templates during development

[Sniper]

I was wondering how do you guys manage templates, its a pain having to save the template/s every time I make changes, as it used to be with vb...though Andreas addon helped!

I can see XenForo has something built-in to help with the issue unless I've missed something?

If you set this config

$config['development']['directory'] = 'development';
$config['development']['default_addon'] = 'XenForo';

and under the root directory have the following

development
    \file_output
         \templates
         \phrases
         \style_properties

Now every time you edit a master phrase/template or style property group it writes it to file and from looking at the code I can see it can also be imported back to database but not sure how, I think maybe its been removed because its beta.

Would love to have this available during add-on development.

 

[Jeremy]

I believe that's for Kier and Mike. I use WebDAV for templates in my editor. It connects to the database as if it were a file server itself and you can manipulate and save just like it was a file. Works marvelously. Let me grab you some links.

Second video:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/editing-templates-and-defining-a-callback-for-pages.7226/

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/random-questions-answered.114/page-2#post-102179

 

[Mike]

Yes, the "development directory" is specifically for us, as it is focused on the "XenForo" add-on. It's also not for live editing; it's mostly to ease collaboration and source control issues.

That said, the "default add-on" entry is useful for developers, as it controls the (default) value that will appear when creating new templates, phrases, etc.

WebDAV is what we would recommend for end users.

 

[Sniper]

Interesting...thanks guys!

 

[Sniper]

pretty cool, got it working! thanks again