Forum Display Enhancements - Custom Username colours

This is my first posted template edit so be gentle.
It comes courtesy of the username and font hack by gio~logist.

This mod will allow you to define a list of colours for your users to pick from instead of them having to use hex codes. There is also the option of just letting particular user groups use this.

STEP 1

Goto User Profile Fields > Add new user profile field.

Select Single Selection Menu.

Title: Custom Username Colour
Description: Select a custom username colour.

Select your colours from the long list at http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_colornames.asp and enter them into the Options box. One colour per line.

Once you're done, save it and make a note of the field number

STEP 2

Edit your Postbit template.
Find

PHP Code:

div id="postmenu_$post[postid]">
                    <if condition="$show['profile']">
                    <a class="bigusername" href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">$post[musername]</a>
                    $post[onlinestatus]
                    <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("postmenu_$post[postid]", true); </script>
                    <else />
                    $post[musername]
                    </if>
                </div> 


and replace with

PHP Code:

<div id="postmenu_$post[postid]">
                    <if condition="$show['profile']">
                    <a class="bigusername" href="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$post[userid]">
<if condition="$post['fieldx'] != ''  ">
<font style="color:$post[fieldx]">$post[musername]</font>
<else />
$post[musername]
</if>
</a>
                    $post[onlinestatus]
                    <script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("postmenu_$post[postid]", true); </script>
                    <else />


                    $post[musername]
                    </if>
                </div> 


Change the x for your field id.


STEP 3

If you want to display this for certain usergroups;

Go to your Styles & Templates and select the userfield_select_option template.
Replace it with:

PHP Code:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'profile' OR (!in_array($profilefield[profilefieldid], array(A, B, C)) OR is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 1, 2, 3))">
<option value="$key" $selected>$val</option>

</if> 


Change the A, B, C to your field id and the 1, 2, 3 to the usergroups you want to allow this for

Select the userfield_wrapper and replace that with the following:

PHP Code:

<if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'profile' OR (!in_array($profilefield[profilefieldid], array(A, B, C)) OR is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 1, 2, 3))">
<fieldset class="fieldset">
    <legend>$profilefield[title]</legend>
    $custom_field_holder
</fieldset>


</if> 


Change the A, B, C to your field id and the 1, 2, 3 to the usergroups you want to allow this for

My coding abilities at best can be described as amateur but I'll try to help with any problems.

[baghdad4ever]

thanks

how to make the color choose from dropdown menu like this

[MagicThemeParks]

Originally Posted by baghdad4ever

thanks

how to make the color choose from dropdown menu like this

Step 1 in the instructions is this.

[Brandon Sheley]

nice mod, one of my users was asking for something similar, will check this out today
would this work on 4.x as well?

thx

[DIBBLE]

yes it would work on vB4

[BirdOPrey5]

THIS WILL NOT WORK on VB4 as is... the template code would need to be updated,

[BirdOPrey5]

The "font" tag is being depreciated from HTML, you can get the same results by using "SPAN" instead.

Change:

<font style="color:$post[fieldx]">$post[musername]</font>

to:

<span style="color:$post[fieldx]">$post[musername]</span>

But my issue is when I do this the color of the link no longer changes when the house hovers over it- is there any way to allow it to keep changing color when you mouse-over?

[DIBBLE]

how do i get it to work on the homepage and in shoutbox?

[Brandon Sheley]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

The "font" tag is being depreciated from HTML, you can get the same results by using "SPAN" instead.

Change:

<font style="color:$post[fieldx]">$post[musername]</font>

to:

<span style="color:$post[fieldx]">$post[musername]</span>

But my issue is when I do this the color of the link no longer changes when the house hovers over it- is there any way to allow it to keep changing color when you mouse-over?

thanks, I'll try it out and bump this thread
it would be great to get a plugin for this with zero template edits :up:

[DarkGizmo]

Hey man, I installed your mod and did some tiny modifications to it, however, I was wondering if it's possible to get this to appear in the active users bit? It seems that the variable $activeusers needs to be edited, but i'm not sure how that can be done? Any help on getting this working in the active users bit would be fantastic!

Also if you can post instructions on how to get it in:
-Memberlist
-Forumhome/viewing a forum
-Showgroups

Thanks!

[Robbie P]

This isn't working on vBulletin 3.8.7 PL3 - could someone provide me with a fix?