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!

[The_Wanderer]

great hack, firefly

[vB-Host.com]

I receive no templates to import but if you look at http://www.vb-host.com/forum/admin/templates/ all 60 of the store templates are there and the templates folder is chmod to 777 also.. Ok here is a screenshot to show you my settings and error

[gmarik]

A very useful one.
Thanks, great job!

[Mike Gaidin]

[QUOTE]04-19-03 at 06:43 PM Slapshot Harry said this in Post #172
I receive no templates to import but if you look at http://www.vb-host.com/forum/admin/templates/ all 60 of the store templates are there and the templates folder is chmod to 777 also.. Ok here is a screenshot to show you my settings and error

[vB-Host.com]

[QUOTE]Today at 09:20 AM Mike Gaidin said this in Post #174
It's because your templates are in .txt form while you are trying to import .html

Just change the html in your import settings to txt

[Mike Gaidin]

Glad I could help.

[pdatoon]

Hi,

I accidentally import some templates in my default set instead of another one. Do you know how to delete all those imported templates at once? doing [remove] on by one is such a pain

[Mike Gaidin]

Hi,

I accidentally import some templates in my default set instead of another one. Do you know how to delete all those imported templates at once? doing [remove] on by one is such a pain

The only way I know of is to install this hack here by Xenon.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=49041

It's not a default vB option.

[trafix]

A hackers delight!

I should have installed this earlier, Its going to save me heaps of time when I go to pack a hack ready to release

[o0oKARo0o]

The best Hack I have ever seen, amazing hack really, it?s a must have and I hope it will be in the VB 3.0 cos it?s damn good...
Firefly, you are my idol, thanks mate