Major Additions - Innovative Template Manager

Innovative Template Manager

*Originally developed by Dream (View Modification) marked as Re-Usable code.

I love this modification and adjusting multiple styles that are not a "child-style" is made super easy using it!

This modification allows you to do the following:

• Import / Export standard and custom vBulletin templates, single, multiple.
• Copy multiple templates to multiple styles.
• Delete multiple templates from multiple styles.
• Save multiple templates in template history.
• View Template History including between version changes.

Some may never use this as others do, it depends on how often you customize your site imo and how many styles you have. For someone like me who designs styles it's actually quite a useful tool and I would assume for those who love adding in new styles for their members or mods for that matter that they customize afterwords would love it as well.

*Think of it this way, if you add a new mod in that creates templates and you modified the mods template for whatever reason - it's only modified in one style - now export that styles single modified template out using this system - now import it back into all styles... you just saved quite a bit of time, you did not manually edit the same template in all your styles and yet they are all updated!

I've made minimum changes to the code, a color change and some text changes mainly for rewording and making sense. I did PM Dream to notify him of this release, sadly he has not been on since September of 2010 so all I ask is this, if you like the mod please send him a PM and say thanks or post below thanking "Dream" not myself .

Install:

1. Upload the contents of the "upload" folder into your forum root.
2. Refresh the Admin Control Panel Page/Window in your browser (f5 on keyboard usually)
3. Look for "Template Manager" on the left.

- Enjoy!

*Please note - This modification is meant to make copying template edits between styles in the same version very easy and it has other useful features. Please do not assume that you can export all templates, do an upgrade and import again with 100% functionality as that is possible however highly improbable and would be the same as importing for example a 4.0.7 style into a 4.1.0 site... that will not work plain and simple! Now you can use it in conjunction with the built in comparison utility for templates and ultimately make correcting an old style easier and quicker than waiting on an update for your custom free or paid skin etc etc.

See post #35

Originally Posted by Taurus1

I used this mod for the first time today after installing a new skin. It took me about 3 minutes, instead of the 3 hours of template edits. I want to again thank you for a fantastic mod!!

[EquinoxWorld]

I downloaded the file but all I get is the upload folder and no product file inside...any ideas?

EDITED: Just uploading the files and refreshing my admincp , the mod installed perfectly, no need to import product !

Excellent Mod. Thank you!

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by EquinoxWorld

I downloaded the file but all I get is the upload folder and no product file inside...any ideas?

EDITED: Just uploading the files and refreshing my admincp , the mod installed perfectly, no need to import product !

Excellent Mod. Thank you!

Equinox,

LOL I had a terrible migraine the day I uploaded this and for some reason sure enough I explained in the mod description to install the xml rofl... I've updated the mod description and removed that reference, it's only two files to upload then a refresh.

[EquinoxWorld]

Originally Posted by TheLastSuperman

Equinox,

LOL I had a terrible migraine the day I uploaded this and for some reason sure enough I explained in the mod description to install the xml rofl... I've updated the mod description and removed that reference, it's only two files to upload then a refresh.

lol I've had those days myself, no worries. Truly great help this mod provides. Thanks again.

[Taurus1]

I used this mod for the first time today after installing a new skin. It took me about 3 minutes, instead of the 3 hours of template edits. I want to again thank you for a fantastic mod!!

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by EquinoxWorld

lol I've had those days myself, no worries. Truly great help this mod provides. Thanks again.

Originally Posted by Taurus1

I used this mod for the first time today after installing a new skin. It took me about 3 minutes, instead of the 3 hours of template edits. I want to again thank you for a fantastic mod!!

Not to sound like a clueless teenager but...

"I know, Right? Like this makes things soooo easy!"

All thanks go to Dream, he created it originally and was so awesome for marking it as re-usable code!

[sweetpotato]

It seems very useful, I'll try it for my vb 4.1.1

[RK KINGKONG]

thank you DREAM , SUPERMAN & MIGRAINES , for a skin lover like myself , having too many can suck really bad when it comes to all the editing ... this is awesome , thank you gentlemen

VB 4.1.1

[TheLastSuperman]

I also found it quite useful when editing styles as I have quite a few to work on regularly and this makes it easy to export then import from site to site as well, no need to export an entire style when I can export one template then import and done!

[Phaedrus]

Tagged for later install.

[OldSchoolDSL]

Reason ;

Updated!

Corrected array_merge in code example:

PHP Code:

$ctemplates["$_REQUEST[dostyleid]"] = array_merge($ctemplates["$_REQUEST[dostyleid]"], $rtemplates["$_REQUEST[dostyleid]"]); 


Should have read:

PHP Code:

$ctemplates["$_REQUEST[dostyleid]"] = array_merge((array)$ctemplates["$_REQUEST[dostyleid]"], $rtemplates["$_REQUEST[dostyleid]"]); 


Please download the new .zip, extract and then upload the contents of the "upload" folder to your forum root and enjoy!

Sincerely,

Michael Miller

Installed the updated version and working

4.1.2

(Still not sure the value of this, but I've kept it so far)