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

[kh99]

Originally Posted by aVirulence

I'm getting a 500 error when I try to run this on my vb4 forum (after changing the parameter as discussed above).

I tried it again and it seems to work - what program did you use to edit the file? Some programs will put strange characters in the file and cause problems.

[aVirulence]

Originally Posted by kh99

I tried it again and it seems to work - what program did you use to edit the file? Some programs will put strange characters in the file and cause problems.

I used Nano. I think the problem is with the time it takes to run the script (there is no output, it's just loading). I tried running the PHP script from the command line, but I'm getting an error there as well (different kind, I guess the script cannot be run from the command line).

[sonic83]

Hello. This hack work in version 4.1.10 or .11?

Thank you

[GeekyDesigns]

We're working on releasing a new version for 4.x

[Link14716]

I've updated this for vB4.

Originally Posted by kh99

I think for this to work in vb4 you just need to take the "false" parameter off the compile_template line so it looks like this:

    $template['newparsed'] = compile_template($template['template_un']);

I'm curious how I ended up with the false parameter because compile_template only has one parameter in vB3. o.O

[mdawg]

How about making this for vb 5 - vb5 is the wave of the future!

I was stuck in vb3 for years but now that I've upgraded to vb5 over all I am glad I made the move.