Changing Templates

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On this page, you will find how to make template edits in plugins.

Here is how to make a basic template edit. For this example, we are going to edit the index template and add the variable {$randomvar} after the board statistics.

function pluginname_activate()
{
global $db;
	require MYBB_ROOT.'/inc/adminfunctions_templates.php';
find_replace_templatesets(
		"index",
		'#'.preg_quote('{$boardstats}').'#',
		'{$boardstats}{$randomvar}'
	);
}

To reverse the template edit do this:

function pluginname_deactivate()
{
global $db;
	require MYBB_ROOT.'/inc/adminfunctions_templates.php';
find_replace_templatesets(
		"index",
		'#'.preg_quote('{$randomvar}').'#',
		''
	);
}

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