Clone a Template [Support Thread]

[lat9]

I'll be submitting this plugin to the Plugins area for review later today or in the morning (needed the support thread for the readme).

It's an admin tool that allows you to copy all template-override files (and Layout Boxes Controller configuration) for an existing template on your store to another template name. I think it will be especially useful to create "clones" of the Responsive Classic template that's built into Zen Cart 1.5.5.

The plugin is multi-language-aware, so if your store is multi-lingual and the "source" template includes multi-lingual files, they'll all be copied to the newly-minted "target" template.

I will post back here once I've got a download link from the Plugins.

[lat9]

Here's the plugin's download link (available once reviewed): https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=2087

[lat9]

The plugin is now available for download from the Plugins.

[jsteggy]

Hi. Quick question I hope. I installed this and used it to clone a template in v1.5.5a and now have two templates with the same name in the template selection menu. Where can I change the name of one of those duplicates. The cloner tool did create the second template with the name I picked.

Thanks

[mesnitu]

Haven't tested the pugin, but normally ,that would be on you template_info.php file.
But probably this plugin will do that.

[lat9]

@jsteggy and @mesnitu, that's one of the things on my list of to-do's for the plugin (clone its name, too). As mesnitu indicated, you can physically edit the cloned template's template_info.php file so that it is displayed differently from its parent.

[rbarbour]

Seems this is having issues in 1.5.6c

#1 file_put_contents() called at [/home/##########/public_html/156c_bootstrap/##########/clone_template.php:213]
--> PHP Warning: file_put_contents(/home/##########/public_html/156c_bootstrap/includes/templates/zca_bootstrap_theme_1/template_info.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/##########/public_html/156c_bootstrap/##########/clone_template.php on line 213.

Seems its not copying template_info.php

This is a vanilla install zen cart 1.5.6c and ZCA Bootstrap Template only.

[lat9]

Seems this is having issues in 1.5.6c

#1 file_put_contents() called at [/home/##########/public_html/156c_bootstrap/##########/clone_template.php:213]
--> PHP Warning: file_put_contents(/home/##########/public_html/156c_bootstrap/includes/templates/zca_bootstrap_theme_1/template_info.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/##########/public_html/156c_bootstrap/##########/clone_template.php on line 213.

Seems its not copying template_info.php

This is a vanilla install zen cart 1.5.6c and ZCA Bootstrap Template only.

That's weird; were all the other template files copied?

[rbarbour]

That's weird; were all the other template files copied?

No Cindy,

Nothing was actually copied.

I just did this on the responsive_classic and all worked as intended.

[lat9]

Was there a /logs/clone_template*.log file generated?