Templates are all of the pieces that make up the layout of your board, using HTML. Templates are stored in the database.
The base page in the templates section displays all of your template sets. Each theme has a template set that it uses, however, multiple themes can use the same template set. Every template set contains all of the templates that make up your forum's layout.
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Global Templates
Global templates are used by all themes, and usually are used for plugins and the like. They are helpful for templates that are needed in all themes.
Managing your templates
When you expand a template set, you are presented with a page listing all of the groups of templates within that template set. All templates have a group. Expanding a group shows the templates within that group, and can be done by choosing "Expand" under controls or by clicking on the template group's name.
Template Groups
There are many template groups in each template set. They are:
- Calendar Templates
- The Calendar section
- Edit Post Templates
- The edit post page.
- Error Message Templates
- All error messages that exist in MyBB.
- Footer Templates
- Templates for the footer area of the forum layout, including footer links and copyright.
- Forum Bit Templates
- The forum name and description, post indicator, number of threads, latest post info, etc. seen on pages such as the index page.
- Forum Display Templates
- The forum display page, also known as the thread listing.
- Forum Jump Templates
- The forum jump drop-down found on many of the pages in MyBB.
- Global Templates
- Templates that apply to all pages.
- Header Templates
- The header area of the forum layout, including logo, top links, and welcome block.
- Index Page Templates
- The default index page (the main page).
- Manage Group Templates
- The templates for the pages in the User CP allowing group leaders to manage their group.
- Member List Templates
- The list of members of your forum.
- Member Templates
- Member pages, such as the profile, login, register, activate, email user, and reset password pages.
- Miscellaneous Templates
- Templates for the misc.php file, including help documents and the smilies listing.
- Moderation Templates
- The inline and standard moderation templates used throughout the forum.
- Moderator Control Panel Templates
- Templates for the Mod CP.
- Multipage Pagination Templates
- The links used throughout to navigate through listings with more than one page of results.
- Navigation Templates
- The navigation bar telling you where in the forum you are (for instance, "Your Forums / User Control Panel"). This is also the breadcrumb.
- New Reply Templates
- The new reply page.
- New Thread Templates
- The new thread page.
- PHP Templates
- Templates for the PHP warnings.
- Poll Templates
- Templates for polls on your forum.
- Portal Templates
- The forum portal.
- Post Bit Templates
- The templates for each individual post.
- Post Templates
- Attachments for the posting page that are available on all post pages, including attachments, CAPTCHA, drafts, and subscriptions.
- Print Thread Templates
- The page allowing you to print threads.
- Private Messaging Templates
- The private messaging portion of the User CP.
- Redirect Templates
- The friendly redirect pages on your forum.
- Report Templates
- The "Report This Post" feature.
- Reputation Templates
- The reputation system.
- Search Templates
- The search feature, allowing you to search for posts and threads.
- Show Forum Team Templates
- Templates for the Forum Team page.
- Show Thread Templates
- The show thread page, listing the various posts in each thread.
- Smilie Inserter Templates
- The inserter for smilies on the post pages.
- Statistics Templates
- The Forum Statistics page.
- User Control Panel Templates
- The User Control Panel.
- Warning System Templates
- Templates for the forum warning system.
- Who's Online Templates
- The "Who's Online" pages, including the Who's Online Now and Who Was Online Today pages.
- XMLHTTP Templates
- Templates for the AJAX features on your forum.
- Ungroup Templates
- Other miscellaneous templates that do not need a group, as well as your own custom templates.
Editing Templates
You can edit templates by clicking on their name in the listing or by selecting "Full Edit" in the Options drop-down. You can only use HTML in templates. PHP is not parsed in templates. The only PHP values accepted are scalar and hash values such as {$myvalue} or {$myvalue['myhash']} Also you may want to try out, "PHP in Templates and Template Conditionals", This plugin will allow you to use PHP in templates, as well as shortcut template conditionals and some shortcut string functions, https://community.mybb.com/thread-31860.html
The template editor uses Codepress to allow for line numbering, easy tabbing, and coloring of certain values, just like a normal HTML editor.
You can choose to either save and continue editing your template or save and return to the listing.
Difference Report
After a template has been edited, you can choose to show a template difference analysis, which will compare your current template with the default template. You can access the difference report for an edited template by choosing "Diff Report" in the template's Options drop-down menu.
Reverting Templates
You can revert edited templates by selecting "Revert to Original" in the Options drop-down menu for that template. You can only revert templates that have already been edited.
Deleting Templates
You can only delete custom templates, and not those that are included with MyBB by default. You delete a template by choosing "Delete Template" from the template's Options drop-down menu.
Add Set
You can add a new template set based off of the default MyBB templates from the "Add Set" link. All that is required is a title for the template set. In order for the template set to be used, you must have a theme that has this template set selected.
Add Template
You can add a single template to any template set from the "Add Template" link. You must set a template name, the template set it should be located in, and the content for the template. You can then choose to save and continue editing the template or save and return to the listing for the template set you choose for this template.
Search/Replace
You can either choose to search for a snippet of code (and optionally replace it with another snippet of code), or search for templates by the template title.
Be aware: There is NO confirmation before replacing code. Any templates found with the code snippet you enter will have that code replaced with the replacement snippet you entered.
Find Updated
From release to release, there are often changed templates. If a template has not been edited, it will automatically be updated to the latest template during the upgrade process. However, edited templates will have to be updated via the "Find Updated Templates" feature.
Your are provided a listing of all templates, from all template sets, that are different than the latest templates. You can choose to edit, revert, or perform a difference analysis for each of these templates.
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