Template - Auto way to get customized templates into MASTER STYLE?

[Quarterbore]

I am working on finishing a classified and auction script for vBulletin and it is the largest project I have ever attempted and I made a huge mistake as I was coding in a child style until I could verify things were working.

Well, now I have the script finished, or just about done, and I have a problem in that I have about 75 templates that have been customized that I need to move up into the Master Style to allow me to export the product file.

I am doing this one template at a time as it is allowing me a chance to look at each template to verify I have everything phrased but it is quite tedious as most of the templates involve me needing to create the template in the master style in addition to copying the info over.

Is there a way to automate this on is this one of those learning experiences I will never need to do again after making the mistake?

Here is my new project...

http://www.vbclassified.com/vbclassified.php

I will be releasing a lite version here ob vbulletin.org once I get the main script done and I am confident that I have a database lock.

[Adrian Schneider]

This might work...

[sql]UPDATE template
SET styleid = -1
WHERE styleid = 1 AND title LIKE 'classifieds_%'[/sql](assuming 'classifieds_' is your template prefix and 1 is your style). The next step would be to rebuild all styles so it updates the template listings per style.

I also strongly recommend you start editing your templates as FILES using your favorite HTML editor. It will save you hours of work mucking around in that god awful template editor!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=126738
(kind of an old version, so expect an update soon)

[Quarterbore]

Thanks but it looks like this will cause me problems as I started doing them manually and some templates are in the master as well as in the style I was using for development...

This has been a painful lesson learned. For anybody else, if you do a significan hack, DO IT IN THE MASTER STYLE or you won't be able to export your product with the templates and phrases!

As for the editor, yea, I invested in dreamweaver soon after staring this project and between that and notepad I am getting through...

Thanks!

[Adrian Schneider]

If some are in style 1 and some in style -1, that's fine because it'll only move the ones in style 1. Run the query, rebuild styles, and you should be set.