Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Stylevar Search

Frustrated using the Stylevar interface, I wrote a quick interface that allows admins to do the following:

• View updated stylevars for the style (including stylevars updated in parent styles)
• Search for stylevar by type (background, border, color, etc.)
• Search for stylevar by value (see the note about this below)
• Select multiple stylevars for editing
• Revert multiple stylevars at a time

My idea was to create a stopgap until VBulletin 4.1 is released to still allow me to quickly and efficiently modify the style for my site.

Search by value was one of the key things I wanted to do. Unfortunately, the raw stylevar definitions are not stored, instead it's stored in the database as a serialized PHP array. As I didn't want to unpackage all the stylevars to do a simple search, I cheated. This means that searching for an integer will likely fail (searching for colors, images and strings should work).

Installation is simple. Import the xml file product-asp_de_stylevarsearch.xml, then copy the files up in their packaged directories. Likewise, to uninstall the product, uninstall it, and remove the files:

includes/xml/cpnav_vbstylevarsearch.xml
admincp/searchstylevar.php

Hope you find it useful.

Changelog
.01 - Initial Version
.02 - Updated to fix implode error when variable was null
.03 - Updated search to search for both the lower and upper case version of the value search.
.5 - Updated search to search both hexidecimal and RGB values. Additionally, I'm taking into account the shortcut hexidecimal notation. For example, searches for #FFF will also search #FFFFFF and (255,255,255), along with the lower case versions of these values.
.6 - Fixed "headers already sent" bug

[Neo_obs]

I am getting this error when trying to update stylevars (multiple and single selections)

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/xxxxx/public_html/forum/includes/adminfunctions.php:285) in /home/xxxxx/public_html/forum/admincp/searchstylevar.php on line 302

[Dead Eddie]

Originally Posted by Neo_obs

I am getting this error when trying to update stylevars (multiple and single selections)


Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/xxxxx/public_html/forum/includes/adminfunctions.php:285) in /home/xxxxx/public_html/forum/admincp/searchstylevar.php on line 302

I took a quick look, and I think I see what the issue is. Didn't quite see why it's only happening under certain circumstances, but I think I should be able to have it fixed/tested this afternoon.

[Dead Eddie]

It looks like I've resolved the "Headers already sent" issue. Let me know if you're still seeing it.

[Neo_obs]

Awesome, they are fixed.

One thing that would be awesome to add, a select all button at the bottom next to reset and revert.

[Hippy]

something vb4 seems to be missing .. thanks

[Merjawy]

very nice indeed

makes life a bit well,, lets just say fun

Thanks

[punchbowl]

I don't think we can search stylevars by value in 4.1? We have

Show Only Customized StyleVars

now though.