Usergroup Legend for ForumHome page

This little plugin shows a legend of what the various styles mean for the names on the who's online section of your forumhome page.

A big thank you to Link14716 for getting rid of the query.

Some people prefer different colors in the template changes. Their suggestions are posted below. I've posted what I am using on my board.

More advanced users may prefer: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....0&postcount=61

[Chris M]

Nice idea amy

Edit: I was just thinking - Is there any way you can create a "spacer" element for the usergroup titles?

What I mean is that "Administrator Super Moderator Moderator" etc looks a bit odd - I know how to add commas or dashes or other ascii characters to space the names out, but the problem is the last one listed will always have that character on the end of the name :ermm:

I added a "legendorder" field and ordered the groups by it, and tried calling $usergroups['legendorder'] and making it so that if the number was greater than or equal to 9, there was no "spacer" but it didn't work :ermm:

Satan

[amykhar]

OK. I just released 2.0. It has the span tag for the smallfont and it has the separator to separate the usergroups.

I'll grab a new screenshot and post it in a second.

[Wayne Luke]

Thanks for this... Will be installing this in my test installation today. Definately makes it much easier than editing templates directly.

[Link14716]

I did a few changes. First, in the template, I used

<td class="thead" colspan="2">

instead of

<td class="tcat" colspan="2">

It looks a lot better that way. Also, I changed to plugin code to save the query. (Feel free to use this, Amy.)

PHP Code:

// Get all usergroups that have style changes.

foreach ($vbulletin->usergroupcache AS $group)
{
    if (!$group['opentag'] AND !$group['closetag']) {
        continue;
    }

    if (!isset($legend))
    {
        $legend = $group['opentag'] . $group['title'] . $group['closetag'];
    }
    else
    {
        $legend .= " | " . $group['opentag'] . $group['title'] . $group['closetag'];
    }
} 


I would attach the plugin file, but xml attachments aren't allowed anymore.

Good job, Amy.

[amykhar]

Originally Posted by Link14716

I did a few changes. First, in the template, I used

<td class="thead" colspan="2">

instead of

<td class="tcat" colspan="2">

It looks a lot better that way. Also, I changed to plugin code to save the query. (Feel free to use this, Amy.)

PHP Code:

// Get all usergroups that have style changes.

foreach ($vbulletin->usergroupcache AS $group)
{
    if (!$group['opentag']) {
        continue;
    }

    if (!isset($legend))
    {
        $legend = $group['opentag'] . $group['title'] . $group['closetag'];
    }
    else
    {
        $legend .= " | " . $group['opentag'] . $group['title'] . $group['closetag'];
    }
} 


I would attach the plugin file, but xml attachments aren't allowed anymore.

Good job, Amy.

Doh on using the cache! I'll update that and give you credit for catching my brain-fart

Amy

[Chris M]

Originally Posted by amykhar

Doh on using the cache! I'll update that and give you credit for catching my brain-fart

Amy

Is there any way of making that display it based on a usergroup field?

Because I want it to display it by "legendorder" the field I created

I'm stuck using the query because I can't figure out how I can make it order it how I want

Satan

[amykhar]

Thinking out loud. I would add each group and tag and legend order field to an array. I would sort the array based on the legendorder and then I would explode the whole thing out to the legend string.

[hotrod1]

Great hack! Thanks

[Link14716]

Originally Posted by hellsatan

Is there any way of making that display it based on a usergroup field?

Because I want it to display it by "legendorder" the field I created

I'm stuck using the query because I can't figure out how I can make it order it how I want

Satan

I'll give it a shot.

PHP Code:

// Get all usergroups that have style changes.

foreach ($vbulletin->usergroupcache AS $group)
{
    if (!$group['opentag'] AND !$group['closetag']) {
        continue;
    }

    $legend_array[$group['legendorder']] = $group['opentag'] . $group['title'] . $group['closetag'];
}
ksort($legend_array, SORT_NUMERIC);
$legend = implode(" | ", $legend_array); 


[Chris M]

I'll give it a try

It works well

Satan