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This looks great! - might I suggest that you update the file in the original post - as often people will use that to download the plug in (only to realise later on that there may have been an update).

Edit - you can tell I’ve been staring at this screen for a little long today. Just noticed the big red UPDATED HERE text at the top.  :red:

It is truly working perfectly.

Terry

Very cool!

Wow, this sounds great! Since this is pre-release I won’t use it on any client sites but I’ll test it out on my personal site. Can’t wait!

Glad you are interested in this.

I will have a new release soon which tweaks it a little more. Just waiting on an answer for an outstanding forum question about timezones.

Hi Louis,

I love the sound of this module, having just realised that EE will actually allow me to run flat file templates and I can edit them in Eclipse. (And this was after just two days of editing html in a textarea box - pure backwardsness!)

However, I installed it, clicked on ‘export templates to files’ and received the following php error:

Warning: implode(): Bad arguments. in /home/sites/home/web/ee/system/modules/template_files/mcp.template_files.php on line 244
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Templates Updated
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No templates had been imported. My templates folder is working fine, as I can use the checkbox on the normal EE template edit page to get a copy stored on the file system.

Any ideas?

Actually, just worked it out - I hadn’t checked any of the checkboxes.

Is there a way I can get ALL of my templates out of the db and into the filesystem to get me started? Don’t want to have to manually export each template really.

Actually, I’ve seen that on my list of templates they’re nearly all greyed out due to the ’  Save as File Enabled’ column showing a whole bunch of ‘N’s. Is there a way I can batch set this to ‘Y’ on all my templates, so I can then go ahead and export them all at once?

Also does anyone have info on performance and other pros/cons of running templates in the db vs file system?

At the moment there is no way to mass update all the templates. I could work on adding this functionality.

Thanks for pointing out the error if nothing is checked off. I will make it error more gracefully.

Hey Louis,
I got around the problem with the templates being set to not export to disc by just updating the records in the `exp_templates` table in mysql. So that was easy, but now there is another problem…

It seems that when Apache writes the template files to disk, only that user (or group?) has permission to write to the files. So I can open them in my editor, but cannot save any changes. Any ideas?

Updated file.

This should fix file permissions. If you are having problems, delete the templates files and re-export.

Louis,

So the gist of this is that it exports from the DB to multiple flat/txt files at a time and vise versa?  Instead of the one file at a time deal like we normally have?  Trying to understand what the purpose is.  😊

Jamie

Hi Jamie.

You have pretty much hit the nail on the head. This allows you to mass export all your db templates as files. Also it will let you import them back into the db.

If you have EE set up for templates as files, it will periodically check the external file template to see if it should update the db. Problem with this is when you are working on a page and need to see immediately the results you would have to manually save each one in EE. This will import them all.

Basically it helps to speed up development time when dealing with template files.

To make all of your templates into “save template as file” types of templates at once, the template2file module is an excellent compliment and companion to this template_files module. (unless the same functionality has been added in one of these new releases???)

I discuss some other ideas in this thread here for editing your files “beyond the browser edit box”.

Terry

I can’t seem to get the “import” part of this module to work. I’ve been able to export templates, but then when I change them in Dreamweaver, reupload them to the same directory, and try to use the Import function of the module, I get a message for each one which says, “No changes made, file does not exist.”

Any thoughts on why this might be happening? I’m hoping the module developer is still monitoring this thread.

Thanks!
Frank