Templating ... a simple guide

[Michaelo]

Read this, it may help.
www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/2406.htm (Click on first link at top left.)
and this http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/2201-4-10.htm (Click on first link at top left.)

Mike

[EXreaction]

Thanks, I will look into that.

[reekingofrandomness]

None of teh changes i make seem to do anything?

Is there anything i need to do before the template changes show up?

[dhn]

None of teh changes i make seem to do anything?

Is there anything i need to do before the template changes show up?

In the ACP, under General -> Server Configuration -> Load Settings, enable "Recompile stale templates". This is off by default so that we don't have to check every template for a new version with each load.

[reekingofrandomness]

now everything goes blank when i select a different style

[dhn]

now everything goes blank when i select a different style

Well, are you sure that you installed the new style you are working on correctly?

[reekingofrandomness]

i copied all the files from subsilver, changed teh .cfg files and then installed all teh seperate parts on the acp.

I then changed cellpic2.gif so that it was blue.....and hey presto the whole lot went white...but it worked before i changed the image

[CodeFX]

Quick question...

What file or files are absolutely needed by the templating engine, other than includes/template.php? I'm looking to hack the system so that I can use the engine without the forum. It was easy to do it to the 2.0 system, but it looks like it's a bit more difficult for this one. I noticed the includes/functions_template.php file says it contains functions needed for compiling the templates... are there any other files that are needed too?

Thanks in advance.

[Franklin]

Variables

The basic syntax for simple (non-block) vars remains the same as with 2.0.x. That is variables take the form {X_YYYYY} with the data being assigned from the source. Note that unlike 2.0.x most language strings are not assigned from the source. When a language variable is found {L_YYYYYY} phpBB first looks if an assigned variable exists with that name. If it does, it uses that. If not it looks if an exsting string defined in the language file exists. This should reduce the need to assign loads of new lang vars in Mods.

I didn't understand something and I want to explain my problems with an example: ucp_profile_avatar.html

At Line 12 there is a code

Code: Select all

<tr>
      <td class="row1" width="35%"><b class="genmed">{L_CURRENT_IMAGE}: </b><br /><span class="gensmall">{L_AVATAR_EXPLAIN}</span></td>
      <td class="row2" align="center"><br /><!-- IF AVATAR -->{AVATAR}<!-- ELSE --><img src="{T_THEME_PATH}/images/no_avatar.gif" alt="" /><!-- ENDIF --><br /><br /><input type="checkbox" name="delete" />&nbsp;<span class="gensmall">{L_DELETE_AVATAR}</span></td>
   </tr>

At

{L_CURRENT_IMAGE}

phpBB looks for $lang['CURRENT_IMAGE'] and it founds it in the language-file ucp.php in Line 116

Code: Select all

   'CURRENT_IMAGE'            => 'Current Image',

But at Line 8 there is a code

Code: Select all

   <tr>
      <td class="row3" colspan="2" align="center"><span class="gensmall" style="color:red">{ERROR}</span></td>
   </tr>

and at

{ERROR}

phpBB looks for a variable $error?!

Where is the variable set?

[jojobarjo32]

No phpBB checks for an assigned template variable ERROR.
These assigned variables are made by the $template->assign_vars() method.