Albums II (Cloning the albums feature)

[Warlord]

I'd like to clone the albums feature that comes standard in vBulletin 3.7+. My reasoning behind this is wanting to be able to edit the cloned version of it to see if I can create a webcomic section based off of it. Is there an easy way to clone this feature of the software and just give it a different name?

I've tried copying the following tables, making sure to keep the keys and indexes the same.

album
albumpicture
albumupdate
picture
picturecomment_hash

I also copied the albums.php file and have started copying templates that have album in their name. I changed the table names as well as a few of the table columns and edited the php file to reflect the changes. The few templates I've created also reflect the changes made.

This is a very long process though and I'm thinking there has to be an easier way to do this? I don't consider myself a great coder or anything and I don't even know if what I'm doing is going to even work... it's a lot of work for just hoping what I'm doing will work.

Is there an easier way to clone a feature like this and I'm just unaware of it?