PLS Hard Install Template Wizard

Introduction:
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Do you have 7 styles and the instructions to a hack you are installing only allow you to do one at a time?
Tired of having to keep track of changes over your 7 styles, and wish that you only had to edit one of the custom templates you added?
---OR EVEN---
Do you want a backup that you can just run by itself without requiring you to manually run a dozen programs, and follow vague instructions?
Are you a hack writer and give up on writing installers for your templates, because the vbulletin template system is so messy?

Well, now with the PLS Hard Install Template Wizard, you can manage all of these things quickly and easily.
The Press function allows you to make any custom template/edited template one of the templates in the master set, cleaning up your template system, and quickly passing on changes to your templates to all of your styles at once, and they become more permanant, allowing you to revert back to the state you Press it to, even if you do more edits.
The Lift function will take the templates that you select and render a new php file, which you can run by itself to install those templates to the master set for backup. If you write hacks, you can create your templates live and then this wizard will automatically create template installers from them, you can just toss the file it creates in with the rest of the installation files for your hack, and the templates will be installed to the master set, which is far more convenient for your clients.

Installation is quick, just place this one file into your admincp folder, and edit the index if you want a link to it.
If you do use the Stick files in your hack installer, just don't edit out the credit line to me.
If you use this hack, do click install so you will be alerted to updates should you need anything.
As with all of my hacks, I am willing to help with any problem you might encounter, and entertain any suggestion, since I usually take awhile to believe I'm done with a hack myself!

Update v3.1.2:
--Main:
Cleaner files, less security loops
Error message on empty selections
Clearer and cleaner instructions
Better Navigation
Screenshots (Attachment: pls_screens.zip)
--Pressing:
Removed edit links from list, security issue
Error message on Master Set Pressing attempt
Press confirmation requirement
Option to delete custom templates from selected styles or all styles
--Lifting:
Download now on blank screen, static issues
Support for version data
--Sticking:
More visually appealing
Cleaner and smaller files, less security issues
Stick confirmation requirement
Removed delete routine, now message advising revert
Flat queries, instead of one per template

Upgrade Instructions:
Upload new pls_admin.php file to admincp folder
Any previously created Stick files will still work

Future Features:
Checkall Box
Phrasing Support

[emtee]

You need to fix your zip files man. Bad zip files...

[tp214]

yeah totally bad, dont even work

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Files download ok for me, also no problem opening them in WinZip.

[Darkwaltz4]

Downloads have, and continue, to both download, unzip, and very easily install for me, i dont know what is wrong with regards to that

khaleel: the problem was a bunch of table prefix things, which i fixed with the new file up there, so just slap that in place of the old one,thats all you have to do to fix it

[emtee]

Open using Winzip 9. It says error, go to http://www.winzip.com/zip20.htm

I went there and it says:

Unsupported Zip format

If you have been directed to this web page, it may be that you are running an older version of WinZip. The current release is WinZip 9.0. All registered users can download a free upgrade. If you have not registered, you can click here to download a fully functional evaluation version.

WinZip supports the Zip 2.0 standard file format, which is the specification used by the vast majority of applications on the market that process Zip files. Some older versions of WinZip, however, may not support recent changes and enhancements to the Zip file format. The current release of WinZip, WinZip 9.0, supports many changes to the Zip file format that had been documented at the time WinZip 9.0 was released.

You can determine the installed release of WinZip by clicking the About button in the initial WinZip Wizard panel, or by clicking the About WinZip item on the Help menu in the WinZip Classic interface.

You need to use a new version of WinZip, man. I even use WinRAR to try to open it, but still, errors occur.

MarcoH64, what version of WinZip do you use???

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Winzip 9 (6028)

[emtee]

Ok I downloaded WinZip 9 and it can extract the file. Your zip files are not compatible with WinZip 8!!! Thanks MarcoH64

[mholtum]

Originally Posted by floris

Sorry for being dumb as I didn't try the hack yet.

Doesn't vBulletin do this in default?

Master style : drop down > add template > adds to all templates.

parent style : edit a template > inherits to all child template.

I have found that generally it does. I have had numerous instances where this did not happen and I had to modify a few templates in multiple styles.

However, I no longer use multiple skins..

[nfe]

Intrested in how i can use the stick file created to make it easier for me to install all my custom templates again ?

[Darkwaltz4]

Khaleel: you appear to not have a template table (or your config file does not have the prefix listed as the one you are using. How my page could be the only one giving you this error I have no clue, although I'm sure youve fixed this by now :-p

nfe: Easy, just run it, select Lift after selecting the style your custom templates are on, and if you run the resulting stick file, it will hard-install them on whatever its run on (by itself, which is the beauty of it, absolutely nothing to install for the person who runs a stick file)

so select your custom templates, and save the stick file for the future. this seems for me best for when doing hacks, as i can make a template-install system which saves even the 'last edited by Darkwaltz4 on July 30, 2005' message :-p also, for when i fiddle with a hack on my test site, and then decide its time for upgrades, i select the templates that changed, make a stick file, and it becomes the template installer for the upgrade script. then i press those custom files, and then take a new stick file of all of them, and i have a template install script for the new version.

for a good example of where i used this (and i recommend you use this for your own hacks [at least for 3.0] in the same way):
My vBTripleTriad Hack