Toggling between templates

[techsmeks]

This should help make it easier to test and deploy new templates and also answer questions (Setting Default Template) around setting templates.

In order to toggle between multiple templates:

1. Replace references to "yget" in sidebar_comments.php, sidebar_stories.php and sidebar_stories_u.php to enable the currently selected template:
Add reference to $selectedtemplate variable to this line as shown: global $the_template, $main_smarty, $db, $selectedtemplate;
and replace if($the_template == "yget") with if ($the_template == $selectedtemplate)

2. Add the following line to libs/smartyvariables.php
$selectedtemplate = $db->get_var('SELECT var_value from ' . table_config . ' where var_name="$thetemp";');

3. Use the latest files for sidebar_stats and random_story modules

Once you have the new template in the templates directory, add the template entry to the templates.tpl file and set the template name in admin>config>templates. The new template should show up.

[tbones]

Do you read the latest posts (Setting Default Template) ?

[techsmeks]

Thanks for linking to the other thread.

Maybe you can throw some light on this - are references to "yget" in sidebar_comments.php, sidebar_stories.php and sidebar_stories_u.php now fixed in the latest version? Without addressing these, toggling does not work.

BTW distinguishing between the toggling of multiple templates, for those of us who may be using multiple templates versus setting a different default template.

[tbones]

Ok, your topic is slightly different

The revision should cover all earlier occurances of yget in the code, I´ve reported that once to Ash.

But to be sure: Click on the "text changed" links of the revison link.