What style are we all using?

NOTE: Make sure all your styles have different display orders (only if they are in the same grouping). For instance, don't have 2 styles each with the display order of '1' otherwise this hack will just show 'Style: ' and no style shown.

This hack will show each users current selected style when viewing a post.
If you want to see how this looks, take a look at the screenshot attached.

The style system is a little more complex than the vBulletin 2 one, but it's still pretty simple and straightforward.

My apologies if this has already been released! I must also note that all of this code is original, meaning I made it all myself, I didn't look at someone else's code if anyone was wondering, so that we don't play the 'blame game' later on.

NOTE: For those who are wondering, this hack adds NO EXTRA QUERIES to your pages! Meaning the load and processing time are about the same as usual, they don't change much

Okay anyhow, here we go:

Instructions

Open includes/functions_showthread.php and find

PHP Code:

    static $gotrank, $sigcache, $sigperms, $gotage, $month, $day, $year, $counter; 


Above, add:

PHP Code:

    global $stylechoosercache, $vbphrase; 


Find

PHP Code:

    eval('$retval = "' . fetch_template($maintemplatename) . '";'); 


Above add

PHP Code:

    // check what style the user is viewing
    if (!$post['styleid'])
    {
        $post['style'] = '(' . $vbphrase['not_specified'] . ')';
    }
    else
    {
        // loop thru the $stylechoosercache to see which style the user is using, has to loop thru a few times
        foreach ($stylechoosercache as $parentstyle)
        {
            foreach ($parentstyle as $innerstyleid)
            {
                if ($innerstyleid[0]['styleid'] == $post['styleid'])
                {
                    $post['style'] = '<a href="' . $vboptions['forumhome'] . '.php?' . $session['sessionurl'] . 'styleid=' . $post['styleid'] . '">' . $innerstyleid[0]['title'] . '</a>';
                    continue;
                }
            }    
        }
    } 


Open the postbit template (or postbit_legacy if you're using old-style postbits) and find

					<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon]</div>

Above, add

					<!-- user forum style -->
<div>$vbphrase[style]: <if condition="$post[style] == '$vbphrase[not_specified]'"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php?styleid=$vboptions[styleid]">Default Style</a><else />$post[style]</if></div>
					<!-- / user forum style -->

Now add the following phrase:

Phrase Type: GLOBAL

Title: not_specified
Text: not specified

Title: style
Text: Style

All done!

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by Xenon

vb.org is using the quick and dirty way, like i call it.
the Style part is not generated, but it's a big if condition test in postbit, (as it was done during the Beta when we didn't want to hack where not needed)

Any way I can get that from you or find out the code for it? I like the template mods a lot better.

[Gary King]

Originally Posted by NuclioN

I can't see the chosen styles (see attach)

What's the forum URL? I can't see the style in postbit in your profile URL.

[Mr. Brian]

Originally Posted by Gary W

Done, just replace the old code w/new code now.

Got it! Thanks a lot.

[uae]

Pretty cool.

[BarBeQue]

This sounds like a greta hack.

Unfortunately i only have 1 style on my board so it's pretty obvious what style everybody uses

[high]* BarBeQue is too lazy to install multiple styles and apply have to apply template hacks to all the styles [/high]

[Gary King]

Originally Posted by BarBeQue

This sounds like a greta hack.

Unfortunately i only have 1 style on my board so it's pretty obvious what style everybody uses

[high]* BarBeQue is too lazy to install multiple styles and apply have to apply template hacks to all the styles [/high]

Just make one parent style and then you only need to modify one template and it will affect all styles

[Mike_XBLW]

I installed it...but for any style but the Parent, it leaves a blank space...no text...help

[Gary King]

Originally Posted by Gary W

It works for me using child styles Show me a screenshot of the style manager so I can see all your styles and childs, etc.

[Mike_XBLW]

OK...here's the screenie for you to look at

[BarBeQue]

Originally Posted by Gary W

Just make one parent style and then you only need to modify one template and it will affect all styles

Hmm, going slightly off-topic here but....

How does that work if another style has slight changes in the hacks.. for example take vb.org here.. I noticed that the green style uses w ared /me line while the blue style has a yellow line