A couple of questions

[Dude]

Before I can move my board over to Yabbse I need to have the ability to use several templates. It's an easy mod in perl, but I don't know crap about php.

Anyway, I was looking thru the code in subs.php hoping to find something familiar and came across the line

   $yytemplate = file ('template.html');

Now just guessing but that line reads the contents of template.html into $yytemplate, right? It seems to me that if I knew the name of the variable that held the current catagory I could use a line like

  $template_file = $current_cat."_"."template.html"

or whatever you use in php to connect two strings. That way the current catagory's template file would be read in to $yytemplate as long as the template files would be named - catagory_template.html

Is this doable or am I way off base?

[Joseph Fung]

Actually you're right on base

[Dude]

Well I thought this would work.

if($currentboard == "") {
  $yytemplate = file ('template.html');
}
else {
  $tempfile = $currentboard."_"."template.html";
    $yytemplate = file ('$tempfile');
}

The problem is $currentboard never evaluates to anything but "". Is there another variable I should be using?

[Joseph Fung]

$board should work.

[Dude]

$board should work.

You would think   however it doesn't. But I did finally figure it out. This code will work. However you have to set it up first.

I had to assign $board to $diffboard and then declare it in the global statement at the top of the template_header function. I didn't assign $board cuz I don't know where else it is used.

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if (($diffboard != "")){
  $tempfile = $diffboard."_"."template.html";
  if (is_file( $tempfile)) {
      $yytemplate = file ($tempfile);
  }
  else {
    $yytemplate = file ('template.html');
  }
}
else {
    $yytemplate = file ('template.html');
}


I also added the if statement to check if the *_template file exists and if it doesn't then use the default. So now it works [/sigh of relief][/sigh]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Now I just have to set up the templates. Life is good.  

[KingDutka]

Hey man, for us end users/non mod writers, could you turn that into a mod so that anyone and everyone can easily set which board categories uses which templates via the admin center? That'd rock!

[Matt Siegman]

making the admin side of that would be a bitch....

[Dude]

making the admin side of that would be a bitch....

And seeing how I just barely figured out how to do the easy part...........

Also, Mr. Fung asked that we don't make any changes to admin.php yet.

Seriously, all you need to do is to make templates for the boards you want and the rest will default to the original template. So the admin function would kind of be overkill. But then, you like that overkill stuff, don't you King.