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.

vB3 Thread

[RS25com]

When I ran this script it completed in just about a minute, but I have a small forum.

I do not think you need to make any changes, mine worked fine and I have changed the folder name of my admin CP.

[Mecho]

Thanks , i have re-uploaded the original file and tried again. 1 hour till now and still not finished!

[fasoncho]

Thank you so much, I wish I have found this few days back, it would have saved me a lot of wasted time to figure out a solution. Anyway, I am glad I found this in the end - worked like magic ) The only issue I had is that I had to run it few times, until the script was able to go through all files, because it seems that server wasn't able to take the load. My advice is wait for less active time on your server to run the script and you won't have any issue.