Skinning WHMCS & Upgrades

[RPS]

For the majority of the time, do the WHMCS upgrades mess with the template system? Or are most of the upgrades mainly core files?

 

I plan to completely skin WHMCS, but I don't want to have to reskin it every time there is an update.

 

How often do clients usually need to reskin the system? Is it just with major release versions (such as v1 to v2, or v2 to v3)?

[MACscr]

your going to edit your templates on each upgrade. I know its a bitch and it always will be. I have to look at the new templates and compare them against the old originals, then pick out what i need to move to my custom ones. I have rewritten about 90% of the code, so i guess thats what im stuck with doing. To bad the templates arent written well enough (no damn tables) so that we could just sweet css files for our changes.

[polarbear]

This is a drawback. I too would like to see this controlled by CSS. However, I'd also like to see the posibility of using php includes in the templates, this would also remove the need for doing much copy/paste of html code.

[Matt]

your going to edit your templates on each upgrade

Although you don't need to edit them all, just the ones which have changed which are listed in the readme file and we always try to keep the number down to a minimum.

 

Matt

[MACscr]

This is a drawback. I too would like to see this controlled by CSS. However, I'd also like to see the posibility of using php includes in the templates, this would also remove the need for doing much copy/paste of html code.

 

you can {php_include file="test.php"}

[RPS]

Thanks for the clarification. Editing smarty templates is pretty common with all software upgrades, I didn't expect this one to be different, but still wanted to ask.

[herpherp]

However, I'd also like to see the posibility of using php includes in the templates

 

{include_php file="/home/myusername/public_html/header.php"}

 

you may have to use the absolute path instead of just /header.php

 

I use this to include my page header and footer in header.tpl & footer.tpl etc...

[vethost]

Skinning sounds like a royal pain, but what choices do users have and where can they be seen?

[RPS]

Skinning is VERY easy with WHMCS. 95% of the changes you made, are done to 2 files.

 

Most of my changes were on header/footer. I did have to edit 18 other files because a common area to change (the page title), has to be changed on EVERY file. I already put the suggestion in with Matt to make it so you only have to edit a single file to update the title style for every page.

 

If this sounds something you would like to see, please reply to http://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?t=8205