convert 1.6 themes to 1.8

[Euan T]

I'm not asking MyBB staff to do this, but would it be possible for someone to write a small MySQL application that would spawn the templates into text files. Once this is done for both versions, a file compare program (ex. Beyond Compare) could be used to find all the differences in all templates.

That would certainly be feasible. I'll look into it this weekend.

[Jones H]

You could simply compare the "/install/resources/mybb_theme.xml" or am I wrong?

[Andrew B.]

You could simply compare the "/install/resources/mybb_theme.xml" or am I wrong?

Come to think of it, you can compare that way. So I just tried it, and I'm not sure how helpful the results are. There is a big sea of code there, and I'm not knowledgeable enough to help the compare software line up the templates.

[Eric]

Currently working on a difference doc. It's taking forever honestly, I didn't realize there were even this many templates haha. Already finished a CSS differences doc as well.

Edit: Annnnd all finished. Gotta go through to error check and make it pretty, at which point I'll post it here (Tomorrow hopefully).

[Starpaul20]

Based on a count of the template version codes, 497 templates have been added or changed in 1.8. That is out of 843 templates total. At least one template has been removed (usercp_options_stylebit).

[Eric]

https://googledrive.com/host/0B1Dsvbl_qT...DFtdlZuNk0

Here's what I've got for changed templates. Let me know if you find anything wrong, it was done manually so there is more than likely errors.

[mellat]

Do we can import a theme on 1.6 and upgrade that to 1.8 then export our theme??
is it possible way? but not good way for alot of templates!!!

[Eric]

No that won't work. Looking at the template changes, it doesn't seem like there will be any easy way to do it. I'll try to post a CSS changes list today as well.

[mellat]

I think css changes are easy ...
That's templates changes are bad to us !

I think we have only one bad way to do this :

- Re-write our theme changes in a new 1.8 theme ...

[Eric]

Well yes, the templates are the hard part. CSS changes can still be helpful though. Here's my rough list:

http://pastebin.com/uD8JW1x9