Users Choose Username Font/Color Posts

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Want members to be able to choose the font color of their usernames in posts?

[high]Step 1[/high]
[high]Go to User Profile Fields >> Add New User Profile Field[/high]

Choose A "Single-Line Text Box"

[high]Title:[/high] "Color of Your Username"

[high]Description:[/high] Type in the color in which you will like your username to be. Keep in mind that writing the colors in text does not always work, so try and format it like this: #ff0000 (that code is for red).

[high]Display Size:[/high] 11

[high]Max length of allowed user input:[/high] 7


[high]HIT SAVE[/high]


[high]Step 2[/high]
Now go to edit your postbit template and search for this code:

$post[musername]

Replace it with this

<if condition="$post['fieldx'] != '' ">
<font style="color:$post[fieldx]">$post[musername]</font>
	<else />
$post[musername]
</if>

X will be the id for the field in which you created. To view the id of the field created go to the "Profile Field Manager" and find the field ID of the field you made. (This appears under the "Name" column). It should show as fieldx where x is the ID.


[high]HIT SAVE[/high]



Want them to be able to choose the font as well?

[high]Step 1[/high]
[high]Go to User Profile Fields >> Add New User Profile Field[/high]

Choose A "Single-Line Text Box"

[high]Title:[/high] "Font of Your Username"

[high]Description:[/high] Type in the font in which you will like. For example for tahoma, type in "Tahoma", without the quotations.

[high]Display Size:[/high] 15

[high]Max length of allowed user input:[/high] 20


[high]HIT SAVE[/high]

[high]Step 2[/high]
Now go to edit your postbit template and search for this code:

$post[musername]

Replace it with this

<if condition="$post['fieldx'] != '' ">
<font style="font-family:$post[fieldx]">$post[musername]</font>
	<else />
$post[musername]
</if>

The X in font-family will be the id for the field in which you created. To view the id of the field created go to the "Profile Field Manager" and find the field ID of the field you made. (This appears under the "Name" column). It should show as fieldx where x is the ID.


[high]HIT SAVE[/high]

[high]AND WE'RE DONE![/high]

If you want them to be able to choose both color AND font, only do step 1 in each part, and then replace:

$post[musername]

with

<if condition="$post['fieldx'] != '' ">
<font style="font-family:$post[fieldx]; color:$post[fieldx];">$post[musername]</font>
	<else />
$post[musername]
</if>

The X in font-family will be the id for the field in which you created. The X in font-color will be the id for the field in which you created before. To view the id of the field created go to the "Profile Field Manager" and find the field ID of the field you made. (This appears under the "Name" column). It should show as fieldx where x is the ID.


[HIGH]Current Add-Ons[/high]
Exclude Certain Colors



[HIGH]Planned For Next Version (So Far)[/high]
- Have a pop up that allows you to pick a color and then shows the code for that color.

If you have any other ideas feel free to post them!

[Flow Fusion]

Originally Posted by flypaper

I use postbit_legacy and $post[musername] appears twice (unless I have it in there twice from some other hack...). I'll figure it out, but you may want to update the instructions...

Yeah I also use postbit_legacy and I don't know how to make this work. Any help?

[fly]

Originally Posted by Flow Fusion

Yeah I also use postbit_legacy and I don't know how to make this work. Any help?

Looks like I replaced both of them with:

<if condition="$post['field7'] != '' ">
<font style="color:$post[field7]">$post[musername]</font>
	<else />
$post[musername]
</if>

[Flow Fusion]

Originally Posted by flypaper

Looks like I replaced both of them with:

<if condition="$post['field7'] != '' ">
<font style="color:$post[field7]">$post[musername]</font>
	<else />
$post[musername]
</if>

Nope, any other ideas?

[fly]

Originally Posted by Flow Fusion

Nope, any other ideas?

Worked for me. Did you replace 'field7' with your field number?

[Flow Fusion]

Yup my field is 18.

[fly]

Originally Posted by Flow Fusion

Yup my field is 18.

Then I have no idea. :P

btw, Mine is only for color, so its a little different than the OP...

[davidw]

* christianb clicks install with modifications

Instead of having users type in the choice, I chose to make it a drop-down box (much easier)

[weaver]

<if condition="$post['fieldx'] != '' "> 
<font style="font-family:$post[fieldx]; color:$post[fieldx];">$post[musername]</font>
	<else />
$post[musername]
</if>

If I'm understanding this step correctly then isn't this only checking either font or color in that first line before executing? What if I put my color selection's profile field number in the bolded area, but one of my users only has a font style selected without color? Won't this skip the check for a font selection?

I apologize if I'm misunderstanding this step.

ETA: That seems to be the way it is working. I had a color selected but not a font. The profile field ID I used in the bolded conditional statement was for font. Since I didn't have a font selected it skipped over my color selection.

[Chad F.]

Anyone know how to get this to show up in the whos online??

[davidw]

That's what I'm wanting to know too