Template Backup System!

Hi everyone.

Here's my newest hack, called Template Backup System (TBS).
This is a very powerful tool for backing up and restoring your templates, especially good for upgrades.

I know you can do this using vBulletin's buil in style manager, but the beauty in this hack is that it exports only templates, and further more - they are saved to individual files in a folder you choose.

Why you ask? This could help a lot when upgrading to a new version of vBulletin. Just like you can compare files using programs such as Araxis Merge or Beyone Compare, you can now also compare templates, and easily keep track of changes that were done between versions.
After you save all changes to the template files, you use this script again only this time in the opposite directions - restoring the templates back into the system.

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This hack was in testing process for quite some time now, over a week and a half actually.
It has been tested extensively by the magnificent Hooper, and I truly believe it's 99% bug-free.
Most of the features in the hack are actually his ideas, so thanks a lot Rick!

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Before I continue, I need to say the expanding / collapsing feature will only work on Internet Explorer. It was only tested on it really, but I think the style.display thing is only supported by it.

Anyway, let's install this baby.

First of all, we need to edit admin/index.php a little bit.
Find this:

makenavoption("Add Template Set","template.php?action=addset");

and replace it with this:

[high]makenavoption("Add Template Set","template.php?action=addset","<br>");
makenavoption("Template Backup System","tbs.php?action=modify");[/high]

Save admin/index.php and upload back to your server.

Now edit cp.css (in the main forums folder). Now here's a file you don't edit often, huh?
Find this:

.cc { /* custom color */
	COLOR: darkblue;
}

and add this right after it:

[high].rc { /* custom color */
	COLOR: darkred;
} [/high]

Save cp.css and upload back to your server.

And last but not least, download tbs.php (attached to this post) and upload to your admin folder on your server.

That's it, installation is done.

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A few notes.

You can add new groups for template listing by editing tbs.php.
At the top, you will see something like this:

$groups['calendar']='Calendar';
$groups['emailsubject']='Email Subject';

and much more. To add your own group, simply add this:

$groups['[high]template_identifier[/high]']='[high]Group Name[/high]';

[high]template_identifier[/high] is the beginning of each template in this group, and [high]Group Name[/high] is the name of this group.

When saying "Using this requires a minimum amount of RAM." I am not kidding. If you don't have enough memory your browser will simply crash when clicking the Check All box. Trust me.

Make sure the folder you are saving templates into is CHMODed 0777, or PHP will not be able to create files in it. Also, the folder is a relative path to the admin folder, not the forums folder!

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That's all I have to say.
Feedback and feature requests are welcomed as always!

Have fun!

[212rikanmofo]

great hack, works great, except after i export, and then its done, i try hittint the [edit] button and i get a db error: it says this

Database error in vBulletin Control Panel 2.2.5:

Invalid SQL: SELECT templateid,templatesetid,title,template FROM template WHERE templateid=
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near '' at line 1

mysql error number: 1064

Date: Saturday 27th of April 2002 05:22:41 AM
Script: http://localhost/forum/forum/admin/t...it&templateid=
Referer: http://192.168.0.2/forum/admin/tbs.php


whats wrong? it only happens when i try to edit the original templates. but the ones in red and orange i can edit, just not the originals, why?

[SWFans.net]

One small thing I would like to see added to this hack, is the ability to delete exported files from the server that it creates. (This only applies when it creates its own folder. If I created the fodler and chmod it to 777 first through FTP I have no problem. But I made a typo in the destination folder once and it created its own folder which I am having a lot of difficulty removing)

Mainly because my FTP access gives me permission denied when I try to delete them myself after downloading them all.

It seems this program creates the templates and gives ownership to "web" on my server and on my virtial shared server, I don't have access to the "web" account, so removing the files is almost impossible.

Maybe it could be modified to create folders with 777 permissions?

[Droopy]

Installed and backup all my templates.
Works fine on my 2.2.5
Thanks

[Keyser S?ze]

when i try to export the templates i get this error

Warning: fopen("./templates/chat.html", "w") - Permission denied in /usr/home/emusa/emusanet.com/public_html/forums/admin/adminfunctions.php on line 158

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr/home/emusa/emusanet.com/public_html/forums/admin/adminfunctions.php on line 160

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr/home/emusa/emusanet.com/public_html/forums/admin/adminfunctions.php on line 162

Warning: fopen("./templates/chatmain.html", "w") - Permission denied in /usr/home/emusa/emusanet.com/public_html/forums/admin/adminfunctions.php on line 158

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr/home/emusa/emusanet.com/public_html/forums/admin/adminfunctions.php on line 160

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr/home/emusa/emusanet.com/public_html/forums/admin/adminfunctions.php on line 162

Warning: fopen("./templates/chatnoreg.html", "w") - Permission denied in /usr/home/emusa/emusanet.com/public_html/forums/admin/adminfunctions.php on line 158

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /usr/home/emusa/emusanet.com/public_html/forums/admin/adminfunctions.php on line 160

goes on for ages, i guess its every template gives a error msg

[FWC]

Make sure the folder you are backing the templates up to is set to 777.

[Wolf42]

Ops...
Since upgrade to PHP 4.2.0 the template-names are gone @ TBS like they do before patching the template.php freddie mentioned here @ vbulletin.com.

What do I have to do to fix that.

[Admin]

I'll release a fix shortly.

[Wolf42]

Just wondering nobody else found this "bug". Hhmmm...

[Admin]

Should be fixed now.

[X3ON]

verry nice :up:

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