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I wrote a new modification for webSPELL 4.2.* (Successfully tested on 4.2.1a and 4.2.2a).

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About:
The Unified Template Modification, short UNI template mod combines multiple templates into one file. From originally 293 templates it creates 73 uni templates. The goal is the make template adoption easier. As by-product it allows to have multiple templates installed and change template with one click in the admin center, a front end implication hasn't been done yet. The quality of uni template mod is it's sleek implication into webSPELL. Only 6 standart webSPELL files are edit automatically, including 2 languages files and admincenter.php with the link to the template manager. The mod itself contains 3 files.

Installation:
Follow the instruction in readme.txt. It's a easy 3 step installation.

Performance:
With a freshly installed webSPELL without any content it takes about 0.005* seconds per request longer than without. However the number varies a lot depending the page and content. But with lots of content this modified 'gettemplate' function will start to perform better since it has a cache.
If someone would like to do a extensive unit test I would appreciate it and be very interested in the results.
* Tests run on a XAMPP Installation on Mac OS X 10.6.2 with a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz with one template installed

Debug mode:
If you activate the webSPELL debug modus in _settings.php you can edit your template files live without reimporting them over the admin center. If you're done editing templates it's important to deactivate debug modus again to increase performance.

Download:
FILE NAME wsutm05alpha2.zip
DOWNLOAD LINK http://www.crying-wolves.net/ws/wsutm05alpha2.zip
VERSION v0.5 Alpha 2
MD5 9da578452b98f998562bb63dea3a6559
SIZE 11.0 KB
FORMAT ZIP -> 3 PHP files
NOTE This is a alpha release, ment for development and testing purpose. I do not recommend using it on a live page just yet. Wait for a beta!

Information:
NAME Unified Template Modification
COMPATIBILITY webSPELL 4.2.*
NEWEST VERSION v0.5 Alpha 2
LICENSE GNU GPL v3
COPYRIGHT 2010 by warcry <Thomas Preusse, Switzerland>

Changelog
0.5 Alpha 1 to 05. Alpha 2

• + Caching templates to increase performance when get_template() is used in loops
• * Fixed problems with converting index.php to a unified template

Kind regards
warcry

An elegant idea!

sounds very good i get an query failed after installing and import the default tmplate

Alpha 2 was released yesterday. Thinking about doing a beta soon, I will make the css styles template specific and also allow a simple txt file to provide this information at the first import of an design (bg color, win loose and so on).

cool site

awesome! looks like webspell's getting multi templates
idea:
In admincenter make .cfg or .xml file so it reads information about that template and shows: template name, template author, author link, template screenshot...

@gljiva It's the site of a designer friend, he does some cool interfaces.


Yeah I plan to do something like that:

The Style information will be editable in the admin center however the name, author and license only by editing the file. I would also recommend for people who do take the time to edit all or most files to not use the db driven colors like cell bg x and win/loose/draw but instead create clean css classes. However I will support them since they are sometime also used in the php files and not everybody has the time to edit all the files.

But if somebody would be interested in creating a clean xhtml strict template which is structured after a good schema and easily styleable via CSS be sure to contact me I'm sure there is a great need for it.

I think it would easily be done by changing bgcolor="" to class="" and assign class names in _settings.php

btw I need to reimport template after making it default?

Yes it could but I don't want to create a branch of webSPELL on my own just yet xD So massive php file editing is not something I'm aiming at right now - I'm more into the smart mods and addons

No you won't need to reimport after changing which template is default.

I have a fresh install of 4.2.2 and it seems i got this mod installed properly, but how do i add several themes so i can switch between them??