Let front controllers access "all" for template files

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MattF
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Let front controllers access "all" for template files

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Extension front controllers can only look for template files in "prosilver", "subsilver2" but oddly, not in "all"

I'm talking here about when we use helper->render('my_template.html')

They should look in "all" for my_template.html', but they do not, they look in prosilver instead..

But this also brings up a question i need clarification on: When "all" is not used, what happens if a board has other 3rd party styles? Are extension template files inherited from its prosilver folders only when the style is built using template inheritance? And if so do we have to create template files for every single 3rd party style that does not do template inheritance?
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Re: [RFC] Let front controllers access "all" for template files

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Regarding your last paragraph, yes it should pull from prosilver as long as it is a parent style of the 3rd party style. The vast majority of 3rd party styles should inherit from either subsilver2 or prosilver, and It is not the extension author's responsibility to provide template files for those that don't (that would be impractical).

As for using 'all' as the last fallback for the inheritance tree, like it is for events, I can support that, but I'm not sure what the rationale was originally when we decided not to make it do that in the first place.
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Re: Let front controllers access "all" for template files

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Basically this would consist of us making a new directory, styles/all/, and force all styles to inherit from this at the root level.

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Re: Let front controllers access "all" for template files

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EXreaction wrote:Basically this would consist of us making a new directory, styles/all/, and force all styles to inherit from this at the root level.
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