Groups for Custom Templates

I was getting my templates ready to upgrade to 2.2.2 and I came up with this idea. vbLinks set it's templates as part of the default set and needed to be changed over to custom templates.

the default templates are seperated into groups, but when you make a bunch of custom templates, wouldn't it be nice to have them be grouped as well? Anyway, it was really easy.

open template.php and scroll down to the "Start Modify" section

you'll see

$only['calendar'] = 'Calendar';
$only['emailsubject'] = 'Email Subject';
etc.

they are set up like this
$only['**begining of template title**'] = '**Group Title**';

name your template something like
links_firsttemplate
links_secondtempate

then with all the other $only[*] lines add
$only['links'] = 'vbLinks';

links is the begining of all the links templates and vbLinks is the title for the group of templates

maybe later I'll make a admin cp form to add the group titles but for now just add them to template.php


just making these changes would make the new groups show up under the default templates, but to make them appear in the custom section

find

PHP Code:

    while ($template=$DB_site->fetch_array($templates)) {
      if (!$donecustom) {
        $donecustom=1;
        echo "<b>Custom templates</b>";
      } 


right below it add

PHP Code:

      $under = 0;
      reset($only);
      while(list($text,$display)=each($only)) {
        if (strpos(" $template[title]", $text)==1) {
          $under = $display;
          $shortname = $text;
          break;
        }
      }

        if ($under) {
          if ($lastunder!=$under and $lastunder and $shrink) {
            echo "</ul></li>\n";
            $shrink = 0;
          }

          $lastunder = $under;
          if (!$shrink) {
            echo "<li><a name=\"".urlencode($shortname)."\"><b></a>$under Templates <a href=\"template.php?s=$session[sessionhash]&action=modify&expandset=$templateset[templatesetid]&group=".urlencode($shortname)."#".urlencode($shortname)."\">[expand]</a></b>\n<ul>\n";
          }
          $shrink = 1;
          if ($group!=$shortname and $group!="all") {
            continue;
          }
        } else {
          if ($shrink) {
            echo "</ul></li>\n";
          }
          $shrink = 0;
        } 


(I just grabed this from the default template section)

thats it. now your custom template will be grouped as well.

whats real nice is say you added some custom templates that should be grouped with the default ones like new error message, postbit, or getinfo templates, they will not only get grouped with that group name under custom templates, but when you expand the default postbit templates, the custom postbit templates will be expanded as well.


If I missed something let me know.

[gmarik]

And how about 2.3?
This is what would be good on vB3 too.

[S.Shady]

it worked fine on 2.3 but i added the fix by Jawelin and i was getting db errors. ill try again later.

the error with the miss align is still here though

[Red Blaze]

Wooow, so much cleaner. I love it, thanks alot for sharing this. ^___^