Find and replace member.php in templates

[StewardManscat]

Can anyone please give me instructions on where I can see these templates in action?

adv_gallery_categorybit_level1
adv_gallery_categorybit_level2
adv_gallery_ecard_layouts

I have changes to make, since they contain "member.php", a link we do not use at our site. But I don't know how to verify my changes!

Please and thank you.

[Zachery]

There is no .php templates.

[StewardManscat]

Whatever.

Here you go Zach: I need to change templates. I need to modify every occurence of "member.php". I don't know the gallery software very well yet, I'm still installing and learning. So I need a way to search all templates. Further, I need to search inside templates. Neither phpMyAdmin or vbulletin provide very slick tools for these tasks. In fact I don't believe they support searching within blob fields period.

So I write a snippet of code that dumps all templates from the database to my local file system. I happen to choose the php file extension because that triggers my editor to use syntax highlighting for php, most useful for vb templates.

Now I can use professional tools to find strings and edit templates. To accomplish tasks like "change all occurences of this to that, even though you do not yet know where the template is used".

Which brings me back to the question. Can you briefly tell me what to click or where to go to see these templates in action? Or better yet, present a generic solution to this problem: Here is a template, where is it used?

[ConqSoft]

vBulletin has a built in feature for searching in templates.....

AdminCP->Styles & Templates->Search In Templates.

[StewardManscat]

True, thank you. But it does not search within a template. Some of them are rather large. Please correct me if I am wrong about that too, I'd love to get better at this.

[ConqSoft]

Originally Posted by StewardManscat

True, thank you. But it does not search within a template. Some of them are rather large. Please correct me if I am wrong about that too, I'd love to get better at this.

If you go there, and search for member.php, it should return all templates that contain that text. Then you can edit each one. Click in the textarea, CTRL-F, member.php, and that will search within the textarea. (Searching in a textarea doesn't seem to work in FireFox, but has always worked in IE.)

You'll see the two category templates when viewing the main page with your categories. member.php there should be used for the link to the last poster, last member who uploaded, and the link to the username if the category is owned by a specific user. For the e-card template, that's used for the different layouts for e-cards and you can see them when previewing or viewing an e-card. As far as I can remember the only place member.php is used there is to link to the profile of the user who sent the card.
As far as I know vB's built-in search and search/replace functions should work fine for something like this. I've never had a problem using those functions anyways.

[StewardManscat]

Gotcha. The "last upload" and "last post" columns on the index page, and the e-card preview.

Excellent. That saves me from releasing something that will break in front of the customer.

I appreciate your direct answer to my question.