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Share globals and templates between Community and Linksql
Hi there,

I am just starting to update all of my templates after upgrading to Community V 1.1.1 and Linksql V 3.2.0

How can I share some of the information between both installations (their respective templates are in different places). Alot of the information is going to be common between them.

1) How do I use only one Template Globals file for both Community and Linksql?
2) How do I use only one Include_footer template file for both Community and Linksql? (as an example).

It would just really help me get everything down to messing with the minimum amount of files, and really help to role out new content.

Any tips appreciated.
Piers
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Re: [Piers1] Share globals and templates between Community and Linksql In reply to
Hi,

I don't think you can Frown

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How dull.
I guess I could run a cron job every day and just copy the common files over? This doesn't need to be an immediate change, just an attempt to only change one set of files in one area.

Cheers,
Piers
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Hi,

What kind of globals are they? If they are stuff like:

$DB->table(xxx)

...then doing something like that just wouldn't work - as they use seperate .def files =)

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Really simple static stuff (think like the contents of the language file) that will not change regularly.
i.e. I might want to have a footer added to all emails sent out from Community and Links which changes once a month. e.g. June special deals, look at this page....
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Hi,

If they are *really* simple - you could probably do it with a cronjob:

cp /path/to/glinks/admin/templates/default/local/globals.txt /path/to/secure_data/templates/default/local/globals.txt

Hope that helps - I'm off to bed ;)

(may be worth running that command via Telnet/SSH, to make sure it works =))

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Re: [Andy] Share globals and templates between Community and Linksql In reply to
Thanks Andy,

That's what I'm doing for now...and it works ok,

Cheers,

Piers
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You could probably use template inheritance to share the globals and include files. That would involve creating (or modifying) the .tplinfo file in the template directory to tell it to inherit files from another directory; something like (for glinks):
Code:
{
inheritance => ['../browser', '/path/to/other/template/set']
}

The other option if you're using a *nix system is to use hard links.

Adrian

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brewt: Jul 31, 2008, 3:42 PM