Template System

Template Package

A template_key is the unique identifier for a template package.

A template package can decide the interface of a website, even includes the admin dashboard, text editor and code editor.

More details refers Template Package Configs.

Clone Template

The template of every site on FarBox can be cloned (except forbided by the designer).

Clone a template dose not mean you can get the original template files, of course, many designers' templates are free to download, you can get them from other places like GitHub.

Usually, if you want to clone http://www.domain.com, just visit http://www.domain.com/template.

Clone in Two Ways

Note: If you set template priority in your site configs, although clone works but may be not effective.

Auto Update (package mode)

After cloned, the information set to your site is a template_key.

When the designer of the original site update the package, all the users of this package will get the newest template resources automatically.

Just Clone (clone mode)

Different to package mode, if you cloned from A site, even A site changed its template files, nothing will happen to you site.

Template API

Template Preview

Assume a template has a template_key=xxxxxxxxxxxxx, and your site domain is www.domain.com; then visiting the url http://www.domain.com/?template_key=xxxxxxxxxxx to preview the template on your site.

Notice: the visitor who can preview a template must be the owner of a site.

Clone Template

Option 1: URL

Assume you want to clone site-to-clone.com(if you knew the site_id, use site_id instead of domain), and your own site domain is yourdomain.com.

Visiting http://yourdomain.com/?template_site_id=site-to-clone.com to complete clone.

The default option is in clone mode, if you need package mode, append &auto_update=true to the URL metioned above.

Option 2: AJAX

/service/gateway/clone_template_by_key, the role of this URL is to handle the template clone, accept POST method.

Accept three parameters:

  • site_id： your site id
  • template_key：the template_key of the site you want to clone, default value is default which means default template
  • auto_update: true or false, means package mode or not

If clone succeed, it will return ok; if you are not login, the status code of returned response is 401.

And if you just want to clear the old template package information on your site, have a try to set template_key to default.