Administrative and Maintenance Tools - [APM] Advanced Product Management 3.0.4

[APM] Advanced Product Management 3.0.4

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|| # Advanced Product Management [APM] v3.0.4 ? by HacNho
|| # Copyright (C) 2006 by HacNho, All rights reserved.
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|| # For use with vBulletin Version 3.6.0 RC2 and later
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|| # Discussion and support available at
|| # https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=121792
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Hack Version: 3.0.4.060925
Compatible vB version: 3.6.x
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=121792


NOTE:
- The old related URL is removed due to the present of default URL field. old value is Not pasted over.

APM for vBulletin 3.5.x:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=95741

APM for vBulletin 3.7.x (and 3.8.x)
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=197071


DESCRIPTION:

A center product area which allow you to manage all codes/plugins/templates/phrases/settings /crons for any product.
It also add some additional fields to the product, just to save more information with a product
Release Date
Product Author
Extra Information

The extra information is only available if you install APM, and use APM to export/import other product.
It does not have any conflict with original product. You still can use APM to import standard product, or use standard product tool to import APM's product files.

INSTALL:
1. Upload all files in UPLOAD folder to your server
2. Import XML product (product-adv_product_management_XXX.xml) using vBulletin standard product import tool.
3. Refresh menu panel to display Advanced Product Management link in Plugin System section

{optional} - Re-import product-adv_product_management.xml using APM import product tool, with Allow Overwrite = Yes
This step is inserting more information into the product.
* CAUTION: DONOT use APM to import product-adv_product_management.xml BEFORE step 2.

UPGRADE:
1. Upload all files in UPLOAD folder to your server (replace the old files
2. Import XML product with "Allow Overwrite" option checked
3. Enjoy!


HISTORY:
v1.0: Initial release
v1.1: Improve count queries, thanks to KirbyDE, some bugs fix
v1.2: Add collapsible blocks into product detail

2005.10.02: version 2.0: Alot of improvement. After editting, redirect back to product manager

2005.11.05: version 2.0.3: change some function names, due to changes in vB3.5.1 / it may not work for 3.5.0

2006.07.21: version 3.0.0 - release for vB 3.6.0
2006.08.22: version 3.0.2: Add CRON to the APM - change dependency
2006.09.21: version 3.0.3 - with small fixes
2006.09.25: version 3.0.4 - fix "install code - invalid product" bug (p=1081739&postcount=38)

[da420]

I am having the same problems as thincom2000... I would love to use this hack as it would my life a ton easier.... lol

[thincom2000]

I figured it out. You need to enable debug mode in order for those problems to go away. Also I think some of the features I suggested are there with debug mode.

I didn't want to actually enable it, so I modified all of the APM files to get rid of the if ($vbulletin->debug) conditionals. A much easier way is actually enabling debug mode, which I said I didn't want to do.

My reasons are as follows: Debug Mode annoys the crap out of me. First of all there's no setting to enable/disable it. And once enabled, it uses a really unsightly version of the Microstats plugin.

[Abe1]

When you export this a product using this hack, the template version number does not tag along. Comes out empty.

[thincom2000]

Also this has a really high memory footprint. For some reason tonight my host decided to impose a limit of 10MB when before I had no limit. This is the only script in my entire site that tries to exceed the new limit.

[rjmjr69]

Originally Posted by thincom2000

Also this has a really high memory footprint. For some reason tonight my host decided to impose a limit of 10MB when before I had no limit. This is the only script in my entire site that tries to exceed the new limit.

I dont see any jump in memory allocation with this installed. hhmm maybe something else you have?

This is just amazing i do not know how I missed this one. Thank you so much works just fine with 3.6.5

[thincom2000]

Merely installing it wouldn't make a difference in memory usage because it doesn't add any plugins itself. I just mean that when the admin page loads, it consumes a lot of memory, because it fetches every plugin, phrase, template, and setting for every product at once.

[hambil]

Using the system to create hacks and then export them. However, there is an interesting problem when creating new versions. I recently updated my vbTrends hack from version 1.2.6 to version 2.0.0. There where a lot of changes, and one of those was an edit to the forumhome_vbtrends template. The template shows as red (modified) in the style template list.

When I do the export from APM the old unmodified template is exported.

[nitro]

Originally Posted by hambil

Using the system to create hacks and then export them. However, there is an interesting problem when creating new versions. I recently updated my vbTrends hack from version 1.2.6 to version 2.0.0. There where a lot of changes, and one of those was an edit to the forumhome_vbtrends template. The template shows as red (modified) in the style template list.

When I do the export from APM the old unmodified template is exported.

When working with templates you would need to move into debug mode to edit the code in the products templates in the master style and not the regular child styles. When you export a product either via this addon or from the regular vbulletin product exporter it will include the respective templates from the master style only.

[MrZeropage]

you should add support for Andreas' TMS

[TheBlackPoet]

i installed this a while ago.. i recently had a dbase failure.. and had to find this again.... i cant tell you how much i come to depend on this particular hack...!!!