Template with MOD

[Anguz]

I wanted to know how acceptable it'd be to have a template that to be complete needs a MOD as well. I mostly ask this because of the way some BBcode is displayed in messages and I don't know how to do it other than going to Subs.php and tweaking it there.

Would it be too much to have to apply a MOD to use a template? Thanks for the feedback.

[Anguz]

I guess this is not very interesting... hmm

well... I'll just go ahead and do it the best way I can... will also be carefull to not break other themes with the MOD so it can be used anywhere without causing trouble

[Grudge]

Well - the way the package manager works I believe you can make it run a MOD as part of the template installer process. Obviously the only problem comes when someone upgrades but I'm sure you could find a way around that

In particular - I'd make the theme check the mod was installed and not die horribly if not - just doing a function_exists type command is probably best. I should really recommend that on my shoutbox mod too...

[Anguz]

that's a good sugestion

well... since I have to make the mod compatible with any other theme, I think I figured out how to do it in a way that even if the mod is not applied my theme would work, just not the same way, but it wouldn't screw anything up really