Compares the current compiled template to the new compiled template
- If they differ, it updates the template, then rebuilds all of the styles.

How do you use it?
- Upload to your admincp, modcp, install, or root forums folder
- Browse to it
- Let it run
- Delete tool_recompiler.php after you are done using it.

This tool now works on vB3 and vB4.

vB4 Thread

[choccyclaire]

So if no results came back, this means everything was fine?

EDIT: Nvm this was answered on page one. Thanks.

[linuxututs]

Isn't this tool good for refreshing all templates to ?
Sorta like purging the cache ?

Thank You,

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by linuxututs

Isn't this tool good for refreshing all templates to ?
Sorta like purging the cache ?

Thank You,

No, its designed to fix defaced websites.

[Skydiver10]

This fixed the malicious code that was put on my forumhome template by a hacker! This is a great tool!! Thank you so much! The hacker redirected my forum page to some stupid Turkish, Israel forum....my home page is back!!!

[Simon Lloyd]

This might seem like an inane question but, if i have changed one of my vbulletin php files like functions_databuild.php (i added a small amount of code to parse VBA code tags) if i run this file will it reset any edits ive made to these files?

[Link14716]

This doesn't touch files. It simply recompiles templates from the code you see in the Admin CP into the code that is actually ran when it is displayed in the forums.

[Simon Lloyd]

Wow, speedy response! thanks for that.

Matthew if you do paid work or Zachery for that matter then please PM me or email simonDOTlloydATthecodecage.com

[imedic]

I guess it should be included in vb script, as you never can be secure enough.
A good idea would be to run on a regular basis as a cron job ...
Many thanks

[Harley D]

Thank You!
I hope I wont need it, but I have it just in case.

[Gav-n-Tn]

Will this still allow you to revert templates back to vB stock as you currently can? Even if you've changed them? Not that I would want to but........... (reserved.waiting on reply)