Have you ever wished that you could write your edited vBulletin templates to individual HTML files? Well you can do this with a hidden and unpublished feature.
To do this you need two things.
1. Your vBulletin needs to be running in debug mode.
2. You need a folder in your forum root called template_dump. This folder has to have read, write and execute permissions (chmod 0777).
Once you have done those two things, simply point your browser to:
http://example.com/forumpath/admincp/template.php?do=createfiles&dostyleid=X
Replace X with the Style ID that you want to output. If you want a copy of all the default vBulletin templates use -1 as the Style ID. To find your styleid, hover over the name in the style manager and look at your browser's status bar.
You will need to manually move the files to another directory if exporting templates from multiple styles as previous ones will be overwritten. This makes it a lot easier to compare template changes in programs like Dreamweaver. Unfortunately, there is no import feature at this time so you would have to manually cut and paste them back into their templates if you make any modifications to individual files.
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To do this you need two things.
1. Your vBulletin needs to be running in debug mode.
2. You need a folder in your forum root called template_dump. This folder has to have read, write and execute permissions (chmod 0777).
Once you have done those two things, simply point your browser to:
http://example.com/forumpath/admincp/template.php?do=createfiles&dostyleid=X
Replace X with the Style ID that you want to output. If you want a copy of all the default vBulletin templates use -1 as the Style ID. To find your styleid, hover over the name in the style manager and look at your browser's status bar.
You will need to manually move the files to another directory if exporting templates from multiple styles as previous ones will be overwritten. This makes it a lot easier to compare template changes in programs like Dreamweaver. Unfortunately, there is no import feature at this time so you would have to manually cut and paste them back into their templates if you make any modifications to individual files.
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